top scorers in Europe this season (from EPL, La Liga and Serie A)

CorkMan

Messi: 44 goals in 51 games
Rooney: 34 goals in 43 games
Drogba: 33 goals in 42 games
Cristiano Ronaldo: 32 goals in 33 games
Gonzalo Higuain: 28 goals in 37 games
David Villa: 28 goals in 42 games
Di Natale: 26 goals in 37 games
Diego Milito: 26 goals in 48 games
Diego Forlan: 26 goals in 54 games
Darren Bent: 25 goals in 48 games

Should give some insight into how the World Cup might turn out. Ronaldo has been outstanding, pity he was out from late September to December.

Eirebear

CorkMan wrote: »

Messi: 44 goals in 51 games
Rooney: 34 goals in 43 games
Drogba: 33 goals in 42 games
Cristiano Ronaldo: 32 goals in 33 games
Gonzalo Higuain: 28 goals in 37 games
David Villa: 28 goals in 42 games
Di Natale: 26 goals in 37 games
Diego Milito: 26 goals in 48 games
Diego Forlan: 26 goals in 54 games
Darren Bent: 25 goals in 48 games

Should give some insight into how the World Cup might turn out. Ronaldo has been outstanding, pity he was out from late September to December.

What a great title!

Are only players from Italy, Spain and England's respective leagues allowed to play in the World Cup now?

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Eirebear wrote: »

What a great title!

Are only players from Italy, Spain and England's respective leagues allowed to play in the World Cup now?

There's other leagues???

larchielads

ronaldo has the best strike rate considering he's been somewhat overshadowed by messi (if these stats are correct)

eagle eye

Eirebear wrote: »

What a great title!

Are only players from Italy, Spain and England's respective leagues allowed to play in the World Cup now?

What is you problem? He is just showing the top scorers from the three best leagues in Europe.

There is a problem though, this is not just league goals its including European and domestic cup games.

Eirebear

Des wrote: »

There's other leagues???

yeah!

I was drunk one night and i accidently flicked past Sky Sports and found this wee channel called EuropeSport or something like that. That had all sorts of weird countries playing football on it, like Germany!
Seriously...Germany playing football! I'd never seen anything like it!

leninbenjamin

Luis Suarez wins. I've a feeling Uruguay will sneak the quarters too, some very good players.

Eirebear

eagle eye wrote: »

What is you problem? He is just showing the top scorers from the three best leagues in Europe.

There is a problem though, this is not just league goals its including European and domestic cup games.

As pointed out in my original post...the title is ridiculous.

top scorers in Europe this season (from EPL, La Liga and Serie A)
Also, the fact that this will somehow decide the fate of the world cup, is presumptious to say the least.

Royale with Cheese

Bendtner will wipe the floor with those guys at the world cup.

billymitchell

Here is a linky to the leaders of the European Top scorer competition. I'm sure it has a proper name, but I havent a clue what it is and couldnt be arsed finding out

http://eurorivals.net/top-scorers.html

Headshot

Suárez

48 appearances and 49 goals

he scored 2 goals tonight to so im not sure is that included in the above(first goal was class)

i await rebel

Eirebear

billymitchell wrote: »

Here is a linky to the leaders of the European Top scorer competition. I'm sure it has a proper name, but I havent a clue what it is and couldnt be arsed finding out

http://eurorivals.net/top-scorers.html

The Golden Shoe.

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Eirebear wrote: »

The Golden Shoe.

The Mouldy Slipper in Scotland I believe :pac:

CorkMan

I looked up the German league and there top scorers are below the strikers here, Kevin Gameiro is the top scorer in France with 18 goals. The french and german are the best below the big three.

Regards the latin teams, their best national players are virtually all in europe.

Eirebear

Des wrote: »

The Mouldy Slipper in Scotland I believe :pac:

Only two players have ever won it two seasons running. One was Thierry Henry...guess the other!

