Monaco host Caen on Sunday aiming to continue their rise up the table after Leonardo Jardim returned following the departure of Thierry Henry.

And Jardim hailed the fine form of Radamel Falcao, who scored three goals in two games before the international break to take his tally for the Ligue 1 season to 12.

"The assessment of Falcao is the same I have done every year and also the one I did at the beginning of the season," Jardim said of the Colombia international. 

"Everybody remembers two and a half years ago, after his injury, I had still said: 'Welcome Falcao, you will help us'. Even if everybody was saying it was over for him to recover.

"He is here now, he has played 100 games in Ligue 1 and scored 62 goals. This year, at the beginning of the season, everybody was worried for our attack. But I wasn't scared, I knew Falcao would score 15-20 goals, I'm sure about that. That's what he is doing.

"That's why, for me he is still an important player, he is our striker with his quality known by everyone."