Leo Messi has scored fewer goals for Argentina than Cristiano Ronaldo with Portugal. But Messi's 70 goals have come against stronger opposition, according to analysis conducted by AS and Goal.

The club rivalry between the two players spills into international football and Ronaldo, who will turn 35 in February, boasts 99 goals for his national team, 29 more than Messi, who will be 33 next June.

However, AS and Goal explain that there is a 'but' because only 28 of Ronaldo's 99 goals (29 percent of them) have comes against sides ranked among the top 50 nations.

As for Messi, 57 of his 70 goals have been scored against countries ranked in the top 50 (82 percent) with Ronaldo making a habit of scoring lots of goals against smaller nations.

Here is the breakdown:

LEO MESSI (70 GOALS)
5 - Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay,

4 - Venezuela, Ecuador

3 - Colombia, Chile, Suiza, Bolivia, Nigeria, México, Panamá, Haití, Guatemala

2 - Spain, Croatia, Algeria, Hong Kong, Nicaragua,

1 - France, Germany, Portugal, Perú, Iran, USA,

Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia

CRISTIANO RONALDO (99 GOLES)
7 - Lithuania

5 - Andorra, Armenia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Sweden

4 - Estonia, Faro Islands, Hungary, Netherlands

3 - Belgium, Denmark, Northern Ireland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland

2 - Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Cameroon, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Kazakstan, Saudí Arabia

1 - Argentina, Croatia, Ecuador, Finland, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, Iran, Morocco, New Zealand, North Korea, Panamá, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Wales.

Source: https://amp.sport-english.com/en/news/barca/messi-scores-more-international-goals-vs-top-50-nations-than-ronaldo-7741850

Wait fess...
Shey this kind news no dey tire una

If this news is what is on your blog...your blog is about closing down cos the content is foolish......

excessmon:
If this news is what is on your blog...your blog is about closing down cos the content is foolish......

If I should ask, what made it "foolish"?

Penaldo go take Lithuania and Andorra break the record. He has a special love for scoring against little-known nations, Lithuania especially.

And out of the 99 like 69 nah penalty ooo,mk no body quote me o.

Na him de organize the friendlies and arrange the group for tournaments?

How will he score against teams he has never played against?

ceejayMAX:
And out of the 99 like 69 nah penalty ooo,mk no body quote me o.

Messi's last three goals for argentina have come from penalties..

Just saying

kingphilip:
Na him de organize the friendlies and arrange the group for tournaments?

How will he score against teams he has never played against?

I tire oo, you can only beat whats in front of you

All the goals when messi don score, wetin d guy win

4 different finals when his country needed a single goal.. What did he do?? Nothing.. He even missed a penalty against chile at copa america final

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