2021 ACL (West): Tractor’s Abbaszadeh among Six Forwards in Form

With no shortage of attacking talent on display, the-afc.com shines the spotlight on six frontmen who are on fire in their clubs’ domestic campaigns and could be set to bring those hot streaks onto the Asian stage in this year's continental club competition.

Mohammad Abbaszadeh

Abbaszadeh has spent his entire career moving back and forth between the Iran's top two tiers. At 30, it is fair to say that he is currently producing his most consistent form in the Iranian Professional League as he looks to fire Tractor towards a top-three finish that would see them qualify for the 2022 AFC Champions League playoff round.

With the halfway point in the domestic season recently passed, Abbaszadeh sits joint third in the scoring charts on nine goals – an impressive strike rate of roughly a goal every two games – and he will be hoping to carry that form into the AFC Champions League and help fire the Tabriz side beyond the group stage for just the second time.

Abbaszadeh previously spent three years with Persepolis earlier in his career and was part of its 2015 AFC Champions League squad but, despite being named on the bench on a number of occasions, the striker got no game time. Six years on, he will be hoping to make amends when Tractor embarks on their Group B campaign in Sharjah.

Bafetimbi Gomis (Al Hilal SFC), Omar Khrbin (Al Wahda FSCC), Baghdad Bounedjah (Al Sadd SC), Michael Olunga (Al Duhail SC), and Ayman Hussein (Air Force Club) also are in form strikers.