Challenges THR GOALSCORING MIDFIELDER CHALLENGE

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THE GOALSCORING MIDFIELDER CHALLENGE (GMC)

Welcome to the goalscoring midfielder challenge..The challenge name has explained it,all you have to do is to select a player who plays in the central midfield with any player role and make him score goals.....

One of the highest goalscoring midfielders in the world is FRANK LAMPARD....

FRANK LAMPARD

After 22 seasons in the professional game, Frank Lampard is calling it a day. He will retire as a player to leave the pitch for the dugout and the TV studio as a coach and pundit, and a footballer who should be ranked among the very best of his era.

Was he the greatest midfielder of his generation? That’s a question that is impossible to answer. Firstly, what kind of midfielder? It’s a position that, given its operating area in the centre the pitch features so many different roles, responsibilities and interpretations, is a debate within itself – and one that quickly becomes lost in woolly philosophy about the merits of what comes first: taking control, taking command, putting in challenges, creating chances, and so on.

Lampard’s best qualities have never been up for discussion. His value to a team is obvious rather than vague, opaque or mystical. There is no context required to appreciate what he has always been about. He excelled at being exactly the kind of midfielder he set out to be, and there is no doubt that he was the very best at what he did. A record of 274 goals from midfield in 913 competitive appearances is pure end product.

In 11 out of his 22 seasons as professional player, he hit double figures for league goals. In 2010 bagged 22 in 36 Premier League games. That’s a return that would have won him the Golden Boot in seven seasons since the relaunch and re-branding of the English topflight in 1992.

Just 32 of Lampard’s 177 goals were scored as penalties.

He is fourth in the all-time list of Premier League scorers with 177 goals from his time with West Ham, Chelsea and Manchester City, and left Stamford Bridge in 2014 for the Etihad having already cemented his place in history, overtaking Bobby Tambling as the highest scorer in the club’s history. While Wayne Rooney may have claimed Sir Bobby Charlton’s records for club and country to become the most prolific player England and Manchester United have ever seen, Lampard is a more natural heir to the World Cup-winner in terms of their style of play.

A goalscoring midfielder rather than a forward capable of playing deeper, he is the finest player of his type in the modern game. No one else can touch his tally for goals from the middle of the park. He holds the record for the most goals scored from outside of the box in the Premier League with 41, yet his game wasn’t focused on ensuring that his goal count was inflated by taking every opportunity for himself. Rooney and Ryan Giggs are the only other players to count up 100 goals and assists in the English topflight since 1992.

No player has assisted a teammate more times in Premier League history than Lampard to Drogba.

The next midfielder in the Premier League historical rankings for goals scored is Steven Gerrard with 120 – 57 less than his former England partner. Compared to other great goal-scoring midfielders, Lampard still stands tall.

His return of 0.30 goals per game in all competitions is superior to Yaya Toure (0.18), Cesc Fabregas (0.20), Bryan Robson (0.20), Paul Scholes (0.21), , Alan Ball (0.22), Martin Peters (0.24), Paul Gascoigne (0.25), Michael Ballack (0.25) Lothar Mattheus (0.26), Michael Laudrup (0.27) and Gunter Netzer (0.29), equal to the great Colin Bell (0.30), and slightly inferior to Charlton (0.32) and Kaka (0.32), who played further forward on a more regular basis than the Englishman.

Scholes is the only central midfielder to score more Champions League goals than Lampard – 24 versus 23 – and the former Chelsea player can point to some absolutely absurd finishes on the European stage, including a scarcely believable dinked effort away to Barcelona in 2006, a year after a pile-driver against Bayern Munich.

Source:squawka.com

Back to the challenge:

***Note:It's not compulsory to finish the 30 seasons of the game...you can stop when you are satisfied with the number of goals your midfielder scoring and you believe its capable of staying at the top of the LEADERBOARD......

***There are bonuses for those with respectable amount of goals in a short number of seasons...I.e if my midfielder scores 350 goals in 15 seasons and it took you 20 seasons to score the same amount of goals,then I would have a bonus point which would make me be in an higher position on the leaderboard....

***Each goal scored by your midfielder earns 2 points.....

The Rules

• No preferences/unlockLeaderboases of text changes, save editor or IGE at all.
• No cheating - Restarting to avoid injuries counts as cheating!!
• A career can be posted but screenshots are needed as evidence.
• If requested you must upload your save so we can check no cheating has taken place via the save editor, failure to do this will result in you being rejected from the leader board.
• Own formations only
• SI databases only
• No Myclub or created players

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