Defending champion Robert Lewandowski continues to pull away in the Golden Shoe ranking of Europe’s top scorers – and he has now already cracked the 50 mark. Patrik Schick is closing in on the top three
It’s still the same: Robert Lewandowski is racing unstoppably ahead of the competition for the Golden Shoe. Last year’s winner has once again cracked the 50-point mark and remains the undisputed number one in the rankings. FC Bayern came away empty-handed at VfL Bochum, losing 2:4 surprisingly to the newcomers. The two goals for Nagelsmann’s side, however, came from Lewandowski, who now has 26 goals in just 22 league games with the goals for 1:0 and 2:4.
Ohi Omoijuanfo (27 goals, 40.5 points) in second place can no longer improve his tally as he scored his goals for Molde in the Norwegian league, which plays its season in the calendar year and is therefore closed. The same applies to third-placed Thomas Lehne Olsen of Lilleström SK.
But both feel Leverkusen’s Patrik Schick and Lazio Roma’s Ciro Immobile, the 2020 Golden Shoe winners, breathing down their necks. Both scored at the weekend, taking their goal tally to 19 and now 38 points. Schick scored the final goal in Werkself’s 4-2 win over VfB Stuttgart, while Immobile got Lazio on track with a penalty in their 3-0 win over Bologna.
Ex-Frankfurt man Sebastian Haller made a big leap in the rankings, scoring a treble in Ajax Amsterdam’s 5-0 win over Twente Enschede. The 27-year-old, who last played for Côte d’Ivoire at the Africa Cup and therefore missed two games in the league, now has 16 goals to his name.
