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Striker - Paco Alcacer (Borussia Dortmund)
Over the years, Valencia has discovered an amazing array of goal-scoring talent to complement their creative midfielders. Since David Villa's departure to Barcelona, several brilliant forwards such as Roberto Soldado and Aritz Aduriz have staked their claim to his throne at Valencia.
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Like many other players on this list, Paco Alcacer is a product of Valencia's incredible production line of homegrown Spanish talents, finding his way through the club's youth teams before making his senior debut in 2010.
The Spaniard had to wait for a long time to cement his place in the first team and was able to definitively do so only after Roberto Soldado departed to the Premier League. Once he became a regular, however, it was only a matter of time before his natural game came to the fore.
Much like his predecessors at Valencia, Paco Alcacer is a poacher, relying on positioning and an impeccable shooting technique to plunder the opposition's goal. The 2013-14 season set the stage for the young striker to announce himself, and he did so with aplomb, leading Los Che to the Europa League semifinals with a hat-trick against Red Bull Salzburg, overturning a 3-0 deficit in the first leg.
Barcelona eventually came knocking on his door in 2016, and Alcacer made the switch, serving as an able back-up option. However, with Messi, Suarez, and Neymar in the way, he found playing time very hard to come by and moved to Borussia Dortmund in 2018.
Alcacer's underwent an incredible renaissance with the Germans and rediscovered his 'fox in the box' ability at Dortmund. Regularly used as a "super-sub", Alcacer inspired several comeback victories. He scored twice as a substitute in Dortmund's 4-2 victory against Bayer Leverkusen and wrote himself into the club's history in his very first season by scoring an incredible hat-trick in a 4-3 victory against Augsburg, which included a stoppage-time free-kick.
One can only wonder what Alcacer could have achieved with Silva, Mata, and Isco behind him.
