Here’s your starter for ten. Which English footballer has scored the most goals in the Bundesliga?
How about Harry Kane? No, although he’ll undoubtedly top the list sooner rather than later. Okay, it must be Kevin Keegan because he won the Ballon D’Or in 1978 and 1979 when playing for Hamburg. Incorrect.
Well then, let’s go for Tony Woodcock, a dual European Cup winner with Nottingham Forest who played for FC Koln? Nope and you’re out of guesses.
The answer is Jadon Sancho who scored his 40th goal in Germany’s top flight at the weekend when he hit the net for Borussia Dortmund in a 4-1 defeat at RB Leipzig. Since January the 24-year-old has been on loan with BVB, where he spent four successful years from 2017 to 2021, after falling out with Manchester United manager Erik Ten Hag.
He also scored in a 2-0 home victory over PSV Eindhoven to help Dortmund into the Champions League quarter-finals where they then beat Atletico Madrid after a couple of humdingers in Spain and on home soil to set up a semi-final battle with Paris Saint-Germain.
The Ligue 1 champions reached this stage of the competition by beating Barcelona over two legs and their attack is led by classy Kylian Mbappe, who is set to move to Real Madrid at the end of the season.
He has scored eight of his 43 goals this season in the Champions League and is obviously a big threat to a Dortmund side beset by injuries.
Winning the final at Wembley on Saturday, June 1 would equate to getting their hands on the holy grail for PSG and they head across the border full of confidence after taking four points off Dortmund in the group stages.
They are also unbeaten in 15 games away from home in all competitions stretching way back to a 2-1 reversal at AC Milan at the beginning of November.
Mbappe can send PSG to victory by opening the scoring at 15/4 with bet365 and he’s a concrete bet at 11/10 with the same firm to get on the scoresheet at any time.
Sancho is 4/1 with SpreadEx to find the net but back PSG to win at 29/20 with bet365 and Betfair while a 2-1 victory for the Parisians is 10/1 with William Hill.
• Aidan O’Brien’s classy City of Troy will take some beating in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday. Triumphant in all three starts last year, including the Dewhurst Stakes over course and distance, the bay colt must be followed even at 4/6, which is available with multiple firms. Fallen Angel, trained by Karl Burke, is 7/2 with William Hill for the 1,000 Guineas on Sunday.
• Globetrotting Japanese raider Forever Young, a fine winner already this year at Medan and Riyadh, looks each-way gold for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs when the 150th Run for the Roses is staged on Saturday. Also victorious on home soil in his young undefeated career, he’s worthing supporting at 8/1 with Betfred, bet365 and Paddy Power.
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