Today, new round of Champions League group games will start again. Compared to the league games, the Champions League is more accidental and more difficult. In order to win the trophy, a team need to beat the top competitors along the way. Of course, it is not so easy to get a goal in the journey. In the Champions League’s total scoring list, there are only 6 players who can score over 50 goals.
Although the Champions League is now reorganized, the group stage been added, and even if reaching the final, there are only 13 games a season. If you score 7 goals per season, it takes 7 seasons to accompish 50 goals. If you are out too early, it will take ten years or even longer for the top forwards to get that achievement. Being able to score 50 goals is indeed worthy of much praise. Now, let’s look at the great players who have scored over 50 goals.
6. Thierry Henry
French striker Henry scored 50 goals and ranked sixth in the list. Back in Arsenal, Henry is completely unsolvable. However, Arsenal’s performance in the Champions League is not so good. In 2006, Arsenal finally reached the final, but was defeated by Barcelona. Later he transferred to Barcelona and finally realized his dream of winning the Champions League trophy.
5. Ruud van Nistelrooy
Ruud van Nistelrooy ranked 4th with 56 goals. He has won 3 Champions League golden boot in total, and is the top Champions League attacker. Van Nistelrooy, who is known as the king of the goal area, scored 12 goals in a single season back in 2002-2003, which shows his high efficiency.
4. Karim Benzema
Benzema scored 57 goals and ranked fourth. In the Champions League game last week, Benzema scored a goal and surpassed van Nisterlrooy. No one has thought that Benzema can become the fourth striker in the history of the Champions League so quickly. If He works hard enough, he can even surpass Raul.
3. Raúl González Blanco
Raul scored 71 goals in his 142 appearances in Champions League. He spent most of his career in Real Madrid, so 66 goals are scored while he represented the whites. Most importantly, he won Champions League trophy for three times. In addition, in 2000 and 2001 he won the Champions League golden boot consecutively.
2. Lionel Messi
Messi has scored 105 goals so far and all these goals are for Barcelona. Barcelona always has solid performance in Champions league, which is an important reason that Messi can score so many times. Now, he has won Champions League title for 4 times and maybe he can win several more in the future. There is one thing needs to be specially noted is his efficiency. He scored his 105 goals with only 127 appearances, which indicates his efficiency is unbelievably high. He can score many more goals as he can keep this high efficiency.
1. Cristiano Ronaldo
C. Ronaldo has scored 120 goals until this now which helps him to become the most scorer in Champions League history. He has accomplished so many amazing achievement in Champions League history. He has won the title consecutively in the last three seasons and totally he has won for 5 times. More suprisingly is that he has won the Champions League gold boot in the last 6 seasons and totally 7 times.
In this season’s Champions League, Ronaldo has not score yet, but it is not a big problem for Ronaldo. According to C. Ronaldo’s current state, it is expected to hit the miracle of the 150 goals in the Champions League. Even if he scores 8 goals a year, Ronaldo only needs 4 seasons. In terms of his physical condition, in my opinion, he will probably get that miracle done. What do you think?