As it says on the tin. Who are the top 5 best finishers to play in the league. Inverted wingers included I.e. CR7’s of this world too but it has to be over their premier league career.
Top 5 EPL finishers
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Ade Akinbiyi
Alan Shearer
Aguero
Ruud
Fowler
Drogba
Tried to take it from different clubs.
Don't know before my time. I will let the old timers get those.
Aguero
Ruud
Fowler
Drogba
Tried to take it from different clubs.
Don't know before my time. I will let the old timers get those.
Maybe replace Thierry with Fowler.
Did so.
Did so.
1 Le Tissier
2 Fowler
3 Shearer
4 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
5 Cantona
2 Fowler
3 Shearer
4 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
5 Cantona
Kane / Shearer / Henry / Aguero / RVP.
Forgot about Ruud, he'd be in contention too.
Forgot about Ruud, he'd be in contention too.
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Drogba was a terrible finisher relatively speaking.
Phillips, Defoe, Fowler, Ruud, Ole, Aguero, Cole, Shearer, Owen.
Cantona and Le Tissier were not among the best finishers in the league when they played. Never mind of all time.
Jimmy is an irrelevance.
Henry
Shearer
Kane
Ruud
Aguero
Shearer
Kane
Ruud
Aguero
In no particular order:
Henry
Aguero
Kane
Ruud
Shearer
Henry
Aguero
Kane
Ruud
Shearer
Snap
Haha
In order.
Shearer
Henry
RVN
Cole
Rooney
Shearer
Henry
RVN
Cole
Rooney
They were, when they got chances it was curtains for the opposition. Jimmy Floyd was lethal from basically everywhere with the goal on sight.
Robbie Fowler was the best natural finisher in the EPL.
Cole?
if he was lethal he'd be the prem all time scorer. The man was the definition of wasteful.Guess so. Relatively, yeah.
Possibly, he made finishing look ridiculously easy.
In no order:
Fowler
Shearer
Ruud
Ole
Henry
Ole has to be on the list. I can’t remember him fluffing his line unlike Kane whose done it plenty and a bunch of times against us thankfully.
Fowler
Shearer
Ruud
Ole
Henry
Ole has to be on the list. I can’t remember him fluffing his line unlike Kane whose done it plenty and a bunch of times against us thankfully.
If he was, probably should have had more goals? Two good seasons almost 30 years ago when the league was something else entirely, the rest not very impressing. Injuries messed him over as usual as it often does. He also never played for a top team, I’ll give him that.
Not true at all. None of those three were top tier finishers.
He wasn’t. He was clinical. That myth has been shot to shit a million times over.Cole?
No particular order:
Shearer
van Nistelrooy
Fowler
Henry
Aguero
Shearer
van Nistelrooy
Fowler
Henry
Aguero
Ruud
Aguero
Shearer
Ole
Owen
Aguero
Shearer
Ole
Owen
No order:
Ruud
Solskjaer
Aguero
Shearer
Fowler
Ruud
Solskjaer
Aguero
Shearer
Fowler
Spot on.
By who? Trust me, that man was far from clinical. He was probably the best no9 in the league outside of his finishing.
Out and out clinical finishing. I would go for Shearer and RVN. Henry, Drogba and Aguero were also lethal.
You knew they were gonna break the net with some of their positioning/runs in the box.
You knew they were gonna break the net with some of their positioning/runs in the box.
Isn't that an urban legend because of what Hoddle said years ago (he needs 5 chances to score)?
I seem to remember a load of football sites coming out with stats that showed how good his conversion ration was?
Can you link the ones that show his ratio was poor?
Cole has 187 PL goals, the 3rd most in the history of the league. This thread is best finishers, he scored more than all but 2. You can’t argue against stats my friend.Cole?
Very bad myth. Can’t believe a United fan actually believes that. If he had anymore goals he’d be up there with CR7 and them.
RVN
Kane
Henry
Aguero
Shearer
Kane
Henry
Aguero
Shearer
Ever?
- van Nistelrooy
- Agüero
- Shearer
- Henry
- Fowler
Honorable mention to Frank Lampard. Good striker of the ball and nerve-free when a chance presented itself.
A different kind of finisher but was as good from long range as he was ghosting into the box and finishing first time.
A different kind of finisher but was as good from long range as he was ghosting into the box and finishing first time.
Very good shout.
Can't we just pull up goals/chance?
Shearer
Fowler
Henry
Solskjær
Persie
then
Aguero
Eduardo
Lampard
Crespo
Kane
Fowler
Henry
Solskjær
Persie
then
Aguero
Eduardo
Lampard
Crespo
Kane
Statistically, Kane, Shearer and Aguero stand out a way ahead of everyone else. Kane just finished his 200th PL app so comparing on the basis of goals/first 200 PL games seems apt. They all got ~135 goals. The difference between Kane and Aguero is literally a single goal.
Kane and Shearer play(ed) for notably inferior teams to Aguero though. And there's quite a few substitute appearances in there for Kane too. On a per-minute basis, Kane has a better ratio than Aguero over the same period. I can't remember off the top of my head how that affects Shearer.
Overall, Kane and Aguero have the best GPG and GPM ratios in PL history, having switched between first and second place several times over the years. After those two, there's a bit of a gap.
I can't believe how many people don't have Kane in their top 5s. He's objectively one of the best by every metric available. And if you go watch a "best goals" compilation on YouTube, I suspect many would be surprised by how good the goals are considering his minor reputation as a tap-in/penalty merchant. (Total myths, by the way. Some prolific strikers are more dependent on penalties -- not that there's anything wrong with penalties: the idea that they "hardly count" as goals is just silly when you see much easier chances than pens being scored every weekend. And he has some of the highest tallies of goals from outside the box.)
Here's a decent compilation from Spurs' own YT channel for your consideration/viewing pleasure:
Kane and Shearer play(ed) for notably inferior teams to Aguero though. And there's quite a few substitute appearances in there for Kane too. On a per-minute basis, Kane has a better ratio than Aguero over the same period. I can't remember off the top of my head how that affects Shearer.
Overall, Kane and Aguero have the best GPG and GPM ratios in PL history, having switched between first and second place several times over the years. After those two, there's a bit of a gap.
I can't believe how many people don't have Kane in their top 5s. He's objectively one of the best by every metric available. And if you go watch a "best goals" compilation on YouTube, I suspect many would be surprised by how good the goals are considering his minor reputation as a tap-in/penalty merchant. (Total myths, by the way. Some prolific strikers are more dependent on penalties -- not that there's anything wrong with penalties: the idea that they "hardly count" as goals is just silly when you see much easier chances than pens being scored every weekend. And he has some of the highest tallies of goals from outside the box.)
Here's a decent compilation from Spurs' own YT channel for your consideration/viewing pleasure:
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Totally forgot about Kane but agree with you. He has that RVN style which means you tend not to appreciate him unless he’s your striker. But definitely Top 5 ever.