Player Barometer latest: Smalling and Sterling soar

Chris Smalling and Raheem Sterling, goalscorer and assist provider respectively in England's 1-0 victory over Portugal on Thursday, are the latest big movers up EURO2016.com's SOCAR Player Barometer.

The Player Barometer includes only those named in the 24 teams' final 23-man squads for UEFA EURO 2016. Centre-back Smalling and winger Sterling each rose 33 places as a result of their late link-up at Wembley, with the latter providing the cross for the former to head in his first senior international goal.

SOCAR Player Barometer

SOCAR Player Barometer – biggest movers, 2 June*

• Chris Smalling, England: 26th (+33)

As well as his goal, the Manchester United defender made nine clearances and won seven aerial duels in an impressive performance.

• Kyle Walker, England: 27th (+24)

The right-back contributed ten clearances, eight interceptions and four dribbles in a solid all-round display.

• Raheem Sterling, England: 235th (+33)

Manchester City's Sterling, low down the rankings because of a month-long injury absence towards the end of the domestic season, delivered a left-wing ball that Smalling glanced past Rui Patrício with four minutes remaining. 

• Danilo, Portugal: 108 (+11)

Portugal's standout performer. Their failure to keep a clean sheet slightly tarnished an outing in which he made four clearances and three interceptions.

*Rankings correct prior to any fixtures taking place on 3 June. The Player Barometer updates live during games.

How it works
The UEFA EURO 2016 Player Barometer is tracking players' form in the build-up to and during the tournament. The Barometer runs official player statistics through a specially-designed algorithm to create rankings based on player performances.

Player data from qualifying formed the initial basis for the rankings, which have taken into account performances for club and country from 1 January 2016. This gives a unique and comprehensive evaluation of players' form when UEFA EURO 2016 kicks off, after which the Barometer will track which players are excelling in the tournament itself.

As the Barometer acts as a form tracker, the more recent the match, the higher the weighting assigned to the data from it i.e. player stats from yesterday are given more significance than those from last week. If a player is not active (e.g. due to injury or non-selection), his ranking will decrease over that period of inactivity.