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#3 Lionel Messi (Barcelona) - 11 goals
Lionel Messi's continued brilliance sees him firmly in the race for a record-breaking fifth consecutive Pichichi trophy and an unprecedented eighth overall.
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Despite struggling for goals initially, especially from open play, the Barcelona skipper has gradually found his feet again.
En route to scoring these 11 goals (14 in all competitions), Messi also surpassed Pele as the player with the most goals for a single club.
In what could potentially be his last season with the Catalans, the Argentinian ace would want to bow out on a high by helping his beloved club to the league title once more.
#2 Youssef En-Nesyri (Sevilla) - 12 goals
The Moroccan has finally started to deliver on the promise he showed while at Leganes for a year and a half.
Joining the Sevillistas in January last year, En-Nesyri was originally an understudy to striker Luuk de Jong but has successfully usurped the Dutchman in the starting XI.
With 12 goals in the bag, this is his best season already. Given the red hot form he's in right now, he isn't going to stop anytime soon.
En-Nesyri has struck two hat-tricks in the last four games — against Real Sociedad and Cadiz — propelling him into the race for the Golden Boot out of nowhere.
#1 Luis Suarez (Atletico Madrid) - 12 goals
A combination of poor form and recurring fitness concerns prompted Barcelona to offload Luis Suarez to Atletico Madrid last summer.
Many even believed his time as an elite striker was over, but the Uruguayan has made a mockery of those claims with his performances for Diego Simeone's side.
With 12 goals from just 15 games, he currently has the best goals-to-games ratio of all players on this list and remains the driving force behind Atletico's imperious run in the league so far.
The 34-year-old appears to be a man on a mission, and successfully guiding the Rojiblancos to their first La Liga crown since 2014 would be the perfect anti-climax to his 'finished player' rhetoric.
