Kane usurps Messi as Europe´s top scorer in 2017

Harry Kane s second goal against Southampton saw the Tottenham striker overtake Lionel Messi as Europe s top scorer in 2017 with 55.

The England international scored a hat-trick in Saturday s 3-0 win over Burnley to move to 53 goals for club and country in the calendar year.

That treble put him one behind Barcelona superstar Messi, who earlier that day scored a penalty in his final game of 2017 – a 3-0 defeat of Real Madrid in El Clasico at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Kane moved level with Messi by heading his first against the Saints at Wembley on Tuesday – breaking Alan Shearer s record of 36 Premier League goals in one year in the process.

And a stunning 12 months for the 24-year-old was capped off with his second, a simple tap-in from Son Heung-m…