Battle lines drawn in the new golden age of Premier League strikers

In what is shaping up to be a golden age of strikers for the Premier League, Chelsea’s match-up against Manchester City today, the first real title six-pointer of the season, is the kind of game which will decide whether the hype surrounding the likes of Alvaro Morata is justified.

Morata’s arrival from Real Madrid, for €60m, has so far proven a big success for Chelsea with the 24-year-old scoring seven goals in his first eight games, including a hat-trick at Stoke as well as a crucial Champions League goal in their impressive victory at Atletico Madrid in midweek.

Allied to exciting performances from Romelu Lukaku at Manchester United, Alexandre Lacazette at Arsenal, Harry Kane at Spurs and Gabriel Jesus at City (where Raheem Sterling has also stepped up a gear and Sergio Aguero, at least before his injury in a car crash in Amsterdam yesterday, continued to score with abandon), there is a real sense that the Premier League now boasts a better collection of world-class strikers than ever before.