Monday, 19 September 08 Mar With UEFA Champions League football returning on Tuesday night, here is a reminder of who the 10 top goalscorers are in this season’s competition, with two African internationals in the top three and Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of Lionel Messi.
Click through the gallery above to see the leading scorers in the UCL this season so far, according to Transfermarkt.
Europe’s biggest club tournament resumes on Tuesday, with Bayern Munich hosting RB Salzburg at the Allianz Arena and Liverpool set to take on Inter Milan at Anfield.
Jurgen Klopp’s Reds will be confident ahead of the second leg on home soil, where 29-year-old Mohamed Salah might be desperate to add to his goal Champions League goal tally, having already struck eight times since the start of the competition.
The Egyptian superstar is currently third in this season’s goalscoring ranking so far, with Ronaldo two goals behind him following an impressive group stage campaign in which he scored six times for Manchester United in as many appearances.
His long-time counterpart Messi, meanwhile, is tied with three other players on five goals.
Bayern Munich forward Robert Lewandowski has hit the back of the net on nine occasions in seven appearances.
PSG Announce Ramos News Before Real Madrid Clash The man at the top of the standing is Ivory Coast international Sebastien Haller, who has proved his critics wrong this season so far by racking up an impressive 11 goals in the seven games he has played to date.
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