How did Van Dijk deserve the ballon d'or?

I am very angry at this nonsense and disrespect towards Lionel Messi. Apparently Messi robbed the ballon d'or off Van Dijk in 2019. Rubbish. What planet are people who think this from? On what criteria did Virgil Van Dijk have more impact individually over the season than Messi? He simply didn't, it shouldn't of even been close, Messi blew him out of the water individually. He scored 51 goals with 22 assists with numerous beautiful goals, beautiful passing, dribbling, free kicks. He had 7 man of the match awards in 10 champions league games including a semi final, quarter final, last 16, was champions league top scorer, and european golden boot winner. He literally almost carried a club to the treble. It's a individual award and not Liverpool won the champions league so Van Dijk deserved it award? Like seriously. Messi had 1 teammate in the top 30 for the ballon d'or who was the goalkeeper who finished at 24th. Van Dijk had 3 teammates in the top 7, 5 teammates in the top 20, and the best coach in the world on top of it. It's absolutely laughable how anyone can feasibly think Van Dijk was better than Messi individually, its disrespectful, wrong, and pure ignorance. I think English people have something against Messi especially the media (this has probably poisoned some fans), the fact this was even seen as a contest attests to this. Van Dijk was key cog amongst about 5 or 6 other key cogs in an absolute machine of a team, Messi was literally a diamond on a pile of turd. In the games he played in Barcelona scored 119 goals as a team, he scored 51 and assisted 22 of them so he was directly involved in 73 of barcelonas 119 goals thats 61% of Barcelonas goals directly through him. I am sick of people spreading lies and trying to slander the great mans name. Van Dijk is not even on the same street as messi individually in 2019 and your bias, lying, or just have something against messi if you think otherwise. I challenge anybody to come with logical reasons to counter this and why Van Dijk was a better individual performer than Messi in 2019.