C Ronaldo v L Messi
The Debate
The lifelong debate goes on and on, Ronaldo v Messi, who is better, who has better skills, shooting, dribbling, heading. Truth is, both these players have mesmerising skills, dribbling techniques, shooting ability and personal traits, but both players also have something better than the other, Ronaldo with his pace, strength and aerial threat, Messi with his close skill dribbling, agility, balance and team play. Both of these players score freely and for fun with both having incredibly phenomenal goalscoring tallies, smashing all sorts of Spanish La Liga records and here i give you the chance to view their statistics from all competitions over the last few years and give your own personal opinion in the poll, so we can see who, in the personal opinion of the you, the Hub readers, is the better player.
Ronaldo and Messi have both had their clubs reinforced by the likes of Bale for Madrid and Neymar for Barcelona, do these signings mean less goals will be scored for our comparison pair and more assists made or vice versa, do you think it has any effect on the star players, having to share any limelight?
The statistics on show are from all club competitions for Real Madrid and Barcelona only, no country games are involved here
I will be sure to keep this hub up to date with the latest stats once each season has ended. Don't forget to cast your vote or even leave a comment giving your own personal reasons as to who is the best football player?
Below are the seasonal statistic charts for both players, starting from season 2009/2010 to 2013/14 with the final one totalling them all together with added goals per game and assists per game.
Player Stats 2009/10
Ronaldo
| Messi
| |
|---|---|---|
Appearances
| 35
| 53
|
Goals
| 33
| 47
|
Assists
| 7
| 11
|
Player Stats 2010/11
Ronaldo
| Messi
| |
|---|---|---|
Appearances
| 54
| 55
|
Goals
| 53
| 53
|
Assists
| 13
| 24
|
Player Stats 2011/12
Ronaldo
| Messi
| |
|---|---|---|
Appearances
| 54
| 60
|
Goals
| 60
| 73
|
Assists
| 15
| 28
|
Player Stats 2012/13
Ronaldo
| Messi
| |
|---|---|---|
Appearances
| 55
| 50
|
Goals
| 55
| 60
|
Assists
| 12
| 16
|
Player Stats 2013/14
Ronaldo
| Messi
| |
|---|---|---|
Appearances
| 47
| 46
|
Goals
| 51
| 41
|
Assists
| 15
| 14
|
Player Stats Totals 2009/14
Ronaldo
| Messi
| |
|---|---|---|
Appearances
| 245
| 264
|
Goals
| 252
| 274
|
Assists
| 62
| 93
|
Goals per game
| 1.02
| 1.03
|
Assists per game
| 0.25
| 0.35
|
A Few Goal Scoring Records
Cristaino Ronaldo holds a couple of good goal records in La Liga, which are as follows:
- The first player ever to score against every side in La Liga in a single season
- The first player to score 25+ goals in 5 consecutive a Liga seasons
He did have many more to his name but Messi had a brilliant season in 2012/13 and beat majority of the records Ronaldo had to his name...
While Lionel Messi holds these records:
- Most league goals in a season (50 goals in 2011/12)
- Most league home goals in a season (35 goals in 2011/12)
- Most league away goals in a season (24 goals in 2012/13)
- Most consecutive league matches scored in (21 consecutive matches scoring 33 goals in 2012/13)
- Most league hat-tricks in a season (8 hat-tricks in 2011/12)
- Youngest player to score 150 league goals (24 years and 270 days old)
Ronaldo v Messi
Who is the better player?
Results
I can imagine everybody has different opinions on this and i am without doubt that this debate will go on until the world ends (or until there are 2 better players to compare against each other) but the one thing everybody has to agree on is that watching either of these special players in action is truly breathtaking!
So now you've had a little read on the Hub and a peek at all the statistics from the past few seasons, why not get your vote casted on the poll and leave a comment below to let the world know, who is better!?!?! RONALDO V MESSI
