FIFA World Cup 2022
Top five highest goal scorers in FIFA World Cup 2022
The final of the World Cup will be played between France and Argentina on Sunday.
After enthralling the audience over the past 38 days, the FIFA World Cup 2022 has reached its business end with Argentina and France all set to lock horns in the final of the competition on Sunday. Across the 63 games played in the tournament so far, the fans have been treated with riveting football action as they got to see some marvellous goals being scored. With the World Cup ending tonight, let’s take a look at the top five goal-scorers of the tournament:
5 Goncalo Ramos (Portugal)
Goncalo Ramos (Source: Twitter)
Ramos managed to net the ball thrice in four matches. However, couldn’t help his side go past the quarter-finals in the competition as they were knocked out by Morocco.
4 Olivier Giroud (France)
Olivier Giroud (Source: Twitter)
Olivier Giroud ended up scoring four goals in five matches to take his side to the final of the competition. Giroud has a goal conversion rate of 27% and a shot accuracy of 40%.
3 Julian Alvarez (Argentina)
Julian Alvarez (Source: Twitter)
Alvarez has given good support to Lionel Messi to take his team into the final of the World Cup. He managed to score 6 goals in four matches in the tournament so far with a Goal conversion rate of 50% and shot accuracy of 88%.
2 Kylian Mbappe (France)
Kylian Mbappe (Source: Twitter)
The 23-year-old has had a remarkable campaign so far where he’s scored five goals in six matches. In the previous edition of the tournament, he became the second youngest player in the history of the game to score in a World Cup final. The 23-year-old has risen through the ranks to emerge as one of the premier strikers for his team in the past few years. Mbappe will be having his eyes set on the golden boot as takes the field in the final tonight.
1 Lionel Messi (Argentina)
Lionel Messi (Source: Twitter)
The 35-year-old veteran sits on top of the list of the highest goal scorer in the tournament along with Mbappe. Messi has netted the ball five times in six games in Argentina’s dream journey in the tournament so far. In the big final, the legendary footballer playing his last World Cup will have his eyes set on both the golden boot and the World Cup trophy to retire on a high.
