translated from Spanish: Messi leads the fight for the Golden Boot

Argentine Lionel Messi, author this Saturday from two goals from Barcelona in the draw with Valencia (2-2), increases his lead at the head of the 2018/19 Golden boot (maximum realizer of the European Leagues) , with a total of 42 points, six more than his immediate pursuer. Messi, winner of the golden shoe in five seasons (2009/10, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2016/17, 2017/18), has been 21 goals garters in the present, by 18 French Kylián Mbappé (Paris Saint Germain) and 17 of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus Turin) , also author of a one-two finish this weekend.

Lionel Messi celebrating an annotation with the Barcelona/AFP it should be remembered, in the peculiar classification of the Golden Shoe, are valued with two goals scored in the German, Spanish, English, Italian and French leagues. They have the value of 1.5 points, which are marked in the Championships of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Scotland, Greece, Holland, Israel, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. The rest are given only one point.
For this reason, the 31 goals scored by Brazilian Liliu (Nõmme Kalju) or 30 Georgian Zakaria Beglarishvili (Flora Tallinn), both in the League of Estonia, located them in the seventh and eighth place, respectively.

Lionel Messi celebrating one of their two touchdowns marked the weekend before the Valencia/AFP the current classification of “Boot-gold 2018-19”, is as follows: player goals Puntos1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona/ESP) 21 422. Kylián Mbappé (PSG/FRA) 18 363. Cristiano Ronaldo (by / Juventus) 17 344. Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria/ITA) 32 + 16. Mohamed Salah (EGI/Liverpool) 32 + 16. Edinson Cavani (URU/PSG) 16 32 this note includes information from: AFP in this note:

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