Hiram Moreno
With the new English soccer season just around the corner, the battle to see who will be the Premier League top scorers during the 2022-2023 season has already begun, and it is expected to be hotly contested due to the number of talented players in the league.
Every fan has their favorite to win the award, with 2021/22 winners Mohamed Salah and Heung-Min Son clearly among them. However, bookies recognize that they will not have it easy in this 2022/23 Premier League season, and here at JefeBet we’ll tell you everything in great detail.
Five Favorites For Premier League Goalscorers in the 2022/23 Season
Erling Haaland (Odds +300)
The 2021/22 season saw Manchester City finish as the highest-scoring team in the competition with a total of 99 goals scored, and for this new season they brought in Erling Haaland, a striker who since the 2019/20 season, has had more goals scored than appearances for his clubs (114 goals in 111 appearances).
Despite these incredible numbers, Haaland has not yet been able to win the Golden Boot in league competitions.His full seasons with Borussia Dortmund saw him finish as the league’s third top scorer, and he can’t be blamed for having to compete with a beast like Robert Lewandowski.
However, at City, he will find a fluid game and will be frequently handed the ball by the Premier League’s most gifted midfield, making him the clear favorite to win the award.
Mohamed Salah (Odds +500)
Sadio Mané has left and Roberto Firmino has fallen down the Liverpool pecking order, but Mohamed Salah remains firmly in the Reds’ eleven and will once again be in contention for the Golden Boot this season, a recognition he has already earned three times in his career in England (2018, 2019 y 2022).
This season will be a challenging one for the Egyptian, who will be looking to equal Thierry Henry as the top Golden Boot winner in the Premier League. However, Salah will surely miss Mané, as the Senegalese has created more scoring chances (87) and assisted more goals (18) for Salah than any other teammate.
Despite this, Salah will rely on Darwin Núñez and Luis Díaz to keep providing him with balls to put between the posts – although his teammates will expect him to be solid in front of the goal when he needs to be.
Harry Kane (Odds +500)
Harry Kane will be looking to continue to add to his legend in England this season. The Tottenham striker also has three Golden Boots to his name (2016, 2017, 2021) and will also be looking to match Henry at the top with four awards.
Additionally, this season could see Kane rank as the third highest scorer in Premier League history, as he’s one goal behind the fourth-highest scorer (Sergio Agüero – 184 goals) and four behind the third (Andy Cole – 187). In fact, he could even catch Wayne Rooney (208 goals) in second place should he score at least 25 goals this 2022/23 season, and with the new additions the “Spurs” have brought in, this is entirely conceivable.
In the last five seasons, only Salah (118) has scored more goals than Harry Kane (105), although the Englishman will need to improve his effectiveness in front of goal,since his conversion rate of 16.5% is the second lowest in that period for the 11 players who scored more than 50 goals in the league, ahead of only Gabriel Jesus (16.0%).
Gabriel Jesus (Odds +1200)
Speaking about the Brazilian, Gabriel Jesus was previously ranked lower than other players in terms of his chances of winning the Premier League Golden Boot in 2022-23, but his outstanding pre-season has convinced bookies to reconsider.
Usually labeled as a striker who tends not to make the most of his chances, Gabriel Jesus has shown a completely different side with Arsenal in pre-season, scoring seven goals in five games. Despite his low conversion rate, the striker averages a goal per 107 minutes, a number surpassed by only six Premier League players who have played at least 2,000 minutes.
Given this average and the fact that he will be an undisputed starter in Arsenal’s forward line, Gabriel Jesus has a good chance of being the first Brazilian to become the top scorer in the history of the English football league system, not just the Premier League.
Heung-min Son (Odds +1400)
It should be a crime to place Son so low on the list, but it is impossible to deny that the player has a lot of competition and that, despite his undeniable brilliance, he was not considered as a candidate for the Golden Boot in 2021/22.
Son became the first Asian to win the Premier League Golden Boot last season, and did not score any of his 23 goals from the penalty spot.He also took 53 fewer shots than Salah – with whom he shared the accolade – for a conversion rate of an impressive 26.7%.
Nevertheless, the fact that another Golden Boot contender, Harry Kane, is a teammate, could mean that the Korean will play less of a role.Tottenham will be hoping that the Kane-Son combination remains lethal as they look to take that step forward and challenge for the league title.
