I think you've put a good case forward for Messi's being better and if we take out the importance of the match and competition it was played in and just consider 2 players who both put their head down, ran past 6 players and scored technique and skill wise then you could say that Messi's is a better goal because the defenders were more agressive and more challenges came in than the Maradona goal and the Getafe players were sprinting after him while most of the English players were jogging after Maradona, other things like the final finish was harder in Messi's case and so on.
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