10 best forwards in world football at the moment

By Anirudh Menon

Modified Nov 09, 2017 12:33 GMT

Cristiano Ronaldo Neymar Lionel Messi Top 10 forwards — Who is the best of the best?Football is all about goals - talk as much about tactics and intricate passing and vision as you want but if you do not have the right men at the business end, well, everything goes out the window.

#5 Edinson Cavani

Celtic v Paris Saint Germain - UEFA Champions League — Edinson Cavani is loving life in Paris

Club: Paris St. Germain

Games played: 14

Goals: 17

Minutes played: 1,261

Shots per 90 mins: 3.80

Goals per 90 mins: 1.21

Goals per Shot: 0.32

Edinson Cavani is the first player to have reached the 100 goal mark in two leagues (from Europe's top 5) - and yet he seems to be overlooked everytime a list of top forwards is drawn up.

While he was always the talisman for Napoli whilst he was there, he's held centre-stage at PSG for just one year in between the Ibrahimovic and Neymar eras, but he's never stopped scoring. And he's not about to stop now - as his stats show, 1.21 goals-a-game (third best in the list) and a 32% conversion rate when it comes to his shots becoming goals (second best in the list) put him straight into the top bracket of elite strikers.

Uruguay would be well advised to make Cavani their main man ahead of Luis Suarez come Russia 2019

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