Kane puts Golden Shoe pressure on Cavani thanks to holiday hat-trick
LONDON: Harry Kane capitalised on the English holiday football party to race up into second place behind Edinson Cavani in the rankings for the ESM Golden Shoe.
Kane scored a hat-trick last Tuesday in Tottenham’s 5-2 victory over Southampton in the Premier League in the Boxing Day programme while the rest of Europe was taking a break.
This lifted him to 18 goals, one fewer than Cavani. Another Premier star, Mo Salah of Liverpool, is joint third with 17 goals.
Paris Saint-Germain’s Uruguayan has benefited this season from a change in the Golden Shoe computation: France is now among the top five nations according to UEFA’s July rankings. This means his goals benefit from a multiple of 2.0 rather than the 1.5 of last season.
Portugal slipped out of the top five meaning the value of goals in the local league for players from Benfica, Sporting and Porto etc has been downgraded to 1.5. Goals in the countries ranked on down from 23 stand at face value.
As in previous years the Golden Shoe does not consider goals in play-off competitions.
Golden Shoe standings
(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status)
1. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 19 x 2 = 38
2. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 18 x 2 = 36
3. Mauro Icardi (Internazionale) 17 x 2 = 34
— Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 17 x 2 = 34
5. Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 16 x 2 = 32
6. Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco) 15 x 2 = 30
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 15 x 2 = 30
Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 15 x 2 = 30
9. Igor Angulo Albóniga (Górnik Zabrze) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
10. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) 14 x 2 = 28
11. Mikhail Gordeichuk (FC BATE Borisov) 18 x 1,5 = 27
‘Jonas’ Gonçalves Oliveira (SL Benfica) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Albert Prosa (FC Infonet Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
Rauno Sappinen (Flora Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
15. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) 13 x 2 = 26
Mariano Díaz (Olympique Lyonnais) 13 x 2 = 26
Nabil Fekir (Olympique Lyonnais) 13 x 2 = 26
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 13 x 2 = 26
19. Emiliano Marcondes (FC Nordsjaelland) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
20. Irakli Sikharulidze (FC Locomotive Tblisi) 25 x 1 = 25
21. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 12 x 2 = 24
Gerard Gohou (FC Kairat Almaty) 24 x 1 = 24
Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 12 x 2 = 24
Jakub Swierczok (Zaglebie Lubin) 16 x 1,5 = 24
25. ‘Carlitos’ Carlos Lopez (Wisla Kraków) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Pawel Savitskiy (FC Neman Grodno) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
27. Iago Aspas (CR Celta de Vigo) 11 x 2 = 22
Alfred Finnbogason (FC Augsburg) 11 x 2 = 22
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 11 x 2 = 22
30. Magnus Eriksson (Djurgårdens IF) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Karl Holmberg (IFK Norrköping) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Bafétimbi Gomis (Galatasaray SK) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Adis Jahovic (Göztepe Izmir) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Marco Filipe Lopes ‘Paixão’ (KS Lechia Gdańsk) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Dia Seba (Maccabi Netanya) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Burak Yilmaz (Trabzonspor AS) 14 x 1,5 = 21
37. Mario Balotelli (OGC Nice) 10 x 2 = 20
Rimo Hunt (Levadia Tallinn) 20 x 1 = 20
Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) 10 x 2 = 20
Seán Maguire (Cork City) 20 x 1 = 20
Dries Mertens (SSC Napoli) 10 x 2 = 20
Álvaro Morata (Chelsea FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Wayne Rooney (Everton FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 10 x 2 = 20
Simone Zaza (Valencia CF) 10 x 2 = 20
46. Bas Dost (Sporting Clube de Portugal) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Facundo Ferreyra (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Pal Alexander Kirkevold (Hobro IK) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
49. Nicklas Bendtner (Rosenborg BK) 19 x 1 = 19
Andri Rúnar Bjarnason (Grindavík) 19 x 1 = 19
Junior Kabananga (FC Astana) 19 x 1 = 19
52. Vincent Aboubakar (FC Porto) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Ernest Asante (FC Nordsjaelland) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal CF) 9 x 2 = 18
Munas Dabbur (Red Bull Salzburg) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Bojan Dubajić (FC Gorodeya) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Roberto Firmino (Liverpool FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Harlem Gnohéré (FC Steaua Bucharest) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) 9 x 2 = 18
Christoph Knasmüller (FC Admira Wacker Mödling) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Moussa Marega (FC Porto) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Anton Saroka (FC Dinamo Minsk) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Darvydas Šernas (Žalgiris Vilnius) 18 x 1 = 18
Christian Stuani (Girona FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Karl Toko Ekambi (Angers SCO) 9 x 2 = 18
Mark Uth (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 9 x 2 = 18
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 9 x 2 = 18
Aleksandr Volkov (JK Sillamäe Kalev) 18 x 1 = 18
Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 9 x 2 = 18
