Messi's 2012 vs Ronaldo's 2013

Messi's 2012 vs Ronaldo's 2013

In the history of football, there are "great seasons" where a striker scores 30 or 40 goals Then there are the alien years of 2012 and 2013 In back-to-back calendar years, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo pushed the boundaries of human output so far that they broke statistics - Messi 2012: 91 Goals Guinness World Record - Ronaldo 2013: 69 Goals Personal Best Let's break down these two monstrous years and analyze how they achieved these numbers Messi 2012: The Year of the Impossible 91 goals in 69 games That is 132 goals per game over an entire year To put this in perspective: If Erling Haaland scores a hat-trick every single weekend for a 38-game season, he would still be behind Messi's 20