Robert Lewandowski, Erling Haaland, Andrej Kramaric and the race to become the Bundesliga's top scorer
After winning a fifth Torjägerkanone as the Bundesliga's top scorer in 2019/20, the race is on to beat Robert Lewandowski to the coveted canon in 2020/21. Find out who's in the running below...
Club: Bayern Munich
Age: 32
Games: 17 (16 starts)
Goals: 23
Minutes per goal: 61
Bayern's prolific Pole is the man to beat once again in 2020/21. Lewandowski scored for the eighth successive game - and record eighth on the trot away from home - to make it 23 for the season in the 4-0 win at Schalke on Matchday 18.
Watch: Lewandowski first 251 Bundesliga goals (prior to Matchday 13)
Club: Borussia Dortmund
Age: 20
Games: 13 (12 starts)
Goals: 14
Minutes per goal: 78
Haaland hit a brace the 4-2 defeat to Borussia Mönchengladbach on Matchday 18 to take his tally to 14 for the season, and 27 in 28 Bundesliga matches all told.
Club: Eintracht Frankfurt
Age: 24
Games: 17 (17 starts)
Goals: 14
Minutes per goal: 104
Silva scored his fourth double of the campaign in the 5-1 rout of Arminia Bielefeld on Matchday 18. He has only failed to find the net in seven league games so far this term, and has already topped his 12-goal haul of 2019/20.
Club: Hoffenheim
Age: 29
Games: 14 (13 starts)
Goals: 12
Minutes per goal: 103
After scoring seven across his first four outings of the season, Kramaric ended a three-game goal drought with back-to-back braces in wins over Hertha Berlin and Cologne.
Club: Wolfsburg
Age: 28
Games: 18 (17 starts)
Goals: 12
Minutes per goal: 128
Wolfsburg's Dutch forward has scored 12 goals in his last 15 Bundesliga games, having opening his account for the campaign on Matchday 4 against Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Club: VfB Stuttgart
Age: 21
Games: 17 (16 starts)
Goals: 10
Minutes per goal: 130
Wamangituka has been one of the revelations at Stuttgart - and in the Bundesliga in general this season. The Congolese moved onto double figures on Matchday 18, albeit in a losing effort to south-west rivals Freiburg.
Club: Borussia Mönchengladbach
Age: 32
Games: 18 (14 starts)
Goals: 9
Minutes per goal: 129
Stindl scored three times against Frankfurt on Matchday 12, and continued his run of form with the opener against Hoffenheim on Matchday 13, before making it a team-leading ninth from the penalty spot in the Matchday 16 draw with VfB Stuttgart.
Club: Bayern Munich
Age: 31
Games: 18 (18 starts)
Goals: 9
Minutes per goal: 176
Müller scored a brace in the 4-0 triumph at Schalke on Matchday 18 to move onto nine for the season - one more than he managed across the entire 2019/20 campaign.
Club: Bayer Leverkusen
Age: 28
Games: 15 (8 starts)
Goals: 8
Minutes per goal: 102
The Argentinian was scoring for fun earlier this season, striking eight times between Matchdays 4 and 11, before missing a couple of games with a knee problem.
Club: Freiburg
Age: 32
Games: 18 (8 starts)
Goals: 7
Minutes per goal: 121
The Bundesliga's all-time greatest supersub has underlined his reputation again this season, with four of his seven league strikes to date arriving off the bench, taking his overall tally to 29 as a substitute. Petersen has scored three in his six most recent outings, netting against Hertha Berlin, Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt.
Club: Freiburg
Age: 27
Games: 18 (16 starts)
Goals: 7
Minutes per goal: 182
Freiburg's Italian playmaker hit his straps in late November and December, scoring four goals in five outings between Matchdays 9 and 13, before putting away his third penalty of the campaign in a 3-1 win away to Hoffenheim on Matchday 14.
Matheus Cunha, Nicolas Gonzalez and Max Kruse have six goals, while 19-year-old American Matthew Hoppe is among the players on five.