📈 Power Rankings: PSG crash out, Man City on the move | OneFootball

The first legs of the Champions League quarter-finals were good this week weren’t they?

Now it’s time to update our list of Europe’s top 10 most in-form clubs.

10. Feyenoord (🆕)

Ajax’s dismal season hit a new low at the weekend when they were thrashed 6-0 by rivals Feyenoord in the fixture they call De Klassieker.

The Rotterdam giants are on a 15-match unbeaten run in the Eredivisie stretching back to 3 December 2023 but unfortunately for them, it is the team that beat them that day – PSV – who remain nine points clear at the top of the table.

9. Sporting CP (🆕)

Saturday’s Lisbon derby could have huge consequences when it comes to the destination of the Portuguese Primeira Liga title this year.

Sporting ran out 2-1 winners over Benfica courtesy of a pair of Geny Catamo goals in the first and 91st-minutes, leaving them four points ahead of their rivals at the top of the table.

Benfica do still have a game in hand, however.

8. Milan (👍 Last week: 9)

With the Serie A title race a foregone conclusion, how Milan must be wishing they hadn’t dropped so many points in the first half of the season.

The Rossoneri’s 3-0 win over Lecce at the weekend was their fifth in a row in the league, but they still trail leaders Inter by 14 points.

Ah well, there’s still the Europa League at least.

7. Inter (👍 Last week: 8)

The Nerazzurri also shuffle one place up in our rankings after Davide Frattesi’s 95th-minute goal saw them win 2-1 at Udinese on Monday night.

Simone Inzaghi’s side now just need a maximum of eight more points to be clinch the Scudetto this season.

6. Liverpool (No change)

In a title race as tight as the Premier League’s, Liverpool’s 2-2 draw with Manchester United on Sunday perhaps felt like a defeat.

But Mohamed Salah’s equaliser from the penalty spot at Old Trafford ensured the Reds only trail league leaders Arsenal on goal difference with eight matches remaining. Game on.

5. Real Madrid (👎 Last week: 2)

The LaLiga season took a break last weekend for the Copa del Rey final, leaving league leaders Real Madrid raring to go for the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie with Manchester City in midweek.

But despite leading 2-1 at half-time, Los Blancos needed a late equaliser from Fede Valverde to salvage a 3-3 draw, and they are in a less-than-ideal position heading into next week’s second leg in Manchester. You’d be crazy to write the 14-time European champions off, though.

4. Barcelona (👍 Last week: 7)

One team in a stronger position heading into the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie is Barcelona, after they emerged victorious from a topsy-turvy encounter with Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.

The Blaugrana will hope to finish the job when they welcome PSG to Montjuïc next week, and before then they’ll have the chance to extend their nine-match unbeaten run in LaLiga when they travel to face Cádiz on Saturday night.

3. Arsenal (👍 Last week: 5)

If their trip to Brighton at the weekend was a potential banana skin, it was one Arsenal sidestepped with consummate ease, and their 3-0 win left them top of the Premier League table at the end of the weekend.

But Tuesday’s 2-2 draw with Bayern Munich leaves the Gunners with work to do in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie, and the Allianz Arena could be a difficult place to get a result for a side inexperienced at this stage of the competition. They are a very good side though, make no mistake about it.

2. Manchester City (👍 Last week: 4)

It says everything about Manchester City’s recent prowess that they are still third in the Premier League table, yet many consider them the favourites to go on and win the title for a fourth consecutive year.

Pep Guardiola’s side followed up Saturday’s 4-2 win away at Crystal Palace with that 3-3 draw at the Bernabéu, and the reigning European champions should probably considered just about favourites to win the tie at home in the second leg too.

1. Bayer Leverkusen (No change)

Leverkusen’s 1-0 win at Union Berlin on Saturday combined with Bayern Munich’s surprise defeat to Heidenheim meant Die Werkself’s already pretty unassailable lead at the top of the Bundesliga was extended to 16 points.

Another win for Xabi Alonso’s men at home to Werder Bremen this weekend will see them crowned champions of Germany for the first time in the club’s 119-year history.

It’s European football’s story of the season, and nothing else even comes close.