Most In-Form central midfielders This Season

The most in-form central midfielders, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

Y. Minteh of Brighton is the standout for raw talent across central midfielders, with a Field Insider Rating of 93.5, and E. Havel has been the form player this season, grading 65.6, and Dor Peretz leads the scoring with 14 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Gustavo Sauer has improved his Season rating most, up +50.1 on last season, while R. Bardghji's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +43.4 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, Y. Minteh of Brighton is the most valuable name in this group at 111.9.

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	Player	Team
1	E. Havel Central midfielder	Genoa	23	66	50
2	R. Yamamoto Central midfielder	SC Freiburg	24	63387.6%	8975.1%
3	M. Young Central midfielder	Sparta Rotterdam	21	59±0%	750.8%
4	J. Florentín Central midfielder	Independ. Rivadavia	30	5931.5%	342.4%
5	K. Sano Central midfielder	PSV Eindhoven	23	59±0%	801.7%
6	E. Leopold Central midfielder	Borussia Mönchengladbach	26	569.1%	644.8%
7	M. Guéhi Central midfielder	Manchester City	26	56±0%	802.4%
8	A. Bernabéi Central midfielder	Internacional	26	5577%	6911.8%
9	S. Simons Central midfielder	FC Eindhoven	22	554.1%	60±0%
10	Alex Telles Central midfielder	Botafogo	33	55120.3%	2925.8%
11	Gabriel Baralhas Central midfielder	Vitoria	28	5557%	6125.7%
12	V. Kostov Central midfielder	FK Crvena Zvezda	18	55	53
13	F. Sakala Central midfielder	Al-Fayha	29	55±0%	40±0%
14	K. Askildsen Central midfielder	Viking	25	55129%	466.2%
15	G. Cerato Central midfielder	Instituto Cordoba	28	5362.4%	4415%
16	Wellington Silva Central midfielder	Chengdu Better City	33	53362.3%	1459.7%
17	J. Magnússon Central midfielder	IF Elfsborg	28	52163.8%	3132.9%
18	A. Yusuf Central midfielder	New England Revolution	26	5240.9%	421.7%
19	P. Brittijn Central midfielder	Fortuna Sittard	22	52±0%	71±0%
20	M. Lindberg Central midfielder	Sirius	26	5120.4%	3812.6%
21	S. López Central midfielder	Banfield	28	51112.9%	4219.5%
22	Bruno Xadas Central midfielder	Tianjin Teda	28	51148.3%	2747.2%
23	João Carvalho Central midfielder	Estoril	29	51±0%	47±0%
24	Pablo Fornals Central midfielder	Real Betis	30	51±0%	56±0%
25	D. Jean-Jacques Central midfielder	Philadelphia Union	26	5137.4%	438.4%
26	A. Doumbia Central midfielder	BK Hacken	18	51	46
27	A. Gómez Central midfielder	Vasco DA Gama	24	51208.5%	6916.2%
28	R. Zerrouki Central midfielder	Twente	28	51±0%	582.7%
29	Gustavo Sauer Central midfielder	Wuhan Three Towns	33	50	1439.1%
30	Wei Shihao Central midfielder	Chengdu Better City	31	50	18
31	Rômulo Central midfielder	Chengdu Better City	31	505.3%	2259.6%
32	B. Çoban Central midfielder	Sakaryaspor	31	50	211.9%
33	D. Edelman Central midfielder	St. Louis City	23	50122.4%	5018.2%
34	Mikel Rodriguez Central midfielder	Real Sociedad II	31	49	30
35	Noah Makanza Central midfielder	KV Mechelen	21	49	58
36	E. Segberg Central midfielder	Start	29	491120%	312.9%
37	Alfa Semedo Central midfielder	Al-Fayha	29	48±0%	4311%
38	P. Rothrock Central midfielder	Seattle Sounders	27	4873.7%	372.1%
39	Dor Peretz Central midfielder	Maccabi Tel Aviv	31	48322.8%	2260.7%
40	Matheus Bidu Central midfielder	Corinthians	27	4893.5%	6013.3%
41	T. Muyumba Central midfielder	Atlanta United FC	29	48243.2%	3128.5%
42	J. Chotard Central midfielder	Stade Brestois 29	25	48±0%	782.5%
43	Z. Youssouf Central midfielder	Al-Fateh	27	481.9%	460.9%
44	É. Soumah-Abbad Central midfielder	Metz	23	48343.9%	457.9%
45	Chow Tim Central midfielder	Sichuan Jiuniu	32	47	19
46	Jorginho Central midfielder	Flamengo	34	4789.8%	2325.1%
47	L. Stojković Central midfielder	Dinamo Zagreb	23	47	43
48	Artur Central midfielder	Sao Paulo	28	4659.1%	496.9%
49	I. Fernández Central midfielder	Gimnasia L.P.	36	46191.2%	2084.3%
50	Thiago Mendes Central midfielder	Vasco DA Gama	34	462215%	24135.9%