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In 2021: Four goals, one assist. Won Trophee des Champions.
If you find yourself in Neymar s shoes and playing catch-up in the Ballon d Or race following an injury lay-off, do not - under any circumstances - make headlines in your first start since early February by getting sent off as your team lose a potential title decider.
The Brazil star s hopes of individual honours likely rest on his Champions League and Copa America performances, but this was not a good start to Neymar s belated campaign. Getty/Goal
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In 2021: Two assists
He may be about to sit out the first leg of Chelsea s clash with Porto in the Champions League quarter-finals, but Kante s importance to the Blues was highlighted by their collapse in his absence against West Brom.
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Since the New Year, Gundogan has been lethal in front of goal.
Saturday s double took him up to nine in as many Premier League games, all of which have been won by City as they have shot to the top of the table.
None of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Robert Lewandowski can match Gundogan, who is the top scorer across all of Europe s big-five leagues in 2021.
And were it not for a missed penalty last weekend against Liverpool, he could now already be on double figures before the middle of February.
Gundogan is also gunning for a national best in England s top flight.
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