Benzema, Mbappe, Nkunku: The 3 most prolific players from FIFA's top 10 nations | OneFootball

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that Karim Benzema, Kylian Mbappe and Christopher Nkunku have been tearing up European football in 2021/22.

With Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig, the French trio have scored and assisted goals at a ridiculous rate.

Their outrageous numbers have been praised to the rafters on social media in recent weeks and the sight of them gave us an idea.

We’ve decided to use Transfermarkt to look at who’re currently the three most prolific players from each of the current top 10 nations in the FIFA World Rankings.

And it turns out Benzema, Mbappe and Nkunku’s stats are even scarier than we first thought…

(Only players operating in one of Europe’s top 15 leagues were considered for selection, with goal contributions across all club competitions taken into account.)

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Brazil

Arthur Cabral (Fiorentina) – 29 goals & 9 assists

Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid) – 17 goals & 17 assists

Evanilson (FC Porto) – 18 goals & 5 assists

Total: 64 goals & 31 assists

Belgium

Charles De Ketelaere (Club Brugge) – 18 goals & 9 assists

Hans Vanaken (Club Brugge) – 13 goals & 12 assists

Dante Vanzeir (Union SG) – 14 goals & 10 assists

France

Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain) – 31 goals & 22 assists

Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) – 38 goals & 13 assists

Christopher Nkunku (RB Leipzig) – 30 goals & 18 assists

Argentina

Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain) – 8 goals & 13 assists

Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan) – 17 goals & 3 assists

Giovanni Simeone (Cagliari) – 16 goals & 4 assists

Total: 37 goals & 20 assists

England

Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) – 22 goals & 9 assists

Tammy Abraham (AS Roma) – 24 goals & 4 assists

Italy

Ciro Immobile (Lazio) – 29 goals & 4 assists

Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo) – 14 goals & 14 assists

Mario Balotelli (Adana Demirspor) – 13 goals & 6 assists

Total: 56 goals & 26 assists

Spain

Pablo Sarabia (Sporting Lisbon) – 18 goals & 9 assists

Juanmi (Real Betis) – 18 goals & 4 assists

Sergio Gomez (Anderlecht) – 6 goals & 15 assists

Total: 42 goals & 28 assists

Portugal

Rafa Silva (Benfica) – 12 goals & 18 assists

Ricardo Horta (Braga) – 19 goals & 10 assists

Diogo Jota (Liverpool) – 21 goals & 4 assists

Mexico

Raul Jimenez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) – 6 goals & 4 assists

Hirving Lozano (Napoli) – 5 goals & 4 assists

Gerardo Arteaga (Genk) – 2 goals & 4 assists

Total: 13 goals & 12 assists

Netherlands

Cody Gakpo (PSV Eindhoven) – 17 goals & 15 assists

Joshua Zirkzee (Anderlecht) – 17 goals & 10 assists

Bryan Linssen (Feyenoord) – 16 goals & 10 assists

Amazingly, Benzema, Mbappe and Nkunku have amassed 152 goal contributions collectively in 2021/22.

That’s nearly double England’s current total and close to triple that of Argentina – absolute madness.

If Benzema, Mbappe and Nkunku line up alongside one another at the 2022 World Cup, France may break some goalscoring records…

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