Gyokeres has scored 24 goals in 17 Sporting games this season.
Messi scored 22 goals in the 2011/12 season after as many Barca games.
over the course of the season, Sporting's Swede scores a goal every 65 minutes, while Messi scored a goal every 72 minutes back then.
Their Champions League odds are pretty even: Messi scored 14 goals in 11 games – Gyokeres, on the other hand, scored five goals in four games this season.
For Gyokeres to play the 60 games that Messi played this season, Sporting had to go all the way in Portugal's two domestic cups and the Champions League.
If their Champions League form dips and they finish between ninth and 24th, they would play two more games in a play-off round – so that would give him a maximum of 62.
But all of that depends on Gyokeres playing every game for Sporting.
Messi missed four games for Barcelona in the 2011/12 season. Barcelona, which also took part in the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup this season, took part in all possible matches – with the exception of the Champions League final, where they lost in the quarter-finals.
Gyokeres also scored nine goals in six Nations League games for Sweden – another four games are still to come this season.
Messi scored nine goals in nine games for Argentina in 2011/12.
