Also hope Kane and Lewandowski
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Since 1968, the Golden Shoe has been awarded by the UEFA to the best strikers of the highest play classes of the member associations – this year an African could win the coveted trophy for the first time with Mohamed Salah. The attacker of FC Liverpool leads the ranking in front of ex-St. Pauli professional Viktor Gyökeres and Barcelonas Robert Lewandowski. The Munich team needs a strong final sprint so that Harry Kane can defend the title.
Gyökeres achieved significantly more with 34 goals than Salah, who scored 27 times in the Premier League, the country factor ensures that the Egyptian is in front. In the top 5 leagues, goals are multiplied by a factor of two, in the countries that occupy 6 to 22 in the UEFA ranking with 1.5. All play classes behind have the factor of one. Salah is behind Gyökeres, who plays for Sporting in Portugal, and Alex Tamm, who scored 32 goals in Estonia and Slovenia, the most accurate professional in Europe.
But the fight for first place is far from over, after all, Salah has not been hit for four match days – by far the longest dry spell on the Egyptian this season. Lewandowski and Kane lurk in the ranks three and four with 25 and 24 goals. However, the pole, which won the trophy 2020/21 and 2021/22 in the FC Bayern jersey, is currently laboratories on a muscle injury, but is due to come back in early May. Five games can still be played in Laliga. Kane, who was victorious last year with 36 goals, remain four game days. After five missions without a goal, he met three times in the last four appearances in the Bundesliga.
With Lewandowski and Kane, three of the last four awards went to the Bundesliga. Omar Marmoush, who scored 15 goals for Eintracht Frankfurt in 17 Bundesliga games and has a total of 21 goals after his 75 million euro switch to Manchester City. The next Bundesliga professionals are in 13th place in Leverkusen Patrik Schick, who scored 18 times, and in 20th place in Dortmund Serhou Guirassy, who was successful 16 times. The best Germans are Jonathan Burkardt from Mainz 05 and Gladbach’s Tim Kleindienst with 15 goals (26th place).