Manchester City legend Sergio Aguero pulled no punches when discussing the goalscoring ability of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, particularly from free-kicks.

Ronaldo has found his goalscoring touch in Saudi Arabia as he has scored 11 goals in 12 appearances for Al Nassr so far. One of those goals included a rare free-kick during his team's 2-1 win over Abha last month.

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The topic of Ronaldo came up during a recent Twitch stream from Aguero and as far as he's concerned, Messi is the superior goalscorer when it comes to free-kicks.

As for Ronaldo's free-kicks? They're all down to luck according to the Argentine.

“Look where he scores the goal from,” Aguero was quoted as saying on Twitch (via Sportbible).“Come on. All free-kick goals and pure luck. Messi’s are all at the angle, stupid. But what does [Ronaldo] do? Goalkeeper’s fault.

“I think Raul has better goals, [Karim] Benzema, I think he has better ones.”

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Obviously, there is plenty of bias here. Aguero is naturally supporting his fellow countryman, former teammate and longtime friend in Messi, but doing so while putting Cristiano Ronaldo down in a big way.

It's no secret that Ronaldo has struggled with free-kicks particularly in the last few years with the majority of his efforts either hitting the wall or going into the crowd. Messi, meanwhile, continues to be effective at free-kicks today, boasting a far superior conversion rate.

However, at Ronaldo's peak, he was one of the best at dead-ball situations and he still maintains a catalog of some of the best free-kick goals in the game. Not to mention, many of them were from crazy angles and distances.

To say they're all down to pure luck is going a bit too far, but that hasn't stopped Aguero in the past.