Euro 2020’s top scorer is the own goal.

The fight for the Golden Boot, granted to the event’s leading marker, will certainly be made a decision today, and also the England forwards Harry Kane (4 objectives) and also Raheem Sterling (3) appear to be the only 2 gamers entrusted to a reasonable opportunity to capture the existing leaders, Patrick Schick and also Cristiano Ronaldo, that both racked up 5 prior to leaving Euro 2020.

Yet in truth the race for the event’s leading marker has actually mored than for weeks, and also the very own objective has actually won it disappearing.

There have actually been 11 very own objectives at Euro 2020, greater than the consolidated overall that were racked up in the 15 previous versions of the European Champion.

There have actually been unfortunate objectives. Unusual objectives. Slap-your-forehead objectives. They have actually been racked up by midfielders and also protectors and also goalkeepers.

In retrospection, the event’s very first objective– an Italy cross developed into Turkey’s internet by among its protectors, Merih Demiral– was possibly a prophecy most of us need to have taken much more seriously.

That noted the very first time the event had actually opened its account with a gamer racking up versus his very own group, yet in the 4 weeks because that evening, the very own objectives have actually maintained coming. Spain was the recipient of 2 of them in a 5-0 sway Slovakia, and also Portugal handled to rack up 2 on itself– only four minutes apart— in a 4-2 loss to Germany.

Pedri’s, the opening objective in Spain’s unforgettable round-of-16 success versus Croatia, might have been the most awful of the number …

… yet it had some strong competitors for that title:

One of the most current one, No. 11 general, also aided send out Denmark out in the semifinals:

Will the last obtain us to an also lots? One would certainly really hope not. England, for one, would certainly never ever live it down.