Champions League: Dortmund’s Guirassy Leads Top Scorers’ List

As teams prepare for the Champions League round of 16 second leg play-offs, the race for highest goal scorer continues.

Already, Guinea international and Borussia Dortmund striker, Serhou Guirassy, is leading the pack after the first leg, round of 16 play-offs that produced 24 goals.

Guirassy is leading goal chart ten goals. He had initially tied with Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski after the league phase, each having scored nine goals.

However, Guirassy pulled ahead following an exceptional display in Dortmund’s decisive 3-0 victory against Sporting CP, where he opened the scoring with a superb header that showcased his aerial ability and positioning. Can the former Rennes and Stuttgart forward maintain the tempo in the round of 16 second leg billed for March 11 and 12, 2025? or will the likes of ambitious Harry Kane, Lewandowski and Barcelona’s Raphinha displace him at the top?

First contested in 1992/93, the UEFA Champions League has become synonymous with the very best strikers in world football history, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski and Karim Benzema able to rack up stellar goal tallies.

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Ronaldo and Messi were the first two players to score over 100 goals in the competition with Lewandowski bringing up his own century and like the remaining players in the all-time European Cup/Champions League top ten, none featured in the competition when it was still the European Champion Clubs’ Cup.

Here Is List Of Top Scorers In The Champions League This Season:

1. Ten goals – Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund)
2. Nine goals – Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona), and Raphinha (Barcelona)
3. Eight goals – Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
4. Seven goals – Julián Alvarez (Atlético de Madrid), Kylian Mbappé (Real Madrid), Vangelis Pavlidis (Benfica), and Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid)
5. Six goals – Jonathan David (Lille), Ousmane Dembélé (Paris Saint-Germain), Santiago Giménez (Feyenoord & AC Milan), Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid), Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting CP), Lautaro Martínez (Inter Milan), and Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen).

Recall that Hary Kane and Kylian Mbappe finished as top scorers in the 2023/2024 Champions League season with eight goals apiece.

Julius Okorie

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