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Tottenham Hotspur’s Danny Rose and Christian Eriksen have both been named in a list of the best performing players in Europe’s top five leagues.

Two players dispensed with by Spurs without ever making an impact at the club, Iago Falque and Yuri Berchiche, also appear in the CIES Football Observatory’s research team’s list.

The Observatory is a research group within the International Centre for Sports Studies which has published numerous studies using data from the beautiful game.

Their latest findings, using in their words “the technical analysis of player performance”, includes the ten best performing players in each position from the top flights in England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France.

To be considered eligible for their system, players had to have played at least 900 domestic league minutes so far this campaign.

They measure player performance based on six Key Performance Indicators: rigour, recovery, distribution, take on, chance creation and shooting.

Rigour highlights the place good at both aerial duels and tackling - whilst recovery focuses more on the positional and tactical awareness of players.

In the full-backs category, Rose received an overall rating of 87, which placed him joint fourth with Atletico Madrid’s Filipe Luis and Napoli’s Faouzi Ghoulam. Alex Sandro of Juventus was the top full-back, with Liverpool’s James Milner and Bayern Munich’s David Alaba joint second.

In the non-international list, headed up by Chelsea’s Marcos Alonso, is Real Sociedad’s Berchiche in joint second with Guingamp defender Marcal Oliveira.

Left-back Berchiche, 26, joined Spurs from Athletic Bilbao in 2007, yet never appeared for the first team. He was loaned out to Cheltenham Town and then Valladolid before being released in 2010.

Tottenham midfielder Eriksen is joint seventh in the list of attacking midfielders with a score of 87 with Manchester City’s David Silva, Chelsea’s Eden Hazard and Fiorentina star Josip Ilicic. City’s Kevin de Bruyne and Liverpool’s Philippe Countinho head up the list with 89.

Torino forward Falque appears in the non-international list, joint third with Nice’s Alassane Plea, with Atalanta’s Alejandro Gomez leading the way.

Falque arrived at Spurs in 2011, first on loan before the deal was made permanent, with the pedigree of having been in the youth set-ups of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus. But he only made a couple of appearances before being loaned out to a string of clubs and then sold to Genoa.