The center for sports knowledge and innovation. During the 2003–04 season, his fourth with Barcelona, Messi rapidly progressed through the club's ranks, debuting for a record five teams in a single campaign. All Time Stats Updated Sep 27, 9:38 PM UTC. During the 2012-13 season, he managed to scored in 21 games in a row in La Liga, which is an unbelievable achievement. And in the Champions League? Messi's best shot conversion rate came in 2012/13 when he scored a staggering 29% of shots. The landmark goal was … PFA Player of the Year awards: Virgil van Dijk and Vivianne Miedema are named winners, Trump in hospital after positive Covid-19 test, All you need to know about the transfer window. The Barcelona captain has hundreds of strikes and dozens of hat-tricks to his name for club and country, Follow the major changes at the Nou Camp in our FREE Barca newsletter. These are the big ones, and it's Messi that edges Ronaldo on both. explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. He's also won an Olympic gold medal with Argentina at Beijing 2008 and he also won the under-20 World Cup. 9, Uwe Seeler. This attacking performance currently places him at 0 out of 61 for La Liga Players who've played at least 3 matches. Lionel Messi has helped his club and country win a fair few trophies thanks to all of the goals he's scored during his career. Cristiano Ronaldo – All games with Portugal. He’s also scored at least 23 goals in charity matches, but these are not included in these statistics. Ronaldo's assist numbers are still extremely impressive compared to the other mere mortals that play the beautiful game. These numbers are so tight, and to add to this, their hat trick count in league games is: 36 hat tricks for Messi and 36 hat-tricks for Ronaldo. To put this into context, Messi's next best is 60 and Ronaldo's best is 69. With that said, you can't ignore Messi's overall assist stats - he takes this category comfortably. 30.06.2021, Agent: Over their entire careers, Ronaldo has scored 129 headers in 1017 appearances, whereas Messi has scored just 24 headers in 872 appearances. He now has 634 Barcelona goals to his name, from 731 appearances. It’s unsurprising that in a career including more than 700 senior goals that there are multiple hat-tricks scored along the way. His first goal came in a friendly against Croatia in March 2006 - a game Argentina lost 3-2 - with his most recent strike in a 2-2 draw with Uruguay in November 2019. Ronaldo has finished as top scorer in the league 4 times (once in the Premier League and 3 times in La Liga), winning 4 European Golden Shoes in the process. Ronaldo certainly has had a fantastic international career, but so too has Messi. To score 91 goals in a year is other worldly. The flagship Barça school. He is the all-time top-scorer in the Spanish league La Liga, with 427 goals - at least 100 more than any other player! In this same time period, Messi has scored over 20% of his shots in nearly every season, whereas Ronaldo has scored over 20% of his shots in just one season (21% in 2014/15). Their stranglehold on the coveted Ballon d'Or award has been relentless, with Messi's 6 Ballon d'Or trophies edging Ronaldo's haul of 5 Ballons d'Or. 126 Penalties (25 missed) 56 Hat-tricks; 0.73 Goal … Lionel Messi's Form Analysis. In May 2019, Lionel Messi scored his 600th goal for Barcelona in their 3-0 win over Liverpool in the Champions League.. When you factor in assists, Ronaldo makes a goal contribution every 102 minutes, whereas Messi makes a goal contribution every 101 minutes. Read more: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo at club level, Read more: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo at international level, Read more: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo when they played in Spain together (2009-2018), Michel, no sé qué pasa que solo puedo entrar en la versión en Inglés, Estimado colega: Messi anotó dos goles en el amistoso con Girona el 16 de septiembre. This gives Ronaldo an overall penalty conversion rate of 84%, compared to Messi's overall penalty conversion rate of 78%.