France’s Kylian Mbappe won the Golden Boot award at Qatar 2022 courtesy his hat-trick in the final. Lionel Messi finished second with seven goals.
Kylian Mbappe gained the Golden Boot thanks to a hat-trick in the last of FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar, however ended up on the dropping side.
Mbappe and Lionel Messi have been each on 5 desires going into the event finale between Argentina and France.
The race for the Golden Boot award, introduced to the pinnacle goalscorer of the tournament, went into greater time at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar.
Messi put Argentina in advance from the penalty spot and grew to be the first man to rating in every of the knockout tiers at a single World Cup considering the first spherical of sixteen at Mexico 1986.
Angel Di Maria made it 2-0, however Mbappe scored twice in the area of two minutes late in the 2d half of – the first from the spot – to degree up the healthy and go pinnacle of the goalscoring charts. Messi scored in the 2d half of of greater time, however France equalised once more from the penalty spot as Mbappe achieved his hat-trick to make it 3-3. The fit went into penalties.
Argentina gained the penalty shootout 4-2.
Among all gamers taking section in Qatar, Germany’s Thomas Mueller had the most World Cup desires heading into the event with 10 strikes throughout 4 variants (2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022).
Interestingly, some other German, Miroslav Klose holds the document for the most desires scored in FIFA World Cups, netting sixteen dreams in 4 campaigns (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014).
Klose is intently observed by using former Brazilian striker Ronaldo, who has 15 desires to his name.
At the FIFA World Cup 2022, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo grew to become the first participant to rating in 5 consecutive World Cups after opening his account in 2006. The striker scored his first in Qatar changing a spotkick in the opening sport towards Ghana. Ronaldo has eight dreams now.
Cristiano Ronaldo additionally holds the report for most dreams in worldwide soccer amongst men.
The Golden Boot race at Qatar 2022 started out with Ecuador’s Enner Valencia, who scored twice in the curtain-raiser towards hosts Qatar.
There had been 172 dreams in all at some stage in the tournament, an common of 2.68 per game.
Top goal-scorers at FIFA World Cup 2022
| Number | Player | Country | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kylian Mbappe | France | 8 |
| 2 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 7 |
| 3 | Olivier Giroud | France | 4 |
| 4 | Julian Alvarez | Argentina | 4 |
| 5 | Richarlison | Brazil | 3 |
| 6 | Gonçalo Ramos | Portugal | 3 |
| 7 | Enner Valencia | Ecuador | 3 |
| 8 | Bukayo Saka | England | 3 |
| 9 | Cody Gakpo | Netherlands | 3 |
| 10 | Alvaro Morata | Spain | 3 |
| 11 | Marcus Rashford | England | 3 |
| 12 | Ferran Torres | Spain | 2 |
| 13 | Mehdi Taremi | Iran | 2 |
| 14 | Andrej Kramaric | Croatia | 2 |
| 15 | Mohammed Kudus | Ghana | 2 |
| 16 | Cho Geu-sung | South Korea | 2 |
| 17 | Bruno Fernandes | Portugal | 2 |
| 18 | Salem Al-Dawsari | Saudi Arabia | 2 |
| 19 | Ritsu Doan | Japan | 2 |
| 20 | Kai Havertz | Germany | 2 |
| 21 | Niclas Fullkrug | Germany | 2 |
| 22 | Giorgian de Arrascaeta | Uruguay | 2 |
| 23 | Aleksandar Mitrovic | Serbia | 2 |
| 24 | Breel Embolo | Switzerland | 2 |
| 25 | Vincent Aboubakar | Cameroon | 2 |
| 26 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 2 |
| 27 | Neymar | Brazil | 2 |
| 28 | Wout Weghorst | Netherlands | 2 |
| 29 | Harry Kane | England | 2 |
| 30 | Rafael Leo | Portugal | 2 |
| 31 | Youssef En-Nesyri | Morocco | 2 |
