In a 3-4 home loss to Schalke 04 at Santiago Bernabeu, the Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has scored two goals in the first half time and thus broke Raúl González’s all-time goal record in UEFA club competition.
The Los Blancos after winning the first leg-match in Gelsenkirchen, have shock the fans after going even four times behind. Twice Cristiano Ronaldo brought his team from behind, both times in the first half-time. First goal Ronaldo has scored in the 25th minute on Tony Kross’ cross, while in the last time of first half-time Ronaldo added his second for the final half-time score 2-2. With these two goals, Ronaldo grabbed a total of 78 goals in all European competition, surpassing Real Madrid’s legend, Raul and moving 3 goals in total above Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi.
UEFA club competition top scorers*
78: Cristiano Ronaldo (Sporting Clube de Portugal, Manchester United FC, Real Madrid CF)
77: Raúl González (Real Madrid, FC Schalke 04)
76: Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
70: Filippo Inzaghi (Parma FC, Juventus, AC Milan)
67: Andriy Shevchenko (FC Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan, Chelsea FC)
62: Gerd Müller (FC Bayern München)
62: Ruud van Nistelrooy (sc Heerenveen, PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United FC, Real Madrid CF, Hamburger SV)
59: Thierry Henry (AS Monaco FC, Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona)
59: Henrik Larsson (Feyenoord, Celtic FC, FC Barcelona, Helsingborgs IF)
56: Eusébio (SL Benfica)
UEFA Champions League top scorers (group stage to final)
75 Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
75 Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United FC/Real Madrid CF)
71 Raúl González (Real Madrid CF/FC Schalke 04)
56 Ruud van Nistelrooy (PSV Eindhoven/Manchester United FC/Real Madrid CF)
50 Thierry Henry (AS Monaco FC/Arsenal FC/FC Barcelona)
*Includes European Champion Clubs’ Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, UEFA Intertoto Cup and European/South American Cup