We are now three months into 2021 and the CIES Football Observatory have decided to rank every single player’s performance in the Premier League so far this year.

The statisticians have rated six areas of each player’s game: rigour, recovery, take on, chance creation, distribution and shooting, based on the Opta data for the last 1000 minutes they have played.

Some of the names on this list won’t surprise you but I think many won’t be able to guess who has ended up being named number one.

Press the next page as we countdown the five best performing players in the Premier League so far in 2021.