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Sports for Qatar - 19.11 (Photo: Paz Hasdai. Video editing: Tal Reznik)
A day before the kick-off of the soccer World Cup, with the match between the hosts Qatar and Ecuador tomorrow (Sunday, 18:00), betting enthusiasts around the world are approaching the deadline to choose who they will put their money on in the upcoming World Cup.
Those who go a little deeper will bet not only on the identity of the winner, but also on the top scorer.
So if you are still in a dilemma about this, here is a recent snapshot.
In the betting agencies, Harry Kane is still considered the leading candidate to win the Golden Shoe award in the tournament, as he already did in Russia 2018 when his England team reached the semi-finals.
He is followed in this table by Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema in 2nd and 3rd places respectively.
Those whose relations have increased in the last month are Neymar, Leotro Martins and somewhat surprisingly, also the Spanish Albero Morata.
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, in case you were wondering, are ranked 4th and 6th respectively.
The candidates for the Golden Shoe
1. Harry Kane - 7
2. Kylian Mbappe - 8
3. Karim Benzema - 10
4. Lionel Messi - 10
5. Neymar - 11
6. Cristiano Ronaldo - 14
7. Romelu Lukaku - 16
8. Lautro Martins - 20
9. Memphis Depay - 22
10. Albero Morata - 25
11. Richarlison - 25
12. Vinicius - 25
13. Diogo Jota - 33
14. Gabriel Jesus - 33
15. Kai Habertz - 33
16. Paulo Dybala - 33
17. Raheem Sterling - 33
18. Antoine Griezmann - 40
19. Fran Torres - 40
20. Kevin de Brauna - 40
Will Messi finish as the king of World Cup goals for the first time in his career? (Photo: GettyImages, Elsa)
If you bet in the format of guessing the results in all the World Cup games, including decisions in penalty kicks from 11 meters, you can surely use the following figure: since games from the penalty spot in the World Cups began to be decided (a law introduced in 1978), Argentina is the team that has reached penalties the most times - Five in total, of which she lost one.
Germany (perfect), Brazil (one loss), France (two), Spain, Italy and England (three losses each) went to penalties on four occasions.
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