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Barcelona’s Brazilian defender Dani Alves (pictured) brushed aside teammate Carles Puyol to take the lead in our FTBL rating of La Liga defenders after the Catalan beat Athletic Bilbao 4:1 to lift the Copa del Rey.

Our FTBL World Top 23 witnessed surprise changes this weekend, with the arrival of Udinese’s Gaetano D’Agostino (pictured left). The Italian scored one of the goals in Udinese’s 3:1 win against Lazio in the Italian Serie A to join our list of best midfielders

Real Madrid star defender Sergio Ramos, who until yesterday topped the rating of defenders in La Liga, could now very well exit our Top 23 of the Spanish championship after his side’s 0:3 humiliation last night at Valencia.

Barcelona are already hard at work preparing for their La Liga game against Villarreal after their dramatic Champions League semi-final qualification against Chelsea. The game will be a perfect opportunity for Cote d’Ivoire midfielder Yaya Toure (pictured

Argentine prodigy Lionel Messi grabbed the second place in our FTBL World Top 23 rating of best midfielders after a dazzling performance in Barcelona’s 6:2 thrashing of rivals Real Madrid yesterday in La Liga. Messi now has 193.21 points over all.