Thanks to his goal scored against Hungary and the first letter of his last name, Michel Aebischer sits at the top of the competition’s scorers rankings.
Michel Aebischer, the big man when the Swiss team entered the fray in Cologne. © Keystone
Published on 06/19/2024
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Jude Bellingham, Alvaro Morata, Florian Wirtz? Everyone behind him. Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane, Cristiano Ronaldo, Romelu Lukaku? To absent subscribers. While all the teams have entered the competition in Germany and while waiting for the start of the second day, this Wednesday at 3 p.m., Michel Aebischer is the top scorer of Euro 2024. Here it is… Heitenried!
Our professional conscience, however, obliges us to specify that the Bologna midfielder shares this position with 30 other players. As no star was able to score a double in the opening of the tournament, we find a cohort of goleadors with one goal in the first place. But in the name of alphabetical order, which is used to define the order of publication on the UEFA website, Aebischer crushes the competition. And to think that the maiden name of the mother of the Fribourgeois is Schafer. This article almost never existed.
Let’s dare to write it, even if it means being called a chauvinist: Michel Aebischer deserves this provisional – and not entirely true – title of top scorer in the Euro. Did he not, in addition to his victorious shot, provide a delicious assist against Hungary?
And that’s not nothing! Only three other players entered in the tournament have accumulated two points, as we would say in ice hockey: the German Kai Havertz and the Spaniard Fabian Ruiz (1 goal, 1 assist as well) as well as the Romanian Dennis Man (2 assists) . Statistics that Michel Aebischer will have the opportunity to improve this Wednesday evening at 9 p.m., against Scotland.
