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1st April 2016
02:27pm BST

Messi has missed a decent chunk of the campaign with the injury suffered against Las Palmas before the turn of the year, and lags behind his rival (stop calling him that - Ed.) in terms of goals and, more predictably, shots.
But the Argentine leads the way as far as conversion rates are concerned, while - as we might have anticipated given the respective reputations of the pair - he has created one-and-a-half times as many chances for team-mates per game.
Based on our extremely non-scientific methods, we're backing Ronaldo to score a hat-trick in Saturday's game, with Messi scoring two and creating one for Luis Suárez. How did we arrive at that conclusion? Call it intuition (i.e. we made it up).

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