World Cup 2014 Top Scorer: Not just a three-way battle

Lionel Messi, Neymar and Thomas Mueller are currently the top scorers at the 2014 World Cup. However, the Golden Boot award at this year's football festival in Brazil will not be a three-way battle.

After the group stage, all three stars above have scored 4 goals to help their teams top the groups, in which Germany's Thomas Mueller scored a hat-trick.

This is a big advantage for Messi, Neymar and Mueller in the race for the title of Top Scorer of the 2014 World Cup.

However, this year's Golden Boot title will not be a "three-way battle," as six other players have scored three goals.

Neymar, Messi and Mueller are the ones with the upper hand. (Source: soccerladuma)

The players who scored three goals included Karim Benzema (France), Robin van Persie, Arjen Robben (all from the Netherlands), Enner Valencia (Ecuador), Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) and James Rodríguez (Colombia). However, Enner Valencia no longer has a chance because Ecuador has been eliminated.

Even among the candidates for this title, van Persie and Robben of the Netherlands are considered to have the advantage when in the round of 16 they only have to face weak opponents like Mexico (round of 16), and if they go further, their opponents will only be Costa Rica or Greece.

The fact that there are 8 names participating in the race for this title shows that the 2014 World Cup is witnessing a football party with more goals than what happened in South Africa 4 years ago.

According to statistics, after the group stage, the 2014 World Cup had 132 goals, including 3 players scoring 4 goals, 6 players scoring 3 goals, 13 players scoring 2 goals and 76 players scoring 1 goal.

With what happened, fans are hoping to continue to witness "goal showers" in the next rounds.

After a day off, at 11pm tonight (Vietnam time), the 2014 World Cup will continue with the first match of the round of 16 between Brazil and Chile./.