Can you guess who is the only PL star in the Top5 creative players this season?
An international forward who also plays for PSG has been labelled as the most creative player in world football by statisticians.
The CIES Football Observatory has conducted its latest research in an attempt to measure chance creation worldwide, by developing a special creation index.
This is calculated by combining the number of key passes leading to chances and expected assists of each player per 90 minutes, with the result then weighted by the level of the match. This means that a game in the Premier League would effectively count for more than a game in the Bundesliga 2 or the Championship.
Players must have also featured for at least 630 minutes in the league for the same team during the 2023-24 campaign to be considered.
Following the research, PSG winger Ousmane Dembele comes out as the top creator in world football, with the French international scoring a creation index of 2.36.
Dembele moved to PSG from Barcelona for £43.5million in the summer and has already laid on four assists for Luis Enrique's side, although he is yet to score.
His team-mate in Paris, Kylian Mbappe, is the fourth most creative player in the world, with the 24-year-old languishing beyond Athletic Club's Spanish winger Nico Williams and Bayern Munich star Leroy Sane who are third and second on the list respectively.
In perhaps surprising news, the only Premier League player to feature in the top five creators is Aston Villa's Moussa Diaby.
However, for those that have watched Unai Emery's side closely this season, the Frenchman's inclusion is not too unexpected with Diaby having already contributed three goals and three assists in what has been a stunning start to life in the Premier League.
Diaby is joined in the top 10 by sixth place Mohamed
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