CorkMan

Headshot wrote: »

Suárez

48 appearances and 49 goals

he scored 2 goals tonight to so im not sure is that included in the above(first goal was class)

i await rebel

How many did Huntelaar get for Ajax? I forget again, you might be able to pluck out the figures.

What about Alves when he was in Holland? They went to Real Madrid and Boro respectively, and failed to make a big impact. And I do think the list will have a big impact on the world cup, are the strikers who scores less than they strikers here going to make a bigger impact in the world cup?

Eirebear

CorkMan wrote: »

How many did Huntelaar get for Ajax? I forget again, you might be able to pluck out the figures.

What about Alves when he was in Holland? They went to Real Madrid and Boro respectively, and failed to make a big impact.

And that Van Nistelrooy guy was rubbish too....

1mcampo1

Eirebear wrote: »

Only two players have ever won it two seasons running. One was Thierry Henry...guess the other!

Only guessing now

Ronaldo..?

Headshot

CorkMan wrote: »

How many did Huntelaar get for Ajax? I forget again, you might be able to pluck out the figures.

What about Alves when he was in Holland? They went to Real Madrid and Boro respectively, and failed to make a big impact.

ugh im not getting into to this but ill make it simple Suárez is a different beast altogether, as regular Eredivisie watcher Suárez is imo the real deal

and he'll prove it in the WC

plus van the man came from Holland how did he turn out

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1mcampo1 wrote: »

Only guessing now

Ronaldo..?

the answer is clearly a player who played in Scotland.

My guess would be that it's Eirebear's hero, Henrik

billymitchell

Eirebear wrote: »

The Golden Shoe.

I thought it was something convoluted like that alright :rolleyes:

CorkMan

Eirebear wrote: »

And that Van Nistelrooy guy was rubbish too....

44 goals for Man United in a season? Don't hand him to the garbage man yet. He proved himself abroad, whereas the others, did not.

Mr Alan

des/eirebear, i love you both, but does the 'i have a chip on my shoulder cause i follow a smaller league' card never get boring?!

Headshot

CorkMan wrote: »

44 goals for Man United in a season? Don't hand him to the garbage man yet. He proved himself abroad, whereas the others, did not.

whoosh

cruiserweight

Des wrote: »

the answer is clearly a player who played in Scotland.

My guess would be that it's Eirebear's hero, Henrik

Nah it is the current Rangers assistant manager and former question of sport panelist

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Mr Alan wrote: »

des/eirebear, i love you both

xxx

1mcampo1

Des wrote: »

the answer is clearly a player who played in Scotland.

My guess would be that it's Eirebear's hero, Henrik

Oh right...i was on bout the golden shoe

CorkMan

Headshot wrote: »

whoosh

Am I being incorrect by stating they failed to make a big impact abroad?

eagle eye

Eirebear wrote: »

As pointed out in my original post...the title is ridiculous.

top scorers in Europe this season (from EPL, La Liga and Serie A)
Also, the fact that this will somehow decide the fate of the world cup, is presumptious to say the least.

Well the title is exactly whats in the tin so I don't see a problem with that.

As for the World Cup, well the form of the best players is going to have an impact on it.

If you look at the favourites for the World Cup almost everyone of the top players from those teams are playing in those three leagues with the exception of the Germans.

Eirebear

Mr Alan wrote: »

des/eirebear, i love you both, but does the 'i have a chip on my shoulder cause i follow a smaller league' card never get boring?!

Why thanks hunny, love you too!

As for the chip on my shoulder...it keeps me sane.

Headshot

CorkMan wrote: »

Am I being incorrect by stating they failed to make a big impact abroad?

you dont get it

van the man came from holland and made a huge impact at utd, so to say the likes of Suárez will fail when he gets to the bigger club (no offence to ajax fans) is tad rubbish

redout

Headshot wrote: »

Suárez

48 appearances and 49 goals

he scored 2 goals tonight to so im not sure is that included in the above(first goal was class)

i await rebel

Mickey Mouse league.

Goals in that league only carry a 1.5 rating and rightly so.

