European Team Form Rankings: New leader as Manchester United climb

Paris Saint Germain have leapfrogged Barcelona atop the WhoScored.com team form rankings ahead of next week’s Champions League return.

The Ligue 1 leaders recorded what is becoming a routinely convincing 3-0 win at Lille, capped off by a stunning chip from Giovani Lo Celso, while Barcelona paid the price of resting Lionel Messi, among others.

It took a late Gerard Pique leveller to spare Ernesto Valverde’s side’s blushes in the Catalan derby with Espanyol, with the result and performance seeing the La Liga champions elect drop to third in the form rankings.

The other team to jump ahead of the blaugrana is a resurgent Marseille under Rudi Garcia, who claim second having done the same in France’s top-flight at the weekend in some style. A 6-3 win over Metz ensured OM have dropped just two points from their last six matches and they followed that run with a 9-0 victory in the cup in midweek. Their attacking talents are on fire.

The same could be said of Juventus, who are unsurprising climbers following a 7-0 win over Sassuolo, overtaking Bayern and Real Madrid, with the latter failing to win yet again with a 2-2 draw at lowly Levante.

It’s Manchester United that are the biggest risers into the top ten, doing so from 22nd to 8th with a comfortable win over Huddersfield - their fourth in the last five games.

The only other sides to fall down the rankings within the top 20 were Tottenham (sixth to tenth) following their stalemate with Liverpool, Lazio (4th to 11th) after defeat at Genoa and Bayer Leverkusen (12th to 15th) after a goalless draw at Freiburg.

Elsewhere in the Bundesliga Augsburg and Borussia Dortmund soared onto the leaderboard with wins over Frankfurt and Cologne respectively, while there is no place for Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsenal as they prepare to relaunch their European campaigns.