The race for the Golden Boot Award has heated up after 54 matches in the World Cup 2018.<\/p>\n
Tuesday evening’s Round of 16 match saw a penalty shootout that lifted England over Colombia for a ticket to quarter finals, as Harry Kane increased his number of goals in the tournament to 6 after converting a penalty kick in the 57th minute.<\/p>\n
Kane is currently leading the tournament, while their Group G opponents Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku is at second place with 4 goals so far.<\/p>\n
England’s captain scored a brace against Tunisia in Three Lions’s first match in the tournament, including a last minute header to give his team the win.<\/p>\n
Kane continued his scoring performance against first-timers Panama; he notched a hat-trick during England’s 6-1 win.<\/p>\n
Lukaku, like Kane, scored against Tunisia and Panama. He scored a total of 4 goals against them, a brace for each match.<\/p>\n
The two strikers were not able to score against each other in their Group G clash, which resulted in Belgium’s 1-0 win.<\/p>\n
Kane and Lukaku’s race to golden boot saw an effort that has not been seen since 1982, when Diego Maradona scored at least 2 goals in back-to-back matches in the World Cup in Mexico.<\/p>\n
There are also 4 players with 3 goals, who are still in the tournament: Russia’s Artem Dzyuba and Denis Cheryshev, France’s 19-year-old sensation Kylian Mbappe and Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani.<\/p>\n
In World Cup 2014, which was held in Brazil, Colombia’s James Rodriguez was the winner of the Golden Boot award with 6 goals.<\/p>\n
In World Cup 2010 that was held in South Africa, four players were tied with 5 goals, but it was Germany’s Thomas Muller who took home the award because of making more assists.<\/p>\n
According to the Golden Boot Award regulations, if players are tied with the same number of goals, the first tie-breaker is the number of assists they made.<\/p>\n
If the assists are also same, then the award is given to the player who scored his goals in less minutes.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" English striker out in front with 6 goals in the race, Belgium’s Lukaku follows with 4 goals after Round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,135,127,14],"tags":[8998,78012,74449,599,78013],"class_list":["post-61261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-football","category-sport","category-world","tag-belgium","tag-golden-boot-award","tag-harry-kane","tag-russia","tag-world-cup-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}