Sport Daily 24Sport Daily 24
    What's Hot

    What channel is Blue Jays vs. Twins on at this time?

    October 4, 2023

    Are Josh Lowe and Nathaniel Lowe associated? Baseball brothers meet in Rays-Rangers playoff sequence

    October 4, 2023

    Laura Woods has Rio Ferdinand in stitches as she jokes Manchester United legend made brag off air

    October 4, 2023
    Facebook Twitter Instagram
    Sport Daily 24Sport Daily 24
    • Football

      Laura Woods has Rio Ferdinand in stitches as she jokes Manchester United legend made brag off air

      October 4, 2023

      Arsenal might be with out Bukayo Saka for Man Metropolis conflict as Lens expose Gunners’ weak spot in shock Champions League defeat

      October 4, 2023

      EA FC 24 RTTK improve tracker, together with Champions League Street to the Knockouts rankings, leaks and dates defined

      October 3, 2023

      Lens vs Arsenal LIVE: Gunners intention to proceed unbeaten begin to season on return to Champions League motion

      October 3, 2023

      Methods to watch Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV this Thursday for FREE

      October 3, 2023
    • Boxing

      Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk date: UK begin time, undercard and easy methods to observe undisputed heavyweight world title conflict in Saudi Arabia

      October 4, 2023

      MSG Sphere wows boxing followers with promotion of Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou

      October 4, 2023

      Tantalising super-fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford makes ‘excellent sense’

      October 3, 2023

      Josh Warrington fought on with a damaged jaw to cease opponent and turn into a two-time world champion

      October 3, 2023

      Dillon Danis names Francis Ngannou, Jake Paul and several other UFC stars on his hitlist forward of boxing debut

      October 3, 2023
    • NBA

      Josh Hart able to energy up his sport as Knicks’ backup 4

      October 4, 2023

      Suns’ Kevin Durant knocks his new KD 16 Nike signature shoe: ‘It is simply one other pair of kicks’

      October 4, 2023

      Jimmy Butler’s ’emo’ hair from Warmth media day is already gone

      October 3, 2023

      Damian Lillard remembers being pranked by Raptors’ O.G. Anunoby earlier than commerce to Bucks: ‘Welcome to Toronto’

      October 3, 2023

      James Harden, Bucks enchancment, Victor Wembanyama

      October 3, 2023
    • MLB

      What channel is Blue Jays vs. Twins on at this time?

      October 4, 2023

      Are Josh Lowe and Nathaniel Lowe associated? Baseball brothers meet in Rays-Rangers playoff sequence

      October 4, 2023

      FanDuel Kentucky promo code for MLB Playoffs: declare $5,000 no sweat guess or $200 bonus

      October 4, 2023

      What occurred to Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom? Newest information, updates on Rangers’ injured aces

      October 4, 2023

      Mets free brokers 2024: Largest offseason choices for New York, from Shohei Ohtani to Cody Bellinger

      October 4, 2023
    • NFL

      Kevin O’Connell takes smart road on Justin Jefferson at OTAs

      May 31, 2023

      Replacing Tom Brady off to a horrendous start for the Buccaneers

      May 31, 2023

      Deshaun Watson adds fuel to DeAndre Hopkins buzz

      May 30, 2023

      Andy Reid just pummeled one NFL position into football extinction

      May 30, 2023

      Joe Burrow could take a page out of Tom Brady playbook, but should he?

      May 30, 2023
    • NHL

      The Hockey Information Podcast: Breaking Down Zegras' Deal, NHL Standouts and Waiver Claims

      October 4, 2023

      Derek Stepan Declares Retirement After 13 NHL Seasons

      October 4, 2023

      Will the NHL's Massive-Ticket UFA Goalie Curse Cease with the Senators' Joonas Korpisalo?

      October 3, 2023

      THN On The 'O': Answering One Urgent Query for Every OHL Membership

      October 3, 2023

      How Will the Tampa Bay Lightning Exchange Andrei Vasilevskiy?

