The numbers never lie, Messi “wipes” Ronaldo off the map!

Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have been in a long and heated race to dominate European football. This has been the case for more than a decade, in which they have spurred each other on to win individual awards and titles.
However, the start of this season has placed the two players in very different dimensions. While the Argentine boasts a sensational start to the season, the Portuguese offers a discreet performance, a far cry from the goalscoring profusion of years past.
Messi seems to have overcome the transition period that forced him to move from Barcelona to Paris and has become a basic part of PSG. The good tone he has shown in the French team has been brilliantly accompanied by the Argentine national team, where he continues to collect personal records.
He has won the last two friendlies against Honduras and Jamaica with two goals in each of the matches. The seven-time “Golden Ball” winner has become the first Argentinian footballer to reach 100 victories with the Albiceleste.
So far, this season, Messi has scored 10 goals in the 13 matches played between PSG and Argentina. The striker has put all his talent at the service of his team, which is reflected in the 8 assists he has provided for the Parisian side, more than anyone else in Christophe Galtier’s side.
These figures are in contrast to those of Cristiano Ronaldo, who after a turbulent summer, in which he failed to reach his goal of leaving Manchester United, is having an equally stormy start to the season. In the eight games he played with Manchester United, he scored only one goal, a discrete figure that can only be accompanied by an assist he distributed in the two games he played with the Portuguese national team.
While Messi is the absolute and indisputable reference for Argentina, Cristiano Ronaldo is going through a difficult moment with his national team. Before the last match against Spain, some in the Portuguese press and fans began to question whether the Manchester United striker should start.
The 0-1 loss to Spain left Portugal out of the “Final Four” of the League of Nations, a situation that contradicts the happy state of Messi and Argentina, a team that has 35 consecutive games without defeat.