Over the course of three World Cups, Muller scored 14 times – a record that still stands today. As a player, you saw little of Muller outside the box, but inside the penalty area he came alive. Almost all his goals for Germany were scored from inside the box – and many of those were from no further out than 10 yards. If there was a half chance going begging, Muller would be there to put the ball away. 
Much like his English contemporary Gary Lineker, Muller had the instinctive ability to be in the right place at the right time – and his finishing was as good as anybody who’s played the game.
Englishmen will remember him scoring against the hapless Peter Bonetti in Guadalajara, mexico in the 1970 World Cup – but back then he was just getting started. By 1974 he was at the peak of his career.
Already a legendary goalscorer for Bayern Munich, Muller took the 1974 World Cup, on home soil, by storm. He scored the winning goal in the final in front of his own fans on Bayern’s home ground at the Olympic Stadium, superbly reacting to a misplaced cross by backtracking to retrieve the ball before swivelling and firing a perfectly-placed shot into the far corner of the net.
Muller was one of football’s most clinical finishers. Pundits today often talk about ‘natural finishers’. Gerd Muller was arguably the best example of a natural finisher to ever play the game