5 players apart from Ronaldo and Messi who could realistically win the Pichichi in 2015/16
Messi and Ronaldo have won the Pichichi trophy thrice in the last six seasonsIn football, the Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi rivalry is certainly going beyond the phase of enthusiasm now. No longer do events like the Ballon d’Or or the Golden Boot exude the amount of gusto like they once did because people already know that one of Ronaldo or Messi is going to win it. The rest are there just to fill up the space.However, there is a slight glimmer of hope, at least by what we are witnessing in the first phase of the season, that someone not named Messi or Ronaldo might just win the award for the top goalscorer in the La Liga season – the Pichichi Trophy.We take a look at five other contenders who can stake a claim to the award which has been won by Ronaldo and Messi in the past six years.
#6 Honourable mentions
While it is quite impossible to see a non-Messi-Cristiano player score 40 league goals this season, we can let our fantasies run loose a little because, who knows, miracles do happen and it could happen this year in the form of the aforementioned 5 players.
However, there are some more players who deserve a mention but are very, very unlikely trouble the elite duo.
Antione Griezmann has had a terrific start to the season and is the top scorer for Atletico Madrid so far. He is a constant scoring threat but isn’t the type of player who can score in every game. Similarly, Iago Aspas and Nolito have also made a superb start to the season, but they aren’t 40 goals-a-season players.
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