Europe’s great scorers continue to do their homework in front of goal, at the gates of the start of the last stretch of the 2021/2022 season. And it is Robert Lewandowski, the current champion for the top scorer award in the European leagues, who heads the list at the moment. The Polish striker for Bayern Munich leads the ranking with 31 goals scored in the Bundesliga, equivalent to 62 points. The rest of the podium is completed, to date, by Karim Benzema and Ciro Immobile. While the Real Madrid striker has 22 goals in LaLiga Santander, the ‘Capocannoniere’ from Serie A – the player with the most goals in the Italian league – has 21 goals with Laziothe same ones that the Serbian Dusan Vlahovic has achieved, first, in Fiorentina and, now, with Juventus in Turin.
The French striker for the white team is the only LaLiga Santander footballer to appear among the top 10 scorers in Europe. After Dusan Vlahovic, the strikers who have accumulated the most goals to date are, with 40 points respectively, Patrik Schick and Mohamed Salah. The Bayer Leverkusen striker, as well as the Liverpool star, have scored 20 goals in their respective domestic competitions. The rest of the ‘top 10’ is completed by Deniz Undav (24 goals, corresponding to 36 points, with Union Saint-Gilloise in the Belgian league), Ohi Omoijuanfo (33 goals at Red Star), Wissam Ben Yedder (17 goals with Monaco and top scorer in Ligue 1) and Marko Livaja (22 goals in Croatian Hajduk Split).
Ballon d’Or 2021/2022
| PLAYER | GOALS | POINTS |
| Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) | 31 | 62 |
| Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) | 22 | 44 |
| Ciro Immobile (Lazio) | 21 | 42 |
| Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus) | 21 | 42 |
| Patrick Schick (Bayer Leverkusen) | 20 | 40 |
| Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) | 20 | 40 |
| Deniz Undav (Union Saint-Gilloise) | 24 | 36 |
| Ohi Omoijuanfo (Red Star) | 33 | 36 |
| Wissam Ben-Yedder (Monaco) | 17 | 34 |
| Marko Livaja (Hajduk Split) | 22 | 33 |
Neither trace of Messi nor Cristiano
2018/2019 was the last season in which the Argentine star finished as the top scorer in the European leagues. Since then, Ciro Immobile, with 36 goals in 37 games in 2019/2020, and Robert Lewandowski, who scored a total of 41 goals in the 2020/2022 Bundesliga (a figure not seen since the 48 goals Cristiano Ronaldo scored in the 2014/2015 season as a Real Madrid player), they have won the last two Golden Boots. An award that will be utopian for the Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United players to achieve this season. Beyond the fact that the Pole is the clear favorite to revalidate the award, Leo Messi only has 2 goals in Ligue 1, compared to 12 for the Portuguese striker in the Premier League.