Strikers are arguably the most important players in a football team. It’s the attack-minded player who changes the game, who score match winners and they are players that a coach will look to for inspiration and a result.
ESPN FC provided the list of TOP 10 striker in a world elite football. Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane is leading the list.
Harry Kane
Tottenham-England/ Age: 25
Harry Kane has 50 goals and 4 assists during the 2017/18 season. He became the top scorer in the World Cup as England sealed the 4
th place by losing to Belgium.
Sergio Aguero
Manchester City-Argentina/Age: 30
Sergio Aguero became Manchester City’s joint all-time leading goalscorer. This season, the striker has managed to score 8 goals in his 13 Premier League appearances and provided 3 assists.
Edinson Cavani
Paris Saint-Germain- Uruguay/ Age: 31
Last year, in 2017/18 campaign Edinson Cavani scored 40 goals in his 48 appearances and provided seven assists. This season so far, Cavani has scored 11 goals in his 15 appearances.
Luis Suarez
Barcelona-Uruguay/ Age: 31
Barcelona striker last year scored 31 goals in his 51 appearances. This campaign so far, he has managed to score 9 goals in his 18 appearances and has provided 4 assists.
Robert Lewandowski
Bayern Munich-Poland/ Age: 30
Robert Lewandowski scored 41 goals in his 48 club games and provided 5 assists. This season so far, he has managed to score 17 goals in 19 games and has provided 4 assists.
Romelu Lukaku
Manchester United- Belgium/ Age: 25
The Belgium star scored 27 goals and provided 9 assists in his 51 games for the club last season. However, he has scored only 5 goals and provided only 2 assists in his 19 games so far this season.
Diego Costa
Atletico Madrid-Spain/ Age: 30
In the last season, Costa scored 7 goals and provided 6 assists in his 23 games. This season so far, Costa has scored 4 goals and provided 2 assists in 15 club games.
Mario Mandzukic
Juventus-Croatia/Age: 32
Juventus star scored 10 goals and provided four assists in 43 club games, in this campaign so far, Mandzukic has scored 7 goals and provided 2 assists in his 15 games.
Gonzalo Higuain
Milan-Argentina/Age: 30
Now Milan, then Juventus striker Higuain scored 23 goals and provided 8 assists in his 50 appearances last season. Since his move to AC Milan, the striker has managed to score 7 goals and provided 3 assists in his 14 club games.
Mauro Icardi
Inter Milan-Argentina/ Age: 25
Icardi scored 29 goals and provided only one assist in his 36 games last season. This season so far, the true striker has scored 11 goals and provided 2 assists in his 16 club games.
This is statistics, according to the Transfermarket. However, why ESPN FC put them in this particular order you can read
here.