Lewandowski set to claim European Golden Shoe after beating Muller mark
KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS: One more week and Robert Lewandowski will be confirmed as winner of the ESM European Golden Shoe for 2020-21.
Even his four-week absence earlier this year has proved no hindrance. as the Pole ended the Bundesliga season by scoring his 41st goal of the campaign which surpassed the great Gerd Muller’s Bundesliga single-season record.
Lewandowski is 11 clear of Barcelona’s Lionel Messi who, with 50 goals in 2011-12, remains the competition’s record single-season leading scorer.
FIFA’s world player of the year will become only the third player since 2010 to interrupt Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s command of the award after Barcelona’s Luis Suarez in 2016 and Lazio’s Ciro Immobile last season.
Ronaldo has won the Golden Shoe four times and Messi on six occasions.
The final Golden Shoe ranking will be compiled early next week.
Early pacemaker Kasper Junker of Norway’s Bodo/Glimt has now slipped down to 16th place. Junker scored 27 and was a long-time leader of the standings because the Golden Shoe is based on a ranking computed according to UEFA’s end-of-season rankings.
Thus marksmen from among the top five nations benefit from a multiple of 2.0, the next batch (places six to 22 ) a factor of 1.5 and the remainder 1.0.
Scandinavian leagues which traditionally play to a calendar-year schedule always provide the initial leaders before being overtaken in due course by the superstars of western Europe.
As in other years the rankings does not include play-offs which means that the leagues in countries such as Cyprus, Austria and Greece are already finished for the ESM Golden Shoe ranking.
Golden Shoe standings
(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status)
1. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 41 x 2 = 82
2. Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 30 x 2 = 60
3. Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 29 x 2 = 58
4. André Miguel Silva (Eintracht Frankfurt) 28 x 2 = 56
5. Erling Braut Haaland (Borussia Dortmund) 27 x 2 = 54
— Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 27 x 2 = 54
7. Romelu Lukaku (Internazionale Milano) 24 x 2 = 48
8. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 23 x 2 = 46
— ‘Gerard’ Moreno Balagueró (Villarreal CF) 23 x 2 = 46
— Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 23 x 2 = 46
11. Luis Muriel Fruto (Atalanta Bergamo) 22 x 2 = 44
— Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 22 x 2 = 44
13. Paul Ebere Onuachu (KRC Genk) 29 x 1,5 = 43,5
14. Luis Alberto Suárez (Atlético Madrid) 21 x 2 = 42
— Dusan Vlahovic (ACF Fiorentina) 21 x 2 = 42
16. Kasper Junker (FK Bodø/Glimt) 27 x 1,5 = 40,5
17. Memphis Depay (Olympique Lyonnais) 20 x 2 = 40
Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 20 x 2 = 40
Andrej Kramaric (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 20 x 2 = 40
Simeon ‘Simy’ Nwankwo (FC Crotone) 20 x 2 = 40
Wout Weghorst (VfL Wolfsburg) 20 x 2 = 40
Wissam Ben Yedder (AS Monaco) 20 x 2 = 40
23. Giorgos Giakoumakis (VVV-Venlo) 26 x 1,5 = 39
24. Lorenzo Insigne (SSC Napoli Calcio) 19 x 2 = 38
25. Milan Makarić (FK Radnik Surdulica) 25 x 1,5 = 37,5
Amahl Pellegrino (Kristiansund BK) 25 x 1,5 = 37,5
27. Youssef En-Nesyri (Sevilla FC) 18 x 2 = 36
Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes (Manchester United) 18 x 2 = 36
29. Pedro António Pereira Gonçalves ‘Pote’ (Sporting CP) 23 x 1,5 = 34,5
30. Patrick Bamford (Leeds United) 17 x 2 = 34
Alexander Isak (Real Sociedad de Fútbol) 17 x 2 = 34
Lautaro Martínez (Internazionale Milano) 17 x 2 = 34
Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur) 17 x 2 = 34
34. Aaron Boupendza (Hatayspor Kulübü) 22 x 1,5 = 33
Ramón Nazareno Miérez (NK Osijek) 22 x 1,5 = 33
Haris Seferovic (SL Benfica) 22 x 1,5 = 33
37. Ludovic Ajorque (Racing Strasbourg Alsace) 16 x 2 = 32
Domenico Berardi (US Sassuolo Calcio) 16 x 2 = 32
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton FC) 16 x 2 = 32
Zachary Hadji (CS Fola Esch) 32 x 1 = 32
Sasa Kalajdzic (VfB Stuttgart) 16 x 2 = 32
Gaëtan Laborde (Montpellier Hérault SC) 16 x 2 = 32
‘João Pedro’ Galvão (Cagliari Calcio) 16 x 2 = 32
Kevin Volland (AS Monaco) 16 x 2 = 32
Burak Yilmaz (Lille OSC) 16 x 2 = 32
46. Thomas Henry (Oud-Heverlee Leuven) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
47. Gianni Bruno (SV Zulte Waregem) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Patson Daka (Red Bull Salzburg) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Andy Delort (Montpellier Hérault SC) 15 x 2 = 30
Artem Dzyuba (FC Zenit Sint-Petersburg) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (AC Milan) 15 x 2 = 30
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 15 x 2 = 30
Duván Zapata (Atalanta Bergamo) 15 x 2 = 30
54. Youssef El-Arabi (Olympiakos Piraeus) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Sardar Azmoun (FC Zenit Sint-Petersburg) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Mame Biram Diouf (Hatayspor Kulübü) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Cyle Larin (Besiktas JK) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Donyell Malen (PSV Eindhoven) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Jean-Pierre Nsame (BSC Young Boys) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Philip Zinckernagel (FK Bodø/Glimt) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
61. Iago Aspas Juncal (RC Celta de Vigo) 14 x 2 = 28
Frank Castañeda Vélez (FC Sheriff Tiraspol) 28 x 1 = 28
Boulaye Dia (Stade de Reims) 14 x 2 = 28
Terem Moffi (FC Lorient) 14 x 2 = 28
José Luis Morales (Levante UD) 14 x 2 = 28
Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach) 14 x 2 = 28
Karl Toko Ekambi (Olympique Lyonnais) 14 x 2 = 28
Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa FC) 14 x 2 = 28
69. Takumo Asano (FK Partizan Beograd) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord Rotterdam) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Milan Bojovic (FK Mladost Lučani) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Nenad Lukic (FK TSC Backa Topola) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Arthur Mendonça Cabral (FC Basel) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Christoffer Nyman (IFK Norrköping) 18 x 1,5 = 27
75. Andrea Belotti (Torino FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Jonathan David (LOSC Lille) 13 x 2 = 26
Antoine Griezmann (FC Barcelona) 13 x 2 = 26
Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) 13 x 2 = 26
Bioty Moise Kean (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
Franck Kessié (AC Milan) 13 x 2 = 26
Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) 13 x 2 = 26
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (AS Roma) 13 x 2 = 26
Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 13 x 2 = 26
Rafael ‘Rafa Mir’ Vicente (SD Huesca) 13 x 2 = 26