      October 3, 2023
    • Tennis

      Eugenie Bouchard switches to pickleball: She’s going to mix it with tennis

      October 4, 2023

      Andreeva units Rybakina showdown in Beijing

      October 4, 2023

      Novak Djokovic is the best: 36 Grand Slam finals, 10 on the US Open

      October 3, 2023

      WTA pronounces 2023 election outcomes

      October 3, 2023

      The 2024 Australian Open brings ahead begin date to keep away from participant complaints

      October 3, 2023
    • Soccer

      Inter Miami engaged on ‘plan B’ for Messi ought to they fail to make playoffs

      October 4, 2023

      NWSL searching for new media rights deal: What the league ought to count on

      October 4, 2023

      Napoli 2-3 Actual Madrid: abstract, targets, highlights, Champions League

      October 3, 2023

      ‘It nonetheless burns’ – The Maradona match that led to the creation of the Champions League

      October 3, 2023

      Mijatovic: “You may perceive why Modric is upset…”

      October 3, 2023
    • Golf

      USA threatened to kick Xander Schauffele off Ryder Cup staff as a consequence of Netflix dispute

      October 4, 2023

      Easy Golf Swing Tricks to Win the Match – Golf Information

      October 4, 2023

      I watched Tiger Woods as a fan however ended up being his caddie for Boris Becker pairing

      October 3, 2023

      The Rise of Cellular Gaming: Unpacking the Enterprise Alternatives and Challenges – Golf Information

      October 3, 2023

      Inside Ryder Cup celebrations as Francesco Molinari says he could not sustain with two stars

      October 3, 2023
    • Cricket

      6 England gamers from 2019 World Cup successful group who gained’t function within the 2023 version

      October 4, 2023

      Former Indian coach makes massive remarks on Rohit Sharma forward of ODI World Cup 2023

      October 4, 2023

      6 South Africa gamers who featured within the 2019 ODI World Cup however gained’t play within the 2023 CWC

      October 3, 2023

      High 5 batters to be careful for within the ODI Cricket World Cup 2023

      October 3, 2023

      Lockie Ferguson hilariously delivers well-known ‘Teen Guna Lagaan’ dialogue from Aamir Khan starrer Bollywood movie; video goes viral

      October 3, 2023
    • F1

      Mexico launches marketing campaign to cease Verstappen and Hamilton being jeered

      October 4, 2023

      F1 dangers trying silly if it doesn’t settle for Andretti entry

      October 4, 2023

      F1 staff principal backs RIVAL to bounce again in 2024

      October 3, 2023

      TECH TUESDAY: How AlphaTauri’s improve provides them a much-needed efficiency increase

      October 3, 2023

      Lewis Hamilton opens up on his Formulation 1 retirement plans

      October 3, 2023
    • WWE

      Dominik Mysterio Wins Again NXT North American Championship

      October 4, 2023

      WWE NXT Stay Protection 10/3 – Becky Lynch Returns, North American Title Rematch, Extra

      October 4, 2023

      WWE Uncooked attracts greatest rankings since begin of NFL season

      October 3, 2023

      How Shut Adam Copeland (Edge) Got here To Retirement Earlier than Becoming a member of AEW

      October 3, 2023

      Bully Ray & Mark Henry Break Down Former WWE Star Adam Copeland’s AEW Debut

      October 3, 2023
    Sport Daily 24Sport Daily 24
    Home»Soccer»Ronaldo v Messi – the absurd timeline of how they have driven each other to break records
    Soccer

    Ronaldo v Messi – the absurd timeline of how they have driven each other to break records

    December 6, 202210 Mins Read0 Views
    Facebook Twitter Email
    Share
    Facebook Twitter Email

    Something strange happened the other night. Lionel Messi scored his first World Cup knockout goal.

    It felt surreal — surely one of the greatest players of all time had scored one before? Well, he hadn’t and, even stranger, neither has Cristiano Ronaldo.

    But if the rest of their careers are to go by, prepare for Ronaldo to change that against Switzerland today (Tuesday).

    Because whenever one of them does something, the other tends to follow suit. Ever since the pair burst onto the scene in the late 2000s, they have been locked in a footballing game of ‘Anything you can do, I can do better’.

    The Athletic takes you through the remarkable timeline, showing how two of the world’s greatest-ever players have relentlessly pushed each other to new records, trophies, and glorious entertaining moments.


