Prediction Top scorer World Cup 2023

Competition World Cup
Schedule From Sunday, November 20 to Sunday, December 18, 2023
Our prognosis Kane top scorer
Coast 8.50 (bet $100 and win $850)
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Our prognosis

Kane top scorer
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The history of the top scorers

With the biggest international competition just around the corner, here's everything you need to know to choose the top scorer of the World Cup 2023.

Before going into detail, here are the top scorers of the world cups over time :

Year Victorious team Top scorer Nationalitý Number of goals
1930 Uruguay Guillermo Stabile Argentina 8
1934 Italy Oldrich Nejedly Czechoslovak 5
1938 Italy Leonidas Brazilian 7
1950 Uruguay Ademir Brazilian 8
1954 Germany Sandor Kocsis Hungarian 11
1958 Brazil Just Fontaine French 13
1962 Brazil Florian Albert / Garrincha / Valentin Ivanov / Drazan Jerkovic / Leonel Sanchez / Vava hungarian / brazilian / russian / yugoslav / Chilean / brazilian 4
1966 England Eusebio Portuguese 9
1970 Brazil Gerd Müller German 10
1974 Germany Grzegorz Lato Polish 7
1978 Argentina Mario Kempes Argentina 6
1982 Italy Paolo Rossi Italian 6
1986 Argentina Gary Lineker English 6
1990 Germany Salvatore Schillaci Italian 6
1994 Brazil Oleg Salenko / Hristo Stoichkov Russian / Bulgarian 6
1998 France Davor Suker Croatian 6
2002 Brazil Ronaldo Brazilian 8
2006 Italy Miroslav Klose German 5
2010 Spain Diego Forlan / Thomas Müller / Wesley Sneijder / David Villa uruguayan / German / Dutch / Spanish 5
2014 Germany James Rodriguez Columbian 6
2018 France Harry Kane English 6

How to choose your goalscorer

Here are 5 tips to apply to choose your top scorer for the 2023 World Cup :

  • Choosing a promising nationality : the more matches a team plays, the more chances they have to score goals. This mathematical observation forces us to look at selection scorers who have a chance of reaching at least the quarter-finals, at best the semi-finals, to play the maximum 7 matches.
  • Choosing a penalty shooter : in general, the best scorers of competitions are also penalty shooters, and of all their achievements, one or two are from eleven-and-fifty meter shooting. Often it is the goalscorers who shoot, but sometimes it changes, as in Italy, or it is Jorginho who takes care of this task.
  • Do not underestimate small countries : as the summary table of the top scorers by edition of the World Cup shows, it is rarely the champion nations that have the top scorer in their ranks. Better, some small selections have already had top scorers, such as the Colombian James Rodriguez in 2014 (when Colombia reached the quarterfinals). More recently, it was the Czech Patrick Schick who finished as the top scorer of Euro 2021, with the Czech Republic.
  • Don't just take scorers : for the choice of the most prolific player of the competition, we are necessarily instinctively forced to take the numbers 9, the scorers, because they are the ones who finish the actions. But sometimes it is the wingers or the attacking midfielders who are the most clinical. The 2010 World Cup is the best example of this, because of the four co-top scorers, only one plays scorer (David Villa), while the others play lower or more eccentric.
  • Know their performances in club and selection : before choosing your favorite, you obviously need to know what it is worth in club and selection. In club to know his form all year round, and in selection, because some of them are only performing in one of the two. For example, Olivier Giroud has long been effective only in selection, while conversely, Ciro Immobile, ultra-successful with Lazio Rome, can not impose himself in the Italian selection.

Favorites

Here are the top-rated players for the role of top scorer of the World Cup :

  • Harry Kane (England / Tottenham) : side currently at 8 on betway .
  • Kylian Mbappé (France / Paris SG) : side currently at 8 on bwin .
  • Karim Benzema (France / Real Madrid) : side currently at 11 on Bet99 Sports .
  • Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal / Manchester United) : side currently at 13 on betway .
  • Lionel Messi (Argentina / Paris SG) : side currently at 15 on Bet99 Sports .
  • Romelu Lukaku (Belgium / Inter Milan) : side currently at 17 on Bet99 Sports .
  • Neymar (Brazil / Paris SG) : side currently at 17 on betway .
  • Raheem Sterling (England / Chelsea) : side currently at 20 on bwin .
  • Diogo Jota (Portugal / Liverpool) : side currently at 30 on Bet99 Sports .
  • Vinicius Junior (Brazil / Real Madrid) : side currently at 30 on bwin .
  • Memphis Depay (Netherlands / Barcelona) : side currently at 30 on bwin .
  • Antoine Griezmann (France / Atletico Madrid) : side currently at 30 on betway .
  • Kai Havertz (Germany / Chelsea) : side currently at 30 on Bet99 Sports .
  • Lautaro Martinez (Argentina / Inter Milan) : side currently at 30 on Bet99 Sports .
  • Phil Foden (England / Manchester City) : side currently at 30 on betway .

Our final choice

Even if it is still very complicated to announce the future top scorer, especially so long before the start of the competition, we decided to get wet. At the editorial office, we see Harry Kane win the precious title. The Englishman is the reigning world Cup top scorer, and the reigning Euro top scorer (in co-victory with the Czech Patrick Schick).

Captain, he is undoubtedly the leader of the attack of the Three Lions, has greatly participated in the qualification of his team in Qatar, and could, during this competition, become the best scorer in the history of England by doubling Wayne Rooney (it is 5 km from the old Mancunian).

➡️ Our prognosis? Harry Kane⚽

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