Kylian Mbappé ( odds 9/2, or 2 to 9, according to bookmaker Paddy Power ) won the top scorer award with 8 goals to help France finish second at the 2022 World Cup. In total, the French striker scored 12 goals after 14 matches in the World Cup. Cup and is expected to break Miroslav Klose’s record of 16 goals.

But Mbappé did not score in his first appearance at Euro 2021, and even missed the decisive penalty kick, causing France to lose to Switzerland on penalties in the round of 16. In this tournament, there was only Álvaro Morata (6) , Gerard Moreno and Harry Kane (5) missed more clear chances than Mbappé (4).

However, Mbappé is expected to shine at Euro 2024. In the 2023-2024 season, he scored 44 goals in 47 matches in all competitions, an achievement equaled only by Kane (44 goals in 45 matches) among players. Euro player. 2024. five main European national championships.

Harry Kane (5/1) is the player with the most goals in England team history, with 63 goals, and is also the British player with the most shots at major tournaments, including 12 goals in the Premier League. World Cup and World Cup. European Championship. In the last 3 major tournaments: World Cup 2018, Euro Cup 2020 and World Cup 2022, only Mbappé has the same scoring record as Kane.

This 30-year-old striker is in good form, scoring or assisting in all 7 main matches in Euro Cup qualifying (8 goals, 2 assists). At the club level, although he did not win the title with Bayern, Kane exploded with 44 goals and 12 assists after 45 matches in all competitions, including 36 goals and 8 assists in the Bundesliga. Only Robert Lewandowski (41 goals in the 2020-2021 season) and Gerd Müller (40 goals in the 1971-1972 season, 38 goals in the 1969-1970 season) scored more goals than Kane in a Bundesliga season.

Cristiano Ronaldo (January 12) is setting a record for having played in 5 European Championships in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and will surpass this milestone if he continues to play in Euro 2024. Striker The Portuguese has scored 14 goals this season. 25 games. at the Euros: all tournament records, culminating in the 2016 championship.

In total, Ronaldo contributed 20 times at Euro, including 14 goals and 6 assists. He has played twice as well as any other player in the European Championship since 1972, leaving behind Michel Platini with 10 goals, nine goals and one assist.

Ronaldo is no longer in his best form and has moved to Saudi Arabia. But the 39-year-old striker is still maintaining good form, setting a record of scoring 35 goals in the Saudi Pro League in the 2023-2024 season, surpassing the expected goals (xG) parameter of 30.68. CR7 also scored 10 goals in 9 Euro 2024 qualifying matches.

Romelu Lukaku (January 12) has become the top scorer in Belgian football history since 2018 and currently has 85 goals in 115 matches. 11 of them were scored by the Belgian striker in the World Cup and Euro.

In the Euro 2024 qualifying stage, Lukaku set a record of scoring 14 goals in 8 matches. On average, Lukaku scored every 39 minutes and used almost half of the shots (29), accounting for 63.6% of the total goals scored by Domenico Tedesco’s team (22).

At Euro 2024, Lukaku continues to receive support from Kevin De Bruyne, who has 9 assists in major tournaments since the 2014 World Cup, including 5 in the Euro Cup and 4 in the World Cup, good statistics. Best for a European player. De Bruyne also leads the expected assists (xA) index with 0.42 and the number of opportunities created per 90 minutes is 3.37 in the 2023-2024 Premier League season.

Jude Bellingham (January 20) is only 20 years old but he is expected to become the driver who will lead England to its first European championship. At the club level, in his first season with Real – 2023-2024, Bellingham scored 23 goals and assisted 13 other goals in 42 matches in all competitions, helping the team win the La Liga treble and the Spanish Super Cup. Nha and Liga de Champions. .

At Euro 2020, Bellingham, at the age of 17 years and 349 days, replaced Kane in the opening match against Croatia and became the youngest English player to participate in a major tournament, breaking Michael Owen’s 18-year record at the 1998 World Cup. Cup. After that, Bellingham also appeared in the quarterfinals against Ukraine and became the youngest player to play in a knockout match at the European Championship.

Kai Havertz (January 20) just turned 25 but is the most experienced player of the four German strikers at Euro 2024. He has the number of appearances and goals at the national level (16 goals after 46 matches), as well as the match number of the appearance. Number of appearances and goals scored in the Champions League (7 goals in 49 matches), more than double that of the other three players combined, Niclas Fullkrug, Deniz Undav and Maximilian Beier.

After being tested as a left-back in the loss to Türkiye in November 2023, Havertz returned to the striker position and shined at both club and national level. He started all four of Germany’s matches in 2024 as a centre-back in a 4-2-3-1 system. The 25-year-old always performs well: scoring in the 2-0 win over France and having the most duels on the field among German players (9) in the 2-1 win over the Netherlands .

Olivier Giroud (January 22) is somewhat inferior to junior teammate Kylian Mbappé but is still a reliable choice of coach Didiger Deschamps as the central striker in the French attack. Euro 2024 will also be the 37-year-old striker’s last major tournament, before going to the US to join LAAngeles FC and play in the final years of his career.

Giroud broke legendary Thierry Henry’s scoring record in the 2022 World Cup and currently has 57 goals in 133 matches for France. The 37-year-old striker plays an important role in Didier Deschamps’ system. France won 72% of matches with Giroud in the starting lineup with Deschamps (63/88), compared to 56% when he was not present (41/73).

Other names that could create a surprise in the Euro 2024 top scorer race are Gianluca Scamacca (Italy, number 9 in the photo), Álvaro Morata (Spain), Florian Wirtz (Germany) or Rasmus Hojlund (Denmark). .