FC Barcelona — Best pictures!

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.

The first leg of the Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and Barcelona at the Camp Nou ended in a 0:0 draw, with Chelsea’s vice-captain Frank Lampard, who was substituted in the 71st minute, losing his 4th place in our FTBL rating of best world

The week’s Top 23 ranking was marked by the meteoric rise of Bosnian Edin Dzeko and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo. Dzeko is now the best player in the world with a rating of 219.73 points. Ronaldo tops the rating of midfielders with 214.55 points.

The return Champions League game between Barcelona and Bayern Munich was without much of an intrigue to talk of: the goal deficit the German champions had to close turned out to be too large for them. The two teams were just able to trade goals: to Frank

Barcelona forward and Cameroonian international Samuel Eto’o (pictured left) is now first in the rating of best African football players. Eto’o, who earned 6.94 rating points in Barcelona’s Champions League game against Bayern Munich, is just a few hundredths