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Ever wanted to know who the form players at UEFA EURO 2016 will be? Thanks to a new EURO2016.com application you can – and it will come as little surprise to anyone that Cristiano Ronaldo is top of the pile of the SOCAR Player Barometer.

SOCAR Player Barometer

The Real Madrid forward's scintillating recent form puts him ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimović at the top of the Player Barometer rankings, the top ten of which features seven players who appeared in Saturday's UEFA Champions League final. Ronaldo is joined by his Madrid club-mates Sergio Ramos (seventh) and Toni Kroos (eighth) while Atlético Madrid are represented by Antoine Griezmann (third), Saúl Ñíguez (fifth), Koke (sixth) and Juanfran (ninth). The full top 10, and an explanation of the player rankings, is below.

SOCAR Player Barometer latest rankings

1 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid & Portugal)

Nine goals in his last eight appearances with a goal difference of +17 when on the field.

2 Zlatan Ibrahimović (Paris Saint-Germain & Sweden)

16 goals in his last 12 club appearances, as well as four assists. Nine shots on target against Nantes in his last league match.

3 Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid & France)

Nine goals in his last 13 appearances, including one in the UEFA Champions League semi-final, which carries a higher weight than a league goal.

4 James Milner (Liverpool & England)

Seven assists in four games between 7 and 20 April (three of those in UEFA Europa League, which has a higher weight) and has provided assists for 30 shots in nine games.

5 Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético Madrid & Spain)

Scored in the UEFA Champions League semi-final against Bayern München and has had a good record in setting up shots and winning tackles.

6 Koke (Atlético Madrid & Spain)

Six assists and two goals in his last 13 games plus a high number of interceptions and clearances.

7 Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid & Spain)

Leapt into the top ten after his man of the match performance in the UEFA Champions League final, where he won six aerial duels and lost just two with eight clearances and three interceptions. Moved up from 30th place.

8 Toni Kroos (Real Madrid & Germany)

A very consistent performer who had completed 190 final-third passes in just 12 matches prior to the UEFA Champions League final.

9 Juanfran (Atlético Madrid & Spain)

Seven clean sheets in his last ten appearances, with a high proportion of tackles won and crosses made.

10 Marek Hamšík (Napoli & Slovakia)

Showed he is hitting form with a superb goal in Slovakia's 3-1 friendly defeat of Germany on Sunday, also completing 45 passes from 51 attempted to move up 12 places.

SOCAR Player Barometer

How it works

The UEFA EURO 2016 Player Barometer is tracking players' form in the build-up to and during the tournament. The Barometer runs official player statistics through a specially-designed algorithm to create rankings based on player performances.

Player data from qualifying formed the initial basis for the rankings, which have taken into account performances for club and country from 1 January 2016. This gives a unique and comprehensive evaluation of players' form when UEFA EURO 2016 kicks off, after which the Barometer will track which players are excelling in the tournament itself.

As the Barometer acts as a form tracker, the more recent the match, the higher the weighting assigned to the data from it i.e. player stats from yesterday are given more significance than those from last week. If a player is not active (e.g. due to injury or non-selection), his ranking will decrease over that period of inactivity.