South African star Bongokuhle Hlongwane has now finished the 2024 Major League Soccer regular season as Minnesota United top goal scorer. Here's a look!
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It has been yet another brilliant season for Hlongwane on a individual front, as he is currently enjoying the highest scoring campaign of his professional career.
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In 32 matches in the MLS this season, Hlongwane has scored 11 goals, making him the Minnesota's most prolific star in 2024.
Additionally, he has contributed a further four assists in the process, taking his overall tally to 15 goal contributions, according to Transfermarkt.
In the 2023 MLS season, he only managed to score eight goals, marking a sizeable improvement in his third season with The Loons.
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Minnesota finished sixth on the MLS Western Conference, earning themselves a spot in the competition's play-off stage.
Hlongwane's side is now set to take on Real Salt Lake in the play-offs, with the sides set to play three matches against each other on 30 October as well as on 3 and 9 November 2024.
The attacker looks like a worthy contender of the club's player of the season.
Perhaps surprisingly, he has outscored the club's main striker Teemu Pukki despite the Bafana Bafana star being only a wide forward player.
Pukki, meanwhile, arrived at the club last year on hufge expectations after leading the line for several seasons at English second-tier side Norwich City.
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