10 best forwards in world football at the moment

#8 Mauro Icardi

Remember the name - Mauro Icardi shows his jersey to the San Siro faithful

Club: Internazionale (Inter Milan)

Games played: 12

Goals: 11

Minutes played: 1,064

Shots per 90 mins: 3.25

Goals per 90 mins: 0.93

Goals per Shot: 0.29

Diego Maradona may insist that Mauro Icardi got into the Argentine national team because Wanda, Mauro's better-half, lobbied hard for him but the truth is that it would take a coach of incredible thickness-of-head (hello there, Edgardo) to keep Icardi out.

Inter's talisman, him of that iconic MI9 captain's armband, has been on fire for quite a while but he's slowly upping his own game and emerging - unmistakably - as one of the best no.9s in world football.

The much-awaited Derby Della Madonnina against newly refurbished AC saw the very best of Icardi when he scored a hattrick to guide the Nerazzurri past their rivals 3-2 - the second an athletic scissors kick that was quite simply phenomenal.

Inter have had plenty of great no.9s, but Icardi is en-route to making sure he's talked about in the same breath as the best of them.