VfL Wolfsburg — Best pictures!

Bayern Munich's Bastian Schweinsteiger (front; 27.10 points FTBL Rating) scores a goal past Wolfsburg's goalkeeper Diego Benaglio (in blue; -1.00 points) during their German Bundesliga first division soccer match in Munich August 20, 2010. Bayern Munich

Wolfsburg’s Bosnian international Edin Dzeko, who topped the FTBL ranking of East European strikers for a long stretch, has been toppled in the last months of the year by Bayern Munich’s Croatian Ivica Olic.

With a hat-trick in Wolfsburg’s 5:0 drubbing of Hannover 96 in Bundesliga action last weekend, Bosnian international Edin Dzeko, the world’s best striker at the moment in the FTBL ranking, set himself a daunting plank of 50 rating points to beat when

German international and Stuttgart forward Mario Gomez (pictured) and Wofsburg’s Brazilian striker Grafite have all broken into the World Top 23 rating. Gomez’s hat-trick helped Stuttgart trash FC Koln (3:0), while Grafite had a double in Wofsburg’s 2:1