Some chap from the Austrian league nearly won the golden shoe last season!

JPA

redout wrote: »

Mickey Mouse league.

Goals in that league only carry a 1.5 rating and rightly so.

Some chap from the Austrian league nearly won the golden shoe last season!

Indeed, defence in the dutch league is abysmal. In saying that it will be interesting to see how he does wherever he goes.

Headshot

redout wrote: »

Mickey Mouse league.

Goals in that league only carry a 1.5 rating and rightly so.

Some chap from the Austrian league nearly won the golden shoe last season!

I know it's not the best league around alright but doesnt take away from his accomplishment

I just think it's unfair to criticise a player before he even joins a bigger club
for every Huntelaar there's a RVN and vise versa

Vokes

CorkMan wrote: »

Messi: 44 goals in 51 games
Rooney: 34 goals in 43 games
Drogba: 33 goals in 42 games
Cristiano Ronaldo: 32 goals in 33 games
Gonzalo Higuain: 28 goals in 37 games
David Villa: 28 goals in 42 games
Di Natale: 26 goals in 37 games
Diego Milito: 26 goals in 48 games
Diego Forlan: 26 goals in 54 games
Darren Bent: 25 goals in 48 games

Should give some insight into how the World Cup might turn out. Ronaldo has been outstanding, pity he was out from late September to December.

Hey CorkMan, do some of those numbers contain international goals / games? A couple of them look wrong otherwise.

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Headshot wrote: »

I know it's not the best league around alright but doesnt take away from his accomplishment

I just think it's unfair to criticise a player before he even joins a bigger club
for every Huntelaar there's a RVN and vise versa

More strikers have come out of Holland and "flopped" than have not.

Headshot

Des wrote: »

More strikers have come out of Holland and "flopped" than have not.

can I include RVP with RVN to back up my argument or was he to young ?

your right of course but there's always one that could turn out to be the next van the man

just saying

CorkMan

Vokes wrote: »

Hey CorkMan, do some of those numbers contain international goals / games? A couple of them look wrong otherwise.

I'm not sure. Messi has only 13 in 44 for Argentina, but he is only 22 and improving, same with Higuain.

JPA

Headshot wrote: »

can I include RVP with RVN to back up my argument or was he to young ?

your right of course but there's always one that could turn out to be the next van the man

just saying

And what about the greatest, RONALDO.

everdead.ie

Cryuff anyone? Overmars? Berkamp?

Edit and Seedorf

cruiserweight

Des wrote: »

More strikers have come out of Holland and "flopped" than have not.

Van Basten, Bergkamp, Ronaldo, Van Nistelrooy, Kluivert, Kanu etc. over the last 15-20 years have not been to bad

CorkMan

JPA wrote: »

And what about the greatest, RONALDO.

Can we get back on topic please, i'm sure the argument about success from the dutch league would make a good topic by itself.

Do ye think Wayne Rooney will do good?

JPA

CorkMan wrote: »

Can we get back on topic please, i'm sure the argument about success from the dutch league would make a good topic by itself.

Do ye think Wayne Rooney will do good?

What's the topic? Players who have scored a lot of goals?

Headshot

bit unfair to leave out the Bundesliga

Eirebear

Larsson went from that "Mickey Mouse" league to another...but then he didnt do too badly as an aging player in 2 of the "Big 3" or internationally for that matter.

redout

cruiserweight wrote: »

Van Basten, Bergkamp, Ronaldo, Van Nistelrooy, Kluivert, Kanu etc. over the last 15-20 years have not been to bad

If you are in any way a decent striker you will score bags of goals in the Dutch league. I am sure if you put Messi in it he would score about 60. Look at Kuyt and Alves as recent examples - once they came to a higher quality league they flopped. So has Huntelaar to a lesser extent and as for RVP he has never been in any way prolific but then again he was never a striker. The odd one will impress but there are too many that do not. Bergkamp was also never as prolific once he left the Dutch league though still a wonderful player. Also Kanu has never been prolific. RVN and Ronaldo are the most prolific strikers to come out of the Dutch league in the past 20 years.

