Mo Salah still in Europe’s top 12 goalscorers in 2021

We’re speaking the highest 5 leagues and all competitions and this serves as a useful little information to the in-form goalscorers as we welcome again European soccer this week…

12) Antoine Griezmann (Barcelona, seven targets)
Critics would possibly level out that each one these seven targets have come in opposition to out-of-form mid-tablers Granada and Athletic Bilbao however the simple rejoinder is to level to the eight assists the Frenchman has notched in the identical interval. Seven straight La Liga victories in 2021 are at the least partly as a result of Ronald Koeman has discovered a method for Griezmann and Lionel Messi to work gloriously collectively. As they bloody effectively ought to.

Griezmann has now given 8 assists within the 12 video games he performed in 2021.

— @Barca19stats pic.twitter.com/Dt8xZNQj91

— Barça Common (@BarcaUniversal) February 13, 2021

11) Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus, seven targets)
Juventus are fourth and eight factors behind in Serie A so Ronaldo will certainly take little consolation from scoring twice in opposition to leaders Inter within the Coppa Italia semi-finals. On the flip facet, we’re all on board to see him within the Europa League.

10) Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan, seven targets)
There was a run of 4 Serie A video games with no purpose however then got here two strikes in opposition to Benevento and two in opposition to Lazio to take the Belgian degree with Ronaldo on the high of the scoring charts as soon as once more. It’s little marvel that he is a target for Manchester City. And to those that suppose he misses probabilities; his purpose conversion fee of 36% is forward of all his rivals.

9) Mo Salah (Liverpool, seven targets)
Even whereas Liverpool have been disastrously dangerous, Salah has largely nonetheless been scoring targets. That his newest strikes have are available in 4-1 and 3-1 defeats to title and Champions League contenders will solely improve these rumours that he sees his future elsewhere. He stays a goalscorer the ultimate within the Premier League.

Mohamed Salah – 36
Jamie Vardy – 35
Harry Kane – 31
Danny Ings – 30 @IngsDanny is considered one of solely 4 gamers to attain 30 #PL targets because the begin of final season#SOUWOL pic.twitter.com/JorpeBnEeo

— Premier League (@premierleague) February 15, 2021

8) Luis Muriel (Atalanta, seven targets)
The Colombian has been in mighty nice type as Atalanta have pulled themselves to inside two factors of Juventus and progressed to the Coppa Italia remaining. And all this with Muriel beginning solely six of their 9 Serie A video games in 2021.

6 – Luis #Muriel has scored six targets in Serie A in 2021 calendar 12 months, greater than another participant on this interval. Explosive.#CagliariAtalanta

— OptaPaolo (@OptaPaolo) February 14, 2021

7) Terem Moffi (Lorient, seven targets)
The Nigerian arrived from Belgium for £7.2m on the finish of the summer season switch window and scored solely as soon as earlier than December 23. However since then he has notched seven Ligue Un targets in eight video games (in addition to the winner in opposition to PSG within the cup simply three minutes after he got here off the bench). Hyperlinks to Premier League golf equipment will certainly be quickly incoming.

6) Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich, eight targets)
That’s eight in eight Bundesliga video games for the Pole as he helps Bayern in the direction of yet one more title. He additionally notched twice within the Membership World Cup as El Ahly had been despatched within the semi-finals however we don’t rely these as a result of it’s the Membership World Cup and who actually cares? What really issues is that he failed to attain in 45 cup minutes in opposition to Holstein Kiel. Poor.

5) Youssef En-Nesyri (Sevilla, eight targets)
Solely Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez have scored extra La Liga targets this season than the Moroccan, who has notched two hat-tricks in 2021 to assist his membership again into the highest 4. It’s already his finest ever goalscoring season and Dortmund needs to be very frightened certainly forward of Wednesday.

4) Luis Suarez (Atletico Madrid, eight targets)
Eight targets in seven La Liga video games in 2021 for Suarez, who’s again in ridiculously good goalscoring type on the grand previous age of 34. He has already matched his 16-goal La Liga haul of final season for Barcelona and is heading in the right direction for his fifth La Liga title in seven years in Spain.

Gamers with probably the most targets scored in LaLiga since June 2020:

🇺🇾 Luis Suárez – 21
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi – 21
🇪🇸 Gerard Moreno – 20

[Opta] #FCBlive #Villarreal pic.twitter.com/Q4IQZebHzk

— RouteOneFootball (@Route1futbol) February 15, 2021

3) Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester Metropolis, 9 targets)
Earlier than this season, Ilkay Gundogan had by no means scored greater than six targets in a league season in his profession. He’s matched that whole in his final 5 league begins, wrote Daniel Storey in Premier League winners and losers. He’s not a striker so none of this is able to make sense underneath another supervisor however Pep Guardiola.

2) Lionel Messi (Barcelona, 9 targets)
Eight targets in his final 5 La Liga video games. We expect he would possibly nonetheless be fairly good.

Messi in @LaLigaEN:
5️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ video games 🙌
4️⃣5️⃣9️⃣ targets ⚽️
1️⃣8️⃣6️⃣ assists 🅰️

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— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) February 15, 2021

1) Andre Silva (Eintracht Frankfurt, 9 targets)
The £34m Milan flop has develop into the £2.7m Frankfurt sensation with 18 Bundesliga targets leaving him second to solely Lewandowski within the German scoring charts. Unbeaten in 2021, a large slice of credit score is as a result of Portuguese. Proper now he’s scoring a really neat purpose each 90 minutes.

Andre Silva with a cheeky little end. 👌

That’s 1️⃣8️⃣ targets to date this season for Frankfurt! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/SMZJMi1xtH

— Soccer on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) February 14, 2021