KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS: Kylian Mbappe and Paris Saint-Germain were busy losing the French cup final at the weekend.
Hence he missed out on league competition so Lionel Messi struck a further goal as Barcelona clinched the Spanish crown and the Argentinian extended his lead in the rankings for the ESM Golden Shoe which rewards European league football’s leading marksman.
Messi now has 34 league goals for the season, four more than second-placed Mbappe.
The Golden Shoe is based on a ranking computed according to UEFA’s July rankings. Thus marksmen from among the top five nations benefit from a multiple of 2.0, the next batch 1.5 and the remainder 1.0.
Last year France replaced Portugal in the top five meaning the value of goals in Ligue 1 rose to 2.0 while the valuation for for players from Benfica, Sporting and Porto etc was 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. Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 34 x 2 = 68
2. Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 30 x 2 = 60
3. Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 23 x 2 = 46
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4. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 21 x 2 = 42
— Mbaye Diagne (Kasimpasa SK/Galatasaray SK) 28 x 1,5 = 42
— Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 28 x 1,5 = 42
— Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 21 x 2 = 42
— Krzysztof Piatek (Genoa CFC/AC Milan) 21 x 2 = 42
— Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 21 x 2 = 42
–Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 21 x 2 = 42
— Duván Zapata (Atalanta Bergamo) 21 x 2 = 42
12. Sergio ‘Kun’ Agüero (Manchester City) 20 x 2 = 40
Sadio Mané (Liverpool FC) 20 x 2 = 40
Nicolas Pépé (Lille OSC) 20 x 2 = 40
Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 20 x 2 = 40
16. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 19 x 2 = 38
17. Nikolai Komlichenko (FK Mladá Boleslav) 24 x 1,5 = 36
Cristhian Stuani (Girona FC) 18 x 2 = 36
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 18 x 2 = 36
Dusan Tadic (AFC Ajax) 24 x 1,5 = 36
21. Robert Skov (FC København) 23 x 1,5 = 34,5
22. Paco Alcácer (Borussia Dortmund) 17 x 2 = 34
Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 17 x 2 = 34
Luka Jovic (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 17 x 2 = 34
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 17 x 2 = 34
Arkadiusz Milik (SSC Napoli) 17 x 2 = 34
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 17 x 2 = 34
Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla FC) 17 x 2 = 34
29. Iago Aspas (RC Celta de Vigo) 16 x 2 = 32
Eden Hazard (Chelsea FC) 16 x 2 = 32
Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) 16 x 2 = 32
32. Ellenton ‘Liliu’ (Nõmme Kalju FC) 31 x 1 = 31
33. Zakaria Beglarishvili (FC Flora Tallinn) 30 x 1 = 30
Francesco Caputo (Empoli FC) 15 x 2 = 30
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) 15 x 2 = 30
Guillaume Hoarau (BSC Young Boys) 20 x 2 = 30
Andrej Kramarić (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 15 x 2 = 30
‘Paulinho’ de Oliveira (BK Häcken) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Yussuf Poulsen (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 15 x 2 = 30
Mbwane Ally Samatta (KRC Genk) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Timo Werner (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 15 x 2 = 30
42. Patrick Hoban (FC Dundalk) 29 x 1 = 29
43. Efthymios Koulouris (Atromitos FC) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Haris Seferovic (SL Benfica) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Andreas Skov Olsen (FC Nordsjaelland) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
46. ‘Charles’ Dias de Oliveira (SD Eibar) 14 x 2 = 28
Sébastien Haller (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 14 x 2 = 28
Kai Havertz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 14 x 2 = 28
Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 14 x 2 = 28
Jaime Mata Arnaiz (Getafe CF) 14 x 2 = 28
Andrea Petagna (SPAL 2013) 14 x 2 = 28
Raúl de Tomás (Rayo Vallecano) 14 x 2 = 28
Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 14 x 2 = 28
Wout Weghorst (VfL Wolfsburg) 14 x 2 = 28
Callum Wilson (AFC Bournemouth) 14 x 2 = 28
56. Igor Angulo Albóniga (Górnik Zabrze) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Roman Debelko (FC Levadia Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
Linus Hallenius (GIF Sundsvall) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Hamdi Harbaoui (SV Zulte Waregem) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Kamil Wilczek (Brøndby IF) 18 x 1,5 = 27
61. Ishak Belfodil (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 13 x 2 = 26
Andrea Belotti (Torino FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Andy Delort (Montpellier Hérault SC) 13 x 2 = 26
Moussa Dembélé (Olympique Lyonnais) 13 x 2 = 26
Borja Iglesias Quintás (RCD Espanyol) 13 x 2 = 26
Raúl Jiménez Rodríguez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) 13 x 2 = 26
Wahbi Khazri (AS Saint-Étienne) 13 x 2 = 26
Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) 13 x 2 = 26
Dries Mertens (SSC Napoli) 13 x 2 = 26
Jorge Molina Vidal (Getafe CF) 13 x 2 = 26
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
Mikel Oyarzabal Ugarte (Real Sociedad de Fútbol) 13 x 2 = 26
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) 13 x 2 = 26
‘Richarlison’ de Andrade (Everton FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Florian Thauvin (Olympique Marseille) 13 x 2 = 26
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** The Golden Shoe is administered, computed and formulated by the European Sports Media group whose members comprise: A Bola (Portugal), ElfVoetbal (Netherlands), Fanatik (Turkey), Foot Magazine (Belgium), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), Gazzetta dello Sport (Italy), GoalNews/Sentragoal (Greece), Guerin Sportivo (Italy), Kicker (Germany), Marca (Spain), Nemzeti Sport (Hungary), SoFoot (France), Sport Express (Russia), Telegraaf/Telesport (Netherlands), Tipsbladet (Denmark), World Soccer (England). Affiliated members: Kick Off (South Africa), Titan Sport (China), Netease (China), SportalKorea (South-Korea).
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