🎥 Messi tops CR7: more non-penalty goals, 6th brace in 7 games 🐐 | OneFootball

The years pass, the championships change, but the challenge between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo continues even thousands of kilometers away.

Last night, the captain of the Argentine national team scored yet another brace with Inter Miami, the sixth in the last seven MLS games, and surpassed CR7 in a special ranking.

As reported by Sports Illustrated, the two goals against the New York Red Bulls allowed Messi to reach 18 in the scoring charts of the American championship, but above all to reach 764 career goals without considering penalty kicks, which is one more than Ronaldo.

The ranking that also takes into account penalty kicks, on the other hand, still sees the Portuguese champion, now playing for Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, leading: 938 to 865 is the current score of Ronaldo and Messi.

This, like the number of Ballon d'Or won (8 to 5 for Messi), are among the most relevant statistics that are analyzed to determine who is and who could be considered the best footballer of all time.

And who knows if the future will not reserve another season of close duels, as the Saudi Pro League has been trying to convince Messi, already an ambassador of Saudi Arabian tourism, to transfer to their championship.

It would be the tenth season together after the nine spent in La Liga with the shirts of Barcelona and Real Madrid.

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