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#3 Youngest player to score 50 goals in the UEFA Champions League
Though Barcelona have failed the win the Champions League for five years now, Messi has remained as reliable as ever, scoring goals like clockwork.
It is not just about the number of goals that he scores, but the rate at which he keeps on adding to his gargantuan tally is absolutely mind-blowing.
Of all the current strikers in the game, he has the best goals-per-game ratio of 0.81, which basically means that he scores a goal every 111 minutes played in the competition.
It is because of the impressive goals-per-game ratio that he owns the distinction of being the youngest player to reach a half-century of goals in the competition at 24 years, 9 months and 10 days.
But he isn't the fastest player to reach the milestone in terms of games played, as he scored his 50th goal in his 66th outing, just four games shy of Manchester United legend Rudd van Nistelrooy.
