Kosovo Pirate surpasses Eto'o and hots up La Liga scoring race

Kosovo Pirate surpasses Eto'o and hots up La Liga scoring race

Mallorca are in the fight against relegation in La Liga, but the former club of legend Samuel Eto'o have a major ace up their sleeve!

Vedat Muriqi, the "Kosovo Pirate," is in great form, enjoying the highest-scoring season of his career.

The striker has heated up the race for the league's top scorer award and has just broken a historic record that belonged to Eto'o himself.

With the two goals he scored last Sunday (12) in the 3-0 win over Rayo Vallecano, the Kosovar reached 55 goals for the club in the Spanish Championship, surpassing Eto'o, who had 54 in the competition.

The Cameroonian, however, still holds a 13-goal advantage if we take into account the total numbers across all competitions played by Mallorca (69 to 56).

Muriqi is in sensational form, with 21 goals in this La Liga season.

In the last five matches alone, he has scored five goals.

To give you an idea of Muriqi's impact on Mallorca, here's an impressive stat!

The team have scored 39 goals in the entire league campaign, which means the "Pirate" is directly responsible for more than 53% of the team's goals, and he has also already provided an assist.

Besides the two against Rayo, he scored twice against Osasuna and netted a hugely important goal late in the match against Real Madrid, right after the Merengues had equalized.

With his latest goals, the center forward cut the gap to just two goals behind Kylian Mbappé.

The Frenchman is currently La Liga's top scorer, but he has not found the net in the league since February 8.

Despite the individual brilliance of their striker, Mallorca sit only 15th in the table with 34 points, just two ahead of Elche, the team that currently opens the relegation zone.

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