Lionel Messi can't stop. After lifting his sixth Ballon d'Or to show fans at the Camp Nou, he hit a hat-trick against Mallorca. That took him to first in the Pichichi standings, on 12 goals, ahead of Karim Benzema.
Messi didn't score in the first seven league games as he had a slow start because of his injury, but soon got fit and firing and launched himself into the top end of the rankings.
Golden Shoe Standings across Europe
Immobile (Lazio) 17 goals
Lewandowski (Bayern) 16 goals
Vardy (Leicester) 14 goals
Werner (Leipzig) 13 goals
Messi (Barça) 12 goals
How things stood after week 7
Lewandowski: 11
Immobile: 7
Vardy: 5
Benzema: 5
Messi: 0
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Ehiabhi89
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At 32 years, Messi is still making playing football look like counting "ABC". He's no doubt a GOAT
niaaimr
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Messi is his to good no words on this planet can describe him, he was injured and so many haters started saying that he is finished but it letter ten to on their fake goat who now count most on penalties just look at the start of the season and now.
Mesballer
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It is now Official Messi Took Seven weeks to study the Golden Boot Before aiming at it........
NFK97
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Someone tell uefa not to give the Golden shoe to Messi. It's for humans not Aliens
VIGOUR•
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Legendary Lionel messi.. Something beyond extraordinary
DeepHack
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After Round 7 of league he has 0 goals . and now after Round 16 he has 12 ... 7th Ballon D'or loading????????
ImmortalVinceEM7
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Messi describing himself. "Hello, myself Messi. I am 32-year old, ferociously scoring footballer. Now I will hardly play for 4 to 5 years. Ultimately, I will tell you about my future dreams and targets: 800 career goals 700 club goals 100 international goals 1000 overall appearances 10 Ballon d'Ors 10 POTY awards 10 golden boots And finally, Copa America and FIFA World Cup".