ESM GOLDEN SHOE: Messi awaits record sixth crown after two-goal sign-off
KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTING —- Lionel Messi has been crowned as leading marksman in the Spanish league and is almost certain to add the European ESM Golden Shoe.
The ranking will be finalised next week after the concluding rounds of league competition in es in Italy, Croatia, Switzerland and France are finished.
Messi scored twice at the weekend as recrowned champions Barcelona rounded off their season with a 2-2 draw away to Eibar and his total of 36 LaLiga goals put him four clear of second-placed Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain.
Lionel Messi . . . two more goals at the weekend
Back in third is Sampdoria’s Fabio Quagliarella (26 goals) with the leading English Premier League marksman, Liverpool’s Sadio Mane and Mo Salah, fifth equal on 22 goals.
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) 36 x 2 = 72
2. Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 32 x 2 = 64
3. Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 26 x 2 = 52
4. Mbaye Diagne (Kasimpasa SK/Galatasaray SK) 30 x 1,5 = 45
5. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 22 x 2 = 44
— Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 22 x 2 = 44
— Sadio Mané (Liverpool FC) 22 x 2 = 44
— Nicolas Pépé (Lille OSC) 22 x 2 = 44
— Krzysztof Piatek (Genoa CFC/AC Milan) 22 x 2 = 44
— Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 22 x 2 = 44
— Duván Zapata (Atalanta Bergamo) 22 x 2 = 44
12. Sergio ‘Kun’ Agüero (Manchester City) 21 x 2 = 42
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 21 x 2 = 42
Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 28 x 1,5 = 42
Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 21 x 2 = 42
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 21 x 2 = 42
Dusan Tadic (AFC Ajax) 28 x 1,5 = 42
18. Iago Aspas (RC Celta de Vigo) 20 x 2 = 40
19. Cristhian Stuani (Girona FC) 19 x 2 = 38
20. Paco Alcácer (Borussia Dortmund) 18 x 2 = 36
Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 18 x 2 = 36
Nikolai Komlichenko (FK Mladá Boleslav) 24 x 1,5 = 36
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 18 x 2 = 36
Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla FC) 18 x 2 = 36
25. Guillaume Hoarau (BSC Young Boys) 23 x 2 = 34,5
Haris Seferovic (SL Benfica) 23 x 1,5 = 34,5
Robert Skov (FC København) 23 x 1,5 = 34,5
28. Kai Havertz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 17 x 2 = 34
Borja Iglesias Quintás (RCD Espanyol) 17 x 2 = 34
Luka Jovic (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 17 x 2 = 34
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 17 x 2 = 34
Andrej Kramarić (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 17 x 2 = 34
Arkadiusz Milik (SSC Napoli) 17 x 2 = 34
Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) 17 x 2 = 34
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 17 x 2 = 34
Wout Weghorst (VfL Wolfsburg) 17 x 2 = 34
37. Ishak Belfodil (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 16 x 2 =32
Eden Hazard (Chelsea FC) 16 x 2 = 32
Andrea Petagna (SPAL 2013) 16 x 2 = 32
Timo Werner (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 16 x 2 = 32
41. Ellenton ‘Liliu’ (Nõmme Kalju FC) 31 x 1 = 31
42. Zakaria Beglarishvili (FC Flora Tallinn) 30 x 1 = 30
Andrea Belotti (Torino FC) 15 x 2 = 30
Francesco Caputo (Empoli FC) 15 x 2 = 30
Moussa Dembélé (Olympique Lyonnais) 15 x 2 = 30
Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco) 15 x 2 = 30
Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes (Sporting Clube de Portugal) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) 15 x 2 = 30
Sébastien Haller (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 15 x 2 = 30
Dries Mertens (SSC Napoli) 15 x 2 = 30
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 15 x 2 = 30
‘Paulinho’ de Oliveira (BK Häcken) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Leonardo Pavoletti (Cagliari Calcio) 15 x 2 = 30
Yussuf Poulsen (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 15 x 2 = 30
Mbwane Ally Samatta (KRC Genk) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Florian Thauvin (Olympique Marseille) 15 x 2 = 30
57. Patrick Hoban (FC Dundalk) 29 x 1 = 29
58. Adrián Dalmau Vaquer (Heracles Almelo) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Efthymios Koulouris (Atromitos FC) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Andreas Skov Olsen (FC Nordsjaelland) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
61. ‘Charles’ Dias de Oliveira (SD Eibar) 14 x 2 = 28
Andy Delort (Montpellier Hérault SC) 14 x 2 = 28
Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 14 x 2 = 28
Jean-Philippe Mateta (FSV Mainz 05) 14 x 2 = 28
Jaime Mata Arnaiz (Getafe CF) 14 x 2 = 28
Jorge Molina Vidal (Getafe CF) 14 x 2 = 28
Raúl de Tomás (Rayo Vallecano) 14 x 2 = 28
Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 14 x 2 = 28
Callum Wilson (AFC Bournemouth) 14 x 2 = 28
