The 495th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the top 100 offensive players in the world in terms of statistics in three areas of the game: attacking, creating chances and finishing. Michael Olise tops the list with an average index of 88.5 in these three domains and a maximum value of 99 in creating chances.
The French international of Bayern Munich is ahead of the Spaniard of Barcelona Lamine Yamal (87.7) and the German of Bayer Leverkusen Florian Wirtz (85.0). The top 10 also includes two Brazilians (Vinícius and Savinho), two Frenchmen (Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué), an Englishman (Bukayo Saka), an Egyptian (Mohamed Salah) and a Dutchman (Noa Lang).
The latter is the most highly rated player active outside of the Big 5 European leagues. He is ahead of Estêvão Willian (Palmeiras, on loan from Chelsea) and Rodri Sánchez (Al-Arabi). The oldest players in the top 100 are Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo), Karim Benzema (Al-Ittihad) and Yacine Brahimi (Al-Gharafa). Only players who have played at least 1,080 minutes during the current season have been taken into account.
* This report provides more information on the CIES Football Observatory performance indices based on Wyscout data.
