What would happen if Mbappé and Muriqi end up tied in the ‘Pichichi Trophy’?

There are nonetheless incentives in LaLiga EA Sports activities 2025-26, when there may be nonetheless in the future left to decrease the curtain. One is to know the winner of the ‘Pichichi Trophy’ awarded every season by the newspaper Marca. Actual Madrid’s French striker Kylian Mbappé leads the rating of high scorers with 24 objectives, simply two greater than Mallorca’s Kosovar attacker Vedat Muriqi. The third place, Ante Budimir (Osasuna), accumulates 17 objectives, an insurmountable distance to be topped.

Mbappé (27 years previous), who already received the 2024-25 ‘Pichichi Trophy’ with 31 objectives, forward of Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski (27), and Muriqi (32 years previous), who scored seven objectives within the League final season, have been unable to attain within the final league matchday, of their respective matches in opposition to Sevilla on the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán and in opposition to Levante on the Ciutat de Valencia.

It is going to be essential to see if within the Actual Madrid-Athletic match subsequent Saturday (9:00 p.m.), Mbappé will increase his scoring tally (24 objectives, eight from penalties, in 30 video games), so long as Álvaro Arbeloa offers him minutes within the Merengues’ farewell this season in entrance of their followers. It’s value remembering that within the earlier residence duel in opposition to Actual Oviedo, the Frenchman solely performed the ultimate stretch and obtained a historic whistle from the Bernabéu, when he changed youth participant Gonzalo García.

Muriqi takes on relegated Oviedo

If Mbappé didn’t play or performed just a few minutes, Muriqi’s probabilities of successful the ‘Pichichi Trophy’ would a priori enhance, both shared or alone. The Kosovar striker (32 years previous), who has gathered 22 objectives – 5 from penalties – in 36 video games, receives the already relegated Actual Oviedo in Son Moix in a duel that can even be performed this Saturday (9:00 p.m.), by which Mallorca will play a keep that’s greater than sophisticated, because it must win sure or sure and hope for a collection of additionally favorable outcomes

Assuming that Mbappé performs and doesn’t rating in opposition to Athletic and that Muriqi is ready to rating a double in opposition to Actual Oviedo, one thing he has already carried out 4 instances this season, each attackers would find yourself tied with 24 objectives within the ‘Pichichi Trophy’. What would occur then if there’s a tie? Based on the newspaper Marca, “there isn’t any tie-breaking criterion. Neither by minutes, nor by assists, nor by fewer penalty objectives, or something. There can be two Pichichis,” mentioned newspaper clarified in an info revealed on its web site on Might 24, 2024, signed by Miguel Ángel García. It may even occur that Muriqi descends in class proclaiming himself ‘Pichichi’.

The ‘Pichichi Trophy’ has solely been shared 5 instances all through historical past. The final time was within the 1983-84 season, greater than 40 years in the past, when the legendary Juan Gómez, ‘Juanito’ (Actual Madrid) and the Uruguayan Jorge ‘Polilla’ da Silva (Actual Valladolid) completed tied with 17 objectives.