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

#2 He has a better personal season best

Once upon a time, 30-goal seasons were reserved for only the best of the best strikers, while 40-goal seasons were such a rarity that only a handful of players had achieved that, and even among those who had performed reached the mark did so just once or at most twice in their careers.

Fast forward to the present day and these have not only become commonplace, but also the benchmark for any player attempting to achieve any reckoning, as Ronaldo and Messi have made 40-goal seasons look so ordinary that anything short of this is worth even batting an eyelid over.

Both men have scored at least 40 goals in all competitions for their respective clubs for the eight seasons consecutively, while 50 and 60-goal seasons were also achieved by the pair.

However, for all of Ronaldo's otherworldy brilliance, he has not quite managed to bang in 70 goals in all competitions in a season for his club, with that honor going to Lionel Messi who notched 73 goals in his record braking season in 2011/2012 (with 50 coming in La Liga, 14 coming in the Champions League and nine in other Cup competitions).

By contrast, Ronaldo's best scoring mark came in the 2014/2015 season when he achieved an personal best of 61 goals, with 48 of those coming in LaLiga, 10 coming in the UCL and three coming in other Cup competitions.

Ronaldo's personal season best comes 12 goals short of the mark set by Lionel Messi, so it asks questions of how exactly the Portuguese is considered a better goalscorer than Lionel Messi.