Messi vs Ronaldo: Who has scored more goals against top-10 international teams?



The party that Argentina organized for its national team to celebrate the World Cup title achieved in Qatar had a special prize for Lionel Messi, who passed the 100-goal barrier by scoring one goal against Panama and three against Curacao, reaching 102 goals with the Albiceleste.

The Argentine is the third player to reach that figure after Iran's Ali Daei (109) and Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 122 goals for Portugal.

FIFA Ranking

1) Brazil

2) Argentina

3) France

4) Belgium

5) England

6) Netherlands

7) Croatia

8) Italy

9) Portugal

10) Spain

But the question is to verify which of the leading scorers of world soccer has scored more goals against the most important teams according to the current FIFA ranking.

So, we've taken as a reference the last statistical publication from FIFA, which was still led by Brazil after its last update.

Messi's 15 goals in the FIFA top ten

1) Brazil (five)

2) France (three)

3) Croatia (three)

4) Spain (two)

5) Netherlands (one)

6) Portugal (one)

One of the coincidences that Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have in this scoring chart is that they both scored a goal the day Argentina beat Portugal 2-1 in a friendly played on March 9, 2011.

The captain of the current world champions has scored the most goals against FIFA's top-ten teams.

He scored 15 goals against Brazil, France, Netherlands, Croatia, Portugal and Spain, one more than the Portuguese. Only Belgium, England and Italy were spared by the Argentine.

Cristiano Ronaldo's 14 goals in the FIFA 'top-ten'

1) Netherlands (four)

2) Belgium (three)

3) Spain (three)

4) France (two)

5) Argentina (one)

6) Croatia (one)

Of the current top-ten in the FIFA ranking, Brazil is Messi's 'favorite' team, against whom he has scored five goals, while the Netherlands is CR7's 'victim' of choice, with four goals scored.

The Argentinian and the Portuguese have in common 'victims' in common: France, Netherlands, Croatia and Spain conceded 19 goals to these stars.

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