Argentinian star Lionel Messi has caught up with his Paris Saint-Germain teammate Kylian Mbappé at the top of the goal-scorers list for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, held in Qatar until December 18. The semifinals concluded last night with Argentina and France advancing to the final, while Croatia and Morocco will compete for third place.
As of now, 163 goals have been scored in the Qatar 2022 World Cup, including 120 in the group stage, 28 in the Round of 16, 10 in the quarterfinals, and 5 in the semifinals. Kylian Mbappé leads the scoring chart with 5 goals, tied with Lionel Messi, who has converted three of those from penalties. They are followed by French player Olivier Giroud and Argentinian Julián Álvarez, each with 4 goals.
Scoring 3 goals each are: Dutch player Cody Gakpo, English players Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka, Spanish player Álvaro Morata, Ecuadorian Enner Valencia, Brazilian Richarlison, and Portuguese Gonçalo Ramos.
Two goals have been scored by: Robert Lewandowski (Poland), Mehdi Taremi (Iran), Ferran Torres (Spain), Mohammed Kudus (Ghana), Cho Gue-sung (South Korea), Bruno Fernandes and Rafael Leão (Portugal), Andrej Kramarić (Croatia), Salem Al-Dawsari (Saudi Arabia), Kai Havertz and Niclas Füllkrug (Germany), Ritsu Doan (Japan), Giorgian De Arrascaeta (Uruguay), Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon), Aleksandar Mitrović (Serbia), Breel Embolo (Switzerland), Wout Weghorst, Neymar (Brazil), Youssef En-Nesyri (Morocco), and Harry Kane (England).
One goal each has been scored by: Hakim Ziyech, Romain Saïss, and Zakaria Aboukhlal (Morocco), English players Raheem Sterling, Jude Bellingham, Jack Grealish, Jordan Henderson, and Phil Foden, Andre Ayew and Osman Bukari (Ghana), Alexis Mac Allister, Enzo Fernández, and Nahuel Molina (Argentina), Lovro Majer, Marco Livaja, Ivan Perišić, and Bruno Petković (Croatia), Michy Batshuayi (Belgium), Carlos Soler, Pablo Martín Páez, Dani Olmo, and Marco Asensio (Spain), Ao Tanaka, Takuma Asano, and Daizen Maeda (Japan), Alphonso Davies (Canada), Wahbi Khazri (Tunisia), Luis Chávez and Henry Martín (Mexico), Famara Diedhiou, Ismaïla Sarr, Boulaye Dia, Kalidou Koulibaly, and Pape Matar Sarr (Senegal), Strahinja Pavlović (Serbia), Roohollah Fadaei and Ramin Rezaeian (Iran), Cristiano Ronaldo, João Félix, Ricardo Horta, Pepe, and Rafael Guerreiro (Portugal), Frenkie de Jong, Davy Klaassen, Memphis Depay, Daley Blind, and Denzel Dumfries (Netherlands), Keyser Fuller and Wuilker Faríñez (Costa Rica), Mohammed Montari (Qatar), Moisés Caicedo (Ecuador), Hwang Hee-chan, Kim Young-gon, and Baek Seung-ho (South Korea), Mathew Leckie, Craig Goodwin, and Mitake Kuroda (Australia), Xherdan Shaqiri, Remo Freuler, and Manuel Akanji (Switzerland), Piotr Zieliński (Poland), Andreas Christensen (Denmark), Christian Pulisic, Timothy Weah, and Gio Reyna (USA), Gareth Bale (Wales), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and Jean-Charles Castelletto (Cameroon), Sergej Milinković-Savić and Dušan Vlahović (Serbia), Saleh Al-Shehri (Saudi Arabia), Ilkay Gündogan and Serge Gnabry (Germany), and Casemiro, Vinícius Júnior, and Lucas Paquetá (Brazil).
Own goals include: Naif Aguerd (Morocco, against Canada), Manuel Neuer (Germany, against Costa Rica), and Enzo Fernández (Argentina, against Australia).
