How do Gerd Müller and Lionel Messi compare?
Media reports during a weekend suggested that Barcelona’s Lionel Messi had matched Bayern good Gerd Müller’s stellar ‘total’ of 525 opposition goals for a singular club. UEFA.com can oppose with a sum (see annals below), though there is no doubt a luminosity of both strikers. UEFA.com lines a German Bomber and a Atomic Flea back-to-back (Müller 176cm, Messi 170cm).
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EXPERT TESTIMONY
Paul Breitner on Müller:
“He was a biggest talent we have witnessed in football.”
Thomas Müller on Müller:
“You have honour for all a good strikers, though Gerd still hovers above them all.”
Franz Beckenbauer on Müller:
“Without his goals FC Bayern would not be what it is today. We would still have a wooden hovel during a training ground.”
Josep Guardiola on Messi:
“Nobody can lay during Messi’s table. He scores 60 or 70 goals per season, always in a large games; he plays any 3 days and never gets injured. He has his physique underneath sum control. He’s a best actor I’ve ever seen.”
Andrés Iniesta on Messi:
“What I’ve seen him do, I’ve never seen anyone else do and we don’t consider we will. “
Gerd Müller on Messi:
“Messi is an unimaginable player. He’s a hulk nonetheless such a good and common person. He usually has one flaw: he’s not personification for FC Bayern.”
GOALS
Domestic league:
Müller 427/365
Messi 397/363
Domestic crater (main foe only: no joining cups or super cups)
Müller 62/78
Messi 62/44
UEFA competition:
Müller 71/62
Messi 125/100
Overall bar total:
Müller 560/505 – goals per diversion normal 0.90
Messi 584/507 – goals per diversion normal 0.87
International:
Müller 62/68
Messi 123/61
The 525 bar sum touted seems a small astray on both players, including as it does goals from a Inter-Cities Fairs Cup for Müller (a foe regarded as unaccepted by UEFA) and strikes from a Spanish Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup for Messi. To keep it elementary and safeguard a satisfactory equivalence, we stranded to 4 principal coming types – league, categorical domestic cup, UEFA foe and internationals. Judged by these criteria, their annals are eerily similar.
TROPHIES
Major bar trophies:
Müller 4 Bundesliga (1969, 1972, 1973, 1974), 4 German Cup (1966, 1967, 1969, 1971), 3 European Cup (1974, 1975, 1976), 1 Cup Winners’ Cup (1967)
Messi 8 Liga (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016), 5 Copa del Rey (2009, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017), 4 UEFA Champions League (2006, 2009, 2011, 2015)
Major general trophies:
Müller 1 World Cup (1974), 1 EURO (1972)
Messi none
Messi has not been propitious in terms of general competitions; he played in 3 Copa América finals and a final of a 2014 FIFA World Cup, and finished adult on a losing side any time – his group unwell to measure in all 4 games (losing dual on penalties). Müller, meanwhile, struck a leader in his usually World Cup final, and also netted in both of his EURO finals – West Germany’s 1972 delight and successive 1976 shoot-out better by Czechoslovakia.
HONOURS
Ballon d’Or:
Müller 1 (1970)
Messi 5 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015)
European Golden Shoe:
Müller 2 (1970, 1972)
Messi 4 (2010, 2012, 2013, 2017)
European Cup/UEFA Champions League tip scorer:
Müller 4 (1973, 1974, 1975, 1977)
Messi 5 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015)
Domestic joining tip scorer:
Müller 7 (1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978)
Messi 4 (2010, 2012, 2013, 2017)
As regards a Ballon d’Or, Messi’s usually consistent opposition has been Cristiano Ronaldo (the span have finished one and dual in a final 10 editions, and were second and third behind Kaká in 2007). Aside from his 1970 win, Müller was in a tip 3 on 3 other occasions in an epoch when Johan Cruyff, Gianni Rivera and Franz Beckenbauer took a tip prize.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Müller on Müller: “The box was my kingdom. we never scored a lot of goals from outward a box.”
“You need to be means to measure blind. It unequivocally helps if we can fire during a idea though looking.”
Messi on Messi: “I suffer myself, personification only as we did when we was a boy. My personification character stays a same; we try to suffer myself any time we step on to a pitch. we know we have my responsibilities and we have objectives, though we try to have fun since we do something that we adore doing.”
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