CIES Football Observatory Issue n°120 - 28/09/2015 Big-5 Weekly Post

Best players since the start of the season

Premier League Liga

Position All players U21 Position All players U21

Laurent Koscielny Chancel Mbemba Iñigo Martínez Carlos Vigaray CB CB Arsenal FC Newcastle United FC Real Sociedad de Fútbol Getafe CF Cédric Soares Jordan Amavi Marcelo Vieira João Cancelo FB FB Southampton FC Aston Villa FC Real Madrid CF Valencia CF Luka Modrić Víctor Camarasa DM DM Arsenal FC Liverpool FC Real Madrid CF Levante UD Mesut Özil Nathan Redmond Fabián Orellana Alen Halilović AM AM Arsenal FC Norwich FC RC Celta de Vigo Real Sporting de Gijón Isaac Success FW FW Leicester City FC Manchester City FC FC Barcelona Granada CF

Ligue 1

Position All players U21 Position All players U21

Thiago Silva Olivier Boscagli Jérôme Boateng CB CB St-Germain FC OGC Nice FC Bayern München Benjamin Mendy Nascimento Ulisses Garcia FB FB Paris St-Germain FC Bayer 04 Leverkusen SV Werder Bremen Vincent Koziello Ilkay Gündoğan DM DM Olympique de Marseille OGC Nice BV 09 BV 09 Borussia Dortmund Douglas Costa Hakan Çalhanoğlu AM AM FC Girondins de AS Monaco FC Bayern München Bayer 04 Leverkusen Michy Batshuayi Corentin Jean Robert Lewandowski Michael Gregoritsch FW FW Olympique de Marseille ES Troyes Aube Champagne FC Bayern München Hamburger SV

Serie A At least 60% of minutes For more information about the CIES Football Observatory exclusive Position All players U21 performance metrics, see Monthly Report 5 João Miranda Alessio Romagnoli CB Internazionale Milano FC Milan AC Alessandro Florenzi Adam Masina FB AS Roma Bologna FC Miralem Pjanić Assane Diousse DM AS Roma Empoli FC Roberto Pereyra Piotr Zieliński AM Juventus FC Empoli FC Antonio Floro Flores Ricardo Kishna FW US Sassuolo SS Lazio

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