1 Top 5 scorers in Premier league, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and League 1 competition for golden boot on 16 Sep 2012

European leagues players are back in league action following a short international game games for World cup qualification and international friendly. Already race for European Golden boot and leagues' top scorer is heating up. The last season European top scorer, Lionel Messi is ready to defend his award with 6 goals in La Liga. Following Messi are the PSG and Manchester United new signings, League one Zlatan Ibrahimović  5 and Premier League top scorer Robin Van Persie 4 goals respectively.

Premier league win for Arsenal and Manchester and draw for Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City.

Big wins for Arsenal and Manchester United while premier league championship rival clubs Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City were force to draw. Gervinho and Dimitar Berbatov both score twice opening their goals account this season. Jermain Defoe score a brace against Reading in Sunday game to give AVB first Tottenham win.In Monday night football Demba Ba score a brace against Everton in 2-2 draw.

Top assists

Eden Hazard - Chelsea FC 5

Wayne Routledge - Swansea City 3

Premier League top 5 scorers (22 Sep 2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Miguel Pérez Cuesta	Swansea City	4 (0)
2	Rickie Lambert	Southampton FC	4 (1)
3	Robin Van Persie	Manchester United	4 (0)
4	Steven Fletcher	Sunderland AFC	4 (0)
5	*Carlos Tévez	Manchester City	3 (0)

* Jermain Defoe (Tottenham Hotspur), Marouane Fellaini (Everton FC) and Kevin Nolan (West Ham United) also have three goals.
 

La Liga Barcelona win, Madrid loss separate them by 8 points.

Lionel Messi score twice in Barcelona 4-1 win over Getafe as rival Real Madrid loss to Sevilla 1-0. La Liga champions are now 8 point behind leader Barcelona. Jose Mourinho was frustrated with the results and come up with one of his strange football quotes. "I changed only two players at half-time, I wanted to change seven of them," Mourinho said according to CBC news at CBC website.

Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernandez celebrate Messi's second goal. Photo CBC.ca

La Liga top 5 scorers (22 Sep 2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	6 (1)
2	Radamel Falcao	Atletico Madrid	4 (2)
3	Tomer Hemed	Mallorca	3
4	Aduriz	Athletic Bilbao	3
5	Gonzalo Higuain	Real Madrid	3

There is 1 player, Jorge Molina with 3 goals, and 18 with 2 goals not in the list.
 
Bundesliga win for Bayern Munich and Borrusia Dortmund, Borrusia chasing record.

Bayern Munich and Borrusia Dortmund both won by three goals. Borrusia Dortmund retain their 12 months (31 games) unbeaten run and closing on 36 game unbeaten record.  Player on top 5 scorer list, Mario Mandzukic and Aaron Hunt both score once on Saturday games. Szabolcs Huszt score twice against Werder Bremen in 3-2 Hannover 96 win and then red carded for celebration.

Bundesliga top 5 scorers (22 Sep 2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Thomas Müller	Bayern Munich	4
2	Heung-Min Son	Hamburg SV	3
3	Mario Mandžukić	Bayern Munich	3
4	Toni Kroos	Bayern Munich	3
5	*Aaron Hunt	Werder Bremen	2 (2)

*There are 16 other players with 2 goals each.

Serie A Milan sock defeat.
AC Milan loss 1-0 to regional rivals Atlanta at home and continue miserable lead start. On Sunday two goals from Hernanes and Maxi Lopez in Lazio 3-1 over Chievo and Sampodoria 3-2 over Pescara respectively. Miroslav Klose score one in Lazio win and Stevan Jovetic top the table with one of 2 against goal vs Catania.

Serie A top 5 scorer (22 Sep 2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Stevan Jovetic	Fiorentina	4
2	Giampaolo Pazzini	AC Milan	3 (1)
3	Hernanes	Lazio Roma	3
4	Maxi López	Sampdoria	3
5	Miroslav Klose	Juventus	3

There is 13 players with 2 goals.

League 1 Zlatan Ibrahimovich making impact.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is now paying his big deal move to PSG with 5 goals already. Cedric Barbosa score a brace in Evian Thonon Gaillard 3-0 win over Bastia. Ligue 1 standing according to TSN. On Sunday games Alain Traoré score 2 for FC Lorient winning 2-1 against Stade Rennes.

League 1 top scorers (22 Sep 2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Paris Saint-Germain	7 (1)
2	Alain Traoré	FC Lorient	4
	Pierre Aubameyang	AS Saint-Étienne	4
4	Wissam Ben Yedder	Toulouse FC	4
5	André-Pierre Gignac	Olympique Marseille	3

There are 5 other players with 3 goals each not listed here.

0 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking: Spain at the top, Euro 2012 Group B all in top ten

FIFA have released the world national ranking ahead of EURO 2012. There is move movements in top ten compared to last FIFA ranking which witnessed on Argentina and Denmark exchange positions. 

The latest football ranking saw Spain, the World cup and European champions retaining top spot as Germany slipping to third as Uruguay move second, Holland 3rd while Brazil and England moved to 5^th and 6^th and Argentina moved to places to 7^th. Portugal has dropped 5 places, from 5^th to 10^th and make fans to question if Cristiano Ronaldo was right to predict Spain or Portugal as winner for Euro 2012. 

Poland, the Euro 2012 host moved three place but remain the lowest ranked team in Euro 2012 62^nd as co host Ukraine occupy 52^nd spot.

Euro 2012 groups and FIFA ranking of Europe teams

Group A

Russia 13^th

Greece 15^th

Czech Republic 27^th

Poland  62^nd

Group B

Germany 3rd

Netherlands 4th

Denmark 9th

Portugal 10^th

Group C

Spain 1st

Croatia 8^th

Italy 12^th

Republic of Ireland 18^th

Group D

England 6th
France 14^th

Sweden 17^th

Ukraine 52^nd

South America in FIFA ranking

Uruguay second placed, their highest ever rank in FIFA ranking. Other South America nationals in top 10 are Brazil 5^th and Argentina 7^th.

Top 10 in Fifa world rankings

1. Spain
2. Uruguay
3. Germany
4. Netherlands
5. Brazil
6. England
7. Argentina
8. Croatia
9. Denmark
10. Portugal 

Top 10 FIFA ranking for Africa CAF teams

1. Côte d'Ivoire  
2. Ghana      
3. Algeria        
4. Libya     
5. Mali      
6. Zambia         
7. Tunisia   
8. Egypt     
9. Gabon     
10. Sierra Leone