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Following the winter break, the major football leagues across Europe have resumed action as the big teams look forward to the restart of European club football action next month.
In the opening month of the new year, European giants such as Juventus, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, and Barcelona have hit the ground running, looking to stake their claim for domestic honours before turning their attention on to the European stage.
Liverpool remain the only unbeaten team on the domestic scene amongst the top five leagues in England, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France. However, Liverpool players are conspicuous by their absence in the 5 most prolific domestic scorers in the top five leagues in the ongoing 2019-20 season.
Let us take a look at the five most prolific goalscorers in the top 5 leagues in Europe this season.
T5. Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus): 17 goals
After overcoming a slow start to the 2019-20 season, Cristiano Ronaldo matched his haul of 10 goals from the first 14 games of his debut season in Italy in 2018-19.
The 34-year-old Portugal striker then embarked on his best Serie A scoring spell, bagging goals in each of his next seven appearances for Juventus as he notched his much-awaited first top-flight hat-trick in Italy by scoring thrice in a 4-0 home win over Cagliari.
It made Ronaldo the first Portuguese player to bag a Serie A hat-trick. The Euro 2016 winner's 17 goals in 18 Serie A games is only behind that of one other player in the Italian league this season.
Ronaldo has scored in each of Juventus' four Serie A games in 2020, scoring a cumulative seven goals during this period as the Bianconeri remain at the top in Italy despite a 1-2 loss at Napoli.
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T5. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City): 17 goals
Jamie Vardy has continued his prolific scoring run in the English Premier League since Leicester City won the 2015-16 Premier League title.
In the ongoing season, the English striker scored a hat-trick against Southampton in the midst of an eight-game scoring run - the longest in the English top-flight since Vardy himself in Leicester City's title-winning season.
Vardy's 17 goals are the most scored by a Premier League player in the 2019-20 season, one goal clear of Manchester City's Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero who has scored 16 goals this season.
3. Timo Werner (Leipzig): 20 goals
Timo Werner's rich vein of form has been instrumental in Leipzig taking the numero uno spot in the German top-flight after 19 games of the ongoing 2019-20 Bundesliga season.
The 23-year-old striker has scored hat-tricks against Borussia Monchengladbach and FSV Mainz 05 as he joined Robert Lewandowski as the second player to hit the 20-goal mark after 18 matchdays of the ongoing 2019-20 season.
Werner's prolific scoring form makes him a contender to challenge Robert Lewandowski for the season's top-scorer honours.
2. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich): 21 goals
Robert Lewandowski's scorching form has slightly cooled off since he became the first player to score in each of the first 11 Matchdays of a Bundesliga season.
Bayern's prolific marksman ended a three-game goalless run with a brace against Werder Bremen which brought him level with former coach Jupp Heynckes' tally of 220 Bundesliga goals and onto joint third place in the league's all-time prolific scorers.
A goal against Freiburg on the next Matchday swelled Lewandowski's Bundesliga goal tally to 19 at the mid-point of the season which keeps him on course to equal or surpass the legendary Gerd Muller's record Bundesliga season tally of 40 set in 1971-72.
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# 1: Ciro Immobile (Lazio): 23 goals
One of two players, the other being Josip Ilicic, to hit the double-digit goal tally in Serie A in each of the last three seasons, Ciro Immobile's 23 goals is the most scored by any player in Europe's top five football leagues in 2019-20.
Immobile's nine-game scoring streak which started against Genoa on Matchday 6 came to an end in a 1-3 defeat to league leaders Juventus on Matchday 15. However, the Italian striker's six goals in his last four league games see him as many goals clear of the Bianconeri's Cristiano Ronaldo atop the Serie A goal-scoring leaderboard.
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