Natural Finishers

[GLASGOWOLF]

Just heard Michael Owen post Liverpool game decrying Liverpools lack of a Natural finisher.

Got me thinking football has changed over tge last 10 years and Natural Finishers like Owen, Aldridge, Shearer, Cole have largely dissapeared

Currently there are 2 real finishers in world football.

Kane is the best Finisher in world football
Lewandowski is up there as well.

How many others are about?

 

[Trips]

Greenwood looks like a natural finisher and could score plenty of goals. Obviously not in the class of Kane and Lewandowski yet though

 

[Alan]

I would take a small bit of issue with the idea that a "natural finisher" is also a bit of a lump.

Plenty of quick forwards have been natural finishers. Jermaine Defoe had a very sweet finish on him.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Haaland of course.

What you don't get so much are players like Inzaghi who frequently do absolutely nothing other than stick the ball away.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

On the radio earlier someone remarked Salah is a natural finisher and if you look at his record that's hard to argue with.

 

[Trips]

Messi and Ronaldo don't get spoken about as 'natural finishers' but their records are just ridiculous

 

[AndyWolves]

Who is that German striker who scored loads? He might have recently retired

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Stefan Kießling?

Or Mario Gomez who was an absolute pudding of a footballer but scored loads.

 

[devoelardy]

Podolski?

 

[AndyWolves]

Stefan Kießling?

Or Mario Gomez who was an absolute pudding of a footballer but scored loads.

Gomez, that was him. Averaged 1 every 2 games.

 

[Pablowolf]

Son is pretty damned clinical and Lukaku knows where the ol' onion bag is.

 

[big mean bunny]

Puuki, he had that record for a bit last year where he had only had 5 shots but had 5 goals, or something along those lines. Personally I don't think the term is correct, the finishing is something all players work on, movement and timing is what I feel separates a lot of those named so far. Owen used to score more headed goals than you would expect due do the timing on his runs, Shearer always found space to get a shot off, Andy Cole had that moniker he needed 3 or 4 chances to score, but his work rate and relentlessness to keep getting chances was special and others in the same team didn't get them.

Closest thing we have had to Inzaghi is probably Darren Bent? A tremendous amount of goals but was like playing with only 9 outfielders and could score a brace or a hattrick and still look like the worst player on the pitch.

Id have Canvani on that list too, loved him since he first signed with Napoli as that was when I had pretty much given up on the prem and would only watch Wolves or whatever Italian game was on BT, tremendous goal scorer.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Closest thing we have had to Inzaghi is probably Darren Bent? A tremendous amount of goals but was like playing with only 9 outfielders and could score a brace or a hattrick and still look like the worst player on the pitch.

Oh good God, this.

What a dreadful footballer. I mean Defoe was all about goals, I've seen him play Soccer Aid against fat ex-players and celebrities and all he wanted to do was score as many as he could, but he was good technically too. Bent wouldn't stand out in that respect in a League Two team. Might have scored 40 a year though.

 

[AndyWolves]

Glenn Murray gets a mention here surely

What about Vardy too?

 

[Tredman]

Ignore me, missed the current part.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Nah, Vardy is excellent all round. Doing loads for Iheanacho at the moment and he's had numerous games against us where he hasn't scored but given us problems throughout. Work rate is always spot on too.

 

[AndyWolves]

Nah, Vardy is excellent all round. Doing loads for Iheanacho at the moment and he's had numerous games against us where he hasn't scored but given us problems throughout. Work rate is always spot on too.

Yeah, totally agreed. I missed the flow of the conversation a bit - as a natural finisher he's up there for me.

I stand by Glenn Murray though!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Guy Whittingham was a Wolves one who may as well not have been on the pitch if the ball wasn't inside the opposition's penalty box. Pretty handy when it was though (well first spell anyway, second spell he was way past it and we should have found someone better than that).

 

[Johnny75]

Fowler's probably the best English natural finisher I've seen. Wright is up there too, both not exactly great outside the box.

Aldridge was not a finisher in that sense he was more like Vardy. Owen was a fairly average finisher.

Van Nistelrooy probably the best in my lifetime along with Solskjaer, Klinsman and fat Ronaldo.

Modern day, both Aguero and Suarez are natural finishers along with Kane and Danny Ings.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Romario