Messi is the best goalscorer ever. (long post lol)

Ronaldo isn't the greatest scorer ever, here's proof. And because we're talking about goals, I'm not even gonna mention the A word. What's the A word? I won't tell you, figure it out on your own.

Ronaldo has 931 goals as of date. Vey impressive I must say, excluding Saudi goals, it's 837. For all intents and purposes, we'll include Saudi and MLS goals for both.

Messi has 856 goals as of date. Again, very impressive. However, the differentiating factor between these two is thier appearances. Messi has 1091 appearances compared to Ronaldo's 1272. Huge difference. This means Ronaldo got more time to score more goals. Good to know.

We need to look at goals per game, since a player can score 10 goals in 15 games, another can score 15 goals in 35 games. However, Player A is NOT better than player B here, so:

Messi has 0.78 goals per game, Ronaldo has 0.73. Now, one of these could play like 45 minutes of a match and it will be considered as an appearance, making it favourable to the other party. That's why we have goals per Minutes, the lowest, and arguably the best metric to decide how clinical a player is.

Messi has 104.6 minutes per goal while Ronaldo has 111.6 minutes per goal. Agian, Messi is better. Now we have to look at goals by types. First headers. It's Ronaldo. No sugercoating. Straight to the point. It's Ronaldo. Makes sense but idc. Messi is short af. The poor guy needed medication to grow taller 😭.

Now, penalties are a weird one since neither Messi nor Ronaldo fans can decide if penalties are easy or hard. Pessi and Penaldo gets thrown everywhere it's literally hilarious. Ronaldo has 174 penalty goals vs Messi's 109. Ronaldo took 206 attempts while Messi took 140. Ronaldo also has a better penalty scoring percentage at 84.5 compared to Messi's 77.9. Whether this is a win for Ronaldo, I got no clue. But I'll say it is.

The other set piece is obviously free kicks. Messi has 66 free kicks whilst Ronaldo has 64. It seems like both are good at free kicks, until you realise Ronaldo attempted damn near 1000 attempts. Officially it's 915 whilst Messi attempted 781. Messi has a better free kick conversion rate of 0.0845% whilst Ronaldo has 0.06994%. Messi has better free kick stats.

Then there's the tap in calls. Messi obviously has that much because he's a tapin merchant, right? Ronaldo is like, a long shot king? Right? Well, Messi has 584 goals in the box. Aha! I knew it, he can't ignore those tapin allegations now. Ronaldo has 624 goals inside the box. Wait... That's not right... I thought Messi was the tap in merchant. Never mind, Ronaldo is a long shot king, Messk cannot shoot a powershot to save his life. Well, Ronaldo scored lucky number 69 goals outside the box, not including free kicks I assume. Messi has 97 shots outside the box. Wait, what? Messi has more again?

Still, all that and Ronaldo still has more goals. Well, I haven't talked about one very important stat, shot attempts. Difference btween Messi and Ronaldo goals scored is 75 goals. Messi attempted 3869 shots. Ronaldo attempted perfectly 1010 shots more, at 4879. Messi has a shot accuracy of 22.12% compared to Ronaldo's 19.08%. This doesn't seem like such a big difference, but it is. Ronaldo took so many shots to reach 931 goals while it took Messi 1000 shots less to reach 75 goals less. Ronaldo isn't a clinical finisher. He constantly gets insane amounts of chances. Get enough chances, you can score more goals.

Tldr; Messi has the better minutes per game ratio, free kick scoring rate, outside the box goals, % of goals from all the shots he took. He's easily better than Ronaldo. Ronaldo's biggest enemy in all things related to goals are his own fans and the goals per game stats. Thank you.