5 Lionel Messi records Cristiano Ronaldo will never break 

#3 Scoring 50 goals in a single LaLiga season

In the 2011/12 season, Messi managed to score 50 goals in 37 games

During the 2011/12 LaLiga season, Lionel Messi set a new record by scoring the most goals in a single season in the Spanish top flight.

Breaking the record of 40 set the previous season by none other than Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi's total of 50 still remains a record.

Ronaldo has been close, however, with the former Real Madrid player scoring 48 goals in the 2014/15 season, and although his goal to game ratio was, in fact, better than Messi in 2011/12 he still fell two goals short.

Now that Ronaldo has departed to Italian pastures, it seems all but certain that he will never break Messi's record of 50 LaLiga goals in a season.

This is one of Messi's best records that firmly cements his legacy in Spanish football.