The Best Front Three In Europe
Using stats garnered from the OneFootball app, I'll be doing my best to discuss who the best front three in Europe is. Now, in order to do this I have had to set a few ground rules. I have excluded Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Manchester United from the equation because of how often their side has changed due to injury. Part of me wanted to exclude Barcelona from this, due to the interchanging between Dembele and Coutinho, but they're too good to disregard. Coutinho and Dembele have both played around half a season each so I've added both of their statistics into this.
I'll put the statistics down for each trio, and then the rank that they take amongst the five trio's listed, for each category. these ranks will all be worth points towards a total that'll determine the best trio.
Sadio Mane, Mo Salah, Roberto Firminho
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| Liverpool's fantastic front three. |
Goals - 56 (Ranked 2nd)(4pts)
Assists - 21 (Ranked 4th)(2pts)
Tackles - 100 (Ranked 1st)(5pts)
Interceptions - 30 (Ranked 1st)(5pts)
Total 16pts
Total 16pts
Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo
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| Ronaldo, Bale, and Benzema, Madrid's trio are all beginning to age now... |
Assists - 15 (Ranked 5th)(1pt)
Tackles - 31 (Ranked 4th)(2pts)
Interceptions - 21 (Ranked 3rd)(3pts)
Total 8pts
Total 8pts
Neymar, Edinson Cavani, Kylian Mbappe
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| Probably the most expensive front three we'll ever see. |
Assists - 27 (Ranked 2nd)(4pts)
Tackles - 47 (Ranked 4th)(2pts)
Interceptions 9 (Ranked 5th)(1pt)
Total 12pts
Total 12pts
Raheem Stering, Sergio Aguero, Leroy Sane
Goals - 48 (Ranked 4th)(2pts)
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| The most modern SAS combination in football. |
Assists 26 (Ranked 3rd)(3pts)
Tackles - 49 (Ranked 3rd)(3pts)
Interceptions - 24 (Ranked 2nd)(4pts)
Total 12pts
Total 12pts
Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Phillipe Coutinho, Ousmanne Dembele
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| Formerly MSN, now MSDC... the main exception to the rules. |
Goals - 55 (Ranked 3rd)(3pts)
Assists - 28 (Ranked 1st)(5pts)
Tackles - 53 (Ranked 2nd)(4pts)
Interceptions - 19 (Ranked 4th)(2pts)
Total 14pts
Total 14pts
There you have it. The stats don't lie. This season, Liverpool have had the best attacking trio in Europe. That's probably unsurprising to many I must admit, but out of the five that have been analysed, who would have predicted that Real Madrid would have done so poorly?
As previously stated, Barcelona were allowed to be an exception because strictly speaking they're too good to be left out. One could argue that PSG's trio should also have been left out, what with the quality of their league being questionable...
The two teams that I am most impressed with are Liverpool and Manchester City. Both teams play in the most competitive league in the world, where literally anyone can beat anyone else. The fact that their numbers are so impressive makes them stand out more so than the likes of PSG, Madrid and Barca, who's league is not as competitive in the slightest.
That's all for this week.
Until next time...
Craig
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