🐐 The stats behind every head-to-head meeting between Messi and Ronaldo | OneFootball

Will Lionel Messi face Cristiano Ronaldo for the final time on Thursday? PSG take on a Riyadh all-star XI made of Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal players.

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In total, the pair have met in 36 matches head-to-head, with Messi ending up on the winning side in 16 of those and Ronaldo in 11.

The Argentine also leads the scoring, having netted 22 goals in those 36 games, with Ronaldo converting 21 times.

Messi also leads the way for assists, with 12 to Ronaldo’s one.

Ronaldo has more headers — two to Messi’s one — while Messi is the only one to score a hat-trick in any of those meetings.

There have been two meetings at international level, with Messi scoring one and assisting one, and Ronaldo also scoring once.

Those two games, a 1-0 win for Portugal and a 2-1 win for Argentina, are the only two times the pair have played against each other in friendlies.

The first meeting between Messi and Ronaldo saw Barcelona held to a 0-0 draw by Manchester United in the 2008 Champions League semi-final first leg. United, with Ronaldo, won 1-0 at Old Trafford to seal a place in the final.

And the last time the players met saw Ronaldo have the last laugh, scoring two penalties to help Juventus to a 3-0 win in December 2020. The victory saw Juve top their Champions League group ahead of Barcelona.