Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, Zlatan: Top 50 forwards of the 2010s ranked

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi might have dominated the 2010s with their goalscoring, but there were still plenty of other forwards who brought their finishing brilliance to the decade.

Now that we’re marauding into the brave new world of the 2020s in which Ronaldo and Messi are gradually winding down, there’s an oh-my-god-I-feel-old nostalgia that will quickly take hold of the 2010s.

Don’t worry, we’re still only a couple years away from that cosy and cushy past, so there’s still a long way to go before it becomes truly retro, but we’re already looking back on it with an element of yearning.

Not only was it a decade in football that, like any, was littered with iconic moments, but the sheer depth of top-class strikers really is outrageous once you look past the Messi and Ronaldo-dominated headlines.

It’s easy to forget in an epoch where the two living legends dominated the Ballon d’Or that the 2010s was jam-packed with players who would easily have lifted the golden football had they lived in different eras.

And in celebration of all the brilliant forwards that terrorised defences between 2010 and 2020, the team over at COPA90 decided to draw up a top 50 ranking that we couldn’t resist sinking our teeth into.

Revealing the forwards who placed between 50th and 11th in ten-man segments each day on Instagram, they eventually allowed the fans to decide how the top ten would be ordered in what made for an intriguing result.

So, be sure to see if you agree or disagree with the final rankings by checking out COPA90’s top 50 forwards of the 2010s in all its glory down below:

50. Roberto Firmino

49. Hulk

48. Kevin Gameiro

47. Burak Yilmaz

46. Bas Dost

45. Mario Mandzukic

44. Alvaro Morata

43. Mauro Icardi

42. Mario Gomez

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