The 2024 MLS season is well underway and Atlanta United FC<\/u>‘s<\/u> Giorgios<\/u> Giakoumakis<\/u> has overtaken Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi<\/u> as the odds-on favorite to win the MLS Golden Boot award.<\/p>\n
The 2023 MLS Newcomer of the Year has had a scorching start to his season, scoring five goals in three consecutive matches, including a hat trick against New England Revolution on March 9.<\/p>\n
RELATED: <\/strong><\/i>For MLS, Concacaf’s Champions Cup remains the ultimate litmus test<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n Giakoumakis opened the season with +1600 odds but has surged up the board to +430 and has moved past Messi to win the Golden Boot.<\/p>\n Dealing with a hamstring injury, Messi has been forced to miss four games, which dropped his odds to +490 from +270.<\/p>\n Prior to his injury, Messi had three goals in three regular season matches and two goals in tournament play.<\/p>\n Tied with Messi is his Inter Miami teammate Luis Su\u00e1rez, whose odds moved to +490 from +850.\u00a0<\/p>\n Suarez filled the void during Messi’s time injured, scoring three goals in those missed games and currently has five goals overall in MLS play.<\/p>\n Let’s take a look at the Golden Boot odds on FanDuel Sportsbook as the MLS season begins.<\/p>\n ODDS TO WIN 2024 MLS GOLDEN BOOT: *<\/strong><\/p>\n Giorgios Giakoumakis<\/u>, Atlanta United FC<\/u>: +430 (bet $10 to win $53 total) * odds as of 4\/4\/24<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n Who are you backing to claim the Golden Boot award at the end of the MLS<\/u> season?\u00a0<\/p>\n Stay tuned to <\/i>FOX Sports<\/u><\/i> as the action unfolds!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2024 MLS season is well underway and Atlanta United FC‘s Giorgios Giakoumakis has overtaken Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi as the odds-on favorite to win the MLS Golden Boot award. The 2023 MLS Newcomer of the Year has had a scorching start to his season, scoring five goals in three consecutive matches, including a hat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lionel Messi<\/u>, Inter Miami CF<\/u>: +490 (bet $10 to win $59 total)
Luis Suarez, Inter Miami CF<\/u>: +490 (bet $10 to win $59 total)
Lewis Morgan, New York Red Bulls: +1300 (bet $10 to win $140 total)
Christian Benteke<\/u>, D.C. United<\/u>: +1600 (bet $10 to win $170 total)
Cristian Arango, Real Salt Lake: +1600 (bet $10 to win $170 total)
Dejan Joveljic, Los Angeles Galaxy: +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)
Cucho Hern\u00e1ndez, Columbus Crew SC: +2300 (bet $10 to win $240 total)
Denis Bouanga<\/u>, Los Angeles FC<\/u>: +2300 (bet $10 to win $240 total)<\/p>\n