In the World Cup of top scorers, Argentine Messi is at the top of the list, with 5 goals, followed by the duo Mbappé and Haaland, both with 4.
But after the second round of the group stage, the Premier League, the championship in which Manchester City’s Norwegian striker reigns, left the competition far behind and is responsible for 30 of the 141 goals after 48 games, including the last from Colombian Muñoz, an athlete from Crystal Palace.
In this round, in addition to Haaland, those who also helped to fatten the league’s account were players like Brazilian Matheus Cunha, from Manchester United, and Senegalese Ismaila Sarr, from Crystal Palace, each with two goals.
The second highest scoring league is the Bundesliga, the German first division championship, with 15 goals. Without the help of Kane, from Bayern, who went blank in the last game, the one who led the German line was Undav, from Stuttgart, who scored twice in Germany’s comeback against Ivory Coast and reached three goals on the top scorers table.
It was also in this round that the first goal in La Liga (Spanish) was scored that had not been scored by players from Real Madrid or Barcelona. The author of the feat was the Swiss Rúben Vargas, from Sevilla.
The Spanish Championship has reached the German league and has already scored 14 goals. The account was added to by Spain’s good 4-0 victory against Saudi Arabia, with two goals from Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad) and one from Yamal (Barcelona) — the fourth goal was an own goal.
Champions League champions, the PSG duo Dembélé (France) and Nuno Mendes (Portugal) reinforced the French Championship’s record, which now has 10 goals, in fourth place — also including the celebrated goal from Algerian Gouiri, from Olympique de Marseille.
Closing the top 5 with 8 goals, the MLS success has a first and last name: Lionel Messi. Alone, the Argentina and Inter Miami number 10 scored more than half of the goals in the North American league.
Close to MLS, the Italian Championship has also risen significantly in the table of top scorer leagues and already has 7 goals — three of them from Canadian Jonathan David, Juventus striker.
Some championships started to be represented in this round, such as the Belgian one (a goal from Canadian Saliba, from Anderlecht, and the Japanese Ito, from Genk), and the Mexican one, thanks to a goal from Romo, from Guadalajara, for the co-host team.
The Brazilian Championship doubled the score from one to two with a goal from Fluminense forward Cannobio.
Real Madrid leads among clubs
Among the clubs, the champion does not come from the English Championship: Real Madrid has the same 7 goals as the Italian league. Leading the line is Mbappé, the World Cup’s second-leading scorer with 4 goals — Vinicius Junior, with two, and Bellingham, with one, complete the top scorer.
Interestingly, the club found itself in a somewhat embarrassing situation as it did not have any of the team’s players in the Spanish squad — Cucurella was transferred from Chelsea with the tournament already underway.
Second place comes from the Premier League, but nothing from Arsental or Manchester City. The English club with the most goals is the surprising Crystal Palace, the winner of the Conference League, with 6, including two from Japan’s Kamada and another two from Colombia’s Muñoz.
Three teams share second place, with 5 goals each. The first is Liverpool, who saw Egypt’s idol Salah finally score his goal. Dutchman Gakpo scored twice in the World Cup.
The Champions League champion, French PSG, has the same 5 goals. The third of the club of five is Inter Miami, from MLS, the fault of that Argentine Lionel.
