Everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) loves a good nutmeg. There is rarely anything more satisfying than seeing a player humiliate a fellow professional with an obscene piece of skill.
And, in an age where every single millisecond of action is recorded and translated into statistics, we can now figure out who the best nutmeggers in the world of football are.
As reported by fbref, here is every player with five or more nutmegs in each of Europe’s top five leagues. And, rather surprisingly, Lionel Messi doesn’t make it in. Not that it’ll be of any consolation to James Milner.