Speaking of the upcoming World Cup this winter, in addition to the final championship, in fact, everyone is more concerned about who will be able to score the most goals this year. According to the current World Cup total top scorer rankings, Klose is firmly at the top of the list with 16 goals, and from the current situation analysis, it is difficult for a player to threaten Klose's position in a short period of time. Of course, the most important reason is that the major stars in active duty are not competing enough on the World Cup stage. As the strongest duo in world football in the first decade or so, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo scored 6 goals and 7 goals apiece, which is not as many as Klose's World Cup goals.
Merlot is difficult to carry the banner, and Mueller has become the pillar of active service
Obviously, such goal numbers are hardly matched by their position in world football today. However, a closer look at player statistics reveals that the player who is most likely to catch up with this record in active combat is Germany's Thomas Müller. He currently has 10 world cup goals and is the only player in the squad to score double goals on the World Cup stage. On the stage of the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, Mueller was extremely stable, with a steady five-time scoring performance in each edition. Unfortunately, in the 18th World Cup in Russia, the German team encountered the curse of the previous championship and directly came to a wave of Waterloo without warning.
Mueller also failed to achieve a goal in 18 years, when everyone thought that Mueller could continue to attack the top of the World Cup top scorer list, but unfortunately, the 18-year World Cup became a hurdle for Mueller. Let's take a look at Mueller's current state of the game, which is far from his peak, and it is almost an impossible task to regain his performance of five goals in a single tournament. At the same time, with the transformation of recent seasons, Mueller has basically fixed the position of shadow forward. Such a position on the field is actually completely detrimental to Mueller taking on more offensive tasks in the game, so the task of impacting the top of the top scorer list has basically ended.
If it can really be a spoiler, Mueller should continue to attack
As things stand, Müller is tied for 4th place in the World Cup top scorers list with 10 goals. In this year's World Cup in Qatar, as long as Muller can score in the game, he will be able to tie with Klinsmann to become the third place in the World Cup top scorer list.
Although Germany cannot be called a championship-winning hot team today, as the traditional giants of European football, they are definitely the first-class strong team that no one wants to meet on the stage of the World Cup. In fact, I also hope that Mueller can seize the opportunity, and every future World Cup goal seems to bring a new pattern to the world cup's historical top scorer list.