The Messi–Ronaldo rivalry is a football rivalry between fans of Argentinian forward Lionel Messi and Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo and supposedly between the athletes themselves.

Having won a combined 11 Ballon d’Or/FIFA Ballon d’Or awards (six for Messi and five for Ronaldo) and 10 European Golden Shoe awards (six for Messi and four won by Ronaldo), both are widely regarded not only as the two best players of their generation, but also, by most in the sport, including players, writers and fans, as two of the greatest of all time.

Both of them will square up against each other when Barcelona meets Juventus for a 2020/2021 UEFA Champions League group stage match today.

Messi and Ronaldo have faced each other five times in the UEFA Champions League, three times when the former played for Manchester United and twice for Real Madrid.

Messi has the advantage in these fixtures, winning twice and two draws as well with only one Ronaldo victory, coming in the 2007/08 semi-final second leg at Old Trafford.

Ronaldo has never scored against a team including Messi in the Champions League.

Barcelona have gone unbeaten in their last four meetings with Juventus in the UEFA Champions League (W2 D2), winning two of the three games in this run that occurred in the group stage (D1).Juventus’ only away victory against Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League came back in April 2003 (2-1), having failed to win either of their two trips there in the competition since (D1 L1) – 0-0 in 2016-17 and 0-3 in 2017-18.

Since the El-Classico semi-final in the 2010/2011 season, they have not met in European competition.

So, at CANDIID ONLINE, we expect the UEFA Champions League clash between the Barcelona and Juventus to be interesting, because Messi and Ronaldo are two of the most decorated football players ever.

They have won a combined 64 trophies (Ronaldo 30, Messi 34) during their senior careers thus far, and have regularly broken the 50-goal barrier in a single season.

The duo is amongst the 29 players in the history of the sport to score over 500 career goals, currently ranked 4th (Ronaldo) and 7th (Messi), respectively, with both having scored over 700 goals each in their careers for club and country: Ronaldo has 750 goals overall and Messi has 712 goals.

Do tell us what are your expectations from the football match.

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Let the best man win. both are good but Messi is the best

Fahdiga1:
Let the best man win. both are good but Messi is the best

We're hoping to see a beautiful game tonight.

Fahdiga1:
Let the best man win. both are good but Messi is the best

We're expecting to see a beautiful game.