Every PL team's best player so far this season, according to SofaScore stats

Rodri is Manchester City’s best performing player this season ahead of Erling Haaland and James Maddison is the highest-rated performer in the Premier League, according to SofaScore.

The Premier League champions have lost their last three matches in all competitions with the Spaniard forced to serve a three-game suspension for his red card against Nottingham Forest.

Maddison, meanwhile, has hit the ground running at Spurs, scoring two goals and setting up five in eight matches as Ange Postecoglou's men went into the international break top of the table.

Elsewhere, the Premier League’s leading goal-scorers Brighton have a highest-ranked player who is not a forward and Burnley have the lowest-rated high performer with an average of 7.

Here Mail Sport reveals the best performing player across all 20 Premier League teams, according to SofaScore, finding some surprising results.

SofaScore are a sports data-based company generating player ratings using a 'sophisticated algorithm' that rates each player’s performance out of 10 each game.

Even with Arsenal rouletting penalty duties, Arsenal’s star-boy has bagged four and set up two. A curler against Nottingham Forest his most delightful.

Saka was key for the Gunners in the North-London derby, shooting at goal before Christian Romero deflected it into his own net. Shortly after, he converted a penalty.

In Arsenal’s biggest win of the season though, 1-0 at the Emirates over title-rivals Manchester City, Saka was sidelined with a thigh injury.

Nicknamed Ollie ‘Slotkins’ by fans, the school-boy Arsenal fan has recorded the only 10/10 rating this season, in Aston Villa’s 6-1 thrashing of Brighton after bagging a hattrick and providing an assist.

It was a slow start, not scoring until