[Football] Best Front 3 in the League?

[Nameless]

Slow day at work so came across this interesting fan debate of who has the best front 3 in the premier league..

Oddly enough Connolly, Maupay and Trossard didn't come up in the discussion for whatever reason but looking at the bigger teams there are some very good forward lines.

Liverpool : Mane, Firmino, Salah
Man City : Sterling, Aguero, Mahrez or B.Silva
Man Utd : Rashford, Martial, Greenwood
Chelsea : Pulisic, Werner, Ziyech or Haverts
Arsenal : Aubameyang, Lacazette, Willian or Pepe
Spurs : Bale, Kane, Son

On paper I actually think Spurs is the best, but in practice Liverpool's front 3 work so well together. If I had to rank them I'd go 1. Liverpool 2. Spurs 3. Arsenal 4. Man City 5. Chelsea 6. Man Utd anyone disagree or am I missing any?

 

[Simster]

Yeah little argument with your 1, 5 and 6 but for me 2, 3 & 4 are all very similar standard.

 

[zefarelly]

Can I answer after 2:30 tomorrow ?

 

[Nameless]

Can I answer after 2:30 tomorrow ?

Yeah I probably should have waited too

 

[Rogero]

Very scary when you see those names.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

We haven't even got 3.

 

[zefarelly]

Very scary when you see those names.

Its like Trumps thought . . . . in the opposite direction we have LAmptey, Dunk, White.

and spares!

 

[Nameless]

We haven't even got 3.

Connolly, Maupay, Trossard..

Izquierdo, Jahanbaksh, Alexis

Gross, Lallana

Could do with another striker but we do have some decent attacking options.

 

[British Bulldog]

Guess we'll find out at the end of the season?

 

[Robdinho]

Interesting how few of those would have even been considered as 'strikers' before 3 up front became fashionable.

 

[banjo]

We’ve got a little stick of dynamite. They won’t like it up em.

 

[Nameless]

Interesting how few of those would have even been considered as 'strikers' before 3 up front became fashionable.

For me the striker has always been the one down the middle or if there's 2 up top. With an attacking front 3 that play together you mostly here left forward, centre forward right forward or striker and wingers. Which is weird because 4-3-3 is nothing new but only recently have players like Salah who plays on the right is considered a striker and Aubameyang who plays on the left is considered a striker.

 

[spence]

We haven't even got 3.

This. Hopefully that will change soon

 

[Swansman]

Interesting how few of those would have even been considered as 'strikers' before 3 up front became fashionable.

Most of them arent wingers according to most and I agree with it. Mane, Sterling, Bale etc. are wingers, as I see it, though I know a lot of people here disagree with me on this subject.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Liverpool’s by a distance. Not even close.

 

[Doonhamer7]

They don’t play as wingers - in the traditional Will Buckley get past last man and get in cross for a target man they are more like inside rights and lefts (playing on the ‘wrong’ foot expected to cut in to use their strong foot.

My thoughts
Liverpool front 3 by far the best - may just be below MSN at their peak (Firmino may not be a star but makes it all happen) - if they get Mbappe next year then wow
Man City - Aguero now past it and Silva/Mahrez not so strong - I’m surprised Abu Dhabi State team hasn’t bought a striker as Pep doesn’t fancy Jesus
Man U - may become the strongest as Rashford and Greenwood age
Chelsea - give it a year all unproven in EPL
Arsenal - doesn’t matter as rest of team is crap - William has settled in well
Spuds - on paper maybe the strongest but Bale may not be as good as he was

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

1) Liverpool. Obviously.

2) Man City. Aguero is arguably the best striker in premier league history, Sterling has developed into a devastating attacking threat and Silva is a wonderful player, nearly as good as his recently departed namesake. Plus they've been together for several years and have proven just how good they are.

It's from 3 down that it gets tricky.

3) Spurs. I'm basing this on how well Kane and Son work together and the assumption that Bale is going to bring something near his 'A' game. If he does, it'll be a frightening front three.

4) Man Utd. Young, speedy, skillfull, eye for goals. All of them. If Sancho joins, bloody hell.

5) Arsenal. Similar to the spurs reasoning except Aubamayang and Lacazette aren't quite as good as Kane and Son(IMO) and Willian, good as he is, is no Bale.

6) Chelsea. I have to put them at 6 as, with the exception of Pulisic, they're all brand new to Chelsea and the Premier League.

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

If this was done at the other end of the pitch I'm pretty sure I wouldn't swap Dunk, Webster and White for anyone else's potential trio.

 

[Djmiles]

I fancy Everton’s front line over some of the teams on that list!

 

[Weststander]

Liverpool and ManC’s (most played) front three’s, both scored 92 PL goals in 2018/19 and 2019/20 combined.

ManU, but with Greenwood only really playing last season, 64.

Chelsea and Spurs at this stage are hypothetical.

Other than Auba, Arsenal managers keep titting around in selection around him.

With the awful defending across the PL so far eg Stains, Fulham, WBA and Leeds, perhaps they’ll hit record goal totals this season?