5 Lionel Messi records that Cristiano Ronaldo may never break

#2 Scoring 60+ goals in all competitions in consecutive seasons

Leo Messi is the first player to score 60+ goals in consecutive seasons

A crucial reason why Ronaldo and Messi are regarded as the greatest players ever to grace the game is down to their exceptional goalscoring abilities.

Lionel Messi is the only player in history to have scored 60+ goals in two consecutive seasons. He netted 73 goals in season 2011-12 in 60 games, notching a tally of 60 goals in 50 games in the following season.

Like Messi, Ronaldo also has crossed the 60-goal barrier twice in his career, albeit not in successive seasons. He scored 60 goals in 55 games in season 2011-12 and 61 goals in 54 games in season 2014-15.

Of course, he is well adept at crossing the 50-goal mark, having done it in six consecutive seasons. However, the idea of finding the net more than 60 times in back-to-back seasons now remains a challenge to the Real Madrid talisman, considering his age and the number of seasons left in his glorious career.