Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the best in the Champions League.

 It is not easy at all to determine the best between Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and no matter how the answer appears evident for supporters of both players, every fan will definitely prefer his favorite player, even Cristiano and Messi, even if they respect each other, but each of them believes that he is the best. In this article, we will go into the ongoing career of the two greatest players in the Champions League, while recalling the most important achievements and numbers recorded at the individual and team levels.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the best in the Champions League.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the best in the Champions League.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo participation 

Cristiano Ronaldo is very close to breaking the record recorded in the name of Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas as the most player participating in the Champions League matches, where only 8 games are separated from the equivalent of the number of his former teammate, with Ronaldo in his possession of 173 participations and even Messi, he broke into the list of ten more players Participation in the champions, where he comes sixth with 141 participation .

The achievements of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo at the team level in the Champions League

   Cristiano participated in the shirts of three clubs in the Champions League, which are Manchester United and Real Madrid and the current Juventus team, where he won the title once and reached the final in the year after that with Manchester United, but the most successful period for Cristiano Ronaldo in the tournament was with Real Madrid , where he achieved the title with them 4 times without losing any final,where he contributed strongly to achieving these titles . As for his current team, Juventus, this is his second participation after leaving last year in a big surprise against Ajax the Dutch.



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As for Messi in total, he recorded all his participation in the Barcelona shirt and crowned the championship with the team 4 times, 3 of which was a star of the team , and in the first was a substitee , .but at the last five years the team disappointed its fans with an unexpected exit in the decisive roles, the last of which was the surprise of the resounding exit against Liverpool, where the team did not improve its exploitation by going 3-0 and fell with four goals at Anfield, the Reds' stronghold.

The achievements of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo at the individual level in the Champions League

  Both players are goals's machine that does not stop scoring goals, both of them have an impressive record in the number of goals, where Cristiano Ronaldo surpasses Messi by a difference of 15 goals, where Ronaldo scored 129 goals, while Messi has 114 goals and the two players away from the rest

Where the retired, Raul Gonzalez, comes third with 71 goals, with Levandowski and Benzema sharing the fourth place with 64 goals.

  The two players only scored two goals each in this suspended season in the final price due to the Corona virus, but this did not affect the big rates for the players, as Messi has a rate of 0.82 per game versus Cristiano, who has 0.77 goals in each match, but in the knockout stage, Ronaldo It excels as it has a rate of 0.81 compared to 0.68 for Messi 0



And Cristiano clinched the title of top scorer for seven years, including six consecutive seasons, as a hard-to-break number when he was playing with the royal team Real Madrid, while Messi crowned the top scorer six years and the 2014/2015 season was exceptional as the two players shared the title of top scorer with Brazilian star Neymar Jr



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As for the industry, the numbers are close to a slight advantage for Don Cristiano, as Don has so far made 40 goals for his teammates as the most player in the history of the tournament, Messi comes directly behind with 35 goals.



Among the interesting numbers of the players ’career in the champions is that they both scored 8 hat-tricks in the history of the tournament, and Messi surpasses Ronaldo as the fastest player reaching 100 goals, as he did in 123 games while Ronaldo needed 144 games, but Cristiano excels as the first player to reach Goal No. 100 in his career as a player and guided you with one team when he succeeded to do that  with Real Madrid , where Messi had previously for a month.



It is strange that Cristiano Ronaldo did not score in his first 30 games in the Champions League before his goal scoring capabilities exploded afterwards to become the greatest scorer in the history of the championship awaiting the response from Messi in the upcoming appointments.



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