This Monday is already the eleventh assessment of the season in the ranking of European top scorers. After the international break, we find the scorers who shook the nets in Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, Scotland, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey. And change of leader since the Japanese scorer Ayase Ueda finally takes the lead.
Author of 18 goals in 15 matches, he had a crazy season with Feyenoord. This Saturday, he scored a quadruple in his team’s 6-1 victory against PEC Zwolle. The second goes to Harry Kane. The English striker has good statistics with 17 goals in 13 matches. He won a hat-trick against VfB Stuttgart (5-0). Finally, Kylian Mbappé climbs onto the podium with 16 goals in as many matches. The French striker had a contrasting week with a magnificent double against Bilbao (3-0) this Wednesday, but he was silent yesterday against Celta de Vigo (2-0 defeat).
Ferran Torres goes back
Small fall for Erling Haaland with his 15 goals in 15 matches. The Norwegian, however, maintains a nice pace. Author of a pawn on Tuesday against Fulham (5-4), he did not score on Saturday against Sunderland (3-0). Fifth, Ayoub El Kaabi climbs the rankings with 12 goals in 13 matches. The Moroccan remains on a double this Saturday against OFI Crete (3-0). Big operation also for Ferran Torres. The Catalan winger has 11 goals in 15 games with four goals this week. He scored against Atlético de Madrid (3-1) and scored a hat-trick against Real Betis Balompié (5-3).
Brentford scorer, Igor Thiago is experiencing a slight setback. The Brazilian striker did not score in the two defeats against Arsenal (2-0) and Tottenham (2-0) but maintains the same statistics as his predecessor. Same story for Paul Onuachu. The Nigerian striker from Trabzonspor did not score despite his team’s 2-1 success. Ninth, Russian attacking midfielder Aleksey Batrakov moves up in this ranking with 11 goals in 17 matches. The Lokomotiv Moscow player scored against Sochi (4-2). Tenth place goes to Vangelis Pavlidis with his 10 goals in 13 matches. However, the Benfica striker did not score last Friday against Sporting CP.
Mason Greenwood (Olympique de Marseille), Chris Bédia (Young Boys Berne), Guus Til (PSV Eindhoven), Eldor Shomurodov (Istanbul Basaksehir), Brayan Gil (Baltika Kaliningrad) and Christian Fassnacht (Young Boys de Berne) failed to reach the top 10 with 10 goals. Luis Suárez (Sporting CP), Clayton (Rio Ave), Elias Havel (Hartberg), Petar Ratkov (Red Bull Salzburg), Joaquín Panichelli (Strasbourg) and Mirlind Daku (Rubin Kazan) follow with nine goals.
The ranking of the top European scorers
- Ayase Ueda (27 years old/Feyenoord/Japan) – 18 goals in 15 matches (1225 minutes played)
- Harry Kane (32 years old/Bayern Munich/England) – 17 goals in 13 matches (997 minutes played)
- Kylian Mbappé (26 years old/Real Madrid/France) – 16 goals in 16 matches (1398 minutes played)
- Erling Haaland (25 years old/Manchester City/Norway) – 15 goals in 15 matches (1287 minutes played)
- Ayoub El Kaabi (32 years old/Olympiakos/Morocco) – 12 goals in 13 matches (1062 minutes played)
- Ferran Torres (25 years old/FC Barcelona/Spain) – 11 goals in 15 matches (933 minutes played)
- Igor Thiago (24 years old/Brentford/Brazil) – 11 goals in 15 matches (1225 minutes played)
- Paul Onuachu (31 years old/Trabzonspor/Nigeria) – 11 goals in 15 matches (1304 minutes played)
- Aleksey Batrakov (20 years old/Lokomotiv Moscow/Russia) – 11 goals in 17 matches (1510 minutes played)
- Vangelis Pavlidis (27 years old/Benfica/Greece) – 10 goals in 13 matches (1087 minutes played)
