Best Goal Scorer/ Finisher you’ve seen.

Pinched from TalkSport whilst driving tonight.

Who is the best goal scorer/finisher you have ever seen. Not striker but finisher. Can name one as the best plus one or two worthy mentions.

For me the best ever finisher was Jimmy Greaves. He was cool, cold and calculating in front of goal.

Worthy mentions for me go to Alan Shearer and Van Basten.

 

Mickey Quinn ... soooo many goals

 

Ruud van Nistelroy - once sat next to him on flight to Amsterdam. He had a huge arse - the mark of any good striker.

Shearer was a much better scorer of spectacular goals but van Nistelroy had that knack of being in the right place at the right time.

Good article here on strikers with highest rates of goals scored from inside the box.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....-area-box-goals-percentage-sportgalleries/amp

Vardy is up there as well.

 

Papiss Cisse for his 1st half season

 

Greaves, Law, Linekar.

Hate to say it, especially as he had nothing else to his game, but Owen, at his peak only needed a sniff.

 

Currently Aubameyang, finishes like he's making a simple pass at times.

Cole and Shearer for historical purposes.

 

fabrice pancrates

 

God aka Robbie Fowler. ****ing genius

 

Ian Rush was amazing for Liverpool in the 80s, scored pretty much every chance he got. Likewise Linekar when he was at Leicester and Everton.

For us, I'd say Andy Cole, he was freakin unstoppable at the end of our championship season and first year in the Prem.

 

Peter Beardsley
Right foot, left foot, head
He had it all
Setting up others as well
An earlier version of Messi

 

It pains me to say it as I think he 's a knob, but best finisher I've seen is Cristiano Ronaldo. Since going to Madrid after leaving Man U, he has been absolutely deadly. One on one he barely ever misses. Tap ins headers, the lot.

David Villa and Samuel Eto would be up there too at their respective peaks.

Going back a little I'd say Romario was absolutely deadly. Going back a bit further Paolo Rossi was a great finisher and johnny on the spot. Muller was just before my time but my father always waxed lyrical about his finishing.

Its a bit weird though because a natural finisher was more a thing in the early 90's and back over. The likes of Linerker etc. The likes of Van NIstelrooy, Cole and Fowler I think were the last of that breed. Now we seem to want a lot more. Vardy is outstanding at converting the chances he gets.

 

Ah, Lionel Messi - the Argentinian Beardsley......

 

Batistuta

 

Same way my dad always goes on about Supermac, never saw him play but everyone who did says he was incredible.

Beardsley (second spell was better than first) was the most skillful player I've seen for us, and Andy Cole the most deadly finisher. Shearer was a legend, but those 2 at their peak both better him imo. Les Ferdinand's peak was also awesome.

In modern times C.Ronaldo, Zlatan, Messi and Aguero all have to be mentioned, as does Salah, his first Liverpool season was ridiculous.

 

Supermac was incredible.



He was but he wasn’t a finisher as such. He was just exciting to watch with speed, aggression and a thunderbolt of a left foot.

Gerd Muller is a good call, had forgotten about him. Andy Cole was deadly for a shortish period essentially until Man Utd tried to make him a footballer and ruined him as a finisher.

 

Was Andy Cole deadly? Remember lots of chat (obviously not online) that he needed 7 or 8 chances to get a goal and the reason he scored so many was the quality of the service hence why now we don;t score (unless your Chaos hitting on WP)

 

joselu

 

In the first season in the PL he scored 40 goals. We were good but we didn’t create 280 chances for him and for everybody else to score as well. He had a season and a half where when there was a chance he scored. He then went off the boil, relatively speaking, and then we sold him to Man Utd.

 

When I was a kid and developing into a massive football fan Owen was insanely good. To this day, I must say in Prime Owen is the best striker I've ever seen in pure goalscoring ability. He never lost that ability to score from half a chance to be entirely fair to him, but my god, in his day he was simply immense.

Fat Ronaldo was also god tier.

Despite all that, I will say:
Andriy Shevchenko my all time favourite footballer and therefore I'd have to give him my vote. At AC he was simply amazing, skillful, strong, fast, everything you want in a forward. He had so many aspects of his game, if I was a billionaire like Abramovic I also would have pulled out all the stops to get that man playing for my football club.