Miguel Borja: South American Top Scorer of the Year

Miguel Borja is the top South American scorer of the year (Credit: EFE, Reuters and Getty Images)

Miguel Borja confirmed his great present with a spectacular performance against Tigre at the Monumental stadium, where River Plate won 3 to 1 with the Colombian’s three goals. El Colibrí broke a great record in the Millonario’s historical table of foreign scorers, in addition to establishing himself as the top scorer in the Martín Demichelis era.

However, the leap in quality that the 31-year-old forward achieved was having achieved his 21st goal in 25 games that year, a fact that allowed him to surpass neither more nor less scorers of the stature of Erling Haaland of Manchester City (19 ), Harry Kane of Bayern Munich (19) and Cristiano Ronaldo of Al-Nassr (20), in addition to having left Lionel Messi of Inter Miami far behind (12), among others.

TABLE OF GOAL SCORES 2024

1 Akram Afif (Qatar) Al Sadd from Arabia 26 goals 25 games (average 1.04)

2 Viktor Gyökeres (Suecia) Sporting Lisboa 26 29 (0.90)

3 Kylian Mbappé (Francia) PSG 23 28 (0.82)

4 Aymen Hussein (Irak) Al Quwa Al Jawiya 22 21 (1,05)

5 Noah Baffoe (Ghana) Eastern 21 20 (1,05)

6 Miguel Borja (Colombia) River Plate 21 25 (0,84)

7 Martín Cauteruccio (Uruguay) Sporting Cristal 20 14 (1.43)

8 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) Al-Nassr 20 20 (1.00)

9 Adrián Martínez (Argentina) Racing 20 24 (0.83)

10 Ayoub El Kaabi (Morocco) Olympiacos 20 29 (0.69)

11 Elliott Reeves (Inglaterra) Flint Town United 19 15 (1,27)

12 Luuk de Jong (Netherlands) PSV 19 22 (0.86)

13 Alexander Sørloth (Norway) Villarreal 19 23 (0.83)

14 Harry Kane (England) Bayern Munich 19 23 (0.83)

15 Erling Haaland (Norway) Manchester City 19 24 (0,79)

16 Jonathan David (Canada) Lille 19 25 (0.76)

“Glory to God for all that. Firstly because we won and I contributed to the team. What you say is something very nice that motivates one to continue working and making an effort. In 2016 I had more or less on that side (in the numbers) and it is the idea that I have this year, to be on par with 2016,” confessed Miguel Borja as soon as he finished the match against Matador de Victoria, for the fourth date of the Professional League.

“I had there about the fourth. Today my teammates helped me very well, the first half I also had a very nice one with Claudio (Echeverri). Now to rest and think about what is to come,” continued Hummingbird in dialogue with ESPN. “We faced a good team, which in the friendly a few days ago proved to be a team that plays very well. Today he never took a long shot, he always came out playing and facing these types of teams is interesting.”

Finally, in relation to the call for the Colombian National Team for the Copa América, he acknowledged: “I go with all the motivation and willingness to contribute to my team. It is a nice level that I have and I hope to contribute to it.”

Miguel Borja reached his 45th goal in 87 games with the River Plate shirt, with an average of 0.52. El Colibrí not only became the team’s top scorer in the championship but also climbed to sixth place in the Millonario’s historical table of foreign scorers, surpassing none other than the Uruguayan Antonio Alzamendi. In addition, he caught up with Radamel Falcao García (45).

The leader of the table of top foreign scorers is the Uruguayan Enzo Francescoli, with 137 goals in 237 games and an average of 0.58 in his two cycles with River Plate. He is followed by his compatriot Walter Gómez (77) and the Colombian Juan Pablo Ángel (62).

The top ten is completed by: the Colombian Rafael Santos Borré (55), the Chilean Marcelo Salas (47), the Colombian Radamel Falcao García (45), his compatriot Miguel Borja (45), the Uruguayan Antonio Alzamendi (43) and his compatriots Rodrigo Mora (41) and Rubén Da Silva (39).

Historical table of River Plate foreign scorers (source: @mavegol)

Regarding the list of Colombian scorers, Borja was 17 goals behind the absolute leader who is Juan Pablo Ángel (62 goals in 132 games). The podium is completed by Rafael Santos Borré (55) and Radamel Falcao García (45); the same as the Hummingbird. Closing the top five, Teófilo Gutiérrez with 28.

And if the table of top scorers in the Martín Demichelis era is computed, Miguel Borja of the 45 goals he has scored in River Plate, 36 were scored under the command of the current coach. Of course, the Colombian is the absolute leader, followed by Lucas Beltrán (17) and Pablo Solari (17). In the ranking of the remaining 24 footballers who scored, they appear in the top ten: Facundo Colidio (13), Esequiel Barco (11), Salomón Rondón (10), Ignacio Fernández (7), Nicolás De La Cruz (7), Rodrigo Aliendro (4) and Paulo Díaz (3).

2024-06-03 03:22:00
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