Manchester United’s Bulgarian international Dimitar Berbatov is more likely to drop in the FTBL ranking when the Red Devils take on No 12 Everton in Premier League action this coming Saturday: he will face a plank of 56.74 rating points to beat, a plank he set in Bulgaria’s 6:2 drubbing of Georgia.
How steep will be the fall? Manchester scored more than one goal against Everton just once in their last 5 games. It is a good bet there will be no catwalk this time around, either.
Our prediction is that Berbatov’s FTBL score is likely to shed approximately 40 rating points, to the 135- to 140-point neighborhood. This is Berbatov’s usual level. To move further up and join the top tier of forwards in our world ranking of forwards, he will have to score more. Twenty-four goals in 64 games (Berbatov’s score) is just average for a world-class striker.
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