Ronaldo, Lewandowski & Lukaku: Europe’s scoring sensations

Cristiano Ronaldo has been ripping adult annals on a highway to Russia. 

With 14 goals so far, and dual matches still to play, a Portugal captain has already set a new benchmark for goals in a European subordinate section. Ronaldo is also now a tip scoring European in a story of FIFA World Cupâ„¢ preliminaries, carrying changed 3 transparent of Andriy Shevchenko with his hat-trick opposite a Faroe Islands in August.

Yet notwithstanding his record-breaking form, and implausible normal in Russia 2018 qualifiers of a idea each 45 minutes, CR7 is not nonetheless positive of finishing as a continent’s tip marksman. Indeed, he has dual challenging and in-form rivals in a figure of Robert Lewandowski and Romelu Lukaku.

With all 3 on double sum forward of their team’s penultimate and final qualifiers, FIFA.com looks closer during Europe’s heading contingent and their roles in a competition to Russia.

CRISTIANO RONALDO (POR)
2018 WCQ goals: 14
Minutes played: 630
Minutes per goal: 45
Assists: 3
Shots: 45
Shots on target: 29

Remaining fixtures: Andorra (A), Switzerland (H)

Coach’s view
“I have never seen Cristiano Ronaldo unmotivated. He always wants to win and to do better, better, better. Cristiano is crazy, he’s amazing. He has usually one focus: win, win, win. And for this he works a lot. He is a best actor in a world, yet some-more importantly, he’s my friend. He’s a genius. To be a talent we need a talent, yet we need to work. Because if we have one but a other it is unfit to be a talent — and Cristiano is a genius.”
Fernando Santos

Did we know?
Ronaldo’s hat-trick opposite a Faroes took him on to 78 general goals and over Pele’s final sum for Brazil. Only Ali Daei (109), Ferenc Puskas (84), Kunishige Kamamoto (80) and Godfrey Chitalu (79) have now scored some-more goals for their inhabitant teams than Portugal’s all-time heading marksman.

@Cristiano takes his #WCQ scoring sum for a debate to 14
Europe’s heading goalscorer #WCQ pic.twitter.com/gevhdd1468

— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) 31 Aug 2017

ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI (POL)
2018 WCQ goals: 12
Minutes played: 720
Minutes per goal: 60
Assists: 0
Shots: 25
Shots on target: 18

Remaining fixtures: Armenia (A), Montenegro (H)

Coach’s view
“For me, he is a series one. He’s a best striker in a world. Robert Lewandowski is building all a time, he creates swell invariably and we don’t consider there’s anyone that could stop him. He’s impossibly critical for us – he’s like a steam-powered locomotive of a team.”
Adam Nawalka

Did we know?
Lewandowski needs only one some-more idea to equal Wlodzimierz Lubanski’s all-time record of 48 goals for Poland. Lubanski himself has sloping a Bayern Munich male to mangle a 60-mark.

MAKE THAT A DOZEN!⚽️@lewy_official took his goalscoring sum in European #WCQ to 1️⃣2️⃣ on Monday! pic.twitter.com/hsH1GYTkxN

— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) 4 Sep 2017

ROMELU LUKAKU (BEL)
2018 WCQ goals: 10
Minutes played: 606
Minutes per goal: 61
Assists: 1
Shots: 25
Shots on target: 18

Remaining fixtures: Bosnia-Herzegovina (A), Cyprus (H)

Coach’s view
“He creates chances and takes chances and he’ll never remove that. He will always measure goals. He is prepared to take shortcoming adult front and and parched to take a large impulse in a game. From a really immature age, he had an implausible goalscoring threat. He has a probability of apropos a best series 9 in universe football since he has positively everything.”
Roberto Martinez

Did we know?
Lukaku done his entrance for Belgium’s comparison group aged only 16 in 2010. Now, and yet still only 23, he has already amassed 60 caps and is only 7 goals divided from apropos his country’s all-time heading scorer.

Dear duke
Thank we for all #Qualified #WC18 pic.twitter.com/fNl21fD1tb

— R.Lukaku Bolingoli9 (@RomeluLukaku9) 3 Sep 2017

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2017/m=9/news=ronaldo-lewandowski-lukaku-europe-s-scoring-sensations-2909886.html