CIES Football Observatory, one of the leading sports think tanks in Europe, has published its list of the best players on the planet.
The Switzerland-based institute analysed performance data over the last three months from Europe's "big five" football leagues — England's Premier League, Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, Germany's Bundesliga, and France's Ligue 1.
Football Observatory's methodology considered the performance of players in six different areas of the game — rigour, recovery, distribution, take on, chance creation, and shooting — in order to produce an overall score.
Team results were also studied so a player would benefit from victories but would be punished for losses, regardless of his own individual performance.
Here are the best performing 23 footballers on the planet, according to CIES scores, ranked in ascending order.
18: 22-year-old Marseille midfielder André-Frank Zambo is an expert tackler with great positional awareness.
=17: Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane, 24, has scored one goal for every 77 minutes he has played so far this season.
=17: Heung-min Son, a 25-year-old winger for Tottenham Hotspur, scored seven goals in four games from late February to mid-March.
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