The best strike partnerships in Europe?

From the Premiership i would nominate:





Stats from the Premier League only:

Rooney - 8 goals, 8 assists
Tevez - 11 goals, 7 assists
Total = 19 goals, 15 assists

Keane - 12 goals, 6 assists
Berbatov - 10 goals, 10 assists
Total = 22 goals, 16 assists

McCarthy - 8 goals, assists 1
Santa Cruz - 11 goals, assists 5
Total = 19 goals, assists 6

Who would you nominate as the best in your league or the best in Europe, number 1?

No front 3's.

Not going to pick one, but I'll throw forward some La Liga partnerships. Don't have much time so someone else will have to pull up the numbers on these pairs:


Van Nistelrooy-Raul

Tamudo-Luis Garcia

Luis Fabiano-Kanoute

Milito-Oliveira

Rossi-Nihat

Forlan-Aguero

Heskey-Owen

debaser wrote:Heskey-Owen

kuyt voronin

Smith owen

Rooney ronaldo

kas wrote:Not going to pick one, but I'll throw forward some La Liga partnerships. Don't have much time so someone else will have to pull up the numbers on these pairs:


Van Nistelrooy-Raul

Tamudo-Luis Garcia

Luis Fabiano-Kanoute

Milito-Oliveira

Rossi-Nihat

Forlan-Aguero

Van Nistelrooy (12)/Raul (11)=23
Tamudo (10)/Luis Garcia (7)=17
Luis Fabiano (19)/Kanoute (9)=28
Diego Milito (14)/Oliveira(10)=24
Rossi (10)/Nihat (11)=22
Forlan (10)/Aguero (10)=20

Totals through 25 rounds of play in the First Division. Not sure about assists, LFP doesn't keep that statistic.

Batman wrote:

Rooney - 8 goals, 8 assists
Tevez - 11 goals, 7 assists
Total = 19 goals, 15 assists

when I think of partnerships all I think about is Rooney and Tevez. They compliment one another so well, they are the perfect fit. Infact they doveltail so well that you sometimes forget that they are seperate people. Oh yeah I can't get enough of their hot spicey partnership.

henry and Eto'o

How many games have Henry & Eto’o featured together in.

Raul & RVN

Luca Toni - 26 Games - 19 Goals
Miroslav Klose - 25 Games - 13 Goals

Good shout from Cesc, but as usual he's hopelessly wrong. The correct answer is Rooney/Ronaldo.I don't have any "facts" to back this up but I'm pretty sure Wayne and Wayner have scored about a million goals this season and when one scores usually it's the other setting him up, and also giving him a little cuddle afterwards.

Cesc wrote:

Luca Toni - 26 Games - 19 Goals
Miroslav Klose - 25 Games - 13 Goals

correct

Or ronaldo and himself


If we are including klose and toni we can include mcdonald and jvh

COTR wrote:


If we are including klose and toni we can include

Zebroski and Sills

Nice to see Pool fans again being civil, adding intelligence to the thread and not in anyway typing utter nonsense just because of no mention to their team

Tevez in a partnership Henry - Etoo? they don't even play together.

Out of the ones i have heard so far Bebatov and Keane would be the best one i think, they're a genuine partnership. But surely Kanoute - Fabiano is the best productive partnership and they are a genuine partnership. These days the partnerships are not always with strikers. cesc - ade rooney - ronaldo beckham - ruud

From Italy, the better ones:

Ibra-Cruz
Treze-DP
Mutu-Pazzini
Di Natale - Quagliarella
Amauri-Miccoli

But if i have to pick one in europe, it probably would be Toni-Klose

lrd what is your problem with tevez?
Utd are better when he is playing, can you not see this? It is tevez that links the play for you and adds some creativity in the final 3rd, he also outscores rooney (ok not that hard to do).
how strange...

LordAnger wrote:lrd what is your problem with tevez?
Utd are better when he is playing, can you not see this? It is tevez that links the play for you and adds some creativity in the final 3rd, he also outscores rooney (ok not that hard to do).
how strange...

Tevez is incredibly selfish, more so than Ronaldo!

hmmmmmm, i dont agree.
He is the best passing and creative forward in the premiership.

Who wants to be the best passing striker in the Premiership?

I actually really like Tevez, however he is not better than Rooney.

hmmmmm tevez or rooney, hmmmmmmmmm. tough one but i'll take tevez (just) as he is a better goalscorer, more skillful and more intelligent on the pitch. However it really is down to personal preference when two players are so similar.

So park lives you dont want players who can pass and create things? how strange... there was me thinking that passing was essential to football but then i forget this is about english football

I'm all for creative forwards, however I just can't imagine a striker being proud for being the best at passing.

