Cristiano Ronaldo was the great figure in the match that his team Al Nassr won 5-2 against Al-Ittihad and that a double via penalty, earned him first place in the world scoring table in 2023 with 53 goals.
Although Ronaldo’s goals brought him closer to the scoring record for the year, the truth is that after achieving it, the statistics came to light about in which games the Portuguese had scored in 2023 and there was a big surprise.
Of Cristiano Ronaldo’s 53 goals, six of them were in the Arab Champions Cup, a tournament in which he was champion against Al-Hilal and finished top scorer with those aforementioned goals.
However, this Arabian Champions Cup is not a tournament approved by FIFA, according to the French media ‘Le Parisien’, so they would not be on the list for the record.
Likewise, the Transfermarkt portal did not count those goals and the count remained at 47, since they only report the Saudi Pro League, Saudi King’s Cup and the AFC Champions League as official tournaments.
On the other hand, we will have to wait if Cristiano Ronaldo enters the race for the record, since in previous seasons the goals of footballers from the major leagues of European football have been taken into account, since in 2019 the Arab player Abderrazak Hamdallah scored 59 , but the winner was the Polish Robert Lewandowski when he played for Bayern Munich and in which he scored a total of 54 goals.
For now, the 53 goals are being given to Cristiano Ronaldo, but if the above data is truly applied, it will be very difficult for the Portuguese to achieve said record, because on December 30 he will play the last game of 2023 against Al-Taawon and the next one in the table is Harry Keane and Kylian Mbappé, each with 52 goals.
2023-12-27 03:41:35
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