Mario Gomez: Champions League Golden Boot less important than winning games - UCL News
Bayern Munich striker, Mario Gomez, has revealed his desire of winning the Champions League rather think of winning the Golden Boot. He recently got past Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and is now the top goal scorer in the competition.
The striker expressed delight with his team’s 3-1 triumph of the Yellow Submarine which confirmed them as group A winners, following Manchester City’s loss to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Napoli-c40003.
Bayern had already qualified for the knock-out stage coming into Tuesday’s game and were looking to top the group of death.
Die Roten opened the scoring through Franck Ribery in just the third minute. Gomez doubled the advantage on the 23rd minute mark to eclipse http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 as the top scorer. Ribery scored again in the second half to restore Bayern’s lead after Villarreal
got one goal back immediately after the restart.
Gomez seemed pleased with his current run of form, but denied claims of having eyes on the Golden Boot award. He stated that his only priority is to win matches with the club and lead them as far as possible in the Champions League journey.
The player also congratulated his teammates on finishing atop their group with a game in hand against the Premier League leaders, Manchester City.
He also sent warning signals to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roberto-c31294 Mancini’s men ahead of their last group meeting on December 7. Gomez clearly revealed his intentions of bypassing City’s hurdle despite having qualified for the next round.
While talking to media after the game, the 26-year-old further enthused:
"As I sat on the bench, I heard that Napoli took the lead. This was perfect for us, of course, because we are group winners now. The task in Manchester is less important than the many difficult problems still awaiting us in the Bundesliga.”
"We still have four major obstacles in the Bundesliga, we want to win all of them. Then we'll see. We certainly will not take any game lightly."
The striker already has seven European goals this season from as many appearances and is also the leading goal scorer in the Bundesliga so far.
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