{"id":1208302,"date":"2022-09-21T08:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/statistics-of-messi-and-ronaldo-showing-who-is-the-best-goal-scorer-without-penalty-goals\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:14:06","slug":"statistics-of-messi-and-ronaldo-showing-who-is-the-best-goal-scorer-without-penalty-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/statistics-of-messi-and-ronaldo-showing-who-is-the-best-goal-scorer-without-penalty-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics of Messi and Ronaldo showing who is the best goal scorer without penalty goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of the greatest players that the game of football has witnessed are Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi both from Portugal and Argentina respectively.<\/p>\n

The coining of the word ‘GOAT’ came as a result of the exploits of these two players in a decade and half.<\/p>\n

The talk about the ‘Greatest Of All Time’ has always been about laurels and statistics; no matter how meagre it might be, once it gains an advantage over the other, it is good to be used for defence.<\/p>\n

This time, Lionel Messi has the superiority over Christiano Ronaldo according to the BBC Sports. This stats talks about the scoring breakdowns of the aforementioned players without penalty goals.<\/p>\n

Lionel Messi now has more goals than Cristiano Ronaldo, discounting penalties.<\/p>\n

And he’s played 145 games fewer.<\/p>\n

Messi has one non penalty goal ahead of Ronaldo. This comes as a bragging right to fans of the Argentine playmaker.<\/p>\n

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