Quiz! Can you name the 37 best players at the 2018 World Cup based on goals + assists?

Philippe Coutinho

The group stage is over, half the teams are flying home and yet the memories will live on. For a while. Until they slowly fade like the scars and bruises that the Panama team inflicted upon their rivals.

What will never fade, however, are The Stats. The cold data shows just how effective each attacking player has been, based on their goalscoring and assists totals.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.