Opinion: Sassuolo forward Domenico Berardi is most underrated player in Europe, and it’s not that close

Across Europe’s top five leagues there are just four players who have registered 10 or more for both goals and assists this season. One of them is Karim Benzema, the Real Madrid superstar who has 22 goals and 11 assists for a total of 33 goal contributions, more than anyone else across Europe. Ad/> One is Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, arguably the form player in Europe, who has 20 goals and 10 assists.

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And his name is Domenico Berardi. Berardi, 27, has 14 goals and 11 assists this season for a total of 25 goal contributions. It is the most of any player in Serie A and the third highest across Europe (Robert Lewandowski is second with 31 goals and one assist).

This is already an improvement on his performance last season, which was still really impressive at 17 goals and seven assists. It is part of a remarkable three-year evolution that has seen Berardi finally fulfil the promise he first showed when he burst onto the scene with Sassuolo as a teenager. In the middle years of his career he has had some injury problems as well as horrible consistency with his form.

Yet finally it seems as if Berardi has put it all together to become one of the best attackers in Europe. /> “He has erupted,” explains Paolo Pegoraro of Eurosport Italy. “In the last two years he has really come on.

Before he was skilful but not consistent. Perhaps too nervous, and thinking too much about the game. “Now he has found the right rhythm, Euro 2020 really helped his