The football fixture lists align perfectly this Sunday to offer six blockbuster clashes across five of Europe's top leagues...
Six blockbuster games are
scheduled within six hours of each other, kicking off with West Ham hosting
London neighbors Tottenham in front of the Sky cameras at 2pm.
Just 75 minutes later, it's
El Clasico time in Spain when La Liga runners-up Real Madrid travel to
beleaguered Barcelona, before an Eredivisie showdown between heavyweights Ajax
and PSV in the Netherlands.
It's a clash of the titans at
4.30pm, when Liverpool play Manchester United at Anfield live on Sky Sports,
before reigning champions Inter Milan host Juventus in Serie A and Paris
Saint-Germain travel to Marseille in Ligue 1 (both 7.45pm kick-offs).
Who's hot right now?
We have ranked every single
player for current form across Europe's top five leagues and the Eredivisie
this season using the Sky Sports Power Rankings, which award points to players
for 35 different matchday statistics.
We've opted to use the
formula for current form, which factors the past five leagues games and places
greater weighting for more recent games.
Based on this, three of
Europe's top 10 hottest players could be in action across the six headline
fixtures on Sunday, including Mohamed Salah (No
2), Karim Benzema (No 3) and PSV winger Cody
Gakpo (No 5).
Salah's team-mates Roberto
Firmino (No 16), Sadio Mane (No 18)
also make the top 20, as does PSV defender Olivier Boscagli and
Ajax goalkeeper RemkoPasveer (No 19).
Salah is on a six-game
scoring streak in the Premier League - leading the goal chart with Jamie
Vardy on seven goals - and created another four goals, with two
of those coming in the past two games.
Speaking after the 5-0 win at
Watford at the weekend, Liverpool manager JurgenKlopp told BT Sport:
"[Salah's] performance was massive today. The pass for the first goal was
great and the second goal was special.
"He is top. We all see
it. Who is better than him? We don't have to talk about what Messi and Ronaldo
have done for world football and their dominance. But right now, he is the
best."
However, Benzema is staking a
serious claim for that accolade in La Liga. Real Madrid match Liverpool with 22
goals scored in just eight games - but the France international has netted nine
of those and notched seven assists.
Both stars chase
table-topping AZ Alkmaar midfielder Dani de Wit in
the form chart, who has hit an explosive streak of form with four goals in
three games to help the club soar from the lower rungs to mid-table in the
Eredivisie.
Players to watch
Based on the table above, the
list below reveals each club's form player to look out for during the six
headline fixtures on Sunday...
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