Cristiano Ronaldo draws blank against Sassuolo in their 3-3 draw on Wednesday evening.

Bayern Munich forward Lewandowski is leading the European Golden Shoe race with 68 points but faces competition from Juventus Cristiano Ronaldo and Lazio’s Ciro Immobile who still has 5 Serie A matches to play.

The Portuguese superstar and Italian international have scored 28 and 29 goals respectively giving them a point of 56 and 58 point.



Cristiano Ronaldo need 6 more goals to be level on point with Lewandowski with Immobile requiring 5 more goals.

But did you know that 11 of Ronaldo’s and Immobile league goals in 2019/20 have come from the penalty spot? That means around 39% of their goals have come from spot kicks.

The above has got us rethink how the race for the European Golden Shoe would look if penalties were removed.

Penalties are welcome in a game and crucial to the success of a team. Messi losing the Copa America on penalties on numerous occasions shows how important penalties her but we just have to remove them and see how the players fare.

We have taken away the penalties from European Golden Boot contenders and then recalculated their points tally to produce the updated standings.

Robert Lewandowski : 58 points
Timo Werner : 50 points
Erling Haaland : 48.5 points
Shon Weissman : 42 points
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Danny Ings : 38 points
Ciro Immobile, Jamie Vardy, Kylian Mbappe, Patson Daka, Jean-Pierre Nsame Lionel Messi : 36 points
Cristiano Ronaldo, Raheem Sterling, Jadon Sancho, Sadio Mane : 34 points
Mohamed Salah, Anthony Martial : 32 points

This list shows that Robert Lewandowski sits at No.1 with an updated points total of 58. The Polish forward has scored 5 penalties this season, taking 10 points off due to the 2 points for Europe top 5 leagues. He’s still leading his nearest challenger Timo Werner with 8 points.

A look at Southampton Danny Ings who has scored 19 goals this season with none from the penalty spot. This puts him ahead of top names like Ronaldo, Messi, Salah, Mane, Mbappe, Sterling and others.

Ciro Immobile has 58 points with penalties and 36 without penalties. That’s a massive 22 points off.

The same applies to Superstar Ronaldo who has 34 points from a previous 56 points.

It shows how players have benefited from penalties this season.

Do you think penalties should be scrapped in the European Golden boot race?

Source : https://www.nairatag.com/sports/european-golden-shoe-race-without-penalties/

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honeric01 you will love this.

Penalty is part of football

It's even difficult to score penalties , not because am cr7 fan , but I know penalty no easy

majamajic:
Penalty is part of football

It's even difficult to score penalties , not because am cr7 fan , but I know penalty no easy

You are right though.

No, penalty should not be scrapped from the European Golden shoe race, Penalty should be scrapped from Football entirely,so when a defender uses his boot to match the head of an opponent who has clearly ran through on goal and has an open net before him,the defender will not be punished and the player is injured without scoring the goal
Nice article but useless point at the end,A goal from a penalty spot does not count as half a goal but one goal
penalty is an essential part of football and great players take them with success to help their team

slyfox35:
No, penalty should not be scrapped from the European Golden shoe race, Penalty should be scrapped from Football entirely,so when a defender uses his boot to match the head of an opponent who has clearly ran through on goal and has an open net before him,the defender will not be punished and the player is injured without scoring the goal
Nice article but useless point at the end,A goal from a penalty spot does not count as half a goal but one goal
penalty is an essential part of football and great players take them with success to help their team

You sha use style call the article useless

lolz...we see such funny post just because of a goal scorer dt is very good in scoring penalties....wunt mention names

Stupid post....just because the midget missed out on the league.....all this messhit ass lickers are looking for a way to console theirself...
Messi that score 14 penalties in 2012

Weed

ojaysam25:
Stupid post....just because the midget missed out on the league.....all this messhit ass lickers are looking for a way to console theirself...
Messi that score 14 penalties in 2012

Lol