CIES Football Observatory

Issue n110 - 05/05/2015

Big-5 Weekly Post

Best performing U23 players per position*
100

2. Jos Gimnez (Atltico Madrid/ESP)

89

3. Raphal Varane (Real Madrid/ESP)

77

4. Stefan de Vrij (Lazio/ITA)

70

. Marquinhos Aos (Paris SG/FRA)

70

6. Tin Jedvaj (Leverkusen/GER)

63

7. Niklas Sle (Hoffenheim/GER)

61

8. Michael Keane (Burnley/ENG)

56

9. Jores Okore (Aston Villa/ENG)

54

Defensive midfielders

1. Phil Jones (Man. United/ENG)

1. Marco Verratti (Paris SG/FRA)

100

2. Paul Pogba (Juventus/ITA)

83

3. Granit Xhaka (M'gladbach/GER)

65

. Geoffrey Kondogbia (Monaco/FRA)

65

5. Gilbert Imbula (Marseille/FRA)

58

6. Bryan Dabo (Montpellier/FRA)

51

7. Jordan Ferri (Lyon/FRA)

49

8. Rafidine Abdullah (Lorient/FRA)

47

. Rubn Pardo (Real Sociedad/ESP)

47

. Nabil Bentaleb (Tottenham/ENG)

47

10. Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia/ESP)

51

11. Aymeric Laporte (Bilbao/ESP)

50

11. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon/FRA)

43

12. Emiliano Velzquez (Getafe/ESP)

46

12. Pedro Obiang (Sampdoria/ITA)

34

13. John Brooks (Hertha Berlin/GER)

41

13. Saphir Tader (Sassuolo/ITA)

32

14. Jeison Murillo (Granada/ESP)

34

14. Dominik Kohr (Augsburg/GER)

31

. Uro Spaji (Toulouse/FRA)

34

100

2. Ricardo Rodrguez (Wolfsburg/GER)

80

3. David Alaba (Bayern/GER)

79

4. Juan Bernat (Bayern/GER)

73

5. Djibril Sidib (Lille/FRA)

68

6. Wendell Nascimento (Leverkusen/GER)

67

7. Jordan Amavi (Nice/FRA)

65

8. Calum Chambers (Arsenal/ENG)

62

9. Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid/ESP)

60

Attacking midfielders

1. Layvin Kurzawa (Monaco/FRA)

. Jordan Veretout (Nantes/FRA)

1. Isco Alarcn (Real Madrid/ESP)

31

100

2. Bernardo Silva (Monaco/FRA)

92

3. Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (Monaco/FRA)

88

4. Moi Gmez (Villarreal/ESP)

75

5. Mario Gtze (Bayern/GER)

74

6. Federico Cartabia (Crdoba/ESP)

70

7. Morgan Sanson (Montpellier/FRA)

68

. Koke Resurreccin (Atltico Madrid/ESP)

68

9. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool/ENG)

65

10. Jin-su Kim (Hoffenheim/GER)

59

10. Maximilian Arnold (Wolfsburg/GER)

64

11. Abdul Rahman Baba (Augsburg/GER)

56

11. Hakan alhanolu (Leverkusen/GER)

61

12. Fabinho Tavares (Monaco/FRA)

55

. Mateo Kovai (Internazionale/ITA)

61

13. Dod Ribeiro (Internazionale/ITA)

54

13. Wilfred Zaha (Crystal Palace/ENG)

14. ime Vrsaljko (Sassuolo/ITA)

60

51

14. Ross Barkley (Everton/ENG)

15. Achraf Lazaar (Palermo/ITA)

48

58

Key performance indicators

Rigour

Shooting

Recovery

Pitch
performance

Chance
creation

. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham/ENG)

Forwards

Full backs

Centre backs

* Players born on or after 01/01/1992 - At least 50% of minutes since the start of the season

Distribution

Take on

Editors: Raffaele Poli, Roger Besson and Loc Ravenel

1. Felipe Anderson (Lazio/ITA)

58

100

2. Neymar Jnior (Barcelona/ESP)

98

3. Clinton N'Jie (Lyon/FRA)

86

4. Nabil Fekir (Lyon/FRA)

82

5. Paulo Dybala (Palermo/ITA)

69

6. Harry Kane (Tottenham/ENG)

67

7. Raheem Sterling (Liverpool/ENG)

66

8. Lucas Moura (Paris SG/FRA)

62

9. Luciano Vietto (Villarreal/ESP)

56

10. Anthony Martial (Monaco/FRA)

55

11. Paul-Georges Ntep (Rennes/FRA)

52

. Sadio Man (Southampton/ENG)

52

13. Paco Alccer (Valencia/ESP)

46

14. Erik Lamela (Tottenham/ENG)

45

15. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal/ENG)

43

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