The Top 10 Football’s Deadliest Goalscorers Of 2019
The major purpose of playing football is to score goals and it is goals that decide match results determining the victors and the defeated. Here we take a look at the most lethal forwards in 2019, who have achieved incredible results with their teams.
Messi, Lewandowski, Aguero, Cavani and Benzema all featured here have been very lethal in front of goal for nearly a decade competing amongst themselves to outclass the other with young blood such as Mbappe, Tammy Abraham, Sterling and Neymar seemingly ready to take up the mantle.
The most notable and prominent exclusions on the list below are Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez among the world’s most recognised forwards. Ronaldo’s move to Italy seems to have led to the goals drying up at the level to which he used to score at Real Madrid.
1) Kylian Mbappe (PSG)
82 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.91
Total goals: 31
Appearances: 34
Minutes played: 2550
Kylian Mbappe, apparent heir to the throne been vacated by the aging pair of Messi and Ronaldo is really quite ridiculous, with a goal every 82 minutes in 2019.
Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski might have scored more goals, but nobody scores at the same rate as the 20-year-old Frenchman.
2) Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
86 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.93
Total goals: 39
Appearances: 42
Minutes played: 3335
Lionel Messi is a goal machine – there’s no better way to put it. He simply scores for fun and over the last few years he’s broken quite a few records in the process.
3) Roberto Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
88 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 1.00
Total goals: 41
Appearances: 41
Minutes played: 3597
Right now it is hard to argue that there are many better players in the world than the Polish striker. He has had an incredible 2019 and has more goals than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues.
According to statistics, no one has outscored Lewandowski this year and his achievements on the pitch perhaps deserve more credit than they are currently given.
4) Sergio Aguero (Manchester City)
91 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.76
Total goals: 29
Appearances: 38
Minutes played: 2645
5) Edinson Cavani (PSG)
106 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.55
Total goals: 12
Appearances: 22
Minutes played: 1269
6) Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City)
108 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.41
Total goals: 14
Appearances: 34
Minutes played: 1507
7) Jamie Vardy (Leicester City)
113 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.77
Total goals: 24
Appearances: 31
Minutes played: 2718
8) Duvan Zapata (Atalanta)
118 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.72
Total goals: 23
Appearances: 32
Minutes played: 2707
9) Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
118 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.72
Total goals: 31
Appearances: 43
Minutes played: 3657
10) Tammy Abraham (Chelsea)
118 minutes per goal
Goals per appearance: 0.65
Total goals: 11
Appearances: 17
Minutes played: 1299
By Gerald Dandah
