Who will be the Europa League top scorer this season?

This season’s Europa League features some very important names, as Liverpool, AS Roma, Bayer Leverkusen, Olympique Marseille and Ajax will play in Europe’s second top club competition.

The Champions League remains the holy grail of European football, but winning the Europa League has also become a big deal in recent seasons.

UEFA made it more competitive after offering the winners a chance to play in the Champions League group stage in the next campaign.

This has made the competition enticing for many teams on the continent, and most of them would be gunning for the crown in this campaign.

Winning the Europa League or any trophy requires a lot of hard work, and teams sometimes need one special player to score the goals that will lead them to the title.

The clubs in the competition know the best way to tell their fans that tickets are available is to win as many matches as possible.

To achieve this, they must score many goals in all their games, and we will consider the players who could get on the scoresheet regularly in this competition.

These players make the difference and are a reason we all tune in to watch the Europa League on Thursday night.

Winning the Europa League Golden Boot is one goal of all the attackers in the competition, and we look at players that can win it this term.

Mohamed Salah, Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp only played Salah in the second half of their opening group game of the Europa League against LASK, and it seems to suggest the German is saving his main man for the Premier League games.

However, Salah came in and scored their final goal of the match to show he is a player that will be important for them to find success in the competition.

They turned down 200m euros in the last summer transfer window for Salah, even though his contract still has one more season to run.

Since the term started, he has proven why it was very important for Liverpool to keep him and the European nights are some of his favourites.

Liverpool has played in the Champions League since he arrived at the club, and he is the reason they have reached three finals and won the competition once since 2018.

Salah has 42 Champions League goals for Liverpool and 43 European strikes, making him a player who can win the Europa League Golden Boot.

Romelu Lukaku, AS Roma

AS Roma’s loan move for Big Rom has already looked like a steal after his superb start to life at the Italian club.

He was the subject of interest from Inter Milan and Juventus in the last transfer window before settling for a move to Roma.

Since he moved to the Rome club, he has scored four goals in his first four starts to show his quality.

Lukaku was in the Inter Milan team that reached the final of the Champions League last season, so he would be helpful in helping Roma reach that level in the Europa League this term.

Lukaku has scored 42 European goals and a career total of 284 goals, so the Belgian could easily emerge as the Golden Boot winner.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Olympique Marseille.

It was a shock that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang decided to sign a contract with Olympique Marseille in the last transfer window when he was expected to move to Saudi Arabia.

The former Arsenal striker is one of the best goalscorers in the modern history of the game and is a player who can lead OM to the latter stages of the competition.

He did well in the Champions League qualifiers, which they failed to make the group stages, but he already has two strikes in the Europa League from his first game and leads the scoring charts.

Victor Boniface, Bayer Leverkusen

Boniface is a sensation in the Bayer team, and his form in Europe last season is the reason Bayer signed him.

The Nigerian scored six goals in ten European games for Union SG, and that made several European clubs show an interest in his signature.

Bayer won the race, and he is proving to be one heck of a signing for them in the current campaign.

He is scoring for fun in Europe and the Bundesliga, where he is rivalling Harry Kane for the top scorer award, so we expect him among the top scorers in the Europa League.

Joao Pedro, Brighton

Brighton earned a place in the Europa League after some superb football last season, and they are one of the teams to watch in the competition because of their exciting attacking football.

Roberto de Zerbi has some fine attackers in his group, including Barcelona loanee Ansu Fati, but one man we expect to make a huge impression in Europe this season is Joao Pedro.

The Brazilian also joined them this summer from Watford after being courted by top clubs in England for several seasons.

He scored twice in their first Europa League game, a performance that shows that he is one of the finest players in their squad and would be among their top scorers.

Darwin Nunez, Liverpool

Nunez flopped in his first season at Liverpool, considering how much expectation was built up around his arrival at the club.

However, only a few players in the world find their feet in their first season in a new club, league and country.

This second campaign will be very important for the Uruguayan and he is already showing signs of a top player.

He scored in Liverpool’s first Europa League game of the season and remains a player their manager can bank on off the bench.

But we expect Jurgen Klopp to hand him plenty of chances in the Europa League and he will score plenty of goals for the Premier League side, who are one of the favourites to win the competition.

Mohammed Kudus, West Ham

Kudus is slowly being integrated into the West Ham first team after his summer move from Ajax to the Premier League side.

The Ghanaian was in fine form in the Netherlands and caught the eye of the top clubs in Europe with his fine performances at the last World Cup in Qatar.

West Ham defeated the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Brighton to sign him and expect the Ghanaian to show he is worth the trouble.

The attacking midfielder seems to play like a striker because he knows where the goal is and how to hit it.

His goalscoring prowess has separated him from many other players in the same position in the last few seasons, and he already has two goals in one game for West Ham in the Europa League.

As the Hammers look to win a competition they reached the semi-final in 2022, his goals will be important in taking them very far.

Ayoub El Kaabi, Olympiacos

Little-known Ayoub El Kaabi is one of the top scorers in the Europa League already, and the Moroccan is a player to watch.

Because Olympiacos entered the European season through the qualifiers, he already has four goals from the first five games of the season on the continent and is one player we expect to do well throughout the campaign.

At 30, he is at the prime of his career and is the proper definition of a late bloomer, but his form in Europe this season simply cannot be ignored.

If teams underestimate what he can do, he is a player who will make them pay for it with his goalscoring performances on the pitch.

The Europa League has seen some of the finest scorers in the league in the last few terms, and this campaign will hardly be different.

It would be interesting to see if the big-name players will live up to their expectations or if a somewhat unknown individual will win the Golden Boot.