Lionel Messi concluded a remarkable two weeks by scoring a hat-trick in Inter Miami’s 5-2 win against Nashville in the final game of the MLS regular season. This hat-trick raises the question: how many does Cristiano Ronaldo have?
Messi’s impressive performance marked a successful phase for the Argentine player, who scored five goals and made six assists in his last four matches for Inter Miami and the Argentina national team.
This hat-trick ended a brief period without a three-goal game, as it had been some time since he last scored three in one match, doing so with the Argentina national team during the 2024 World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia and New England in October 2024.
With this achievement, the Rosario-born player reached a total of 60 hat-tricks: ten with Argentina, 48 with Barcelona, and the latest two with Inter Miami.
Lionel Messi #10 of Inter Miami CF.
How many hat-tricks does Cristiano Ronaldo have in his career?
While Messi adds to his record, he still remains six hat-tricks behind Cristiano Ronaldo, highlighting their ongoing competition.
Ronaldo, currently playing for Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, has achieved 66 career hat-tricks: 55 three-goal games, nine four-goal games, and two games with five goals. His most recent hat-trick occurred on May 4, 2024, during a 6-0 win over Al Wehda.
Messi’s favorite opponents
Messi has often targeted Spanish teams, with Valencia being the team he has defeated the most, allowing four of his hat-tricks. Other teams like Atlético Madrid, Espanyol, Deportivo La Coruña, and Osasuna have conceded three hat-tricks each.
In his international career, Messi’s hat-tricks include matches against Switzerland (2012), Brazil (2012), Guatemala (2013), Panama (2016), Ecuador (2017), Haiti (2018), Bolivia (2021), Estonia (2022), Curacao (2023), and Bolivia again in 2024.