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Given the extra weight goals in the Liga carry, two more will overhaul Čekulajevs.</p><p>Third-ranked Seydou Doumbia, meanwhile, is unlikely to be there by the time the Russian league campaign resumes in March. FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Arsenal FC's Robin van Persie are within a goal of the PFC CSKA Moskva man's 36-point total, with Mario Gomez of FC Bayern München a further strike off that pace.</p><p>With the Premier League the only big domestic competition continuing over the Christmas period, English-based strikers have been given an additional opportunity to shine. Newcastle United FC's Demba Ba seized it; since UEFA.com's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120112033935/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/news/newsid=1736918.html">last Golden Shoe update</a> on 19 December, the Senegalese hitman has registered four times.</p><p><strong>ESM Golden Shoe standings: 8 January 2012</strong></p><p>1. Aleksandrs Čekulajevs (JK Trans Narva) 46 x 1 = 46 <br/>2. 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