5 European Club Records that Messi or Ronaldo have not broken yet

#2 Goals in a single season

Senegal v Colombia: Group H - 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

Radamel Falcao scored 18 goals in the 2010/11 season for Porto in the Europa League and to this date, that remains the highest number of goals scored by a player in a single season. Falcao scored a single goal in the qualifying stages and 17 goals in the main competition.

In Messi’s best season, he scored 14 goals in the 2011/12 Champions League season. Ronaldo has the current record in the Champions League, when he scored 17 goals in the 2013/14 season.

While you cannot rule out another fantastic goalscoring season from either of those two, it would take some out of the world effort to break Falcao’s record. Impossible? No, not when you consider what these two have achieved, but hard, pretty hard.

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