Season 26 Division 5 Stats and Facts

Will a weak keeper hold back stats favourites Napoli.

In reality Napoli could sort that out in a heart beat and would be a good head in front of the rest of the chasing pack.  Having a 91 rated attack in D5 is really the nuclear option with no team having any keeper or defence above 89.

Brugge strong in attack and defence but lacking depth should be the main opposition this season with Independiente not being far behind,  Marseille are the most defensive team in the league and this is favoured in the current SM machine that processes the results. Rubin have a good midfield and attack combo , so plenty of possession and a shield for the defense.

There are clearly a number of teams that are being ahem “ rebuilt “ , though why they need to be quite so uncompetitive is not really within the scope of this article. Stuttgart and Twente have the least depth in any sides we have seen for sometime, Athletic club and Twente have keepers that don’t need to be so weak and they could finish 4 or 5 places higher.

The A.I. sees Torino as a surprise playoff team moving up from 10^th to 6^th with AZ falling out of contention but Spartak knocking on the door of D4 if they play their cards right.

If we assume 218 is the cut off for D4 then Spartak would be o.k. without much work needing to be done. There is also the work in progress gap that now exist between Spartak and Lazio, food for thought.

	GK	DEF	MID	ATT	Top18	Ave	ETOT	Pre	A.I.
SSC Napoli	85.0	88.5	89.4	91.0	86.0	88.0	221.99	1	1
Club Brugge KV	89.0	88.5	88.0	90.0	84.0	87.9	220.46	2	3
Independiente	88.0	88.3	89.4	89.0	86.0	88.1	220.85	3	2
Olympique Marseille	88.0	89.3	87.8	89.0	86.0	88.0	220.37	4	4
Rubin Kazan	86.0	87.3	88.2	89.0	85.0	87.1	218.73	5	7
AS Monaco	88.0	87.8	89.0	88.0	86.0	87.8	219.48	6	5
AZ Alkmaar	88.0	87.3	88.2	88.0	85.0	87.3	218.32	7	9
Santos FC	87.0	87.3	87.8	88.0	85.0	87.0	217.88	8	10
Villarreal CF	87.0	86.8	87.2	88.0	86.0	87.0	217.12	9	11
Torino	88.0	87.5	87.2	89.0	85.0	87.3	218.37	10	6
Spartak Moskva	89.0	87.8	87.4	88.0	85.0	87.4	218.20	11	8
SS Lazio	88.0	86.3	87.4	88.0	85.0	86.9	216.88	12	12
Chievo Verona	86.0	87.3	87.6	87.0	85.0	86.6	216.95	13	13
Atalanta BC	87.0	86.0	87.0	87.0	85.0	86.4	215.59	14	14
Athletic Club	85.0	85.8	87.6	87.0	84.0	85.9	215.51	15	16
FC Twente	85.0	86.8	86.0	88.0	78.0	84.8	214.96	16	18
PSV	87.0	86.8	86.2	87.0	82.0	85.8	215.19	17	17
Celta Vigo	89.0	86.0	85.8	87.0	84.0	86.4	214.75	18	15
Girondins Bordeaux	86.0	84.0	87.2	86.0	83.0	85.2	213.14	19	19
Stuttgart	85.0	83.5	84.0	85.0	78.0	83.1	208.81	20	20