FIFA Men's World Cup

Top 50 players at 2022 World Cup, No. 46: Timo Werner

Updated Oct. 5, 2022 8:51 p.m. ET

FOX Sports soccer analyst and former USMNT midfielder Stu Holden is counting down the 50 best players participating in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Up next is …

Timo Werner

Country: Germany

Rank: 46

Rank in 2018: 45

Position: Striker

Age: 26

Timo Werner's first World Cup couldn't have gone much worse than it did. In three starts for Germany starts at Russia ‘18, Werner was held scoreless and, as a result, die Mannschaft didn’t make it out of the group stages.

Werner is still prone to having Cole scoring stretches — which is why Chelsea were comfortable letting him return to RB Leipzig for half of what they paid for him in 2020 — but one good stretch is all coach Hansi Flick needs out of him in Qatar.

"He's a very good finisher on his day," Holden said, "albeit a little bit streaky, which is why I have him at No. 46 right now."