Ajax manager Frank de Boer compares Lionel Messi and Neymar to Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale

Ajax manager Frank de Boer has compared Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Neymar with Real Madrid duo Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo. The Catalan-based pair both found the net as Barça defeated Ajax 3-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday and though de Boer felt his defenders coped with their threat admirably, he still concedes that […]
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2014-10-22 14:36:00

Ajax manager Frank de Boer has compared Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Neymar with Real Madrid duo Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Catalan-based pair both found the net as Barça defeated Ajax 3-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday and though de Boer felt his defenders coped with their threat admirably, he still concedes that Messi and Neymar can be unplayable.

"Neymar and Messi are like [Gareth] Bale and [Cristiano] Ronaldo," he told UEFA.com. "Their level is out of this world. 

"In every match they perform at an extraordinary level. But I believe that Joël Veltman and Ricardo van Rhijn did well. 

"There were a lot of one-on-one situations but they fought until the very end and Messi did not have that many opportunities."