Who Will Overtake Ronaldo To Be The Top Scorer Of Euro 2020?

Cristiano Ronaldo (Twitter @euro2020)

JAKARTA - Cristiano Ronaldo is still leading the provisional top scorer list for Euro 2020, but the Portuguese superstar will no longer be able to add to his five-goal collection.

The reason, Portugal's steps stopped in the round of 16 after being beaten 0-1 by Belgium in Sevilla last Sunday, where Thorgan Hazard scored his second goal of the tournament with an unstoppable dipping shot.

Three players cut the distance from Ronaldo on the top scorer list with four goals, namely Czech Republic strikers Patrik Schick, Karim Benzema (France) and Emil Forsberg (Sweden).

But of the three, only Schick still has the opportunity to match Ronaldo's goal collection, because the Czechs advanced to the quarter-finals while France and Sweden did not.

Swiss striker Haris Seferovic, who was partly responsible for the surprise elimination of France, is now on three goals, as is England winger Raheem Sterling who continued his prolific streak at Euro 2020.

Meanwhile, Spain goalkeeper Unai Simon is responsible for adding to the unique record of the number of own goals at Euro 2020 which has reached nine or tripled compared to the previous edition.

The own goal went to Pedri's name, as Simon failed to respond to the gifted young talent's feedback, but the difference from the previous eight own goals was that Spain still ended up winning in an own-goal-ridden match.

The following is the list of goalscorers for Euro 2020 for the round of 16:

5 - Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

4 - Patrik Schick (Czech Republic); Karim Benzema (France); Emil Forsberg (Sweden)

3 - Georginio Wijnaldum (Netherlands); Romelu Lukaku (Belgium); Robert Lewandowski (Poland); Haris Seferovic (Switzerland); Raheem Sterling (England)

2 - Manuel Locatelli, Ciro Immobile, Matteo Pessina (Italy); Andriy Yarmolenko, Roman Yaremchuk (Ukraine); Denzel Dumfries, Memphis Depay (Netherlands); Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland); Yussuf Poulsen, Kasper Dolberg, Joakim Maehle (Denmark); Ivan Perisic (Croatia); Thorgan Hazard (Belgium); Pablo Sarabia, Ferran Torres, Alvaro Morata (Spain)

1 - Lorenzo Insigne, Federico Chiesa (Italy); Breel Embolo, Mario Gavranovic (Switzerland); Kiefer Moore, Aaron Ramsey, Connor Roberts (Wales); Joel Pohjanpalo (Finland); Thomas Meunier, Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium); Stefan Lainer, Michael Gregoritsch, Marko Arnautovic, Christoph Baumgartner, Sasa Kalajdzic (Austria); Goran Pandev, Ezgjan Alioski (North Macedonia); Wout Weghorst, Denzel Dumfries (Netherlands); Karol Linetty (Poland); Milan Skriniar (Slovakia); Raphael Guerreiro, Diogo Jota (Portugal); Aleksey Miranchuk, Artem Dzyuba (Russia); Yussuf Poulsen, Mikkel Damsgaard, Andreas Christensen, Martin Braithwaite (Denmark); Viktor Claesson (Sweden); Nikola Vlasic, Luka Modric, Mislav Orsic, Mario Articleic (Croatia); Attila Fiola (Hungary); Antoine Griezmann, Paul Pogba (France); Kai Havertz, Robin Gosens (Germany); Alvaro Morata, Aymeric Laporte, Pablo Sarabia, Ferran Torres, Cesar Azpilicueta, Mikel Oyarzabal (Spain); Irfan Kahveci (Turkey); Callum McGregor (Scotland); Tomas Holes (Czech Republic); Harry Kane (England); Olexandr Zinchenko, Artem Dovbyk (Ukraine).

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SUICIDE GOALS: Merih Demiral (Turkey), Wojciech Szczesny (Poland), Mats Hummels (Germany), Ruben Dias (Portugal), Raphael Guerreiro (Portugal), Lukas Hradecky (Finland), Martin Dubravka (Slovakia), Juraj Kucka (Slovakia) ); Pedri (Spain)