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Robert Lewandowski was on a tear in the first half of the 2019-20 season becoming the first player in Bundesliga history to score in each of the first 11 games of a season.
Bayern's Polish marksman carried over his form to the Champions League where he found the back of the net in each of his 6 games in the competition (5 in the group-stage, 1 in the Round of 16). Lewandowski's four-goal haul at Crvena Zvezda made him the only player after Lionel Messi to score multiple quadruples in the Champions League.
But Bayern's 31-year-old striker wasn't the only hottest striker in the European leagues in 2019-20. A 35-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo overcame a slow start to the season by scoring in a Serie A record 11 consecutive games while 19-year-old Erling Braut Haaland has scored goals galore for multiple clubs this season.
Without further ado, let us meet the 5-most prolific scorers in European league football in 2019-20.
#5 Timo Werner (Leipzig) - 21 goals in 24 games
Enjoying the most prolific season of his young career, Timo Werner has scored a career-best 27 goals in 34 games in all competitions for RB Leipzig this season. The 24-year-old has scored 21 of those goals in the Bundesliga, matching his personal league tally of 2016-17 for the same club.
The only player to score multiple Bundesliga hat-tricks this season, bagging three-goal hauls against Borussia Moenchengladbach (away) and Mainz at home respectively, Werner joined Lewandowski as the only players to hit the 20-goal mark after 18 games of a Bundesliga season.
The only other player in Bundesliga history to have done so is Gerd Muller (1968-69 and 1972-73).
In the Champions League, Werner has become the first player to score his first 7 goals in the competition away from home following his solitary goal in Leipzig's 1-0 win at Tottenham Hotspur in the first leg of this season's Round of 16.
Also read: 5 interesting stats from the 2019-20 Champions League Round of 16 1st legs
#4 Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) - 21 goals in 21 games
In his second season in Italian football, Cristiano Ronaldo took 14 games to reach 10 goals for the season just as it was in his debut season in the Italian top-flight in 2018-19.
From that point on, the 35-year-old has scored in each of his next 10 games to equal Gabriel Batistuta and Fabio Quagliarella's Serie A record of 11 consecutive scoring games. During this run, Ronaldo scored his much-awaited first hat-trick in Serie A, doing so against Cagliari in Juventus' 4-0 home win.
By scoring in the 2-1 defeat at Hellas Verona, Ronaldo scored 20 league goals for the 11th consecutive season (9 for Real Madrid, 2 for Juventus). In his next game, which the Bianconeri won 2-1 at home over SPAL, the Portugal captain brought up 25 goals in all competitions for the 14th consecutive season (3 for Manchester United, 9 for Real Madrid, 2 for Juventus).
Also read: 5 milestones Ronaldo could achieve in 2020
#3 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) - 25 goals in 23 games
Robert Lewandowski started the 2019-20 season on a hot streak, scoring in each of the first 11 games of the Bundesliga season to create a new competition record before Fortuna Dusseldorf became the first team to stop the prolific Pole.
Following that hot run, the 31-year-old has scored a rather modest 9 goals in his next 12 games to move to 25 goals for the season which is still 4 clear of Timo Werner in the Bundesliga scoring charts after 24 Matchdays.
Apart from his domestic exploits, Lewandowski has scored in every game of the Champions League this season, moving to 11 goals in the competition in just 6 games.
#2 Erling Braut Haaland (Salzburg / Borussia Dortmund) - 25 goals in 21 games
Erling-Braut Haaland scored 16 goals for Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga before moving to German giants Borussia Dortmund during the 2019-20 winter transfer window.
The 19-year-old marked his first Bundesliga appearance with a hat-trick in BVB's 5-3 win at Augsburg and racked up 9 goals in his first 6 games in the German flight before Freiburg joined Bayer Levekusen as the only teams to stop the prolific teenager.
Not content with his exploits in domestic football, the teenager has also taken the UEFA Champions League by storm, racking up 10 goals in 7 games to join Robert Lewandowski as the top-scorers in the competition this season.
Also read: 3 Erling Braut Haaland records in the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League
#1 Ciro Immobile (Lazio) - 27 goals in 26 games
In his career-best Serie A season, Ciro Immobile has scored 27 goals in 26 games for Lazio as the Italian capital club find themselves top of the table after 26 Matchdays, dreaming of a first top-flight title in two decades.
Immobile surged to 17 Serie A goals after just 14 Matchdays which is the fastest to the mark by any player in Italian top-flight history, behind only Angelino for Internazionale in 1958-59 and Borel for Juventus in 1933-34.
