Wednesday, September 14, 2022 – 3:14 PM
DUBAI, 14th September, 2019 (WAM) — Chances of setting a new record for the current edition of the ADNOC Professional Football League have increased, with the intensity and frequency of scoring in the current season’s matches and the strong competition between more than one player.
Although only two rounds of the competition have passed, the scorers’ statistics so far indicate the possibility of breaking the record, which Ali Mabkhout, the Al Jazira striker, achieved 6 seasons ago, specifically in the 2016-2017 season when he scored 33 goals to be the highest score for any player in one season in the competition since the application of the system. Professionalism in the 2008/2009 season.
Before the start of the third round competitions, which will take place on Thursday and Friday, Mabkhout is the top scorer in the competition with 5 goals, with strong competition from Togolese Laba Kodjo, Al Ain striker, who is second with 4 goals, and Brazilian Gilberto Oliveira, Al Wasl striker, 3 goals. /.
Throughout the history of the UAE Pro League, the competition’s top scorers crossed the 30 goals barrier in one season, only twice; The first was through Ghanaian former striker Asamoah Gyan, who scored 31 goals in the 2012-2013 season, and the second time was through Ali Mabkhout when he scored 33 goals in the 2016-2017 season, becoming the record for the competition.
If Mabkhout, Kodjo and other top scorers of the competition continue this season at the same strong pace with which they started their scoring record in the current season, this season may witness a new record at the level of the scorer’s balance.
The statistics of the “Transfer Market” global website for player and club statistics and numbers indicate that the lowest number of goals for the player who won the title of top scorer in the professional league during the seasons of the tournament so far, was the Senegalese Andre Sengahor (Bani Yas), who scored 18 goals in the 2010 season – 2011 to be crowned the competition’s top scorer.
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