Harry Kane, who shared first place in the previous season’s standings with Kylian Mbappe, had a fantastic start to the new format when he scored four goals, including a hat-trick of penalties, in Bayern Munich’s decisive 9-2 victory over Dinamo Zagreb. In Barcelona, Kane also scored, but Raphinha’s hat-trick for the home team sent him skyrocketing up the charts.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Mbappe’s hat-trick against Man City in the knockout stage tied him with teammate Vinicius Junior’s triple from a thrilling 5-2 victory over Borussia Dortmund in the league phase. Viktor Gyokeres also managed to score a hattrick against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.
After joining a very select group of players with over 100 Champions League goals on matchday five, Robert Lewandowski is also in the hunt for the Golden Boot with 9 goals under his name. In Barcelona’s wild 5-4 victory over Benfica in Matchweek 7, he scored twice from the penalty spot and teammate Raphinha scored two goals as well.
However, Serhou Guirassy of Borussia Dortmund, who leads the pack with 10 goals to the end of the knockout playoff round, is the target of all these players. Guirassy’s prospects of winning the Golden Boot may depend on BVB’s ability to stay in the tournament as they have not displayed good form of late and might crash out of the UCL in the upcoming rounds.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals (PKs) | Assists | Matches | Minutes Played |
| 1. | Serhou Guirassy | B. Dortmund | 10 (4) | 3 | 10 | 723 |
| 2. | Robert Lewandowski | Barcelona | 9 (3) | 0 | 8 | 638 |
| 3. | Raphinha | Barcelona | 8 (0) | 4 | 8 | 655 |
| = | Erling Haaland | Man City | 8 (2) | 0 | 9 | 771 |
| 5. | Vinicius Junior | Real Madrid | 7 (1) | 2 | 8 | 719 |
| = | Vangelis Pavlidis | Benfica | 7 (2) | 2 | 10 | 731 |
| = | Kylian Mbappe | Real Madrid | 7 (0) | 1 | 10 | 757 |
| = | Harry Kane | Bayern Munich | 7 (3) | 1 | 9 | 765 |
| 6. | Antoine Griezmann | Atletico Madrid | 6 (0) | 2 | 8 | 572 |
| = | Santi Gimenez | AC Milan/PSV | 6 (1) | 1 | 7 | 449 |
| = | Jonathan David | Lille | 6 (2) | 1 | 8 | 566 |
| = | Ousmane Dembele | PSG | 6 (0) | 1 | 8 | 592 |
| = | Julian Alvarez | Atletico Madrid | 6 (0) | 1 | 8 | 580 |
| = | Viktor Gyokeres | Sporting CP | 6 (2) | 1 | 8 | 606 |
| = | Florian Wirtz | Bayer Leverkusen | 6 (1) | 1 | 8 | 684 |
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