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#1 Lionel Messi (Argentina)
The Golden Boot has become Messi's raison d'etre. He recently picked up the sixth of his career after finishing as the most prolific in LaLiga as well as in the whole of Europe.
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With another half a century of goals in all competitions, the Barcelona ace literally dragged his side through the thick and thin for a majority of the season as most of the others around him constantly veered between the sublime and the substandard.
However, Messi has not been able to shoulder this responsibility with as much aplomb in the Argentinian colours. He failed to make a mark in any of the three finals that he and Co. made between 2014 and 2016, and also cut a frustrating figure in the World Cup last year.
He has assumed more of a creative role for the Skyblues these years, but if he were to replicate even a scintilla of his barnstorming prowess of last season, then Messi will simply canter to another piece of Golden Boot.
