The UEFA Champions League 2016-17 begins for Leo Messi with a very clear challenge to individual level: recover the throne of the goal. And it is that until the past season Leo Messi was the player that had the record of marked goals in Champions in a same campaign (14), but Cristiano Ronaldo beat it annotating 16 targets, and Messi could have "hammered".
The prime Argentinian star by in front of all the collective successes and conquer the "Orejona" again with the FC Barcelona, but does not shelve the individual aspirations, and by this reason will have like one of his aims mark the maximum number of goals in the present edition of the Champions, being able to reestablish like this his mark.
Leo Messi, that has won the "Pichichi" of the Champions in five occasions -four of them consecutive, between 2008 and 2012-, also will wish to obtain again said recognition, and can approach like this to a Christian Ronaldo that, in the global historical of marked goals in Champions League, surpasses him by a total of 11 goals.
True is that Cristiano Ronaldo is two years old more than Leo Messi, by what is likely that finish withdrawing before and Messi will have sufficient time as to beat the general mark of the Portuguese and plant like the maximum goleador historical of the UEFA Champions League. For the moment, east is the "Top " 10" of maximum artillerymen of the tournament:
PICHICHI GENERAL OF CHAMPIONS
- Cristiano Ronaldo 94 goals
- Leo Messi 83 goals
- Raúl González 71 goals
- Ruud Go Nistelrooy 60 goals
- Andriy Shevchenko 59 goals
- Thierry Henry 51 goals
- Filippo Inzaghi 50 goals
- Alfredo Gave Stéfano 49 goals
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic 49 goals
- Eusébio Gives Silva 47 goals