Messi vs Ronaldo: Goals, Titles, Statistics

Over the years, many wonderful footballers have won the hearts of fans with their performances on the field, but very few can be remembered as the best in history, even after decades.

 Pele, Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Alfredo Di Stefano are some of the names that most football fans will remember, but until recently it was difficult to imagine that two players with this type of fame could play at the same time, writes Marca.

But that is exactly what happened to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. They have played full time as direct rivals in the match and have been breaking records for more than a decade now.

Finally, Messi broke the record for most Golden Ball wins, earning his sixth career start in Paris on Monday, leaving Ronaldo behind with five.

Goals with clubs
Messi also has more goals scored for the club than Cristiano. Both have scored more than 600 goals, but Messi’s 613 goals are left behind by Juventus striker 609.

Matches with more than 1 goal scored
Scoring is one thing, but scoring more than just once in a match is more something else. Messi has scored more than two goals and two goals in a match, although the Portuguese has managed to score four and five more times than the Argentine.

Messi has already hit a hat-trick this season against Celta Vigo, while Cristiano has not reached that statistic yet.

Goals with national teams
Cristiano Ronaldo clearly defeats Messi here. He only needs one more goal to reach the 100-goal mark for Portugal, while Messi has 70 goals for Argentina.