Top 5 scorers in Premier league, Spanish La Liga, France Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Scotish SPL and Serie A competition for European golden boot on 08 January 2012

Barclays Premier league, Spanish La Liga, Italy Serie A, Ligue 1, Scottish premier league, German Bundesliga and France Ligue 1 top scorers competition for golden boot on 11 February 2012. Cristiano Ronaldo leads the European league top scorers in both number of goals as well as goals coefficients, followed closely by Messi and Van Persie.

Barclays Premier league top scorers

1	Robin Van Persie	Arsenal FC	22
2	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	17
3	Demba Ba	Newcastle	15
4	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	15
5	*Yakubu Aiyegbeni	Blackburn Rovers	13

Robin Van Persie keep on scoring and with hat-trick against Bolton he has opened a five goals gap with second EPL top scorer in the list. Wayne Rooney double against Liverpool fired him to seconf place. Demba Ba might have been close if had played as many games as Van Persie. The striker left for African Cup of Nation were he failed to reproduce the club goal scoring but soon after return he get back on score sheet with new partner Papiss Demba Cisse from SC Freiburg who scored 9 goals in Bundesliga.

Top assist

David Silva (Manchester City) 12
Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham Hotspur) 10
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) 9
Ryan Giggs (Manchester United) 8
Juan Mata (Chelsea) 8

Robin Van Persie (Arsenal) 7

Samir Nasri (Manchester City) 7
Theo Walcott (Arsenal) 7
 Nani  (Manchester United) 7
 Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) 7
 Stephane Sessegnon  (Sunderland) 7 
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Bundesliga top scorers

1	Mario Gomez	Bayern Munich	18
2	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	SC Freiburg	16
3	Claudio Pizarro	Werder Bremen	15
4	Lukas Podolski	FC Cologne	15
5	Robert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	14

Gomez didn't score last round but stays at the top of list with pressure still mounts from other bundesliga top scorer award challengers. Claudio Pizarro score a brace for Werder Bremen in a 2-2 draw with SC Freiburg. 

Top assist

Juan Arango  (Borussia Monchengladbach) 8

Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich) 7

Claudio Pizarro (Werder Bremen) 6
Raffael (Hertha Berlin) 6
Gokhan Tore (Hamburg SV) 6 
Kevin Großkreutz  (Borussia Dortmund) 6
Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund) 6
Toni Kroos (Bayern Munich)6
Patrick Herrmann (Borussia Monchengladbach) 6

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France Ligue 1 top scorers 

1	Olivier Giroud	Montpellier	16
2	Anderson Nene	PSG	11
3	Kevin Gameriro	PSG	10
4	Batetimbi Gomis	Lyon	9
5	Loïc Remy	Marseille	9

Olivier Giroud hang on the top with 4 goals advantage, Anderson Luiz de Carvalho Nene has rapidly moved to second position, he score a double in PSG 3-1 win over Evian Thonon Gaillard.

Top assist

Mathieu Valbuena (Marseille) 11

Jérémy Menez (Paris Saint-Germain) 8
Eden Hazard   (Lille) 7
Cedric Barbosa (Evian Thonon Gaillard) 6
Michel Bastos (Lyon) 6
Yann Jouffre (Lorient) 6
Dennis Oliech (AJ Auxerre) 5
Olivier Giroud (Montpellier) 5 
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Spanish La Liga top scorers

1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	24
2	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	23
3	Gonzalo Higuaín	Real Madrid	14
4	Radamel Falcao	Atlético Madrid	12
5	*Roberto Soldado	Valencia	12

* Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao) 12
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are on tight tough competition for the pichichi as well as European golden boot awards, and recently Van Persie has joined this fight. To see a fair fight to the end, football fans should play that none of the top scorers get injured. Ronaldo and Messi competition is also reflected on goal assists in La Liga of which all six top assist are between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Top assist

Ángel Di María (Real Madrid) 13 
Mesut Özil (Real Madrid) 11

Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 8

Daniel Alves (Barcelona) 8
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 6
Xavi (Barcelona) 6
Cesc Fábregas (Barcelona) 6 
Raúl García (Osasuna) 6
Susaeta (Athletic Bilbao) 6 

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Italy Serie A top scorers

1	Antonio Di Natale	Udinese	17
2	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	AC Milan	15
3	German Denis	Atlanta	12
4	Edinson Cavani	Napoli	12
5	Miroslav Klose	Lazio	12

*Diego Milito (Internazionale) 12

*Stevan Jovetic (Fiorentina) 12

*Rodrigo Palacio (Genoa) 12
Di Natale and Ibrahimovic at the topseparated from followers by 4 and 3 goals respectively by six followers players each with 12 goals. German Denis has lead the Serie A top scorers for long time before he surrender.      

Top assist

Fabrizio Miccoli  (Palermo) 9
Pablo Armero    (Udinese)  8 
Antonio Cassano (AC Milan) 7
Alberto Aquilani  (AC Milan) 6
Miralem Pjanic (AS Roma) 6
Djibril Cissé  (Lazio) 6 

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Scottish Premier League SPL top scorers

1	Nikica Jelavic	Rangers	14
2	Gary Hooper	Celtic	13
3	Jon Daly	Dundee United	11
4	Francisco Sandaza	St Johnstone	11
5	Garry O'Connor	Hibernian	10

Nikica Jelavic goal scoring ability earned him a transfer to Everton and looking to adapt and start reproducing goals though not in a rate seen at Scotish Premier League.

Top assist
Steven Davis (Rangers) 10
Anthony Stokes (Celtic) 8
Nicky Law (Motherwell) 8