Head-to-head: Cristiano Ronaldo v Mohamed Salah
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
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Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 50 goals this season, while Mohamed Salah has hit 48 so far: UEFA.com dissects their totals.
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Looking to win a fifth UEFA Champions League title, Cristiano Ronaldo comes into the final having scored nine goals in his last ten games for club and country; final debutant Mohamed Salah heads to Kyiv having scored eight goals in his last ten.
• Ronaldo has scored 50 goals for club and country in 2017/18, two more than Salah; Ronaldo has played 49 games for Real Madrid and Portugal, scoring in 31 of them, while Salah has played 55 games for Liverpool and Egypt, scoring in 37 of them.
• Salah's tally of 32 goals is a new record for a 38-game Premier League season – extraordinary for a player who only joined the club in the summer.
• Salah will be 25 years and 345 days old on the day of the UEFA Champions League final; at the same age (on 16 January 2011) Ronaldo had scored 23 UEFA Champions League goals – six more than Salah – but had played in 68 #UCL games, 31 more than the Egyptian.
When Ronaldo and Salah have scored their 2017/18 goals
| Time | Cristiano Ronaldo | Mohamed Salah |
| 1-10 | 2 | 3 |
| 11-20 | 5 | 4 |
| 21-30 | 4 | 5 |
| 31-40 | 4 | 5 |
| 41-half-time | 4 | 6 |
| FIRST HALF | 19 | 23 |
| 46-55 | 9 | 4 |
| 56-65 | 6 | 6 |
| 66-75 | 0 | 4 |
| 76-85 | 11 | 8 |
| 86-full-time | 5 | 3 |
| SECOND HALF | 31 | 25 |
| TOTAL | 50 | 48 |
2017/18 UEFA Champions League tally
| Name | Minutes played | Goals scored | Minutes per goal | Age | Height | Fastest recorded 2017/18 sprint |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | 1080 | 15 | 72mins | 33 | 185cm | 31km/h |
| Mohamed Salah | 899 | 10 | 90mins | 25 | 175cm | 33km/h |
How they scored their 2017/18 UEFA Champions League goals
| Name | Goals (pens) | Left foot | Right foot | Head | Attempts | Attempts per goal | Passing accuracy |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | 15 (4) | 3 | 10 | 2 | 79 | 5.27 | 81% |
| Mohamed Salah | 10 (0) | 9 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 4.10 | 76% |
2017/18 domestic tally
| Name | League games | League goals (pens) | Cup games* | Cup goals* | Total appearances | Total goals |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | 27 | 26 (3) | 1 | 1 | 28 | 27 |
| Mohamed Salah | 36 | 32 (1) | 1 | 1 | 37 | 33 |
*Includes domestic super cup and league cup competitions
All-time UEFA Champions League record (group stage to final)
| Name | Appearances | Goals scored | Goals per game | Best #UCL tally |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | 152 | 120 | 0.79 | 17 (2013/14) |
| Mohamed Salah | 27 | 13 | 0.48 | 10 (2017/18) |
All-time UEFA club competition record*
| Name | Appearances | Goals scored | Goals per game |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | 160 | 123 | 0.77 |
| Mohamed Salah | 65 | 22 | 0.34 |
*UEFA club competition: UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Intertoto Cup, European/South American Cup
