Top goal scores premier league midfielders

[Hedgehog]

Perhaps i missed it, but they did a table on MOTD2 and top midfield players goal scoring in premier league. No Matty!!

[warsash saint]

& ain't Clint Dempsay a striker ?

[Jonnyboy]

I was going to post both of the above. BBC bias again.

[Super_Saint]

Saw that, are they classing MLT as a forward or something? ****ing ****s.

[Trader]

It's because he works for Sky.

 

As far as the BBC is concerned he never existed.

[adrian lord]

It's the BBC and the Illuminati in cahoots against us again, Alan Hansen is really a giant lizard thing.

[a1ex2001]

Saw that, are they classing MLT as a forward or something? ****ing ****s.

 

Lets be honest he was never really a midfielder that was just really convenient when picking a fantasy football team!

 

He was a forward as is dempsey.

[dellboypete]

He was midfield when we attacked as he couldn't keep up with play

 

and a striker when we were defending as he couldn't get back quick enough!!

 

What a legend - I still talk about him to anyone vaguely interested in football

[The Flying Finn]

Lets be honest he was never really a midfielder that was just really convenient when picking a fantasy football team!

 

He was a forward as is dempsey.

 

By that same logic (which I do not disagree with) then so is Ronaldo. And he was in the list

[KelvinsRightGlove]

It's a tough one I think.

 

Players like Matty, Tim Cahill, Ronaldo, and even Lampard are often classed as Midfielders, but really, they aren't.

 

Perhaps Lampard to a lesser extent, but they rarely do little midfield duties, let alone the defensive duties of a midfielder.

 

All still very good goalscoring options from deeper positions.

[acersaint]

I thought MLT had the record for the first midfielder to score 100 premiership goals

[a1ex2001]

It's a tough one I think.

 

Players like Matty, Tim Cahill, Ronaldo, and even Lampard are often classed as Midfielders, but really, they aren't.

 

Perhaps Lampard to a lesser extent, but they rarely do little midfield duties, let alone the defensive duties of a midfielder.

 

All still very good goalscoring options from deeper positions.

 

Lampard really doesn't fit in the forwards list I'd put him firmly as a midfielder like Scholes or Gerrard.

 

The others you name are much more in the forward category Cahill often played more as a second forward and Ronaldo played where ever the hell he liked! We all love MLT and rightly so but he was never a midfielder!