2022-09-05
Messi and company begin their journey in the highest European competition this Tuesday against the Juventus of Turin in the Parque de los Principes. The game will start at 1:00 pm, Honduras time.
This is a perfect opportunity for the Argentine star to shorten the advantage that the Portuguese has because Cristiano Ronaldo could not qualify in the tournament with the Manchester United.
There is currently a 15-goal advantage between the top scorers in the Champions League. Messi finds himself with 125 goals and Cristiano with 140 annotations.
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Messi vs Juventus
The left-hander already knows what it means to score goals against Juventus, he has faced Juventus 7 times Old lady and has scored three goals.
In the 17/18 season, when he was a player of the Barcelona he scored a brace giving him the 3-0 win and in the 20/21 season he scored the other goal for the victory of the Blaugranas (2-0), both games were in the group stage.
Champions League top scorers
In addition to these scorers are Karim Benzema y Robert Lewandowskiboth with 86 goals, behind them were historic strikers such as Raúl, Henry, Inzaghi, Shevchenko, among others.
The list of the 10 top scorers in the Champions League
1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) 140 goals
2. Lionel Messi (Paris SG) 125
3. Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona) 86
4. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 86
5. Raul 71
6. Andriy Shevchenko 59
7. Ruud van Nistelrooy 56
8. Thomas Muller (Bayern de Munich) 52
9. Thierry Henry 51
10. Filipo Inzaghi 50
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