Norwegian goalscoring sensation Erling Haaland has blown away the the competitors to win 90min’s newest fan ballot for Welcome to World Class.
We requested our followers who they might select to affix to our established finest three strikers on the planet in 2021 – Karim Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski – to finish the highest 5. The choices had been: Romelu Lukaku, Erling Haaland and Harry Kane.
The participant with essentially the most votes would take fourth place in our rankings, whereas the runner-up would come fifth and the person with the smallest proportion would miss out altogether.
Maybe inevitably, Haaland stormed to victory with a whopping 69% of the vote, leaving Kane and Lukaku in his mud, and deservedly taking his place in our prime 5.
Though he could not have gotten his fingers on any silverware and he is endured an injury-hit begin to the season, the 21-year-old has nonetheless been a power of nature in 2021 – evidenced by his obscene objectives per sport ratio of 1:1 within the matches he has performed, a minutes per aim price of simply 88, and a daft 29.2% shot conversion price.
Stats apart, soccer followers the world over have turn out to be enamoured with the Borussia Dortmund man’s rangy type of play and explosive ending capability, mixed together with his cheeky, carefree manner.
Whereas the winner could have been a foregone conclusion, the race for second place was an extremely close-run factor, with simply three % between the 2 names after greater than 4,200 votes had been solid.
It might increase a number of eyebrows, however Kane safe his place in our prime 5 with a 17% share of the spoils left behind by the rampant Haaland. Lukaku was compelled to accept simply 14%, which suggests he misses out altogether regardless of his goalscoring exploits serving to Inter to a primary Serie A title in a decade this yr.
Kane sneaks in regardless of a poor begin to 2021/22 – a reward for one more sturdy goalscoring yr total (together with a Premier League golden boot) and captaining England to the Euro 2020 last.
All statistics are supplied by StatsPerform over the interval of January 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021 (inclusive of home and continental cup competitions).