Start, bench or sell: Front Three's Ronaldo, Messi and Mbappé question splits the replies

The short's views are about normal for the football panel, but its comment section is far busier, and most of it is people defending their picks with reasons.

Channel: GOAL's Front ThreeStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video drew 502 comments in its first day, 5.8 times a normal first day on this channel (87).

START, BENCH, SELL: RONALDO, MESSI, MBAPPE 🤔 #football #soccer #shorts

Pick one to start, one for the bench and one to sell: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappé. That is the whole of GOAL's Front Three's newest short, and the description simply asks viewers to give their own answer below.

They did. In its first day the short drew close to six times the comments a Front Three short usually gets, while its views stayed about where the channel's shorts normally land. It passed 600,000 views in its first day and a half.

The most popular answer reads almost like a group decision: start Mbappé, keep Messi as a super sub, sell Ronaldo. One of the most liked versions comes from a commenter who says he is a Ronaldo fan. Not everyone agrees. A long thread argues that Messi, at 39, still does more pressing and defending than Mbappé, and several viewers note that Ronaldo's camp has little room to argue this time. Others point out who was missing from the panel, and one of the regulars, Juwon, gets credit for his ball knowledge.

The question format is a habit on this channel, which bills itself on quizzes and unpopular opinions. A Messi-and-Garnacho short went up the same day, and a quiz about Ghanaian players at Bayern Munich, posted the day after, has already drawn more views than the start-bench-sell debate.

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The numbers

The views are ordinary for this channel's shorts, but the comments are not.

comments on the video's first day

usual first day here

87

this video

502

subscribers

851,000

▲ 14,000 in the last 7 days

total views

2,067,847,615

views per day

7,648,733

typical day: 4,338,425

the video

views

625,633

likes

18,576

comments

612

days online

2

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Sky Sports Football

883,000

GOAL's Front Three

851,000

Stretford Paddock

844,000

Official Brighton & Hove …

828,000

Aston Villa Football Club

826,000

EFL

810,000

As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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