{"id":7533,"date":"2023-11-23T07:54:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2023-11-23T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:54:29","slug":"lukaku-and-ronaldo-leads-as-top-scorers-in-euro-2024-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/23\/lukaku-and-ronaldo-leads-as-top-scorers-in-euro-2024-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukaku and Ronaldo leads as top scorers in Euro 2024 qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The bulk of Euro 2024 qualifying has been completed with only the play-offs to come in March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Twenty-one teams are already on their way to Germany next summer and we have taken a look at the top scorers from the qualifiers ahead of the group stage draw on December 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Romelu Lukaku finished his Euro 2024 qualifying campaign with four first-half strikes in Belgium’s 5-0 win over Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Roma striker, 30, is now joint-seventh on the list of all-time leading international goalscorers with 83.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And his total of 14 goals is the most ever by a player in a single European Championship qualifying term.<\/p>\n

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Al-Nassr star Cristiano Ronaldo is the leading scorer in the history of European Championship qualifying with 41 goals \u2014 18 more than any other player.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 38-year-old scored braces against Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovakia, while also bagging a last-minute winner in Iceland on Matchday 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ronaldo’s overall tally for Portugal now stands at 128 and he is showing no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n

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The Golden Boot winner at last winter’s World Cup, Kylian Mbappe is now France’s third-highest scorer in history after another superb qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His tally of nine, which included a hat-trick in a 14-0 victory over Gibraltar, has moved the Les Bleus skipper on to 46 international goals \u2014 just five fewer than Thierry Henry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Golden Boot winner at last winter’s World Cup, Kylian Mbappe is now France’s third-highest scorer in history after another superb qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His tally of nine, which included a hat-trick in a 14-0 victory over Gibraltar, has moved the Les Bleus skipper on to 46 international goals \u2014 just five fewer than Thierry Henry.<\/p>\n

Mbappe also notched braces home and away against the Netherlands as Didier Deschamps’ side qualified for Euro 2024 with ease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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England skipper Harry Kane extended his lead as the nation’s top scorer with another prolific qualifying term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Bayern Munich hitman struck eight times in as many matches, netting twice in the 3-1 victory over Italy which booked the Three Lions’ place at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kane has scored 62 goals in 89 international appearances, a typically formidable record for one of the world’s best strikers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite missing Denmark’s final two qualifiers through injury, Rasmus Hojlund features among the top scorers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Manchester United marksman, 20, scored a hat-trick in the 3-1 win over Finland on Matchday 1 and then netted a brace in Kazakhstan during the Danes’ next outing \u2014 which they ultimately lost 3-2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hojlund will be looking to extend his impressive start on the international scene at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bulk of Euro 2024 qualifying has been completed with only the play-offs to come in March. Twenty-one teams are already on their way to Germany next summer and we have taken a look at the top scorers from the qualifiers ahead of the group stage draw on December 2. Romelu Lukaku finished his Euro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[387],"class_list":["post-7533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-top-scorer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}