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Top scorers in European leagues are in tough competition as more goals are scored from every league, but Spain seems to have more goals. Lionel Messi leads all European goal scorers with 19 (38 Golden Shoe Points) La Liga goals followed by two player from small leagues in Europe, Philipp Hosiner (Austria Wien) 17 goals and Henrik Mkhitaryan (Shakhtar Donetsk) 17 goals and 25.5 Golden Shoe Points each. Currently only 4 top scorers from top five European leagues are in top 10 list for European top scorers with other players coming from underdogs league of the 4 only Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not playing in Spain.
Lionel Messi Celebrate a goal
Fans used to see close race between Messi and Ronaldo but the gap is already big, 7 goals, but in Champions league competition they are still tied on 5 goals each.
PSG new signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Premier League top scorers are very much tied at the top but the situation could suddenly change in top 5 scorers. So far there are a one goal gaps and the table will change a lot with just few matches. Former Top scorer, Robin Van Persie is still favorite to win golden boot considering is form and the chance he got at Manchester United. Can Benitez effect help Torres jump in top five? One would expect this to be the case, but time will tell.
Premier league top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)
No
Player
Team
Goals
(P)
1
Luis Suárez
Liverpool FC
10
2
Miguel Cuesta
Swansea City
10
3
Robin
Van Persie
Manchester
United
10 (1)
4
Jermain Defoe
Tottenham Hotspur
8
5
Demba Ba
Newcastle United
8
Marouane Fellaini (Everton FC) also have 8 goals
Spanish La Liga top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)
No
Player
Team
Goals (P)
1
Lionel
Messi
Barcelona
21 (1)
2
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
13 (4)
3
Radamel
Falcao
Atletico Madrid
11 (5)
4
Aritz Aduriz
Athletic Bilbao
8
5
Álvaro Negredo
Sevilla FC
7 (2)
Gonzalo Higuaín (Real Madrid) Leo (Rayo Vallecano) Roberto Soldado (Valencia CF) and Tomer Hemed (RCD Mallorca) also has 7 goals.
Robin Van Persie keep on scoring this time earn Arsenal three points denying the Carling Cup champions who looked more dangerous since kick off. The home team gets a controversial penalty as Luis Suarez suspected to have dived as Wojciech Szczesny was making a challenge. Dirk Kuyt, the Carling cup hero who leveled the score before Cardiff miss, took the penalty and forced Szczesny to have a double save and become the hero.
Minutes later Laurent Koscielny miss kicked Jordan Henderson cross to score own goal. Then came Van Persie moment, well positioned heading a well take cross Songs from Bakary Sagna to level the score and seal the win for Arsenal in the dying minutes as he been the offside trap and squeezed the ball past Pepe Reina to make the score 2-1 thank to wonderful volley from Song. Arsenal has now moved ten point from Liverpool and three points away from Chelsea who later lost 1-0 to Westbromwhich Albion. Arsenal has registered two big consecutive wins after beating Tottenham Spurs 5-2 last in previous game.
The French striker have now scored 25 league goals, 30 goals for the season and already have beaten goals mark for last year Premier league top scorers Tevez and Berbatov who scored 20 each. His is very if Arsenal need to see off AC Milan in Champions league second leg match after a 4-0 defeat.