    2006: First World Cup goals

    The 2006 World Cup kicked off in Germany, and Argentina started their Group C campaign with a 2-1 victory over the Ivory Coast.

    An 18-year-old Messi was chosen to start their second game against Serbia & Montenegro and the Barcelona youngster grabbed his first World Cup goal on his tournament debut to cap a 6-0 drubbing.

    One day later, in Group D, Portugal played their own second group game, against Iran. They won 2-0, with a 21-year-old Ronaldo scoring his first World Cup goal.

    2007-09: The revolving Ballon d’Or

    After scoring 31 goals in the 2007-08 Premier League season as Manchester United retained the title, winning the Champions League with eight more goals, and contributing another four to Portugal reaching the 2008 European Championship quarter-finals, Ronaldo won his first Ballon d’Or that December.

    That season also included the first meetings between Messi and Ronaldo on the pitch — when Sir Alex Ferguson’s team squeezed past Frank Rijkaard’s Barcelona 1-0 on aggregate in a Champions League semi-final.

    The award ceremony took place just under halfway through Pep Guardiola’s 2008-09 debut season in charge of Barcelona. By the end of it, Guardiola’s side would lift the treble, helped by 57 combined goals and assists from Messi.

    The last of those goals was, fittingly, a 70th-minute header against Ronaldo’s United in the Champions League final in Rome.

    After snatching away the Champions League trophy, six months later Messi beat Ronaldo to the Ballon d’Or too, winning it for the first of seven times in the next 12 years.


    Messi and Ronaldo have won 12 of the past 14 Ballon d’Or awards (Photo: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)

    2010: Captains at the World Cup

    Four years on from losing to hosts Germany on penalties in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup, Argentina kicked off in South Africa under the management of Diego Maradona, who as a player led them to win the 1986 tournament and finish as runners-up in 1990. A 22-year-old Messi led his national team out as captain to a 1-0 opening victory over Nigeria.

    Three days later and a year on from completing a world record £80million move to Real Madrid from United, Ronaldo also wore the armband, against Ivory Coast in a game that ended 0-0.

    Neither man progressed further than the quarter-finals as Spain lifted the trophy, but after acclimatising to Spanish football, Real Madrid’s No 7 took his game to a new level in 2010/11…

    2010-12: Most goals in La Liga

    Ronaldo scored 53 club goals across all competitions in 2010-11. In La Liga, it was 40 in 34, breaking the Spanish league record for most goals in a season.

    That record had stood for 60 years, yet in the very next La Liga season, Ronaldo topped his new benchmark with 46 goals… and Messi did even better, with 50 goals plus 19 assists.

    For good measure, Messi’s 14 goals in the 2011-12 Champions League were enough to equal the record for most goals in a single season in that competition, including in its previous European Cup format.

    Back-to-back hat-tricks

    By now a Premier League, La Liga and Champions League winner, Ronaldo started 2013-14 in superb form, scoring a hat-trick on the opening day of the Champions League group stage against Galatasaray. He sealed the 6-1 away win by leaving two defenders in the dust and tucking a left-footed shot into the far corner.

    With Carlo Ancelotti in charge at the Bernabeu, a first Champions League in Madrid colours looked to already be in Ronaldo’s hands.

    But just a day later, Barcelona headed onto the Camp Nou pitch to face Ajax in their first group match. Messi laid his cards on the table with a hat-trick of his own, which included one of his first sensational free kicks.

    Seven years ago today, Lionel Messi scored a special, special hat-trick against Ajax 🤩pic.twitter.com/83zaKi5DrD

    — GOAL (@goal) September 18, 2020

    More obscene goal records followed…

    As that season rumbled on, Real Madrid steamed towards la Decima and ended up meeting city neighbours Atletico in the final. With a penalty in the last minute of extra-time to make it 4-1, Ronaldo scored his 17th goal of that Champions League campaign, blasting past the record equalled by Messi two seasons before.

    In La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona finished level on 87 points but Atletico were crowned champions, three points ahead.

    With another genuine contender in the mix, the Clasico rivals had to up their previous levels; Messi and Ronaldo certainly responded, contributing to 129 La Liga goals between them in 2014-15.

