📈 Power Rankings: Serie A sides shoot up the table | OneFootball

Thursday’s Power Rankings are back and it’s been a great week for Italian outfits with new names on the board.

Here are the 10 sides in our updated Power Rankings table.

📈 Power Rankings: Serie A side shoot up the table

10. Fiorentina (🆕)

Fiorentina are entrants for the first time this season with La Viola having found real form. Despite the summer sales of Nicolas Gonzalez and Nikola Milenkovic, Fiorentina are motoring along nicely under new head coach Raffaele Palladino.

Five consecutive wins have taken Palladino’s men into the top four in Serie A, a run that includes a win over AC Milan and a 5-1 thrashing of Roma. Moise Kean’s strong season continued with the winner at Torino at the weekend.

9. Atalanta (🆕)

Another Italian outfit who are in the groove right now. The Europa League winners have reeled off four wins on the bounce in all competitions, the most impressive being a 3-0 destruction of league leaders Napoli at the weekend.

Gian Piero Gasperini’s exciting side followed that up with a 2-0 win at Stuttgart in the Champions League, with Ademola Lookman and Nicolo Zaniolo on target.

8. PSV Eindhoven (No change)

PSV’s perfect record in the Eredivisie came to an end at the weekend as the league leaders lost at Ajax in a thriller.

It was a setback to the defending champions without being a disaster and Peter Bosz’s side bounced back in Europe. PSV swept aside Girona 4-0 to secure their first win of the Champions League campaign. Malik Tillman starred with a goal and two assists.

7. Arsenal (👎 Last week: 6)

Arsenal are on the slide after back-to-back defeats and just two wins in six across all competitions. The question marks over whether Mikel Arteta’s team needs a striker are loud once again, after firing blanks at Newcastle and Inter Milan.

Arteta called the 1-0 defeat at Inter the best big game performance of his tenure in Europe, as Arsenal dominated possession and chances. The North Londoners will take little comfort from that after returning to the Emirates empty-handed.

6. Manchester City (👎 Last week: 4)

Manchester City are another English team falling after three consecutive defeats under Pep Guardiola. It’s just the second time the Citizens have lost three on the bounce under Guardiola, following losses to Spurs (Carabao Cup), Bournemouth (Premier League) and Sporting Lisbon (Champions League).

The latter loss to Sporting was the club’s heaviest defeat in over four years as Viktor Gyokeres scored a hat-trick in Lisbon.

5. Inter Milan (👍 Last week: 10)

Inter Milan climb with Simone Inzaghi’s team having found their grit again. It’s five clean sheets in six games for the Italian champions who have ground out 1-0 wins over Venezia and Arsenal over the past week.

The Nerazzurri are yet to concede a goal in four Champions League games this season.

4. Bayern Munich (👍 Last week: 7)

Bayern Munich have bounced back from their humbling loss at Barcelona in some style. Vincent Kompany has led the Bavarians to four straight wins and four consecutive clean sheets.

After Harry Kane scored twice in a comfortable crushing of Union Berlin at the weekend, Jamal Musiala’s goal was the difference to edge out Benfica 1-0 in Europe.

3. Sporting Lisbon (👍 Last week: 5)

Sporting Lisbon are flying right now and even the news of Ruben Amorim’s imminent exit cannot derail the train.

Amorim will leave for Manchester United next week but will do so with the Portuguese champions well-placed for success. Sporting are top of the Primeira Liga with 10 wins from 10 games and unbeaten in Europe. The club’s 4-1 thrashing of Manchester City was arguably the result of the Amorim era and the perfect farewell to the Estádio José Alvalade.

2. Barcelona (👎 Last week: 1)

Barcelona are ousted from top spot but continue to impress under Hansi Flick.

Barca boast a healthy nine-point lead in La Liga after derby day success against Espanyol, before making it three wins from four in the Champions League with a 5-2 thrashing of Red Star Belgrade. It’s too early to call the Catalans contenders, but there’s plenty to like about Flick’s side.

1. Liverpool (👍 Last week: 2)

Liverpool snatch the top spot from Barcelona after arguably the best week of Arne Slot’s short tenure.

The Reds have shown few signs of letting up even as the fixture list gets increasingly harder and climbed to the top of the Premier League by beating Brighton 2-1 at the weekend. Mohamed Salah’s superb strike sealed a come-from-behind win, as Liverpool capitalised on slips from Arsenal and Manchester City.

In midweek, former favourite Xabi Alonso was sent packing. His Bayer Leverkusen side had lost just twice since the start of last season but were trounced 4-0 on Merseyside – an unhappy Anfield return for the Spaniard.

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