The ambition of Leo Messi does that his gestas to achieve the greater possible number of titles with the FC Barcelona, to collective level, translate irremediablemente in potential individual prizes. One to which aspires is the Boot of Gold 2018, that rewards the maximum goleador European. The Argentinian star has done with her closing the season with 34 goals in LaLiga.
Of this form, Leo Messi has obtained his fifth Boot of Gold in his career surpassing to Cristiano Ronaldo, that has four. The '10' Barcelona already carries two consecutive: the past season achieved it with 37 so many and, in the present, with 34. Figures goleadoras that have a very important regularity.
The fight for obtaining the Boot of Gold was more equalised that never during the final stretch of the present campaign. Mohamed Salah, extreme of the Liverpool, has done the season of his life annotating 32 goals with the Liverpool, something that has allowed him put in check the leadership of Messi and, in some days, even snatch it.
Other players like Harry Kane, of the Tottenham, Robert Lewandowski, of the Bayern of Munich or Ciro Immobile, of the Lazio, have kept also in the fight during an important stretch of the season, but have gone waning at the end, without being able to follow the rhythm of Leo Messi or Mohamed Salah. Both have kept an intense fight to the end.
- 1. Leo Messi (FC Barcelona): 68 points (34 goals)
- 2. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool): 64 points (32 goals)
- 3. Kane (Tottenham): 60 points (30 goals)
- 4. Immobile (Lazio): 58 points (29 goals)
- 4. Lewandowski (Bayern Munich): 58 points (29 goals)
- 5. Cavani (PSG): 56 points (28 goals)
- 5. Icardi (Inter): 56 points (28 goals)
- 6. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid): 52 points (26 goals)
- 7. Jonas (Benfica): 51 points (34 goals)
- 8. Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona): 50 points (25 goals)
Fifth Boot of Gold of Messi
Leo Messi is the greater possessor of titles of the Boot of Gold of the history. The idyll of the Argentinian forward with this competition began in the season 2009-10, when it obtained the prize marking 34 goals. The madness arrived in the season 2011-12, when the crack Barcelona beat all the registers and won the Boot of Gold with 50 goals.
The following season also was something out of series for Leo Messi, since it attained to approach a lot to the record of the previous season, winning it with 46 goals in favour. The two last awards of Leo Messi has obtained them the two last seasons. In spite of that now it plays something further back, the Barcelona keeps on being a goleador relentless.