Most amazing and Talented strikers in football 2024. Football is wildly known to be a collective game. The success of a team in the pitch determines how collective they have played.
In the midst of this, there is a role which looks like one of the most important role in the pitch. The striking position.
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The role of the modern day striker varies hugely depending on team’s style of play.
The likes of Erling Haaland, Harry Kane and Robert Lewandowski and victor osimhen among the top performers in world football as it stands.
You can have the most technical inverted full-back, the most powerful box-to-box midfielder, and the silkiest playmaker in the world, but they are all pretty irrelevant if your side isn’t blessed with a player who knows how to put the ball in the back of the net on a regular basis.
The following are list of striker who are raising the ranks on daily basis.
Erling Halaand:
Erling Haaland may not be as naturally gifted or as marketable as Kylian Mbappe, but he’s currently the best in the world at doing what a striker is employed to do: score goals.
Haaland is a freak of nature, an absolute phenomenon. Standing at 6’5 and blessed with a demonic turn of pace, the Norwegian superstar is football’s answer to Manchester city.
His knack for scoring goals has seen him fall into the welcoming lap of Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, and Haaland has made a mockery of anyone who believed that his frightening form wouldn’t translate over to the mean and nasty Premier League.
There’s a simplicity to Haaland’s game that’s almost eerie. He’s inevitable. He doesn’t miss convertible chances.
Last season he was the highest goal scorer in England, and highest goal scorer in the whole of Europe and this season he has started the journey again.
Harry Kane:
There have been plenty of times where the England skipper has looked like the best number nine/playmaker in the world. There isn’t a pass Kane can’t execute, nor a goal he can’t score.
The ever-elusive piece of silverware shouldn’t detract from Kane’s majesty and the 30-year-old has been a relentless goalscorer in Bavaria, just like he was in north London.
He does not only possess the ability to bag goals, he also has the qualities of a mid fielder.
Kane can distribute passes in the pitch. He’s so good at it that anyone who doesn’t know him would think he’s just a midfielder.
Lautaro Martinez:
Admirers of calcio fell in love with the genius striker partnership at Inter. Lautaro Martinez had struggled somewhat in his debut season at San Siro amid the backdrop of Mauro Icardi’s looming departure, but the arrivals of Antonio Conte and Romelu Lukaku brought Lautaro to life.
The Argentine immediately hit it off with the Belgian as Conte’s Inter finally ended Juventus’ decade-long reign as Italian champions.
The goals have continued to flow in Conte and Lukaku’s absence and the World Cup winner has hit new heights under Simone Inzaghi.
Overall, Lautaro is an intelligent, multi-faceted forward who excels out of possession.
Victor Osimhen:
Victor Osimhen’s Serie A record has now justified the mammoth fee Napoli paid Lille to secure his services in 2020.
He has exploded into life as part of a joyous Napoli attack and immediately instils fear into opposing defences as a result of his athleticism and relentlessness when running in behind.
The Nigeria international is one of the most valuable outlets in the world and led Napoli to their first Scudetto since the days of Diego Maradona.
He was instrumental during the just concluded African cup of Nations (AFCON).
Through his hard work and relentless efforts Nigeria booked their place in the finals of the competition.
Though he lost the game in the end, but he was considered as one of the best players in the tournament.
Robert Lewandowski:
Robert Lewandowski hasn’t always been given the credit he’s deserved – if not for a cancelled Ballon d’Or during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, he’d surely have one of the shiny golden balls by now.
After dominating the Bundesliga for a decade, Lewandowski opted to make the switch to Barcelona in the summer and he’s continued his fine work of scoring.
Through his experience and contributions to the team, Barca was able to eliminate Napoli in the UEFA champions league of which Lewandowski scored the goal that decided the match
The Poland international combines the finest attributes of his elite contemporaries to create a near-complete centre-forward.
Sure, he’s not as quick as Kylian Mbappe or as freakish as Erling Haaland, nor can he grow a beard like Karim Benzema or ping 80-yard diagonals as Harry Kane can, but Lewandowski is an efficient monster in his own right.
