Cristiano Ronaldo has the best goal average of all players active in La Liga

In three and a half years Cristiano Ronaldo has joined the list of the great goal-scorers in the history of la Liga. Cristiano Ronaldo player is already Real Madrid's sixth top goal-scorer in the championship and the twenty-sixth overall. But if there's one area that reveals his merit to perfection it's the goal average: 1.09 goals per game, after scoring 136 in 124 matches. Cristiano Ronaldo, is the only player active in the Primera Division with an average of over one goal per match, far surpassing the averages of Messi (0.86) or Falcao (0.80), his closest rivals in this area.

Cristiano Ronaldo's ambition and goals match after match lead one to believe that the Portuguese player will beat many of la Liga's historic records. For the moment, he effectively has no rival. Bettering his record each year, he finished his first campaign with the Whites with 26 goals. In

the 2010/11 and 2011/12 campaigns he totalled 40 and 46 goals respectively, while he has scored 24 so far this season. In total, he has a tally of 136 goals, a figure higher than the number of matches he's played (124). Messi (0.86), Falcao (0.80), Higuain (0.55) y Villa (0.54) follow him on the list.

Looking beyond footballers that are still active, Cristiano Ronaldo is the only one of the top goal-scorers in the history of the Primera Division to average more than one goal per match. Forwards as great as Zarra (0.9), Mundo (0.84) and Cesar (0.63) fell short of the Portuguese player's achievement. In terms of Whites players, he also surpasses the figures of legends such as Pahiño (0.87), Puskas (0.86), Hugo Sanchez (0.79) and Di Stefano (0.76).

Javier García

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[ronaldoalways2nd]

While I totally agree Ronaldo is one of the best players in the world, it's absolutely pathetic the way you're skewing the data in order to make him look God-like. If you want to compare him against Messi (who else?!) in terms of efficiency, the fair thing to do is to put them head to head since Ronaldo joined Real Madrid. Instead, you only include Ronaldo's stats after he joined Real Madrid (top of the form, since he had just won the Ballon d'Or), but you somehow don't forget to include Messi's stats since the beginning of time. Why don't you include Ronaldo's stats since he was 17 and instead you just select his most prolific years?



Just as a FYI, here's the breakdown for Ronaldo vs Messi in the past 3.5 years, since Ronaldo joined RM (updated on March 18th 2013).



Ronaldo - 128 matches, 139 goals (30 from penalties), 34 assists. That's 1.08 goals per match and 1 assist for every 4 goals he scores (0.24 assists for every goal scored).

Messi - 133 matches, 157 goals (19 from penalties), 53 assists. That's 1.18 goals per match and 1 assist for every 3 goals he scores (0.33 assists for every goal scored).



To summarize, in the past 3.5 years (a period where a fair comparison can be made, since that's when Ronaldo joined RM), Messi has had a better efficiency in goals per match ratio (app. 9% better than Ronaldo) and was of more help for his teammates, having a better assist per goals ratio (app. 38% better).