You could argue there's more creative forwards anyway - Rooney, Berbatov, maybe some others.

In Holland:

1. Makaay & Mols (Feyenoord). Roy is so good we don't even bother playing his strike partner.

2. Sulejmani & Sibon (Heerenveen). Heerenveen don't miss Afonso Alves at all. Sibon is playing better than ever thought possible & Sulejmani is the best striker you don't know.

3. Rabbitface & diving c**t (Ajax)

Batman do we really have a front 2? I'd say it's a front 3. So you might as well exclude Rooney and Tevez from your list.

How is the Ibra/Cruz partnership in terms of numbers? I don't have the time to look em up now. I might venture and say that , Ibra/Cruz and Raul/RVN are the best partnerships in Europe based on how their teams play. Especially R/R because for a good part of the ealier season they weren't getting good ball from midfield and have to combine between themselves to score. Then when you consider how unflashy they are, how little pace they have and so forth it makes it more remarkable.

LordAnger wrote:hmmmmmm, i dont agree.
He is the best passing and creative forward in the premiership.

In terms of creativity Berbatov, V Persie and possibly Rooney are all better than Tevez. Don't be fooled by his stats - he can't keep up with the ManU attack. Tevez playing a a slower pace is better than Rooney though. The best is Aguero but he need a WC partner worthy of playing next to him.

So matter of fact with van Persie, then only a maybe for Rooney.

RVP is the better set piece taker. That's undeniable. In open play though I'd say Rooney is better. RVP sometimes doesn't release the ball quick enough - something that Rooney is perfect at.

The Aguero hype is getting sickening now.

Tweedle wrote:RVP is the better set piece taker. That's undeniable. In open play though I'd say Rooney is better. RVP sometimes doesn't release the ball quick enough - something that Rooney is perfect at.

The Aguero hype is getting sickening now.

I don't think Calidad wil like this.

First of all, I think teams who play 3 up front can't really say that they have a partnership, there was an article in FourFourTwo recently that highlighted the growing tend towards 4-5-1, 4-2-3-1, or 4-3-3, so we're getting less & less classic double act

Regarding the Prem, has to be Berbatov and Keane - people say we're a very good side to watch, but apart from Huddlestone's passing & Lennon's dribbling we're not that exciting going from back to front... a lot of times we just lump it up to them and take it from there.

Yes neither have electric pace, but both are mobile and can get in behind, or drop short into the no.10 position... it's very hard for defenders to pick up.

Berbs goal at Arsenal just before Xmas was typical of what they're about... Ball gets played to Keane in a cul-de-sac, he doesn't look over his shoulder, but he knows that Berbatov is somewhere around. One back heel is all it takes to eliminate 3 defenders and Berbatov blasts it into the top corner past Almunia. Beautiful.

In Europe, I'd probably go with Klose & Toni, but if Mancini had any sense about him, he'd realise tha a Zlatan/Suazo combo is potentially lethal over at Inter, though some great ones over the past decade have obviously been Yorke-Cole, Raul-Morientes, and Del Piero-Trez.

A Tribe Called TS wrote:First of all, I think teams who play 3 up front can't really say that they have a partnership, there was an article in FourFourTwo recently that highlighted the growing tend towards 4-5-1, 4-2-3-1, or 4-3-3, so we're getting less & less classic double act

Regarding the Prem, has to be Berbatov and Keane - people say we're a very good side to watch, but apart from Huddlestone's passing & Lennon's dribbling we're not that exciting going from back to front... a lot of times we just lump it up to them and take it from there.

Yes neither have electric pace, but both are mobile and can get in behind, or drop short into the no.10 position... it's very hard for defenders to pick up.

Berbs goal at Arsenal just before Xmas was typical of what they're about... Ball gets played to Keane in a cul-de-sac, he doesn't look over his shoulder, but he knows that Berbatov is somewhere around. One back heel is all it takes to eliminate 3 defenders and Berbatov blasts it into the top corner past Almunia. Beautiful.

In Europe, I'd probably go with Klose & Toni, but if Mancini had any sense about him, he'd realise tha a Zlatan/Suazo combo is potentially lethal over at Inter, though some great ones over the past decade have obviously been Yorke-Cole, Raul-Morientes, and Del Piero-Trez.

Agree with all of that. We certinaly play a forward 3 which switches and changes.

Try telling that to some of the 442 diehards on Redcafe though.

Tweedle wrote:The Aguero hype is getting sickening now.

Aguero > Pato. Yet Pato gets more hype.