World Cup: Harry Kane Leads Golden Boot Award Race

Ankara, MINA — The race for the Golden Boot Award has heated up after 54 matches in the World Cup 2018, Anadolu Agency reported.

Tuesday evening’s Round of 16 match saw a penalty shootout that lifted England over Colombia for a ticket to quarter finals, as Harry Kane increased his number of goals in the tournament to 6 after converting a penalty kick in the 57th minute.

Kane is currently leading the tournament, while their Group G opponents Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku is at second place with 4 goals so far.

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England’s captain scored a brace against Tunisia in Three Lions’s first match in the tournament, including a last minute header to give his team the win.

Kane continued his scoring performance against first-timers Panama; he notched a hat-trick during England’s 6-1 win.

Lukaku, like Kane, scored against Tunisia and Panama. He scored a total of 4 goals against them, a brace for each match.

The two strikers were not able to score against each other in their Group G clash, which resulted in Belgium’s 1-0 win.

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Kane and Lukaku’s race to golden boot saw an effort that has not been seen since 1982, when Diego Maradona scored at least 2 goals in back-to-back matches in the World Cup in Mexico.

There are also 4 players with 3 goals, who are still in the tournament: Russia’s Artem Dzyuba and Denis Cheryshev, France’s 19-year-old sensation Kylian Mbappe and Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani.

In World Cup 2014, which was held in Brazil, Colombia’s James Rodriguez was the winner of the Golden Boot award with 6 goals.

In World Cup 2010 that was held in South Africa, four players were tied with 5 goals, but it was Germany’s Thomas Muller who took home the award because of making more assists.

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According to the Golden Boot Award regulations, if players are tied with the same number of goals, the first tie-breaker is the number of assists they made.

If the assists are also same, then the award is given to the player who scored his goals in less minutes. (T/RS5/RS1)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)

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