5 facts that show Ronaldo is not a better goalscorer than Lionel Messi

#4 He has better personal best in a calendar year

Messi has an incredible goal ratio

Once upon a time, Gerd Muller was the best striker in the world as he fired in goals for fun during the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1972, Germany's top striker scored 85 goals for club and country which marked the best end to a year in terms of goals scored by an individual player.

This record stood for 40 years, until a certain Lionel Messi took the bull by the horns, not only breaking the record, but also adding a further six goals on top of it for good measure to stake his claim as the player with the most goals in a calendar year in history.

Whereas Lionel Messi's personal best in terms of goals in a calendar year stands at 91, by contrast, Ronaldo could only manage 69 a year later (which till date is his best tally in a year).

Messi's best goal-scoring year has a margin of almost 30 goals on Cristiano's best end to a year and this serves as further indication to the fact that Lionel Messi is quite simply a better goalscorer than Ronaldo.