It’s clear the best strikers of the last 15 years to now are Lewandowski, Suarez, Benzema, Kane, Haaland. Here’s my ranking of them based on big game performances.

  1. Benzema. Even before his Bdor season, he regularly showed up in big CL games with goals, assists and key passes even if he might play like a donkey in the league. It helped that he was with Real and had qualities all around.

  2. Suarez. Often went missing in CL, but regularly cooked Real in El Classico and showed up big for his national team.

  3. Lewandowski. Hit and miss during big games. Was more of a big game player for Dortmund than Bayern & Barca. Had some memorable performances like vs Real in CL, Bayern in cup, vs Chelsea in CL.

  4. Kane. Statistically the best finisher and based on eye test the best striker of the ball. Has been relatively quiet in big games. Did show up vs big teams in PL.

  5. Haaland. Literally a stat merchant at this point but still has a lot of time to improve.

  • vengM9@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Suarez’ goalscoring record in the UCL (27 goals in 73 games) is identical to Morata’s (26 in 75) and obviously nowhere near the rest 4 guys in the list. In comparison the “stat merchant” has already scored 10 goals more than Suarez, in 40 less appearences.

    And yet he still has more goals in the final than everyone else on this list except for Benzema who he has as many goals in the final as despite the fact Benzema started in 5 finals and only managed to score when a brain damaged Karius gave him the ball to score an open goal.

    Suarez has scored/assisted in a lot of big games in the CL. He rarely stat pads against shite group teams but his record against tough teams is solid.

    2010/11 - Two assists for Ajax against Milan

    2014/15 - 3 goals 1 assist vs PSG, 2 goals vs Manchester City, 2 assists vs Bayern, 1 goal vs Juventus (which was the winning goal)

    2015/16 - 3 goals 1 assist vs Roma, 1 goal 1 assist vs Arsenal, 2 goals vs Atletico Madrid

    2016/17 - 1 assist vs Manchester City, 1 goal and 1 penalty won vs PSG

    2017/18 - 1 assist vs Juventus, 2 assists vs Chelsea, 1 goal and his shot rebounded for a goal vs Roma

    2018/19 - 1 assist vs Tottenham, 2 assists vs Lyon, 1 goal vs Liverpool

    2019/20 - 2 goals 1 assist vs Inter, 1 goal 1 assist vs Dortmund, 1 goal vs Bayern

    None of those goals were penalties btw

    So, the last competitions you could really say he showed up BIG for his country were the 2010 WC and 2011 Copa America, when the guy was still playing in Eredivisie.

    What the fuck does playing in the Eredivisie have to do with 2010 WC and 2011 CA? Do you not realise how dumb that point is? You seriously felt like that needed to be in bold? How does that negate anything about his performances in those tournaments? He was still insanely good whilst at Ajax anyway. Tore apart Milan in the CL. He scored/performed in more big international games in those two tournaments than the others have their entire careers. Literally scored and assisted in the final of the Copa America and was named player of the tournament but I guess it doesn’t count because of the league he was in?

    2014 he also scored a double against England which secured Uruguay’s promotion out of the group. 2018 he linked up very well and played a nice pass to assist the first goal with Cavani against Portugal.

    Nobody else on this list comes close to him for international tournaments.