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#3 Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund/Norway)
Erling Haaland is one of the best young strikers in the game at the moment. He introduced himself with a memorable hat-trick on his UEFA Champions League debut in 2019-20, and hasn't looked back since.
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Earlier this year, the 21-year-old became the quickest player to score 20 goals in the competition, lowering the previous record by a staggering ten games.
The Norway international has been on a tear since joining Borussia Dortmund last January, scoring 70 times across competitions. Last season, he scored 41 times across competitions for BvB, and is already up to 13 this campaign.
#2 Karim Benzema (Real Madrid/France)
Karim Benzema is aging like fine wine despite being on the wrong side of 30. He has been on a tear this season, netting 14 times across competitions.
The Real Madrid marksman is closing in on 300 goals for the club. A total of 101 of these strikes have come after Madrid's all-time top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo left Los Blancos in the summer of 2018.
Returning to the international fold after six years, Benzema has also sizzled for France, scoring six times across competitions. Two of these strikes helped Les Bleus win the UEFA Nations League, boosting Benzema's case to land this year's Ballon d'Or award.
#1 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich/Poland)
Robert Lewandowski is arguably the hottest striker on the planet at the moment. Bayern Munich's prolific Pole has been plundering goals for quite some time now.
The 33-year-old has already netted 23 times across competitions this season. He has now scored over 300 goals for the club in seven years since arriving on a free transfer from Borussia Dortmund.
Last season, Lewandowski (41) broke the late Gerd Muller's fifty-year-old record of most goals (40) in a Bundesliga season. This campaign, he has become the quickest player to score 80 times in the Champions League.
Considering his staggering exploits, the Poland international is a strong contender to win the 2021 Ballon d'Or award.
