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Lithuanian football "A lyga's" top scorer Artūras Rimkevičius still leads the ranking of the most effective European footballer by one point.
The forward of "Šiauliai," who scored 35 goals in the recently ended "A lyga" season, still has more points than all his competitors, but he is already almost three times in a row surpassed by the leader of "Barcelona," Lionel Messi, recognized as the best player in the world in recent years.
Although the Argentine has scored only 17 goals, in these top European leagues the goals scored are multiplied by two.
In the first five UEFA ranking countries (Spain, Italy, England, France, and Germany), the goals scored in the leagues are multiplied by a coefficient of 2, in the seventeen leagues - by a coefficient of 1.5, while Lithuania and the rest of the ranking countries have a coefficient of 1, so accurate shots are not multiplied.
According to this formula, the 17 goals of "Golden Boot" title defender L.Messi (in 12 "Primera" matches) guarantee Barcelona's leader 34 points, while A.Rimkevičius's 35 accurate shots (in 36 "A lyga" games) give the Lithuanian 35 points.
In third place step Donetsk's "Shakhtar" leader Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Madrid's "Real" star Cristiano Ronaldo, who have 24 points each.
The 23-year-old Armenian has scored 16 goals in the Ukrainian championship (league coefficient 1.5), while the 27-year-old Portuguese scored 12 goals in Spain.
