David Villa may have drawn a blank in Spain's quarter-final against Italy, apart from in the penalty shoot-out, but he remains top of the goalscoring standings with Roman Pavlyuchenko and Lukas Podolski leading the chase.

Pavlyuchenko closing
Villa's hat-trick against Russia in their opening Group D game – the teams will now be rematched in the semi-finals – is the key to the Valencia CF forward's supremacy, along with his last-gasp winner against Sweden four days later. One goal behind are Germany attacker Podolski, who also failed to register in the last eight against Portugal, Hakan Yakin of eliminated Switzerland, and Russia front man Pavlyuchenko, who added to his strikes against Spain and Sweden with the opener in their quarter-final defeat of the Netherlands.

Semih feat
Of the players on two goals, a pair of new contenders for the prize have emerged. Semih Şentürk's second equaliser as a Turkey substitute, at the end of extra time against Croatia, moved him into the reckoning – and he is likely to start against Germany on Wednesday given Nihat Kahveci's enforced departure. Meanwhile, having missed Russia's meetings with Spain and Greece through suspension, Andrei Arshavin has netted against Sweden and the Netherlands to stake a claim. Podolski and Villa remain two goals behind the leading marksman in the overall competition, including qualification, Northern Ireland's David Healy on 13.