According to “Varzesh3,” the six goals scored by the French star in his last three La Liga matches have completely brought him into the race to snatch the European Golden Shoe from Victor Gyokeres and Mohamed Salah at the finish line.

Kylian Mbappe is on the verge of winning the La Liga top scorer title and is sprinting towards the European Golden Shoe. His goal against Mallorca, his 28th goal of the season in La Liga, has put him ahead of Robert Lewandowski (with 25 goals).

The Real Madrid star leads with three goals, with two weeks left in the season. But beyond that, Kylian now has the Golden Shoe, awarded to Europe’s top scorer, within his sights. An award that seemed unimaginable just two weeks ago when he was seven goals behind Gyokeres and six behind Salah. Even during Lewandowski’s best days in December, Mbappe was seven goals behind him. But with the six goals the Parisian has scored in his last three La Liga matches (two against Celta, a hat-trick in El Clasico, and last night’s goal), he has fully re-entered the race.

Kylian, with 56 points, hopes to snatch this award from Victor Gyokeres (57 points) and Mohamed Salah (56 points, tied with Mbappe) in the final breaths of the season. Among the five main contenders at this stage of the season, the Liverpool player has been leading in recent months. Salah, with seven goals in six consecutive games over a month, from January 25 to February 23, emerged as the main candidate. But his recent slump (only one goal in his last seven Premier League matches) has reduced his chances.

Currently, the leader in this competition is Swedish striker Victor Gyokeres, who has shone with 38 goals (including three hat-tricks and two four-goal hauls) for Sporting Portugal. Gyokeres has scored more goals than anyone else. But the rules of this award evaluate goals based on the difficulty of each league. A goal in the Portuguese league is worth 1.5 points, while in Spain, like the other four major European leagues (which are evaluated each season based on FIFA rankings), each goal is worth 2 points.

For this reason, Mbappe, despite being 10 goals behind, is only one point behind the top scorer in the Portuguese league. One point means one goal. This award could turn into a two-horse race between the Real Madrid player and Salah.

In the Portuguese league, only one week remains, and Gyokeres has his last chance this Saturday against Vitoria Guimaraes. This is a weakness for him compared to Mbappe and Salah, who each have two more games to score. Real Madrid will face Sevilla and Real Sociedad, and Liverpool will finish the Premier League season against Brighton and Crystal Palace.

Two previous Golden Shoe winners were also in this race, but now seem out of reach, each with 50 points (25 goals). Harry Kane faces the same limitation as Gyokeres: he only has one last chance this Saturday against Hoffenheim. Unless Kane scores four goals, he cannot repeat the title he won last season with 36 goals.

Lewandowski also has a better chance with 50 points (25 goals), as he has three upcoming matches: tonight’s derby against Espanyol, and matches against Villarreal and Athletic Bilbao. The Polish player needs to score four more goals than Mbappe to both take the La Liga top scorer title from the Real player and win his third Golden Shoe (after his wins in 2021 and 2022 with Bayern Munich).

For Kylian, this would be his first Golden Shoe (he finished second twice and third twice with Paris Saint-Germain) and perhaps the lowest-scoring Golden Shoe since Francesco Totti’s 26 goals in the 2006-07 season. Mbappe, who previously broke Ivan Zamorano’s record as Real Madrid’s top scorer in his first season at the club, is now aiming for the most prestigious award for Europe’s top scorers.

And Ousmane Dembele?
There was much talk about Ousmane Dembele, the Paris Saint-Germain player, who was considered the phenomenon of 2025 until less than two months ago. In the first 82 days of the year, this striker scored 23 goals in 19 matches, 13 of them in Ligue 1. Staggering numbers. But in recent weeks, he has slumped, scoring only three goals in his last nine matches. In fact, Mbappe, with 26 goals this year, has matched the tally of Dembele, his former teammate in the Parc des Princes locker room. Dembele’s slow start to the season (8 goals in 15 matches) has left him with only 21 goals, unable to get close to the race for the European Golden Shoe.