Koeman took the opportunity to give Fati a bit of a rest with 20 minutes to go, with another talented teenager – Pedri – given the chance to come off the bench for his LaLiga debut after joining from Las Palmas. No other footballers in history have sustained such elite levels for such a long period of time. It's also likely that his passing stats would have been significantly higher before 2009 when he was more involved in the creative build-up play. For example, it may be true that from 2017-2019, Messi scored 23 free kick goals to Ronaldo's 5; however, from 2009-2011, Ronaldo scored 21 direct free kick goals to Messi's 3.

But who is the best? Ronaldo is Portugal's all-time top scorer with 101 goals (in 165 appearances), and Messi is Argentina's all-time top scorer with 70 goals (in . Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two of the best footballers of all time, arguably the very best of them all. When it comes to assists, there's only one winner. However, Messi plays a very different game to the traditinal centre-forward game of Ronaldo. There is therefore little doubt that Lionel Messi is the best when it comes to dribbling. Excluding shootouts, Ronaldo has scored an impressive 128 penalties (with 25 misses) over his whole career, whereas Messi has scored 91 penalties (with 26 misses). The media perception is that Messi is unreliable from the spot, whereas Ronaldo is the ultimate ice-cool penalty king - the truth, is somewhere in between. In scoring twice, Fati became the youngest player from Europe's top five leagues to net 10 times in all competitions since 2019-20 began, but he also won the penalty and provided a couple of key passes before his 70th-minute withdrawal. Copyright © 2020 Goal.com All rights reserved. In terms of frequency, Messi has won 45% of the senior competitions he has played, and Ronaldo has won 40% of senior competitions played. These numbers are so tight, and to add to this, their hat trick count in league games is: 36 hat tricks for Messi and 36 hat-tricks for Ronaldo. - Aged 17 years and 332 days, Barcelona's Ansu Fati is the youngest player from the top five European leagues to score 10+ goals in all competitions since the start of last season.- Lionel Messi has become the fourth player in LaLiga history to score in 17 consecutive seasons, after Agustin 'Piru' Gainza (19), Carlos Alonso, 'Santillana' (17) and Sergio Ramos (17).- Between Barcelona and Spain, Fati has scored seven goals in his past nine starts in all competitions, scoring with his nine shots on target and winning two penalties in his last two starts.- Barca have scored four goals in a first half of a game in all competitions for the first time since December 2019 against Real Mallorca in LaLiga, under Ernesto Valverde.- Koeman has won 4-0 in his first LaLiga game as Barcelona boss, the best debut in the competition for the club since Gerardo Martino in 2013 (7-0 vs Levante).- Philippe Coutinho has made his first assist for Barca in all competitions since January 2019 against Eibar, ending with his worst run without an assist for the club in all comps (29 games).- Villarreal boss Unai Emery has lost each of his 13 away games at Camp Nou in all competitions, conceding 10 goals in his last two (1-6 with Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of the last 16 in the 2016-17 Champions League and 0-4 on Sunday). When it comes to penalties, Ronaldo's numbers are comfortably superior to Messi's, although perhaps not by as much as some people think. So when you look at their whole careers, it seems fair to call this one a tie. Things got even worse for the visitors on the stroke of half-time, Torres poking Messi's cross beyond Asenjo as the unlikely spectre of Sergio Busquets lurked for a tap-in. No other player in history has won more than 3! 44 Apps. 131 * Goals. We compare them both in a number of different categories and let you decide the overall winner.