The Truth Revealed – Eric Ten Hag missing as Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates his 700th club goals with Man United team family

The Manchester United superstar had been waiting a long time to break the mark, but he eventually did so against Everton.

Ronaldo scored the game-winning goal for Manchester United in a 2-1 victory over Everton at Goodison Park, his first Premier League goal of the 2022/23 season.

Reaching 700 goals at the club level is without a doubt one of the greatest sporting performances ever observed.

And Ronaldo’s most recent astounding performance made us wonder: what are some other insane scoring records in football?

So we did some research and chose 11 that we believe will survive the test of time.

Lionel Messi has the most goals in a calendar year (91)
Messi’s goal-scoring season with Barcelona and Argentina in 2012 may never be matched. Over the course of a year, the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner averaged a goal every four days, which is just incredible.

Pele has the most career hat tricks (92)
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Brazilian legend scored 92 hat-tricks as a professional, which is more than 30 more than both Ronaldo and Messi. Pele is also the youngest player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup, doing it in 1958 at the age of 17.

Lionel Messi has scored the most goals for a single club (Barcelona, 672)
Yes, it’s him once more. Messi eclipsed Pele’s goal total with Santos in December 2020, scoring in a 3-0 win for Barcelona away at Real Valladolid. Will his haul ever be surpassed? That is if Erling Haaland remains at Manchester City for the rest of his career…

Goalkeeper with the most goals | Rogerio Ceni (131)
Some attack-minded players struggle to reach 131 career goals, yet Ceni managed to do it as a goalkeeper. The record of the set-piece specialist will most certainly be preserved for decades, if not centuries, to come.