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19th October 2016
10:52am BST

Ronaldo scores a goal every 0.97 games. Messi scores a goal every 0.99 games.Assists-wise, Messi leads the way but don't make the mistake of thinking Real's finisher doesn't chip in too.
Ronaldo assists a goal every 3.45 games. Messi assists a goal every 2.58 games.That means the pair of them are actually involved in considerably more than an average of one goal per game.
Ronaldo has been directly involved in 1.32 goals every game. Messi has been directly involved in 1.39 goals every game.On Tuesday night, Real Madrid hit five past Legia Warsaw but a quick glance at the scoresheet and you'd assume their number seven just wasn't playing. He was though and he chipped in with two assists for his night's work too. Assist for Marco Asensio. Ronaldo's first instinct is to score, it always is. But a bad first touch leaves him in trouble so he reacts quickly and improvises to tee up his team mate towards the edge of the box. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmZqxHZ5CX8 Assist for Alvaro Morata. This is just class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keZmBllZTsk These goals (or assists, whatever way you look at it) are nothing really out of the ordinary and they're nothing we'll be glued to the highlight reels with in years to come but, added up, they read bloody brilliantly. They read like people wouldn't expect them to - not in his detractors' camp anyway. Those two assists on Tuesday put Ronaldo just two behind the all-time leading assists holder in the Champions League. That man is still Ryan Giggs. For now.
Where Giggs took 143 games to amass 30 assists, Ronaldo has notched up 28 in 130 games.
And he's also chipped in with 95 goals in that time too.
He's a good player. Let's just leave it at that.
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