Juventus Improve to Third in Reuters Rankings
LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Juventus moved above European champions Manchester United into third place in the Reuters European club rankings this week thanks to Sunday's 3-0 win over Perugia which took them back to the top of Serie A.
Monaco, who have gone 10 points clear in the French league, jumped three places to seventh. Lazio continue on top from Bayern Munich.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, Alki Larnaca ended a run of 13 successive defeats in the Cypriot league, beating Enosis Paralimni 2-1 to record their first win of the season.
But Alki remained 473rd and bottom of the rankings.
TOP 20 CLUB RANKINGS (last week's position in brackets)
(1) 1 Lazio Italy 99.64
(2) 2 Bayern Munich Germany 91.52
(4) 3 Juventus Italy 91.21
(3) 4 Manchester United England 88.46
(5) 5 AS Roma Italy 88.25
(8) 6 AC Milan Italy 86.85
(10) 7 Monaco France 85.67
(7) 8 Dynamo Kiev Ukraine 85.12
(9) 9 Rangers Scotland 84.50
(6) 10 Parma Italy 84.06
(12) 11 Inter Milan Italy 83.00
(11) 12 Barcelona Spain 81.45
(15) 13 Porto Portugal 81.06
(13) 14 Bayer Leverkusen Germany 80.98
(14) 15 Sparta Prague Czech Republic 80.92
(16) 16 Spartak Moscow Russia 80.05
(17) 17 Hamburg SV Germany 79.64
(18) 18 PSV Eindhoven Netherlands 78.39
(21) 19 Celtic Scotland 77.74
(20) 20 Anderlecht Belgium 76.91
Worst five rankings
(469) 469 Vac Hungary 20.66
(470) 470 TPV Tampere Finland 18.41
(471) 471 Beltinci Slovenia 17.71
(472) 472 Aberdeen Scotland 16.61
(473) 473 Alki Larnaca Cyprus 13.54
(Computer rankings based on this season's results only, taking into account strength of league, ratio of wins to defeats and ratio of goals scored to goals conceded; bonus points for European club competition results and for domestic cups)
Best defences
Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 6 15 0.40
Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) 7 16 0.44
Levski Sofia (Bulgaria) 7 15 0.47
Juventus (Italy) 8 17 0.47
Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) 10 20 0.50
Porto (Portugal) 8 16 0.50
