The list of updated goals of all times in football history has been unveiled, after Cristiano Ronaldo has reached some other remarkable milestone.
Juventus receive the Dynamo from Kiev in Turin on Wednesday night for the penultimate departure of the Champions League stage.
The bianconeri have come into the process after already seating their place in the 16th circular of the competition, with a victory over Ferencvaros last week.
However, being Barcelona away from the Italian champions in the most sensible of the Group G table, Andrea Pirlo opted to line up a strong eleven, with players such as Leonardo Bonucci, Matthijs de Ligt and Alvaro Morata.
– JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) 2 December 2020
As such, when everything was said and done at Allianz Stadium, it is not unexpected to see the Juve on the right side of a dominant 3-0 scoreboard.
Federico Chiesa opened the scoring 20 minutes from the end, signing Alex Sandro on a left-back.
The fit Morata, meanwhile, finished the result with a header, having been set up through Man of the Match Chiesa.
However, as mentioned above, it was the host’s 2nd of the night, secured through star striker Cristiano Ronaldo, who turned out to be the vital maxim of Juve’s last goals.
This follows a ball fired from Chiesa’s forehand that, after appearing in a position to be brought home by Morata, was nevertheless tied by the lusus on the back post.
Surprisingly, as has been widely noted online since then, this is the 750th official purpose of Ronaldo’s senior career, a feat that the former Real Madrid player has since celebrated:
– Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) December 2, 2020
However, Ronaldo’s last goal, in addition to guiding him three-quarters of the way to a ton of goals in his career, also brought the 35-year-old closer to his prestige as the most sensible scorer of all time in professional football.
As through Squawka, Ronaldo is one of only 3 players to have reached the 750 goal mark.
In turn, he has only 7 goals from Brazilian icon Pelé in 2nd place, and 2 other sides of Czech-Austrian legend Josef Bican.
With just 10 more goals, Cristiano Ronaldo will be the highest player scored in the history of football:
At the point. pic. twitter. com/2ze5UD1sLj
– Squawka Football (@Squawka) December 2, 2020
Note: there is a word war between statisticians about what is called an ‘official goal’, with others registering Romario as 2d on the all-time list, and Bican transparent with more than 800 finishes in his name:
He has only 17 Pelé goals and 22 Romario in the all-time rankings.
However, CR7 still has a lot to go through to beat Czech-Austrian striker Josef Bican with more than 800 passes. Pic. twitter. com/dtPOMm4dkS
– AS English (@English_AS) December 3, 2020
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