LONDON: Ciro Immobile maintained his goal-scoring,match-winning run as Lazio defeated Internazionale 2-1 in Italy’s Serie A at the weekend.

Immobile’s tally took his total to 26 for the season so far.

Closest pursuer Robert Lewandowski kept pace with his own single goal in Bayern’s Munich’s 4-1 away win over 1FC Koln in the German Bundesliga.

Cristiano Ronaldo remains joint third. No player from Serie A has won the Golden Shoe since Roma’s Francesco Totti with 26 goals in 2006-07.

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 mu ltiple of 2.0, the next batch (places six to 22) a factor of 1.5 and the remainder 1.0.

As in previous years the Golden Shoe does not consider goals in play-off competitions.

Last season’s winner was Lionel Messi for a record-extending sixth time.

Golden Shoe standings

(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status)

1. Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 26 x 2 = 52
2. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 23 x 2 = 46
3. Erling Braut Haaland (Red Bull Salzburg/Borussia Dortmund) 16 x 1,5 + 8 x 2 = 40
— Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 20 x 2 = 40
— Timo Werner (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 20 x 2 = 40
6. Romelu Lukaku (FC Internazionale Milano) 17 x 2 = 34
— Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 17 x 2 = 34
8. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 16 x 2 = 32
— Wissam Ben Yedder (AS Monaco) 16 x 2 = 32
10. Erik Sorga (Flora Tallinn) 31 x 1 = 31
11. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 15 x 2 = 30
Odsonne Édouard (Celtic FC) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Danny Ings (Southampton FC) 15 x 2 = 30
Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 15 x 2 = 30
15. Ilia Shkurin (FC Zvezda-BGU Minsk) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Shon Weissman (Wolfsberger AC) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
17. Josip Iličić (Atalanta Bergamo) 14 x 2 = 28
Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 14 x 2 = 28
‘João Pedro’ Galvão (Cagliari Calcio) 14 x 2 = 28
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) 14 x 2 = 28
Mohamad Salah (Liverpool FC) 14 x 2 = 28
22. Ivan Tričkovski (AEK Larnaca) 18 x 1,5 = 27
23. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 13 x 2 = 26
Moussa Dembélé (Olympique Lyonnais) 13 x 2 = 26
‘Neymar’ da Silva Santos Júnior (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund) 13 x 2 = 26
28. Youssef El Arabi (Olympiakos Piraeus FC) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Jean-Pierre Nsame (BSC Young Boys) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Alexander Sørloth (Trabzonspor AŞ) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Kamil Wilczek (Bröndby IF) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
32. Klaemint Olsen (NSÍ Runavik) 25 x 1 = 25
33. Papiss Demba Cissé (Alanyaspor) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Habib Diallo (FC Metz) 12 x 2 = 24
Sadio Mané (Liverpool FC) 12 x 2 = 24
Mirko Maric (NK Osijek) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Luis Muriel Fruto (Atalanta Bergamo) 12 x 2 = 24
Victor Osimhen (Lille OSC) 12 x 2 = 24
39. Mohamed Buya Turay (Djurgärdens IF) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Jonathan David (KAA Gent) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Dieumerci Mbokani (Royal Antwerp FC) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Aluísio ‘Júnior Moraes’ (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
‘Carlos Vinícius’ Alves Morais (SL Benfica) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
44. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton FC) 11 x 2 = 22
Francesco Caputo (US Sassuolo Calcio) 11 x 2 = 22
Edin Dzeko (AS Roma) 11 x 2 = 22
Rouwen Hennings (Fortuna Düsseldorf) 11 x 2 = 22
Mauro Icardi (Paris Saint-Germain) 11 x 2 = 22
Raúl Alonso Jiménez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) 11 x 2 = 22
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 11 x 2 = 22
Tomislav Kis (FK Zalgiris Vilnius) 22 x 1 = 22
Lautaro Martínez (FC Internazionale Milano) 11 x 2 = 22
Florian Niederlechner (FC Augsburg) 11 x 2 = 22
Teemu Pukki (Norwich City) 11 x 2 = 22
Robin Quaison (1. FSV Mainz 05) 11 x 2 = 22
Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) 11 x 2 = 22
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 11 x 2 = 22
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 11 x 2 = 22
59. Torgeir Børven (Odds BK) 21 x 1 = 21
Patson Daka (Red Bull Salzburg) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Cyriel Dessers (Heracles Almelo) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Stanislav Dragun (FC BATE Borisov) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Vitaly Kvashuk (FC Gomel) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Bryan Linssen (Vitesse) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Christoph Monschein (FK Austria Wien) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Rubén Rayos Serna ‘Rayo’ (Anorthosis Famagusta) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Robin Söder (IFK Göteborg) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Muamer Tankovic (Hammarby IF) 14 x 1,5 = 21
69. ‘Ángel’ Luis Rodríguez Díaz (Getafe CF) 10 x 2 = 20
‘Gerard’ Moreno Balagueró (Villarreal CF) 10 x 2 = 20
Levani Kutalia (FC Dinamo Tblisi) 20 x 1 = 20
‘Roger’ Martí Salvador (Levante UD) 10 x 2 = 20
Chris Venables (Bala Town FC) 20 x 1 = 20
Wout Weghorst (VfL Wolfsburg) 10 x 2 = 20
Chris Wood (Burnley FC) 10 x 2 = 20

** 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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