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From Tom Rostance
BBC Sport
Even a World Cup Golden Boot winner with 130 Premier League targets, the PFA Young Player of the Year or help one of the brightest young talents of football and every 103 minutes in the top flight.
Is there a three in world football at the second than Raheem Sterling, Harry Kane and Jadon Sancho?
They are as exciting as anything, was director Gareth Southgates evaluation of Englands attacking options after beating Bulgaria last month.
Kane, Sterling and Sancho have scored or assisted 120 goals between them in the Premier League, Bundesliga and for England. Can anybody on earth piece with a superior strikeforce?
Chart shows joint targets and assists for three chosen players per country from the start of the year to Tuesday October 2019 in league games and internationals.
With team shapes and selections making a direct comparison tricky, this isnt an specific science. But weve chosen a three and youll be able to vote at the base for the best.
Southgate took England to the World Cup playing a back three with Kane and Sterling ahead. However he has since changed into a front three, together using Borussia Dortmunds Sancho replacement the Marcus Rashford for the win against Kosovo, their most recent match of Manchester United. Those three today seem to be the directors first-choice assault.
No other team in Europe can beat Englands haul of 19 goals in Euro 2020 qualifying going to the internationals of this week – theyre par by France and Belgium.
Sterling has outscored Kane for club and country over the previous 14 weeks – with eight goals to England in his last nine appearances. His 12 goal involvements (goals and assists) will be the most since the start of last year for any player we looked at across the top 10 nations on earth.
Sancho scored double against Kosovo – his first goals – and is definitely the player available to Southgate. His 19 league assists are nearly twice the following best – Sterling – while his 132 completed dribbles put him 37 apparent of the Manchester City man.
Kane (26), Sterling (24) and Sancho (19) all have age on their side also. They are the trio – by approximately two decades – of some of those strikeforces we looked at.
Belgium will be the number-one rated side in the planet so that its perhaps no surprise that their choices are rich and varied. Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne has played the best of the three at times – but he is being disregarded as he does when everyone is healthy and wants to play deeper.
In order that they get the nod for us, Dries Mertens eden Hazard and Romelu Lukaku have begun the most internationals because the start of last season.
Hazard has had his injury problems last summer, since departing Chelsea he stays a world-class attacker – no other participant we looked in has created more chances. Lukaku might have suffered a poor last period at Manchester United – and that he does not produce much for those around him – but he knows exactly where the objective is.
He averages a goal every 58 seconds over the previous 14 months to Belgium. No other participant on our long list has scored more goals that were international in that span than his nine.
World rated number two in the entire world and also Cup holders – France might have the best strength in depth in world soccer right now. Somewhere at LEquipe someones offices could have place Monaco striker Wissam Ben Yedder in their version of the piece ahead of Olivier Giroud et voila – .
But Giroud – even though hardly playing with Chelsea in the Premier League – remains first option for Les Bleus, starting 11 internationals. Of all of the forwards, in actuality we looked at only team-mate Antoine Griezmann and Brazils Roberto Firmino have begun more in that moment.
Paris St-Germains Kylian Mbappe stays a phenomenal talent and polished in the World Cup. Not Lionel Messi can match his league record of a goal every 77 minutes.
When match, love him or despise him , Neymar stays the man for Brazil. He missed a great deal of games last year but weighed in with almost a goal per match for Paris St-Germain from the league, and he won his 100th international cap on Thursday. Hes 61 goals about the list – only behind Pele and Ronaldo for his state. Since the beginning of last season he has seven assists for Brazil – over any other forward we analysed for these top 10 states.
Who should perform alongside Neymar? Liverpools own Roberto Firmino has launched 15 times for Brazil in the past 14 weeks, with Gabriel Jesus of Manchester City and also Richarlison of Everton sharing the third spot most often. Jesus gets us the nod as hes scored eight goals at the time compared to Richarlisons six. Tough lines.
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 93 goals for Portugal and reveals no sign of slowing although he can be 34.
Portugal have tended to play the side of Ronaldo – Manchester Citys Bernardo and AC Milans Andre – over the previous 12 months. Andre Silva might have been packaged off to nightclubs in Spain and Germany loan but remains a key man for his nation. He played games for Portugal since the start of last season than Ronaldo.
Bernardo Silva is more of a midfielder however plays wide right of a three and has five assists in his past 10 caps.
Atletico Madrid paid 113m for adolescent Joao Felix and he began Portugals last match – but hes yet to score for his country at three appearances.
Were shoehorning a little here Uruguay and Edinson Cavani a pairing that is regimented and Luis Suarez played with a rigid 4-4-2 in the Copa America this summer. Those two and former Middlesbrough man Cristhian Stuani are the guys but are 32 years older – .
Old but gold – that the trio remain deadly at league level. Cavani is Paris St-Germains all-time leading goalscorer and his shots on target to goals record is frankly ridiculous in Ligue 1. They go in the stands or in the Web.
Suarez remains a focal point for Barcelona and will be the creative one of the trio. On top of the possibilities he lays at the Nou Camp, the former Liverpool man has created chances for Uruguay (13) than the other two joined.
Spains attack is in a state of transition. While Suso, Mikel Isco and Oyarzabal have played in attack in recent matches arsenal midfielder Dani Ceballos started at front three last month from Romania.
Weve gone with goalscorers who have started a minimum of five internationals in the last year – the Alvaro Morata of Atletico Madrid, Rodrigo of both Valencia and Iago Aspas of Celta Vigo. Aspas and Rodrigo began both matches in the Nations League of last year.
Problems here – Croatia only play with one up front and also Leicester man Andrej Kramaric is out with an injury right now. Bruno Petkovic is the next cab off the rank – he has scored in five appearances for the World Cup finalists recently. However, as he plays in his eponymous for Dinamo Zagreb – maybe not in one of Europesbig leagues – though hes scored 20 goals in 43 games for club and country we dont have detailed data because of his league achievements.
Still another group facing a transitional stage up front, together with James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao not in the current squad but starters at summers Copa America. Falcao is injured at the moment.
Duvan Zapata was excellent for Atalanta season and deserves his place.
And then theres Messi.
The one has been an enigma on the stage, playing in the Copa America alongside Paulo Dybala and Sergio Aguero but suspended since he had been sent off from Chile. He retired in the international scene.
Look to Barcelona at his numbers however – 91 shots on goal, 37 goals, 97 opportunities created. We looked in despite frequently dropping deep to get on the ball he had more shots on target in the league than any other player, and opportunities were made by Hazard. Mbappe (34) has been the only other man to score over 30 league goals in precisely exactly the identical period.
Dybala overlooks our choice because a) he has just scored six league goals for Juventus at 35 appearances, and b) Lautaro Martinez has scored nine goals in 10 starts for his nation.
Youve seen the data, without doubt disagree with a number of our selections.
Time to vote.
There was somebody out there that did do it and who would do it again
Whos the finest front three in the world?
This vote will close at 19:00 BST on Friday 11 October. You could vote only once.
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