Asensio leads Saúl Ňíguez in Golden Boot race

Marco Asensio stays a actor to locate in a hunt for a adidas Golden Boot after dual rounds of matches during a 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

Goalscorers so far
3 – Marco Asensio (Spain)
2 – Saúl Ňíguez (Spain)
1 – 31 players

• Every goalscorer during a 2017 U21 EURO

Spain brazen Asensio owes his position during a tip of a scorers’ draft to his opening-game hat-trick opposite FYR Macedonia. He would have combined a fourth idea to his sum opposite Portugal on Tuesday though for a goal-line clearway by Edgar Ié.

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Instead another Spaniard, Saúl Ňíguez, became a initial actor to measure in unbroken games during this U21 EURO with a excellent particular strike to make it 1-0. Saúl is profiting from a switch to a some-more modernized midfield purpose in Albert Celades’s side, that has so distant supposing a usually dual players to have scored some-more than once in a tournament.

Past winners:
2015 – Jan Kliment, Czech Republic (3)
2013 – Álvaro Morata, Spain (4)

2011 – Adrián López, Spain (5)
2009 – Marcus Berg, Sweden (7)
2007 – Maceo Rigters, Netherlands (4)
2006 – Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Netherlands (4)
2004 – Alberto Gilardino, Italy (4)
2002 – Massimo Maccarone, Italy (3)
2000 – Andrea Pirlo, Italy (3)

While goals scored will always be a initial pattern in determining a heading marksman, serve criteria will be used to apart players with a same idea tallies – firstly, assists, afterwards mins played (with a actor braggadocio a improved goals-to-minutes-on-the-pitch ratio holding precedence).

Full sum about a adidas Golden Boot endowment accessible here.

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