Cristiano Ronaldo – All 111 international goals broken down statistically
Cristiano Ronaldo became the men’s international football’s all-time top scorer when he scored twice against Ireland yesterday night.
Cristiano Ronaldo is arguably the greatest footballer of all time. He certainly is the best to have come out of Portugal.
The 36-year-old boasts numerous individual records and accolades to his name already. He shared the record of the most men’s international football goals along with Ali Daei until yesterday.
Thanks to his brace against Ireland on Wednesday night Cristiano has a new record to his name.
Cristiano Ronaldo – International goals
Ronaldo has scored 111 international goals in 180 international matches for his nation.
He has a goal-per-game ratio of 0.62.
Ronaldo has scored 10 free-kick goals for Portugal and 14 goals from the penalty spot. In total, he has 24 goals from set-pieces.
He has scored 21 goals outside the box and 90 inside the box. Ronaldo has scored 28 goals with his head, 58 goals with his right foot, and 25 goals with his left foot. This reflects how well-rounded he is, as a forward.
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 15% of his 111 international goals against the top 15 teams in the world. Meanwhile, 32 of his goals have come against sides outside the top 100 ranked teams and he has scored 57 against teams outside the top 50. Although, surprisingly, 56 of his 111 goals have come since turning 30.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s favorite hunting ground is the World cup qualifiers. He has scored 33 goals in 42 appearances in the world cup qualifiers. Also, the striker has scored 31 goals in the Euro qualifiers having played 35 times. He has scored 28 goals in major tournaments. The Portuguese legend has 14 goals in Euros, 7 goals in World Cup, 5 in the Nations League, and 2 in Confederations Cup.
Along with these, the 5 times Ballon d’Or winner has scored 9 Hat-tricks for Portugal. The most famous of it being his hat-trick against Spain in the 2018 World Cup.
And, he is not done with it yet.