The great football legends of the 21st century continue their rivalry at the end of their careers.
On his visit to the New England Revolution, Lionel Messi scored two goals for Inter Miami, in the match corresponding to the 10th date of Major League Soccer. The player from Rosario played as a starter and, in addition to the double, he gave an assist to Luis Suárez to turn the result around to close the 4-1 win.
Messi, who will turn 37 on July 24, went on to lead the scoring charts with 9 goals so far in this edition of the MLS championship. The striking thing is that he played only 6 of the 10 games that Las Garzas played so far.
In this way, it is the sixth consecutive game that he scored at least one goal and reached the top of the championship’s scoring table surpassing Christian Bentekefrom DC United, and Cristian Arangofrom Real Salt Lake, who were left with eight.
Goal difference between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo
However, for the world of football, it is inevitable to compare the goal difference with the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo day after day.
With his two goals last night in the Gillette Stadium from Massachusetts, La Pulga cut the difference to 53 points with respect to Cristiano.
According to the statistics posted on the official Messi Stats site, The Argentine has scored a total of 832 goals throughout his career, in 1,056 games played, with an average of 0.79. He also gave 367 assists, at an average of 0.35.
The breakdown is as follows: Barcelona (672 goals and 269 assists in 778 games), the argentine national team (106 goals and 54 assists in 180 games), PSG (32 goals and 34 assists in 75 games) and Inter Miami (23 goals and 10 assists in 23 games).
Cristiano Ronaldo, At 39 years old, he boasts 885 sacred screams in 1215 games of his career, taking into account that his figures in Saudi Arabia are impressive with the 56 points which he celebrated in 61 presentations for Al Nassr.
The average is 0.72 per game and to this impressive number of goals we must add the goals scored with the Sporting Lisbon shirts (5); Manchester United (145); Real Madrid (450); Juventus (101), to which he adds 128 goals with the Portuguese national team.
Throughout 21 years of professional career, this extraordinary record positions him as the leader in the race to become the top scorer of all time.
Beyond the fact that one is playing in the United States and the other in Arabia, both are also competing for scoring reign with their respective teams.
Looking ahead to the Copa América and the Euro Cup, the difference is 17 points in favor of CR7
What’s coming for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo
Messi will have action with Inter Miami, next Saturday, when they will host New York RB at Chase Stadium (4/5) and then they will have two consecutive away games against Montreal Impact (11/5) and the classic vs. Orlando City (5/15).
At the international level with the shirt of the Argentine national team Rosario, starting on Thursday, June 20 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium of Atlanta will debut against Canada for Group A of the America Cup. Then he will face Chili (Tuesday, June 25) and Peru (Saturday June 29).
While, Cristiano Ronaldo will play with Cristiano’s Al-Nassr on Wednesday, May 1, facing Al Khaleej again, but this time in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey champions. Those of CR7 Then they will host Al Wheda (4/5) in the local competition and visit Al Akhdoud (8/5).
With Portugal, he will be active in Group F of the Euro Cup since June 18 before Czech Republic in it Leipzig Stadium from Germany. His agenda will continue against Türkiye (6/22) and Georgia (6/26).
Source: Ambito
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