Can wingers Hulk, Reus, Ribery or Robben win World Cup Golden Boot?

winger, no less than brilliant Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov, last top-scored at a World Cup back in 1994.

Coral experts have put their heads together, and come up with four men from the flanks that are well worth betting on to win the Golden Boot in Brazil.

Hulk – 33/1
Zenit St Petersburg’s bulky wideman is averaging a goal every other game for the Russian heavyweights (16 in 28) in all competitions.

Hulk has also hit the net on eight occasions throughout 3/1 tournament favourites and hosts Brazil’s ‘World Tour’ in the build-up to the finals.

Punters may be put off by the fact that he failed to score for his country at last summer’s Confederations Cup on home soil.

Hulk put a year-long international goal drought behind him by netting in back-to-back matches at the back end of 2013.

Unlike Robinho and other older forwards, he is a favourite of Phil Scolari, who stuck with the muscular winger throughout his dry spell.

Brazil will battle Mexico (as well as Cameroon and Croatia) in Group A, and Hulk has an Olympic Games tournament final goal against that opposition to his name.

Arjen Robben – 40/1
Bayern Munich’s skilful Dutchman scored five times from 10 caps for the Netherlands in the calendar year of 2013. Robben has also netted at each of the last two World Cup tournaments.

Appointing Pep Guardiola to succeed treble-winning coach Jupp Heynckes has helped Bayern build on that foundation of trophies. Under the former Barcelona boss, Robben remains on target to have his best season in front of goal. He has 18 in all competitions.

With the playmaking presence of Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van der Vaart to find him, and Robin van Persie to make runs off and in support of, Robben could easily put a hot run of form together on South American soil.

The Clockwork Orange are facing a tough pool at the finals, however. Drawn in Group B with holders Spain, Chile and Australia, it is only the latter two matches where you can see Robben enjoying enough possession to score.