Delgado setting scoring standards

Friday, March 17, 2006

FC Basel 1893 midfielder Matías Delgado is leading the way in the UEFA Cup scoring charts with his six goals helping the Swiss side reach the quarter-finals.

Prolific form
The 23-year-old Argentinian has found the net six times in his club's nine matches to date and will have every confidence of adding to that when the Swiss champions travel to French strugglers RC Strasbourg. Delgado was on target after eight minutes of the first leg a week ago as Basel won 2-0 to secure a comfortable cushion to defend at La Meinau.

Five goals each
Delgado is one goal ahead of a cluster of nine players who each have five goals to their name, although only four of those will be able to add to their tally. AFC Rapid Bucuresti striker Mugurel Buga helped the Romanian club eliminate Hamburger SV in the Round of 32 with a goal in each leg, while Frédéric Kanouté, Victoras Iacob and Aleksandr Kerzhakov were all on target this week to help Sevilla FC, FC Steaua Bucuresti and FC Zenit St. Petersburg respectively into the last eight.

Pos	Name	Club	Gls
1	Matías Delgado	FC Basel 1893	6
2	Brandão	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	5
2	Daniel Cousin	RC Lens	5
2	Dmitri Loskov	FC Lokomotiv Moskva	5
2	Frédéric Kanouté	Sevilla FC	5
2	Rafael van der Vaart	Hamburger SV	5
2	Karel Piták	SK Slavia Praha	5
2	Mugurel Buga	AFC Rapid Bucuresti	5
2	Victoras Iacob	FC Steaua Bucuresti	5
2	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	FC Zenit St. Petersburg	5
11	Andrei Arshavin	FC Zenit St. Petersburg	4
11	Nicolae Dica	FC Steaua Bucuresti	4
11	Ole Martin Årst	Tromsø IL	4
11	Emil Angelov	PFC Levski Sofia	4
11	Dorin Goian	FC Steaua Bucuresti	4
11	Daniel Carvalho	PFC CSKA Moskva	4
11	Omer Golan	Maccabi Petach-Tikva FC	4
11	Danijel Ljuboja	VfB Stuttgart	4
11	Igor Lebedenko	FC Lokomotiv Moskva	4
11	Javier Saviola	Sevilla FC	4

Totals from first round onwards

Delgado setting scoring standards

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