Argentine talisman and forward enigma, Lionel Messi was in action yesterday for Lionel Scaloni led team in their round of 16 ties of the ongoing 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament in Qatar against Australia at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium....CONTINUE READING
The 35 year old and former Barcelona star made the 1000th appearance of his illustrious and trophy-ladden career and he was remarkably incredible by netting a trademark goal to mark his iconic stat.
Goals from Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez gave Argentina the two goals with Australia getting their only goal with an own-goal from Enzo Fernandez to end the game two goals to one at full time.
After the game, Lionel Messi’s only goal of the night has brought about comparison with his old-time rival and Portuguese compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo as these two have formed to be the healthiest and longest rivalry ever seen in the round leather game.
These two have been making waves in the game of football as they have made history by breaking records that initially seem unbreakable thereby shared the podium for almost fifteen years, with this complemented with the ratio and rate at which they have been churning out goals which has relatively been the same.
This as such brought about placing the two side-by-side following Lionel Messi’s iconic goal on his 1000th appearance which took his tally to 789 goals with the head-to-head stats seen below:
Lionel Messi on his 1000th game:
789 Goals
348 Assists
103.92 minutes per goal
72.12 minutes per Goals/Assists
683 Wins
191 Draws
126 Losses
41 Trophies won
Cristiano Ronaldo on his 1000th game:
725 Goals
218 Assists
111.81 minutes per goal
85.96 minutes per Goals/Assists
666 Wins
188 Draws
146 Losses
31 Trophies won.
