Sportskeeda's 10 best Forwards of 2017

#1 Lionel Messi

The Bernabeu felt the full wrath of Leo Messi this year - twice.

Who else, eh?

Messi carried Barcelona through most of 2016-17 winning the Pichichi (La Liga's top scorer award) - outscoring everyone else by a mile - and then continued to do so in 2017-18. He's been scoring for fun, assisting for fun, and essentially doing whatever in the hell he wants to do.

What he did with Argentina, though, was even more ludicrous - carrying the team on his shoulders and scoring the goals that made sure they would be present for the party in Russia in 2018.

He was consistent, magical, and utterly brilliant.