Champions League leading scorers, most assists as 16 clubs qualify for knockout

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Following the conclusion of the UEFA Champions League group stage match-day six fixtures on Wednesday, below are the current leading scorers and assists in the Europe top-flight competition so far.

Recall that Napoli, Liverpool, Porto, Club Brugge, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Tottenham, Eintracht Frankfurt, Chelsea, AC Milan, Real Madrid, RB Leipzig, Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund, Benfica, and PSG have all qualified for the Round of 16 stages after this week’s Champions League group stage fixtures.

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah is presently the joint-top leading scorer in the UEFA Champions League for the 2022/2023 season.

The Egyptian international netted a goal in his side’s Champions League 2-0 win over Napoli on Tuesday at Anfield.

Salah presently has seven goals alongside Paris Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappe.

Top scorers in the 2022/2023 Champions League so far:

7 goals – Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) and Kylian Mbappé (PSG).

5 goals – Erling Haaland (Man City), Mehdi Taremi (Porto) and Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona).

4 goals – Lionel Messi (PSG), Jude Bellingham (Dortmund), Leroy Sané (Bayern Munich), and Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli) and Giovanni Simeone (Napoli), Rafa Silva (Benfica), Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid), Olivier Giroud (Milan) and Mohammed Kudus (Ajax)

Most assists in the 2022/23 Champions League so far:

4 assists – João Cancelo (Man City), Lionel Messi (PSG) and Diogo Jota (Liverpool)

3 assists – Ángel Di María (Juventus), Neymar (PSG), André Silva (Leipzig), André-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Napoli), Leon Goretzka (Bayern), Kylian Mbappe (PSG), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Napoli), Ivan Perišić (Spurs), Mohamed Simakan (Leipzig) and André-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Napoli)

The Champions League round of 16 fixtures will take place 14/15/21/22 February, with the second legs on 7/8/14/15 March, 2023.