European Golden Shoe 2020/21: Mbappe and Haaland both score

11:43am on Tuesday 26th January 2021
By Martin Macdonald

It was a good weekend for two of Europe's most exciting young forwards as Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland both scores two goals for PSG and Dortmund respectively.

PSG defeated Montpellier with a healthy 4-0 victory, but Haaland's efforts were in vain for Dortmund as they lost 4-2 against rivals Gladbach.

Both Mbappe and the Norwegian have scored 14 goals this season which puts them on 28 points.

Unfortunately for them, the leader in the European Golden Shoe standings, Robert Lewandowski, also scored at the weekend as Bayern beat Schalke 4-0. That goal took his tally to a ludicrous 23 goals this season, which puts him 16 points ahead of his nearest challenger.

His nearest challenger, Cristiano Ronaldo, was on a winning team at the weekend as Juve emerged victorious over Bologna, but he recorded an assist for Arthur in that game rather than a goal.

Andre Silva's recent superb form continues as he netted two for Eintracht Frankfurt against Arminia Bielefeld.

Ciro Immobile, meanwhile, is now on the leaderboard after scoring seven goals in his last eight games.

2020/21 EUROPEAN GOLDEN SHOE STANDINGS

2020/21 European Golden Shoe

Player	Team	Goals	Points
Robert Lewandowski	Bayern	23	46
Cristiano Ronaldo	Juventus	15	30
Paul Onuachu	Genk	20	30
Erling Haaland	Dortmund	14	28
Andre Silva	Frankfurt	14	28
Kylian Mbappe	PSG	14	28
Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	13	26
Ciro Immobile	Lazio	13	26

At this stage of the season, the leagues that run on the calendar year - ie 2020 - inevitably get a head start but these days with the league weightings, very few are still there by the end of the traditional 2020/21 campaign.

A reminder: The five elite leagues - Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 - all carry a weighting of 2, meaning that a player will be awarded two points for every goal they score in these competitions.

For the leagues ranked sixth to 30 in Uefa's coefficients rankings goals scored are given a weighting of 1.5, and goals scored in a league outwith the top 30, goals are given a weighting of 1.

Ciro Immobile won the 2019/20 European Golden Shoe, scoring 36 goals for Lazio in a tremendous Serie A season.

2020/21 EUROPEAN GOLDEN SHOE (Summer Leagues)

2020 European Golden Shoe

Player	Team	Goals	Points
Kasper Junker	Helsinki	27	40.5
Amahl Pellegrino	Kristiansund	25	37.5
Philip Zinckernagel	Bodo/Glimt	19	28.5
Christoffer Nyman	Norrköping	18	27
Rauno Sappinen	Flora Tallinn	26	26
Veton Berisha	Viking	16	24
Jasur Yakhshiboev	Pakhtakor Tashkent	16	24
Jesper Karlsson	Elfsborg/AZ	16	24
Astrit Selmani	Verbergs	15	22.5
Mushaga Bakenga	Odds BK	15	22.5
Isaac Kiese Thelin	Malmo	15	22.5
Moses Ogbu	Mjallby	14	21
Anders Christiansen	Malmo	13	19.5
Leke James	Molde	12	19.5
Maksim Skavysh	BATE Borisov	19	19