    A key highlight came in the December. A 29-year-old Ronaldo scored his 200th La Liga goal in (another) hat-trick, this one against Celta Vigo. Next day, Barcelona met Espanyol in the Catalan derby. Messi returned serve with his own hat-trick, freakishly also taking the 27-year-old to 200 La Liga goals in the 182 games since Ronaldo arrived in Spain.

    A thousand goals

    In his crowning international achievement, Ronaldo captained Portugal to their first major trophy — beating hosts France in the final of Euro 2016.

    The tournament came after another extremely competitive year for Ronaldo and Messi.

    In late January, Messi scored the equaliser in what would be a 2-1 away win over Atletico. It meant for 24 hours, he and Ronaldo had combined for exactly 1,000 career goals. Then Ronaldo took that number to 1,003 as he scored half of a 6-0 demolition of Espanyol the following day.

    As Barcelona raced away to another La Liga title, their sixth in eight years, Messi scored his seventh La Liga hat-trick in 16 months, against Rayo Vallecano in a 5-1 win on March 3. The spotlight lasted two days, before Ronaldo scored four in a 7-1 demolition of Celta Vigo.

    🔥🔥🔥
    Cristiano Ronaldo 🆚 @rccelta_oficial:

    🏟 Estadio Santiago Bernabéu
    📍 Games / Partidos: 5⃣
    ⚽ Goals / Goles: 1⃣3⃣#HalaMadrid pic.twitter.com/qO8n6rsY9P

    — Real Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@realmadriden) January 17, 2017

    He also won the Champions League again that season, the first of Madrid’s three in a row under Zinedine Zidane. That, combined with Portugal’s Euros triumph, was enough for the 2016 Ballon d’Or — his fourth — to go to Ronaldo.

    Barcelona meanwhile, crashed out of the Champions League in the quarter-finals, a painful habit they had to get used to in the years after their most recent win in 2014-15.

    Messi started the 2016-17 edition of the competition on fire, scoring hat-tricks in his first two group games against Celtic and Manchester City, setting the record for hat-tricks in the competition’s history with seven (he and Ronaldo had previously been tied with five).

    🇦🇷 Leo Messi hit a hat-trick against Man City, on this day in 2016 💪#UCL pic.twitter.com/EHPSBSnfTk

    — UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) October 19, 2022

    Remarkably, Ronaldo was able to score two consecutive Champions League hat-tricks of his own that season. The first came against Bayern Munich in a quarter-final decider, and the second versus Atletico in the first leg of the semis, making sure he equalled the Champions League record Messi had set five months previous. (They are now level with eight each.)

    What a goal!

    For a time, it looked like Messi had scored one of the best goals of the year. His free kick against Atletico on March 4, 2018 was sublime, making Jan Oblak scramble across his line to barely get close to a shot that curled into the top corner.

    Lionel Messi’s free-kick vs Atleti… incredible from every angle! 📽💫 pic.twitter.com/YmKAS81c3q

    — LaLiga English (@LaLigaEN) March 6, 2018

    One month later, away to Juventus in the Champions League quarter-finals, Ronaldo responded. His spellbinding overhead kick remains one of the best goals in the competition’s history.

    OH. MY. WORD! 😱

    Cristiano Ronaldo with an outrageous overhead kick!

    Insane! 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/PYtT0uRTQ9

    — Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) April 3, 2018

     

    The twilight years

    The highlight of Ronaldo’s 2018-19 debut season with Juventus came in the Champions League. After losing the first leg 2-0 away to old foes Atletico Madrid in the round of 16, the Portuguese stepped up once more with another hat-trick in Turin, sending the Italian club through 3-2 on aggregate.

    Barcelona had some quieter whispers of doubt concerning their own chances to reach the last eight that season, as Ernesto Valverde’s team played against Lyon the following night. The French side had held Barcelona to a 0-0 in the first leg, and so it was Messi’s turn to take control. He scored two and assisted two more as Barcelona ran them ragged 5-1 at Camp Nou.

    A Messi night for Lyon in Barcelona…

    Two beautiful goals 😍
    Two perfect assists 👌

    Lionel Messi is not of this planet 👽 pic.twitter.com/X2APVQuHEe

    — Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) March 14, 2019

     

    As Ronaldo and Messi have moved deeper into their thirties, the days of their freakish record-breaking and goalscoring finally appear to be coming to an end.

