Lionel Messi named top forward in 2015, Cristiano Ronaldo 29th

Lionel Messi is the best ahead in 2015 – at the same time Cristiano Ronaldo is simplest twenty ninth on a list of high attackers. These are the findings of a gain knowledge of conducted by the CIES football Observatory, which has analysed the performances of avid gamers in Europe’s main leagues due to the fact that January 1. The rankings recall central statistics for distinct positions and find Barcelona's Messi - who has scored 17 in 12 La Liga games this yr - streets ahead of his real Madrid rival.

Ronaldo, who has scored six in eleven league fits in 2015, was once, nevertheless, ahead of group-mates Gareth Bale (35th) and Karim Benzema (37th). Diego Costa is the leading most effective League forward in fifth location, at the back of Bayern Munich’s Arjen Robben, Wolfsburg’s Bas Dost and Barcelona’s Luis Suarez. Somewhere else, the be taught, which focuses on the most popular League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, discovered Manchester metropolis’s Gael Clichy to be the top-ranked full-back and Chelsea’s Eden Hazard to be the number one attacking midfielder, forward of Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil and metropolis’s Jesus Navas. Former Liverpool loanee Nuri Sahin, now at Borussia Dortmund, tops the critical midfielder desk from the previous three months, while Man city’s Martin Demichelis misses out on the centre-back crown to Emir Spahic of Bayer Leverkusen.


Prime forwards

Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich)

Bas Dost (Wolfsburg)

Luis Suarez (Barcelona)

Diego Costa (Chelsea)

top attacking midfielders

Eden Hazard (Chelsea)

Mesut Ozil (Arsenal)

Jesus Navas (Man metropolis)

Kevin de Bruyne (Wolfsburg)

Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund)


top significant midfielders

Nuri Sahin (Dortmund)

Paul Pogba (Juventus)

Fernandinho (Man metropolis)

Lucas Biglia (Lazio)

Ilkay Gundogan (Dortmund)



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Gael Clichy (Man metropolis)

Marcelo (real Madrid)

Rafinha (Bayern Munich)

Wendell Nascimento (Bayer Leverkusen)

Pablo Zabaleta (Man metropolis)


high centre-backs

Emir Spahic (Bayer Leverkusen)

Martin Demichelis (Man city)

Mats Hummels (Dortmund)

Chris Smalling (Man United)

Thiago Silva (PSG)