CorkMan

JPA wrote: »

What's the topic? Players who have scored a lot of goals?

Just discuss how you think they will do in the world cup. I think Messi will be immense.

tdv123

JPA wrote: »

And what about the greatest, RONALDO.

And the second greatest,Romario.

Pinturicchio

Serie A top scorers:
1. Di Natale 26
2. Milito 20
3. Miccoli 18
4. Pazzini 17
5. Gilardino 15

Serie A top assistmen:
1. Ronaldinho 14
2. Cossu 12
3. Maicon 9
4. Cassano 8
5. Miccoli 8

Serie A goal + assist
1. Di Natale 31 (26+5)
2. Miccoli 26 (18+8)
3. Milito 24 (20+4)
4. Ronaldinho 24 (10+14)
5. Vucinic 19 (13+6)

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La Liga top scorers:
1. Messi 31
2. Higuain 26
3. Ronaldo 25
4. Villa 21
5. Forlan 18

La Liga top assistmen
1. Xavi 13
2. Dani Alves 10
3. Guti 9
4. Messi 9
5. Marcelo 8

La Liga goal + assist
1. Messi 40 (31+9)
2. Ronaldo 32 (25+7)
3. Higuain 31 (26+5)
4. Villa 24 (21+3)
5. Ibrahimovic 23 (16+7)

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Bundesliga topscorers:
1. Dzeko 21
2. Kiesling 21
3. Barrios 18
4. Kuranyi 18
5. Pizarro 15

Bundesliga top assistmen:
1. Ozil 13
2. Misimovic 12
3. Marin 11
4. Barnetta 10
5. Kroos 9

Bundesliga goal + assist
1. Dzeko 28 (21+7)
2. Kiesling 26 (21+5)
3. Kuranyi 25 (18+7)
4. Barrios 22 (18+4)
5. Ozil 22 (9+13)

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EPL topscorers:
1. Drogba 26
2. Rooney 26
3. Bent 24
4. Tevez 23
5. Lampard 21

EPL top assistmen:
1. Fabregas 13
2. Lampard 12
3. Milner 12
4. Drogba 10
5. Giggs 8

EPL goal+assist
1. Drogba 36 (26+10)
2. Lampard 33 (21+12)
3. Tevez 30 (23+7)
4. Rooney 29 (26+3)
5. Fabregas 28 (15+13)

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Ligue 1 topscorers:
1. Niang 16
2. Gameiro 16
3. Nene 14
4. Lisandro 14
5. Erding 14

Ligue 1 top assistmen
1. Lucho Gonzalez 12
2. Ben Khalfallah 11
3. Briand 9
4. Hazard 9
5. Vahirua 9

Ligue 1 goal+assist
1. Gameiro 23 (16+7)
2. Niang 21 (16+5)
3. Cabaye 19 (12+7)
4. Ben Khalfallah 18 (7+11)
5. Nene 18 (14+4)

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All leagues topscorers:
1. Messi 31
2. Di Natale 26
3. Drogba 26
4. Higuain 26
5. Rooney 26

All leagues top assistmen:
1. Ronaldinho 14
2. Fabregas 13
3. Ozil 13
4. Xavi 13
5. Cossu, Lampard, Lucho Gonzalez, Misimovic 12

All leagues goal+assist

1. Messi 40 (31+9) on 33 matches
2. Drogba 36 (26+10) on 31 matches
3. Lampard 33 (21+12) on 35 matches
4. Ronaldo 32 (25+7) on 27 matches
5. Di Natale 31 (26+5) on 33 matches
6. Higuain 31 (26+5) on 30 matches
7. Tevez 30 (23+7) on 34 matches
8. Rooney 29 (26+3) on 31 matches
9. Dzeko 28 (21+7) on 33 matches
10. Fabregas 28 (15+13) on 27 matches

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