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#8 Mauro Icardi
Club: Internazionale (Inter Milan)
Games played: 12
Goals: 11
Minutes played: 1,064
Shots per 90 mins: 3.25
Goals per 90 mins: 0.93
Goals per Shot: 0.29
Diego Maradona may insist that Mauro Icardi got into the Argentine national team because Wanda, Mauro's better-half, lobbied hard for him but the truth is that it would take a coach of incredible thickness-of-head (hello there, Edgardo) to keep Icardi out.
Inter's talisman, him of that iconic MI9 captain's armband, has been on fire for quite a while but he's slowly upping his own game and emerging - unmistakably - as one of the best no.9s in world football.
The much-awaited Derby Della Madonnina against newly refurbished AC saw the very best of Icardi when he scored a hattrick to guide the Nerazzurri past their rivals 3-2 - the second an athletic scissors kick that was quite simply phenomenal.
Inter have had plenty of great no.9s, but Icardi is en-route to making sure he's talked about in the same breath as the best of them.
