Straight to the traditional rivalry with Real Madrid, Barcelona`s most important player, Lionel Messi, has another big goal this season. The striker is ambitious to score as many goals as possible to win the Golden Boot again, Marca reminds. For this reason Leo is expected to be extremely ambitious against the citizens of Sofia. After losing a hat-trick a week ago, Messi has already scored 32 goals in the league, ahead of Mohammed Salah from Liverpool, 31, Robert Lewandowski (Bayern) and Ciro Immobile (Lazio), who are 29, and others. La Polga won the prize a year ago when he finished the 2016/17 season with 37 hits.
The plus for Barca`s Argentine ace is that he has four more matches in the Primera Division, while Salah will have just two more matches available. Ciro Immobal was injured, and we saw yesterday Lewandowski angry with Jupp Heynckes that he pulled him out before the end of the Cologne meeting. The Polish striker of the Munichs admitted he was trying to win the prize but was in the unfavorable situation to remain just another match from video clips for messi in the Bundesliga.
Back in the provisional standings for the Golden Boot are Mauro Icardi (Inter) with 28 goals and Unason Cavani (PSG) and Harry Kain (Tottenham) - with 27.
