These two are unarguably the best in contemporary world of football.In fact, in the last four editions of FIFA’s best player of the year have been shared by magical Messi and his La Liga rival Christiano Ronaldo.But the question is who has the edge over other??.According to me both are killing right now though i am a die-hard Messi and Barcelona fan.Here are some stats that i collected from internet few days back.
Last season they both scored 53 goals for their respective clubs. Since Ronaldo joined Madrid in 2009, he has scored 126 goals in 127 games. Over the same period, Messi has scored 150 goals in 151 games.
This season while Ronaldo hit 33 goals from 35 games in his first season at Real, Messi answered for the Blaugrana with 45 from 52. When Ronaldo became the first-ever to hit 40 league goals in a La Liga season in 2010-11, Messi scored 12 in the Champions League and 31 in the league to lead Barca to a double. And in this season so far, Ronaldo’s 37 goals from 30 games in La Liga edges Messi’s 36 from 29. However, the Argentine’s overall tally of 58 from 49 games leaves Ronaldo’s 49 from 48 trailing behind.
Football barometer proves that the sport is becomming more and more defensive day by day yet both of them are scoring faster and faster every season.So what’s the secret.??
1.) One obvious answer is that both of them are playing for the most devastating clubs in the football history whose only competition is each other.No doubt about that!!!!
(Statistics from Who’s scored)–They have averaged 70.2 percent of possession in league games this season and their ability to set up residence deep inside the opposing team’s half means that 61 percent of their shots come from inside the 18-yard box. It is a veritable conveyor belt of chance creation and it enables Messi to shoot at goal, on average, 5.4 times per game. “What I do isn’t difficult,” he protested after scoring four times against Arsenal in April 2010. “What’s difficult is what Xavi and Iniesta do.” Madrid, meanwhile, have been scoring goals at a blistering rate since the start of the 2009-10 campaign. They plundered 102 goals last season, at a rate of 2.68 per game, and this term they have already netted 88 times in 26 games — a rate of 3.38 goals per match — with Ronaldo averaging a league-high 6.8 shots per game.
2.)Both players are blessed with amazing talent and inexorable passion. And both seems to be pushing each other to keep improving and scoring goals every single day and every single match.
3.)The two men are also remarkably fit and successful at avoiding injuries.
Be it Messi’s magical left foot or Ronaldo’s goal scoring record or Messi’s presence of mind and Ronaldo’d driblling skills both of them have made significant contribution to their respective teams.Barcelona would not be able to exchange passes with such extraordinary precision without Messi and Xavi and Iniesta pitches on which they play, while Ronaldo’s dead-ball owes much to the modern game of footballs.But the individual stats do not answer such questions which would either require additional stats or are simply unanswerable due to the way that football works.
PS–I love FC-Barcelona and i hate Cristiano Ronaldo.Life is too short:Love football.