Manchester United played against Norwich, and Ronaldo scored a three-dollar goal and scored a hat-trick. Last weekend, Messi scored a hat-trick for assists in Ligue 1, which showed the transformation of the absolute double pride in different directions. So the question arises: which is harder to score a hat or an assist to wear a hat?
Scoring hat-trick: Cristiano Ronaldo 60-55 Messi
So far in his career, Ronaldo has scored 60 hat-tricks, and this year has been twice, becoming the second-oldest player in the history of the Premier League to wear a hat, after all, he is already 37 years old. Remember that when he first played for Manchester United, he only had one hat-trick.
What about Messi? To date, he has scored 55 hat-tricks, five times less than Cristiano Ronaldo, the most recent being Argentina 3-0 Bolivia in the World Preliminary Round on September 10, 2021, and the club's 5-0 Elva at Barca on March 22, 2020.
Assists hat-trick: Messi 6-2 Cristiano Ronaldo
If you don't look at goals, but only at assists, Messi has completed six hat-tricks in his career so far. There have been two appearances in Greater Paris this season, the first being against Saint-Etienne last November.
The previous four were Barca 4-1 Levante in January 2014, Argentina 6-1 Paraguay in the 2015 Copa America semi-finals, Barca 6-0 Getafe in March 2016 and Barça 3-2 Betis in February 2020.
What about C Ronaldo? A total of 2 times in his career. The first was a 4-0 Premier League win over Aston Villa on 29 March 2008, and the second was 8-1 Almeria by Real Madrid on 21 May 2011, 11 years ago.
However, assists are hatted and there are goals at the same time, Messi only has 1 in 4 times: 1 goal and 3 assists; C Ronaldo has 2 times: 1 goal and 3 assists, 2 goals and 3 assists.
It should be pointed out that the calculation here is the assist defined by the opta, excluding the creation of penalties, the creation of opponents, teammates to make up for the goal, etc.
Goal hat vs assist hat, which is harder?
This season, Ronaldo scored 2 goals and wore hats, and Messi wore hats with 2 assists, which just illustrates the transformation direction of the double pride: the former is a pure shooter, the latter is an organized front. So, which of the two is harder?
In fact, it can be seen from the absolute number. Just as the so-called "scarce things are precious", C Ronaldo played 1115 games, Messi played 966 games, the two combined to score 115 hats, assists and hats only 8 times, less than double digits, obviously the latter is more difficult.
This is not difficult to understand, because the personal ability of the absolute double pride is the top in history, and it is not a problem to score three or four goals by yourself, but the assist is not only on yourself, but also depends on the teammates, no matter how well you pass, the teammates spit cake, and it is not an assist.
You know, since there are relevant statistics, the historical record of assisting hat-tricks has only been 7 times! The historical record of hat-tricks is 141 times of the German celebrity Helm Chen.
From another point of view, is it difficult for Cristiano Ronaldo to assist another hat-trick, or is it difficult for Messi to score another hat-trick? The answer is clear at a glance.