    The 2019-20 Champions League round of 16 saw Juventus lose to Lyon, despite the best efforts of Ronaldo, who scored two goals in the second leg which included a screamer from 25 yards out. A day later, Messi produced one of his mystical goals when he made half of Napoli’s defence look incompetent, dribbling through and squeezing a shot into the bottom corner in a 3-1 victory that booked a quarter-finals place.

    Leading international goalscorer

    In September last year, Ronaldo became the leading men’s all-time international goalscorer, reaching 111 goals for Portugal after netting twice against the Republic of Ireland.

    Messi this time took a full week to make similar headlines himself, his 79th Argentina goal making him the all-time leading South American international goalscorer.

    Should Ronaldo score against Switzerland in the World Cup’s round of 16 today (Tuesday), perhaps it will be the final time we see one steal the spotlight from the other, with Messi having already led Argentina into the quarter-finals in Qatar. Maybe we’re beginning to realise just how lucky we were to experience it for the past 15 years.

    (Top image: Sam Richardson)

    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)
    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?
    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};
    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′;
    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;
    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];
    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,’script’,
    ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’);
    fbq(‘dataProcessingOptions’, []);
    fbq(‘init’, ‘207679059578897’);
    fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’);

    Read original article here

    News Summary:

    • Ronaldo v Messi – the absurd timeline of how they have driven each other to break records
    • Check all news and articles from the latest Soccer updates.
    Denial of responsibility! SportDaily24 is an automatic aggregator around the global media. All the content are available free on Internet. We have just arranged it in one platform for educational purpose only. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials on our website, please contact us by email: [email protected] The content will be deleted within 24 hours.
    RECOMMENDED
    ‘they absurd AFC Argentina break Champions League driven each FC Barcelona have how International Football Juventus Manchester United Messi other Paris Saint-Germain Portugal Premier League Real Madrid records… Ronaldo Soccer the timeline World Cup
    Previous ArticleExplained: How Pakistan’s loss to England in Rawalpindi Test boosted India’s hopes of making it into WTC Final
    Next Article Fischler Report: Figuring Out the Flawed New York Rangers

    Related Posts

    Football

    Laura Woods has Rio Ferdinand in stitches as she jokes Manchester United legend made brag off air

    October 4, 2023
    NHL

    The Hockey Information Podcast: Breaking Down Zegras' Deal, NHL Standouts and Waiver Claims

    October 4, 2023
    Soccer

    Inter Miami engaged on ‘plan B’ for Messi ought to they fail to make playoffs

    October 4, 2023
    Cricket

    6 England gamers from 2019 World Cup successful group who gained’t function within the 2023 version

    October 4, 2023
    Advertisement
    Lastest Posts

    What channel is Blue Jays vs. Twins on at this time?

    October 4, 2023

    Are Josh Lowe and Nathaniel Lowe associated? Baseball brothers meet in Rays-Rangers playoff sequence

    October 4, 2023

    Laura Woods has Rio Ferdinand in stitches as she jokes Manchester United legend made brag off air

    October 4, 2023

    Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk date: UK begin time, undercard and easy methods to observe undisputed heavyweight world title conflict in Saudi Arabia

    October 4, 2023
    About Us
    About Us

    The Latest Sports News US, videos, scores and more on the biggest sports, including NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, Soccer, Boxing, Golf, Tennis and more Sporting News.

    We're accepting new partnerships right now.

    Email Us: [email protected]

    Our Picks

    Finest MLB prop bets as we speak: Jesus Luzardo, Kyle Schwarber spotlight high parlay picks for Phillies-Marlins Recreation 1

    October 3, 2023

    MLB playoff predictions: Sporting Information specialists make picks for 2023 postseason bracket, World Collection

    October 2, 2023

    MLB playoff odds, picks, predictions: Skilled mannequin initiatives winners for 2023 AL, NL brackets and World Collection

    October 2, 2023
    PARTNERS
    • Celebrities News
    • Kpop News
    • Business News
    • Game News
    • African Entertainment
    • Temporary Email
    Facebook Twitter Tumblr
    • Home
    • About
    • Privacy Policy
    © 2023 SportDaily24.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.