There are few actions across football that foster more hype, exaggeration yet embarrassment than, the meg. This simple art of placing the ball through the opponent's legs and retaining the ball afterwards, has sparked such fun and imagination in the sport, that we have deemed it necessary to take a look at the top 10 'megging' players across Euorpe's big 5 leagues (Serie A, Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1).
*Data from StatsBomb*
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1. Alphonso Davies (LB at Bayern Munich) - 8 megs this season
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1b. Francisco Trincao (RW at Wolverhampton) - 8 megs this season
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3. Moussa Diaby (LW at Bayer Leverkusen) - 7 megs this season
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4. Vinicius Junior (LW at Real Madrid) - 6 megs this season
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4b. Jens Petter Hauge (LW at Eintracht Frankfurt) - 6 megs this season
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6. Jean Lucas (CM at Monaco) - 5 megs this season
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6b. Patrick Wimmer (RW at Arminia) - 5 megs this season
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8. Dennis Johsen ( LW at Venezia) - 4 megs this season
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8b. Stephy Mavididi (LW at Montpellier) - 4 megs this season
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8c. Ismaila Sarr (RW at Watford) - 4 megs this season
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8d. Timothy Tillman (AM at Greuther Furth) - 4 megs this season
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8e. Sandro Tonali (DM at AC Milan) - 4 megs this season
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A very wide ranged list in terms of the clubs each of these players play for. The players with the most megs were at 8 on the season so far, with the lowest number being at 4 (with the list actually being 12 players given the final 5 all currently have 4). 5 of the 12 players on this list are in the Bundesliga, 2 in Serie A, 2 in the Premier League, 2 in Ligue 1, and 1 in La Liga. While these stats on megs don't mean much in the overall outlook on a player's value to their team. Its these sorts of players that bring that childhood element of, trying to meg your friends at the park, to the world's biggest footballing stages. They deserved to be recognized for that alone.
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