With his two goals, which he scored yesterday, Tuesday, in the Paris Saint-Germain shirt, in the Champions League, Argentine star Lionel Messi continues to approach the record owned by Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo as the best scorer in the history of the Champions League.
The “Flea” is taking advantage of the absence of the “Don” so far from the Champions League due to the lack of Manchester United’s participation in the continental championship, to score 4 goals this season in the tournament, raising his score of goals in it in total to 129 goals, to ignite the competition between him and Cristiano for this title.
Cristiano Ronaldo has so far scored 140 goals in the Champions League, so Messi needs 11 goals to equal this historical figure and then break it, according to the Spanish sports newspaper, Sport.
Messi’s 129 goals came during 160 matches he played in the Champions League (a goal in every 0.81 matches), in contrast, the “Don” scored 140 goals in 183 matches (a goal in every 0.77 matches) in the tournament, which holds the title of top scorer in one copy by 17 targets in 2014.
Messi also strengthened, with his double scored yesterday against Maccabi Haifa, the meeting, which also witnessed his creation of two other goals, from his top scorer in the group stage by 79 goals, six goals more than Cristiano and 18 goals from the Polish Robert Lewandowski, the current Barcelona striker, and 23 goals from Karim Benzema, Real Madrid striker.
Lewandowski is third in the list of historical top scorers (91 goals), followed by Benzema (86 goals), noting that the rising Norwegian star Erling Haaland, Manchester City striker, is currently in the 33rd place with 28 goals in 23 matches (1.22 goals per match).
