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Thursday, 31 October 2013
UNBELIEVABLE: Messi Not In The List Of Best Big Games Goalscorers In Football History [FULL LIST]
After
analysing 1,931 goals scored by 1,071 footballers across 63 years,
sportswriter Liam Corbett has compiled a list of the 50 players whose
goals changed the course of the sport's history Gerd Müller picks up a
few more points on his way to topping the list of big-game
goalscorers.... Paul Campbell and Liam Corbett
Whose
goals have most changed the course of football history? Lionel
Messi scored 91 goals in 2012 to beat Gerd Müller's record of 85 in
a calendar year set back in 1972. Messi seems to break records every
time he plays. Putting five goals past Bayer Leverkusen in last season's
Champions League was a remarkable achievement but, for all his heroics,
Messi still lags some way behind Müller when it comes to changing games
on the grandest stages. Sportswriter Liam Corbett of the Average
Opposition blog has analysed all the goals scored in the world's biggest
competitions since 1950 – that's 1,931 goals by 1,071 different scorers
in 63 years – and complied a list of football's top 50 big-game
goalscorers. This exercise is about the goals that have shaped matches
at the very pinnacle of the sport. And Gerd Müller has scored more that
anyone. Weightings TournamentPoints World Cup final5 European Championship final4 Copa America final4 World Cup semi-final4 World Cup final group stages3.5 European Cup final3 European Championship semi-final3 Copa America semi-final3 Copa Libertadores final2.5 Copa America final group stages2.5 European Championship final group stages2.5 Copa America final stages2 Europa League final2 UEFA Cup final2 Cup-Winners Cup final2 Champions League semi-final2 Copa America semi-final2 Copa Libertadores semi-final1.5 Müller
scored 68 goals in 62 internationals for Germany and another 398 in his
453 appearances for Bayern Munich. The numbers are staggering, but his
consistency is even more impressive. He was no flat-track bully. Müller
scored in the finals and semi-finals of the World Cup, European
Championship and European Cup. His last goal for Germany was the winner
in the 1974 World Cup final, played in his club's stadium in Munich.
He's
the clear winner on a list that throws up a few intriguing insights.
Bobby Charlton is the highest placed English player, with Geoff Hurst
also making the top 50 thanks to three goals scored on the same
afternoon. Nine Brazilians make the list, while Argentina has seven
representatives.
Diego Forlán, the best performer at the last
World Cup and Uruguay's top scorer and cap-holder, is the only man in
the top 20 still playing. Messi has plenty of time to rise up the list,
but he's currently sitting in 39th, just below Jari Litmanen.
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