Spectacular, Cristiano Ronaldo and the usual smile, in Al Nassr’s victory over Al Taawon – Credits: @X @AlNassrFC
Crack of all time, striker Cristiano Ronaldo converted Al Nassr’s 4-1 win over Al Taawon, away from home, for the 19th round of the Saudi Arabian Professional League, raising the number of goals scored in Saudi Arabia to 54. this 2023 and thus closed the year as the top scorer worldwide.
Cristiano scored the last goal for his team, which had already put victory on track with goals from French defender Aymeric Laporte, Croatian midfielder Marcelo Brozovic and also Portuguese Otavio.
CR7 scored for the fifth consecutive date and further widened the difference with the Englishman Harry Kane (Bayern Munich) and the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé (PSG), who followed him in the table of top scorers, with 52 goals.
This is the fifth time that Cristiano has achieved this mark: the first was in 2011, with 60 goals, and he repeated it in 2013 (69), 2014 (61) and 2015 (57), all with the Real Madrid and Portugal shirts. . On this occasion, at 38 years old, he achieved it thanks to his 44 goals in Al Nassr and the 10 he achieved in the Portuguese national team.
Cristiano Ronaldo, colossal – Credits: @X @AlNassrFC
After the win, Al Nassr remains second in the championship, seven points behind the leader, Al Hilal.
On the other hand, the meeting between Al Taee and Al Ittihad, the team led by Marcelo Gallardo, was suspended because the plane in which the visiting delegation was traveling could not land at the Hail international airport, due to bad weather conditions. In another match, Al Shabab beat Al Wehda (1-0), with a goal from Abdullah Radif five minutes from time. The Argentine midfielder, Éver Banega, who is in Boca’s sights, was a starter in the winning team.
🤩⚽ Cristiano finishes 2023 as the top scorer in the world!
54 🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo
52 🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé
52 🏴 Harry Kane
50 🇳🇴 Erling Haaland
40 🇬🇦 Denis Bouanga
40 🇧🇪 Romelu Lukaku
40 🇦🇷 Germán Cano
39 🇲🇽 Santiago Giménez
38 🇫🇷 Karim Benzema
38 🇧🇪 Hugo Cuypers pic.twitter.com/svmJlkN2el— Sofascore Latin America (@SofascoreLA) December 30, 2023
Returning to the crack, 38 years old. Leo Messi does not appear in the top 10, after a season with ups and downs at Inter Miami. There is, of course, an Argentine: Germán Cano, champion and scorer with Fluminense in the Copa Libertadores. He appears seventh, with 40 shouts.
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The Fluminense attacker scored 40 goals with Fluminense in the Brasileirao, the Brazilian Cup and the Copa Libertadores, in which he was the top scorer with 13 decisive victories for his team to be crowned champion for the first time in its history. His record is without having added minutes in the Argentine team, so he only had the possibility of scoring for his club.
Here, now, always Ronaldo – Credits: @X @AlNassrFC
The star closed the year with a pure goal: a double against Al-Ittihad by Marcelo Gallardo and a goal against Al-Taawoun FC, a tremendous header in stoppage time. In this way, he established himself as the top scorer in 2023 with 54 goals. Messi has scored 821 goals, 52 less than his greatest rival in history. His last scoring goals were with the Argentine national team, in the match against Peru, in the South American qualifiers. He made two, another was disallowed for offside.
Messi will have the opportunity to meet, once again, Cristiano Ronaldo, an opponent with whom he animated a historic duel. The crossover between the Argentine star and the Portuguese idol, which had its epicenter years ago in unforgettable duels between Barcelona and Real Madrid, will have a new chapter in the historic rivalry with the friendly match that Inter Miami, where the Rosario player plays, will play against Al Nassr, in Saudi Arabia.
Messi against Cristiano, now and forever – Credits: @JOSEP LAGO
Within the framework of the “International Preseason Tour”, the Miami club confirmed two friendlies in Saudi Arabia. The matches will be for the Riyadh Season Cup, in a round-robin tournament format, in which Inter will face Al-Hilal, the team of the injured Brazilian Neymar, on Monday, January 29, and then against Al Nassr, team of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, on Thursday, February 1. Both games will be part of Inter Miami’s “first international tour.” It will be a true clash of planets, between the two greatest players of the last 15 years, who gave life to world football.
This meeting, at the start of the 2024 season, will be the 36th duel between them. The captain of Argentina won 16 against 10 victories for the Portuguese team, and nine draws. Messi scored 21 goals and provided 12 assists, while CR7 scored 20 goals and only contributed one assist.
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