Messi is still the world's best player in the year 2016

Despite Lionel Messi has being out of play for about two weeks and com­pletely missed out in three games and the entire sec­ond half against Atletico Madrid, he still has the best num­bers in terms of both goals and assist for the year 2016. The list com­piled is the most direct involve­ment in goals which

So far with direct involve­ment in goals , only Luis Suarez shares the same num­ber of goals (43) for the first nine months of the year with Leo sur­pass­ing the Uruguayan with six assists.

With Zla­tan Ibrahi­movic in the mist of Barca tri­dent, sur­passed Ney­mar with 13 goals while Cris­tiano fol­lows Ney­mar with 35 goals and and 12 assists.

Among all play­ers listed here, Cris­tiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi is the most likely can­di­date for the Fifa Bal­lon d’Or. With Messi way ahead in terms of per­for­mance, the fight for the Fifa tro­phy will now be based on Euro­pean Cham­pi­onship and the Cham­pi­ons League. In these two com­pe­ti­tion, the Real Madrid man won but was not deci­sive in the final games that earned them the vic­tory.

In the Cham­pi­ons League final, Atletico Madrid played bet­ter in terms of sta­tis­tics of the game. Los Roji­blan­cos were unlucky to have lost in the penalty shoot out while in the Euro 2016, Cris­tiano was injured in the final.