📈 Power Rankings: Man Utd one of three new clubs, Spurs rise, Bayern sink | OneFootball

With last Thursday marking deadline day, our Power Rankings are back for the first time since 25 August, giving us plenty of football to mull over in the meantime.

Shall we crack on?

10. Atalanta (🆕)

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Sitting pretty at the top of Serie A, Atalanta have conceded just twice in their five league games to date and only dropped points to reigning champions Milan.

It looked and felt like a decline was on the cards after years of overachieving but Gian Piero Gasperini may just be pulling another rabbit out of the hat.

9. Barcelona (🆕)

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Robert Lewandowski has arrived. After Barça drew their opening game of the LaLiga season 0-0, they’ve won four in a row, scored 16 in that time, and enjoyed eight of those strikes coming from the Pole.

Bedding in period? We think not.

8. Manchester United (🆕)

Well, well, well. How the turntables. The mood is up at Manchester United after four wins in a row, including the scalps of Liverpool and Arsenal.

There’s plenty to be done but the early season abomination has passed already and United

7. Arsenal (👎 Last time: 4)

A first setback of the season on Sunday saw Arsenal play well but lose at Old Trafford but the Gunners do remain top of the Premier League. Winning each of your first five games can do that for you.

The big question now is how Mikel Arteta and his players can respond and prove that their early season form was no flash in the pan.

6. Napoli (No change)

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Well, where does that one rank in the pantheon of great Napoli performances?

A couple of draws in Serie A has seen top spot slip from their grasp and they were about to drop out of our Power Rankings but that performance against Liverpool on Wednesday blew us, and the Reds, away. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and co. are a thrill.

5. Bayern Munich (👎 Last time: 2)

Back-to-back league disappointments do not happen often for Bayern Munich … but two 1-1 draws is not the end of the world and their response was to dominate Inter at San Siro in midweek.

There may be no Robert Lewandowski but Bayern are having no problems creating chances and look more flexible than ever.

4. Manchester City (👍 Last time: 5)

Erling Haaland is inevitable, even when Manchester City winning isn’t. The Norwegian now has a goal every 46.25 minutes across the Premier League and Champions League so far this season.

He’s just an addition to a team that won the Premier League last season. A draw at Aston Villa is no real cause for concern and City played better than in the draw at Newcastle, plus they brushed Sevilla aside in Europe just as they tend to do domestically.

3. Tottenham Hotspur (👍 Last time: 9)

Tottenham just keep winning without ever looking overly glamorous or blowing teams away. Draws in two tough London derbies away from home — Chelsea and West Ham —  are the only points dropped so far this season.

Antonio Conte will want more control and more clean sheets as time goes by but it is hard to argue with the results at the minute.

2. Paris Saint-Germain (👎 Last time: 1)

There have been points dropped — coming in a 1-1 draw with Monaco – since our last update, but there have also been three more wins since then. Toulouse and Nantes were both dispatched 3-0 in Ligue 1 before Juventus were blown away by Kylian Mbappé.

1. Real Madrid (👍 Last time: 3)

The champions of Spain and Europe just keep rolling on. Having kicked off the season with the European Super Cup, they have followed it up with the only perfect record in LaLiga with four matches played and then a 3-0 win at Celtic in the Champions League.

They are yet to keep a clean sheet in the league but that is all you can say against Carlo Ancelotti’s side, who have displayed enough firepower for it not to matter anyway.