After continuing his stellar play in the English Premier League and scoring a hat-trick in City’s victory over Manchester United in the Manchester derby yesterday, Norwegian striker Erling Halland of Manchester City is on the verge of winning the European Golden Shoe and taking first place in the standings for the top scorer in the European Leagues.
Erling Haaland increased his tally to 14 goals in eight league games, which is double what his nearest opponent, Tottenham Hotspur player Harry Kane, achieved in the competition.
The Norwegian set a new record in the Premier League by scoring three hat-tricks in as few as eight games, breaking Michael Owen’s previous mark of 48 games set while playing for Liverpool.
Amahl Pellegrino, the Norwegian Bodo Glimt team’s striker and winner of the Norwegian Golden Boot, is in the lead with 28. 5 points from 19 goals. Erling Haaland, the English Premier League’s leading scorer with 28 points from 14 goals, is second, and the Swedish Alexander Geremjev, the Haken team’s striker, is third. The Swede scored 21 goals and collected 21 points.
While the English Premier League is still in its infancy and has just advanced to its eighth round, the Norwegian and Swedish leagues are close to completion having reached the 26th round with only 4 weeks remaining in their seasons.
The best scorer in the Spanish League last season and striker for Barcelona, Robert Lewandowski, a Pole, is currently in seventh place with 18 points from 9 goals.
French The best scorer in the French League is Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain, who is tied for 14th with Brazilian Neymar Da Silva after 16 points from 8 goals.
The following are the highest scorers throughout the five main leagues:
Bodo Glimt of Norway, Amahl Pellegrino, 28. 5 points, 19 goals
Norwegian Manchester City’s Erling Haaland has 28 points and 14 goals.
Haken Swede’s Alexander Geremjev has 21 goals and 21 points.
For the five major leagues (England, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy), the amount of goals are multiplied by two to determine the Golden Boot points.
The number of goals is doubled by 1.5 for leagues ranked 6 to 22, whereas for the other leagues under 22, the number of goals is equal to the number of points.
After scoring three goals in the Manchester derby, Haaland increases his chances of earning the European Golden Shoe.
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