The greatest strike partnerships of all time - ranked

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6. Cristiano Ronaldo & Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)

Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema
Ronaldo and Benzema share a strong relationship / Denis Doyle/Getty Images

Four Champions Leagues together and an amount of goals and assists that would make you feel sick to your stomach. No, Ronaldo and Benzema didn't operate as a front two, but their bond was special.

Throw Gareth Bale into the mix and it was a front three that would score on any planet. Ronaldo and Benzema were unplayable, passing, running and feinting their way around defences domestically and in Europe. Modern football in an art form.


5. Thierry Henry & Dennis Bergkamp (Arsenal)

Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp were unrelenting / Gary M. Prior/Getty Images

Invincible. After Ian Wright had already whipped up a fine partnership with Dennis Bergkamp in earlier years, Frenchman Thierry Henry took it into overdrive in the 2000s.

The pair moved off each other like nobody's business and scored the most disgusting of goals, plenty coming in the season when Arsenal went unbeaten as they won the Premier League in 2003/04.