Al Nassr’s Portuguese striker has a slight advantage over Manchester City’s Norwegian; Mbappé and Kane, without options.
The double of Cristiano Ronaldo before him Al Ittihad of Karim Benzema Last Tuesday, December 26, it helped the Portuguese forward to place himself at the top of the 2023 world goalscoring table.
With those two goals, the former player of the Real Madrid reached the 53 in the year between club and national team, surpassing the 52 scored by Kylian Mbappé (PSG and France) and Harry Kane (Tottenham, Bayern Munich and England). As it is, Ronaldo has a slight advantage thinking about finishing 2023 at the top of that particular classification.
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Under normal conditions, it would be a considerable advantage if you take into account that, four days before January 1, only one footballer has a chance of taking first place. The problem for Cristiano is that that player is none other than Erling Haaland.
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The Norwegian striker Manchester Citywho had the luxury of not playing any minute in the Club World Cup Due to physical discomfort, he has scored 50 goals in 2023 between his club and the Norwegian national team. And he had two chances of reaching El Bicho, but for the same reason that he missed the tournament in Arabia, he was not called up to visit Everton on December 27 either.
Thus, the Norwegian’s last chance to catch up with Ronaldo would be, then, on Matchday 20 of the Premier League, when Guardiola’s team receives the Sheffield next Saturday, December 30 at the Etihad Stadium.
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In this way, Haaland needs to score two goals in City’s remaining match in 2023 to tie Cristiano in the standings, but The Portuguese will still have ‘one more bullet’ left.
And Al Nassr will also play on the second to last day of the year. The Portuguese star will do so knowing what he needs to do to top the list of scorers in 2023, since the duel against Al Tawon It begins an hour after City’s match against Sheffield ends.
As it is, the race to be the top scorer of the year is now only a matter of two… but with advantage for one.
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