Last great Striker partnership?

[dembethewarrior]

Henry Bergkamp
Coke Yorke
Fowler Collymore
Shearer Sutton
Chopra Bothroyd

Etc etc


Shame we don't see them no more

Inzaghi Del piero
Ronaldo Raul

[life on mars]

Robbie Fowler & Stan Collymore – 42 goals.
Eidur Gudjohnsen & Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink – 37 goals.
Wayne Rooney & Ruud van Nistelrooy – 37 goals.
Dwight Yorke & Andy Cole – 35 goals.
Thierry Henry & Dennis Bergkamp – 34 goals.

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Taking from the skills above ,we had the best ever : Robbie Fowler & Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

[lardy]

The game has changed and it's not common now, but I expect it will return at some point in a slightly different form. Defenders will have lost the art of dealing with it.

Wouldn't call Henry and bergkamp a strike partnership, by the way.

And apparently SAS didn't get on. Shearer preferred Mike Newell.

[dembethewarrior]

The game has changed and it's not common now, but I expect it will return at some point in a slightly different form. Defenders will have lost the art of dealing with it.

Wouldn't call Henry and bergkamp a strike partnership, by the way.

And apparently SAS didn't get on. Shearer preferred Mike Newell.

Fair point on those 2 but you get the gist.

Yes it's obvious the game has changed and it's not common, I'm just saying it's a shame that's all. We've had some cracking partnerships over the years.

[blue matt]

Stant & Dale

[lardy]

Fair point on those 2 but you get the gist.

Yes it's obvious the game has changed and it's not common, I'm just saying it's a shame that's all. We've had some cracking partnerships over the years.

Leo and Earnie. The ultimate little and large.

[Moodybluebird]

Toshack and Clark
Alston and Evans

[tell it like it is]

Every team has followed the trend of 1 up top. Until more teams break away from that, will never see a great striker partnership again.

Who in the Prem plays with 2 strikers regularly? Burnley?

[mazadona10]

Sturridge and Suarez a few years ago.

It's front 3 now messi suarez and neymar probably best there has been

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Every team has followed the trend of 1 up top. Until more teams break away from that, will never see a great striker partnership again.

Who in the Prem plays with 2 strikers regularly? Burnley?

It shows how much the game has changed. It's a less physical game, emphasis is more on possession and pressing as a team, more than individuals winning their battles. Usually, one of the front two would be a target man, a position less required as a long ball game has diminished. The role of a target man has changed, too.

[BLUETIT]

Henry Bergkamp
COKE Yorke
Fowler Collymore
Shearer Sutton
Chopra Bothroyd

Etc etc



Shame we don't see them no more

Inzaghi Del piero
Ronaldo Raul

I don’t think Dwight would get away with that

[tell it like it is]

It shows how much the game has changed. It's a less physical game, emphasis is more on possession and pressing as a team, more than individuals winning their battles. Usually, one of the front two would be a target man, a position less required as a long ball game has diminished. The role of a target man has changed, too.

Defenders have become less physical as a consequence though. I'd say a battering ram striker, good old center forward would rattle a lot of modern defenders. Doesn't have to be long ball tactics either, wingers hitting byline getting the crosses in...

[billy.ronson]

Leo and Earnie. The ultimate little and large.

For me, it was more Peter “Magic Hat” Thorne and Earnie

[life on mars]

Toshack and Clark
Alston and Evans

Good call Tosh n Clarke the best

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Defenders have become less physical as a consequence though. I'd say a battering ram striker, good old center forward would rattle a lot of modern defenders. Doesn't have to be long ball tactics either, wingers hitting byline getting the crosses in...

That then means reprising the role of a winger. In a 4-3-3/4-5-1 they are more involved defensively but also in support of a target man, hence full backs get forward more often. I think it's interesting seeing how the game has evolved over the last 20 years and we can only guess what will be the norm in another 20 years.

[bobh]

Peter Therne and Ernie

[splott parker]

That then means reprising the role of a winger. In a 4-3-3/4-5-1 they are more involved defensively but also in support of a target man, hence full backs get forward more often. I think it's interesting seeing how the game has evolved over the last 20 years and we can only guess what will be the norm in another 20 years.

This season will be able to finish

[splott parker]

Peter Therne and Ernie

[J R Hartley]

Sturridge and Suarez a few years ago.

They werent a partnership they played in a forward 3 with Sterling

[J R Hartley]

Ashley Barnes and Chris Wood still play an old fashioned strike partnership

[J R Hartley]

Chopra and Bothroyd best strike partnership down the City

[Don Corleone]

Chopra and Bothroyd best strike partnership down the City

Yes I agree with that, I remember seeing Toshack and Clarke play together but was very young so can’t comment in great detail and Alston and Evans were my idols as a young teenager but Bothroyd and Chopra at their best we’re a fantastic combination, shame we never got to see how successful that might have been in the premier league

[elytillidie]

Remember Smash and Grab for Bristol Rovers, Warboys and Bannister. Alan Warboys played for us too.

[xsnaggle]

Keagan and Toshack

[splott parker]

Ray Crawford & Ted Phillips, 73 goals between them in ‘61/62 as Ipswich won the first division, the season after winning the second division. Bobby Smith was a great foil for Jimmy Greaves around the same time and Alan Gilzean formed a great partnership with Greaves a couple of years later.