Lionel Messi Set To Defeat Salah To Win Golden Shoe Award

Barcelona supper star Lionel Messi, appears to be like set to retain the European Golden Shoe, beating off competitors from Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah.

Salah was the agency favorite to outscore all of his rivals throughout Europe a month in the past, however he has simply three Premier League targets to his identify for the reason that finish of March.

Messi has netted eight instances in LaLiga inside that interval.

It means Messi (34) leads Salah (31) by three targets and the Egyptian has one match, at dwelling to Brighton, left through which to shut the hole.

Messi nonetheless has two video games to play, as Barcelona journey to Levante earlier than ending the season at dwelling to Real Sociedad.

Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich and Ciro Immobile of Lazio are two targets additional again on 29.

Edinson Cavani of Paris Saint-Germain, Mauro Icardi of Inter Milan and Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane are all on 28.