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Wasteful Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang should have dominated Golden Boot battle

This year, for the first time since the trio of Dwight Yorke, Michael Owen and Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink all ended on 18 Premier League goals in 1998/99, three Premier League attackers have shared the Golden Boot.

The statisticians and historians had to wait 20 years for a repeat, with Liverpool pair of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane scoring 22 goals, while Arsenal’s Pierre Emerick Aubameyang’s brace on the final day at Burnley – matching Mane's output at Anfield against Wolverhampton Wanderers – saw him end level with the Reds’ dynamic duo.

It was no less than the Gabon frontman deserved after a campaign that saw him hit that tally in 36 games, with 30 being starts, at a scoring frequency of a goal every 124 minutes.