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10 strikers who did nothing but score goals

Every team wants a supreme finisher who just knows instinctively where the back of the net is. While these players might not be the most technically gifted players on the planet, they would do the job for their teams scoring a bucket load of goals from all possible angles and situations.These goal-scoring machines are renowned for their goalscoring abilities and instinctive finishing which made them invaluable to their teams. Some of these strikers would almost be anonymous throughout the game before they popped up and scored a crucial goal.Strikers who will not contribute too much on the pitch but score goals are a dying breed now., however, we try to list out the 10 best strikers who did nothing but score on the football pitch. 

#10 Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Van Nistelrooy enjoyed successful spells at PSV, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Hamburg

Ruud Van Nistelrooy is one of the best goalscorers to have ever played. The prolific Dutchman has played for some of the world’s biggest clubs such as PSV, Machester United and Real Madrid. 

Van Nistelrooy has scored an astonishing 347 goals in 589 appearances winning some major honours along the way. The Dutch striker has won the league title in Netherlands, England and Spain making him one of the very few players to win the league in three different countries.

Although Van Nistelrooy has an amazing goalscoring record, he was sometimes dropped by Alex Ferguson at Manchester United because the legendary manager felt that he did not contribute enough in the other areas of the pitch,

Whatever the reasons, no one can argue with Nistelrooy’s positioning sense and finishing skills which made him one of the most lethal finishers in the game.

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