📈 Power Rankings: Three new clubs and the top five all move | OneFootball

With the final international break of the season firmly in all of our rearview mirrors, the club football is coming thick and fast.

Here are our latest Power Rankings.

10. Roma (🆕)

Roma have a hill to climb in the Europa Conference League but there is no doubt they have turned a corner under José Mourinho.

After an inconsistent first half of the season, the Giallorossi are on the longest unbeaten run (11 games) in Serie A and have forced themselves into the top four race with five wins in their last six league games.

9. Porto (🆕)

Porto dominated Portuguese football throughout the 1990s, the 2000s, and the early 2010s. But they never went 57 league games unbeaten.

Nor had any other Portuguese side, ever, until this week. Porto look absolutely unstoppable.

8. Villarreal (No change)

Like with Chelsea — more on them in a bit – there are two sides to the Villarreal coin. On the one hand, they are Champions League semi-finalists. On the other, they were outshot 23-4 in Munich and sit seventh in LaLiga having won just three of their last eight.

We can’t overlook their incredible results in Europe but domestic form like that will always mean a ceiling on how high you can climb in the Power Rankings.

7. Tottenham (🆕)

Four Premier League wins in a row have seen Tottenham fly up the table and into fourth place.

With Harry Kane and Heung-min Son both in top form, Spurs have now won six of their last seven and established themselves as the favourites for fourth.

6. Chelsea (No change)

Chelsea are out of the Champions League but it was so close to a perfect week to follow on from a disastrous one.

After back-to-back Stamford Bridge losses (1-4 v Brentford, 1-3 v Real Madrid), the Blues put six past Southampton and dominated to go 3-0 up in Madrid. Two late goals dashed their Champions League dreams but there is no doubt that they remain, on their day, one of Europe’s most formidable sides.

5. RB Leipzig (👍 Last week: 7)

Germany’s form side, RB Leipzig are unbeaten in eight in the Bundesliga and took a very respectable draw away from their Europa League quarter-final first leg match against Atalanta.

They have seemingly turned a corner under Domenico Tedesco, with Christopher Nkunku arguably the league’s best player this season, it’s all fun and games for them at the moment.

4. Real Madrid (👎 Last week: 1)

If Chelsea dominated at the Bernabéu, it must mean Real Madrid were dominated. They rallied and escaped but Tuesday served up a scare that just should not have been possible.

Carlo Ancelotti’s side are still well clear in Spain but midweek saw Chelsea become the second time in recent times, after Barcelona, to play them off their own pitch for large spells. That will give them plenty of concerns ahead of the two legs against Manchester City

3. Barcelona (👍 Last week: 4)

A draw in Frankfurt last Thursday was a decent result, even if Xavi would have wanted more, and the fact it was seen by some as disappointing just shows how far Barcelona have come in recent months.

They’ve now won seven in a row in LaLiga and are 15 unbeaten in the league as well. There’s no denying that Barça are back.

2. Liverpool (👍 Last week: 3)

Two games, two draws, but two good results. It can be funny how these things work out.

Liverpool came from behind twice to take a point from Manchester City before resting half their team in midweek. It looked like that would be fine but Benfica rallied before the Reds held on to set up their semi-final date with Villarreal. A strange result at Anfield but a good week for their hopes both domestically and in Europe.

1. Manchester City (👍 Last week: 2)

Two draws in a row would usually be a bit of a disappointment for Man City and Pep Guardiola but they were terrific against both Liverpool (2-2) and Atlético Madrid (0-0) and will be happy with both results. In two tough games, they escaped in control of the Premier League title race and into the Champions League semi-finals.

You wouldn’t be surprised to see them win both.