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Gyokeres has netted 24 goals in 17 Sporting games this season. <\/p>\n
Messi had scored 22 goals after the same amount of Barca games in 2011-12. <\/p>\n
Spread over the course of the season, Sporting’s Swede is netting a goal every 65 minutes compared to Messi’s one every 72 then.<\/p>\n
Their Champions League rates are fairly even with Messi scoring 14 goals in 11 games – to Gyokeres’ five goals in four matches this season.<\/p>\n
For Gyokeres to play the 60 games that Messi managed that season, Sporting would have to go all the way in Portugal’s two domestic cups and the Champions League.<\/p>\n
If their Champions League form drops, and they finish between ninth and 24th, they would play an additional two games in a play-off round – so that would give him a maximum of 62.<\/p>\n
But all that relies on Gyokeres playing every game for Sporting. <\/p>\n
Messi missed four games for Barcelona in 2011-12. Barcelona, who played in the Uefa Super Cup and Club World Cup that season too, played in every game possible – except the Champions League final, losing at the last-four stage.<\/p>\n
Gyokeres has scored nine goals in six Nations League games for Sweden too – with another four games to come this season. <\/p>\n
Messi netted nine goals in nine games for Argentina in 2011-12. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n