CIES Football Observatory Issue n°110 - 05/05/2015 Big-5 Weekly Post

Best performing U23 players per position*

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

1. Phil Jones (Man. United/ENG) 100 1. (Paris SG/FRA) 100 2. José Giménez (Atlético Madrid/ESP) 89 2. (Juventus/ITA) 83 3. Raphaël Varane (Real Madrid/ESP) 77 3. Granit Xhaka (M'gladbach/GER) 65 4. Stefan de Vrij (Lazio/ITA) 70 . Geoffrey Kondogbia (Monaco/FRA) 65 . Aoás (Paris SG/FRA) 70 5. Gilbert Imbula (Marseille/FRA) 58 Centre backs Centre 6. Tin Jedvaj (Leverkusen/GER) 63 6. Bryan Dabo (Montpellier/FRA) 51 7. Niklas Süle (Hoffenheim/GER) 61 7. Jordan Ferri (Lyon/FRA) 49 8. Michael Keane (Burnley/ENG) 56 8. Rafidine Abdullah (Lorient/FRA) 47 9. Jores Okore (Aston Villa/ENG) 54 . Rubén Pardo (/ESP) 47 Defensive Defensive 10. Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia/ESP) 51 . Nabil Bentaleb (Tottenham/ENG) 47 11. Aymeric Laporte (Bilbao/ESP) 50 11. (Lyon/FRA) 43 12. Emiliano Velázquez (Getafe/ESP) 46 12. Pedro Obiang (Sampdoria/ITA) 34 13. John Brooks (Hertha Berlin/GER) 41 13. Saphir Taïder (Sassuolo/ITA) 32 14. Jeison Murillo (Granada/ESP) 34 14. Dominik Kohr (Augsburg/GER) 31 . Uroš Spajić (Toulouse/FRA) 34 . Jordan Veretout (Nantes/FRA) 31

1. Layvin Kurzawa (Monaco/FRA) 100 1. Isco Alarcón (Real Madrid/ESP) 100 2. Ricardo Rodríguez (Wolfsburg/GER) 80 2. Bernardo Silva (Monaco/FRA) 92 3. David Alaba (Bayern/GER) 79 3. Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (Monaco/FRA) 88 4. Juan Bernat (Bayern/GER) 73 4. Moi Gómez (Villarreal/ESP) 75 Full backs Full 5. Djibril Sidibé (Lille/FRA) 68 5. Mario Götze (Bayern/GER) 74 6. Wendell Nascimento (Leverkusen/GER) 67 6. Federico Cartabia (Córdoba/ESP) 70 7. Jordan Amavi (Nice/FRA) 65 7. Morgan Sanson (Montpellier/FRA) 68 8. Calum Chambers (Arsenal/ENG) 62 . Koke Resurrección (Atlético Madrid/ESP) 68 9. Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid/ESP) 60 9. Philippe Coutinho (/ENG) 65 Attacking midfielders Attacking 10. Jin-su Kim (Hoffenheim/GER) 59 10. Maximilian Arnold (Wolfsburg/GER) 64 11. Abdul Rahman Baba (Augsburg/GER) 56 11. Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Leverkusen/GER) 61 12. Fabinho Tavares (Monaco/FRA) 55 . Mateo Kovačić (Internazionale/ITA) 61 13. Dodô Ribeiro (Internazionale/ITA) 54 13. Wilfred Zaha (Crystal Palace/ENG) 60 14. Šime Vrsaljko (Sassuolo/ITA) 51 14. Ross Barkley (Everton/ENG) 58 15. Achraf Lazaar (Palermo/ITA) 48 . Christian Eriksen (Tottenham/ENG) 58

Key performance indicators 1. Felipe Anderson (Lazio/ITA) 100 2. Júnior (Barcelona/ESP) 98 3. Clinton N'Jie (Lyon/FRA) 86 4. Forwards Nabil Fekir (Lyon/FRA) 82 Rigour Recovery 5. Paulo Dybala (Palermo/ITA) 69 6. (Tottenham/ENG) 67 7. (Liverpool/ENG) 66 8. Lucas Moura (Paris SG/FRA) 62 Pitch Shooting Distribution performance 9. Luciano Vietto (Villarreal/ESP) 56 10. Anthony Martial (Monaco/FRA) 55 11. Paul-Georges Ntep (Rennes/FRA) 52 . Sadio Mané (Southampton/ENG) 52 Chance Take on 13. Paco Alcácer (Valencia/ESP) 46 creation 14. Erik Lamela (Tottenham/ENG) 45 15. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal/ENG) 43

Editors: Raffaele Poli, Roger Besson and Loïc Ravenel www.football-observatory.com