MVPs of the semester: big-5 league teams

The CIES Football Observatory has developed a property algorithm">OptaPro. Issue number 278 of the Weekly Post presents the MVP per big-5 league club, as well as the top values for each of the six areas of the game analysed. Only players fielded for at least nine (MVPs) and respectively six (per domain) full domestic league matches are included.

The MVPs are footballers whose performance had the biggest influence in their teams’ results. We notably find

Marco"> at Paris St-Germain, Lionel Messi at Barcelona,

Toni"> at Real Madrid, Kevin de Bruyne at Manchester City,

Virgil"> at Liverpool, Ciro Immobile at Lazio,

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Jamie"> at Leicester City,

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Miralem"> at Juventus,

Sven Bender

at Bayer Leverkusen and Milan Škriniar at Inter.

At Real Madrid, five different footballers head the tables per area of the game:

Raphaël"> for rigour (duels), Carlos Casemiro for recovery (interceptions), Toni Kroos for distribution (passes

), for take on (dribbles) and Karim Benzema for both chance creation (assists) and shooting (attempts). At Barcelona, three players only top the rankings: Lionel Messi for all of the attacking indicators,

Clément"> for rigour and

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