Just a few weeks before the end of the year, the competition between the world's top two stars, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, is raging to win the European top scorer in 2018.
With the gap between the Barcelona striker and his Italian counterpart Juventus, the conflict over this year's title is still open between players who dominated the football awards for a full decade.
While Messi has 40 goals so far this year, Ronaldo has 37 goals, and the two rely on what remains for them until the end of 2018.
Ronaldo still has nine games to play, compared to eight games for Messi until the end of 2018, which will fuel competition among players for the rest of the year.
Since 2008, the duo has been the most important football prize in the world, but Croatian star Luka Modric has broken the deadlock recently when he was named FIFA World Player of the Year.
Ronaldo and Messi are also competing for the French Football magazine title, which will be announced in December.
