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Football is a team sport and naturally, partnerships among players are bound to form over time. It should be noted here that not all partnerships are equally effective, but some of them are just too strong for the opposition to handle.
In modern day football, a robust defensive partnership lays the foundation of the counter-attack, a solid partnership in the middle of the pitch is essential to break opposition play and thread beautiful passes to the attackers up front. But, more often than not, it is the lethal partnership that a team's attackers have formed turns out be the game-changer in tricky fixtures.
With wingers becoming more and more influential out on the pitch, most of the teams nowadays play in a 4-3-3 formation, deploying wingers on either side of the lone attacker.
This has given rise to the concept of 'attacking trios' as opposed to the two-striker duos that once dominated the game.
So, without further ado, let's take a look at 5 of the best attacking trios in Europe at the moment.
#5 Aguero, Sterling and Sane - Manchester City
The Manchester City trio of Aguero, Sterling and Sane is the only one from the Premier League to make it into our list by scoring 22 goals between them in 15 league fixtures.
Statistically, they have directly scored almost 50 percent of City's 45 goals so far and when assists are taken into account their contribution goes up to a whopping 82.22 percent.
All of them are brilliant individual players, but playing together brings out the best in them, with the smart runs of Sterling and Sane down the flanks matched by Aguero's finishing in the middle.
The Sky Blues have had a great start to their campaign and are unbeaten so far in the league. And thanks to their attacking trio which has hit a purple patch in recent games, they boast a massive goal difference of positive 38.
All stats via transfermarkt.
#4 Alcacer, Reus and Sancho - Borussia Dortmund
At number 4 we have a trio from one of the two Bundesliga clubs in our list. It is the trio of Paco Alcacer, Marco Reus and Jadon Sancho from German league leaders Borussia Dortmund.
The partnership was formed just this season, when Alcacer completed a loan move from Barcelona to Dortmund this summer, which the club eventually turned into a permanent move for €23 million plus add-ons, given his exploits in front of the goal.
As per the stats, together they have scored 23 goals in the league so far, which accounts for 62 percent of the total 37 scored by the team. They have set up 10 further goals for their teammates too.
It is one of the most intriguing trios at the moment because it consists of Alcacer who has only started in 2 games so far, Sancho who is just 18 years old and of course, captain Marco Reus, who is in the form of his life.
#3 Messi, Suarez and Dembele - FC Barcelona
There was a time when Barcelona boasted the deadliest trio in all of Europe. The famed 'MSN' helped Barcelona to an unprecedented second treble in 2015.
Come this season and though Neymar's absence is clearly felt by the players and fans alike, Barca have found the right player in Ousmane Dembele, who costed them €105m last year, to complete their terrifying trio again.
As far as LaLiga is concerned, the trio have scored 23 goals so far and just like the trio of Alcacer, Reus and Sancho before, their contribution towards their club's goal tally comes out to be 62 percent of all goals scored by the team.
With Ronaldo out of the picture, Real Madrid's new trio of Bale, Benzema and Mariano has found itself struggling and way behind the three Catalan forwards.
#2 Jovic, Haller and Ante Rebic - Eintracht Frankfurt
The second best-attacking trio in our list is the most surprising entry of our list. By scoring 24 goals among them for Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, Sebastien Haller, Ante Rebic and Luka Jovic have established themselves as the most lethal cohort in Germany.
No trio has contributed more in terms of goals scored or assisted than these three, with the goals scored by them alone making up 80 percent of Frankfurt's 30 goals in the competition.
Jovic, who is on-loan from Benfica, made the headlines with his extraordinary performance against Fortuna Dusseldorf in which he notched up five goals.
Haller is one of the top No. 9s in the game at the moment and has 9 goals and 7 assists to his name, while World Cup finalist Rebic has been a headache for the opposing defences with his pace and strength.
#1 Neymar, Mbappe and Cavani - Paris St. Germain
We have now reached the end of our list and by now you would've guessed it that the most deadly attacking trio in Europe at the moment is none other than the PSG triad of Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edison Cavani.
According to Transfermarkt, it is also the most valuable trio in the world, so it is only natural that they are on top of this list. At the same time, we are not denying that PSG playing in the Ligue 1 might also be a major reason for their goal-scoring spree.
So far the three of them had scored a total of 33 goals in league fixtures, which is 9 more than the second best trio and their clinical finishing in front of the goal is the reason why PSG are the top scorer across all major European Leagues.
We can only expect Neymar to get his current trio and team firing in the Champions League as well and bring the coveted trophy to Parc des Princes next summer.
