10 best forwards in world football at the moment

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#9. Radamel Falcao

Sporting CP v AS Monaco - Pre-Season Friendly
Falcao's back to his best, almost, and it's a delight to watch

The great Colombian was the top scorer for the top-scoring team in Europe last season (21 goals) and has started this season in a similar vein having already scored 12 goals in just 8 Ligue 1 matches and seems hell-bent to ensure that his team do not miss the magical talents they have lost these summer including the likes of Bernardo Silva, Tiemoue Bakayoko, and of course the inimitable Kylian Mbappe.

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This is all the more remarkable considering how he seemed to have utterly lost all of his pizzazz post a career-threatening ACL injury in 2014 that was followed by two horrible years with Manchester United and Chelsea.

Read, Also - To hell and back: the story of Radamel Falcao's miraculous resurrection

Although he's lost a yard or two of that explosive pace that served him so well at Atletico Madrid and Porto, the Colombian is still the ultimate fox-in-the-box and has this uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time... a knack that has been developed over countless hours of dedicated training.

He's back to scoring for his nation too - an important goal that salvaged a point for Colombia against high-flying Brazil being the second of the year for his nation.

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