0 Top 5 scorers in Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and League one in race for Golden boots.

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.

Bundesliga top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Ádám Szalai	FSV Mainz 05	9 (1)
2	Alexander Meier	Eintracht Frankfurt	9 (2)
3	Mario Mandžukić	Bayern Munich	9
4	Robert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	9 (1)
5	Stefan Kießling	Bayer Leverkusen	9

*Thomas Müller (Bayern München) also has 8 goals
 

Italy Serie A top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Stephan El Sharawy	AC Milan	12
2	Antonio Di Natale	Udinese Calcio	8 (3)
3	Edinson Cavani	SSC Napoli	8 (2)
4	Erik Lamela	AS Roma	8
5	Miroslav Klose	Lazio Roma	8

League 1 top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Paris Saint-Germain	13 (1)
2	Bafetimbi Gomis	Olympique Lyon	10(2)
3	Wissam Ben Yedder	Toulouse FC	9
4	Pierre Aubameyang	AS Saint-Étienne	8
5	Yoan Gouffran	Girondins Bordeaux	7

0 Goal of the year: Zlatan Ibrahimovic bicycle kick goal in sweden 4-2 victory against England

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored first his first goal against England and went on to score first hat-trick against England national team since Marco van Basten in 1988 and became the first to score 4 goals against England national team.  What a record for the top striker who claimed low recognition in England soil.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic fantastic goal against England: Source dailymail.co.uk

Candidacy for goal of the year award or may be goal of the decade 
It was a very special way to open a new national stadium, Friends Arena in style. Ibrahimovic's fourth goal was breath taking and mark the beauty of soccer game even to opponents players and supporters. This goal has already been compared with other superb goals world wide.

• He was score with overhead kick 
• 30 yards away from the goal
• Hit the ball above Joe Hart, Cahill and Showcross 25ft high
• Hit the when ball was 8ft high, while he is 6.5ft
• He was on the right side of the pitch. 

Too bad the goal was scored after FIFA have released contenders for best goal of the year but will be considered for next year. Any player planning beat this goal should think twice.

Football quotes from famous footballer and fans regarding Ibrahimovic performance and 4th goal

• Ronaldo De Lima tweeted "What a fantastic goal ...!!!" 
• England news paper, The Daily Mail "Outrageous, acrobatic and touched with genius ....the greatest ever"
• England newspaper, Daily Telegraph "Goal of the Century"
• Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter "DID YOU SEE THAT?"
• The Spanish Daily "Super Ibra, Superlative, unique, spectacular,"
• Yahoo Sport "Ibrahimovic completed one of the remaining games for the legend."
•  Graham Taylor , former England Manager "an absolute first class goal and it certainly ranks as one of the best goals I have seen in professional football." 

Ibrahimovic, PSG leading top scorer's goal overshadows

• His goal his goal 2004 in Ajax vs NAC Breda  Dutch league has been cited at his best. 
• Steven Gerald 100th cap
• Six debutants for England national team
• His second and third goal which were also marvelous