Premier League 2017-18 Team of the Season
By Staff
The 2017-18 Premier League season is over. Manchester City are champions, but who made the team of the year?
Manchester City ran away with the Premier League this year, setting new records for points, goals, wins and goal difference. Pep Guardiola’s side also played some of the most thrilling attacking soccer the English top flight has ever seen. They were, in almost every meaningful way, the team of the season.
However, as impressive as they’ve been, there’s nothing particularly exciting about a team of the season dominated by players from the same club. To mix things up, FanSided’s soccer staff have picked their own Premier League teams of the season, with only one player allowed per club. Here are the teams:
Adam Stocker, @ASTOCK3
Lukas Fabianski
Chris Smalling – Harry Maguire – Michael Keane – Jamaal Lascelles
Luka Milivojevic
Pascal Gross – Kevin De Bruyne
Mohamed Salah – Harry Kane – Eden Hazard
James Dudko, @JamesDudko
David de Gea
Alfie Mawson – James Tarkowski – Cesar Azpilicueta
David Silva – Christian Eriksen – Aaron Ramsey – Pascal Gross – Mohamed Salah
Marko Arnautovic – Jamie Vardy
Gabe Henderson, @GabeHJournalist
David de Gea
James Tarkowski – Nacho Monreal – Shane Duffy – Phil Jagielka
N’Golo Kante – Wilfred Ndidi – Kevin De Bruyne
Mohamed Salah – Harry Kane – Wilfried Zaha
Andrew Beasley, @BassTunedToRed
David de Gea
Cesar Azpilicueta – Jamaal Lascelles – James Tarkowski – Charlie Daniels
Kevin De Bruyne – Abdoulaye Doucoure – Mesut Ozil
Mohamed Salah – Harry Kane – Wilfried Zaha
Peter Johnstone, @9PniJ2
David de Gea
James Tarkowski – Alfie Mawson – Shane Duffy
Marcos Alonso – Granit Xhaka – Kevin De Bruyne – Luka Milivojevic – Arthur Masuaku
Mohamed Salah – Harry Kane
Dan Voicescu, @fiveboroball
David de Gea
Phil Jagielka – Alfie Mawson – Maya Yoshida
Kevin De Bruyne – Jonjo Shelvey – Mesut Ozil – Eden Hazard
Mohamed Salah – Harry Kane – Wilfried Zaha
Harrison Hamm, @harrisonhamm21
David de Gea
DeAndre Yedlin – James Tarkowski – Harry Maguire – Marcos Alonso
Mesut Ozil – Kevin De Bruyne – Pascal Gross
Mohamed Salah – Harry Kane – Wilfried Zaha
Jake Walerius, @JakeWalerius
David de Gea
Hector Bellerin – Jamaal Lascelles – James Tarkowski – Nathan Ake
Kevin De Bruyne – N’Golo Kante – Pascal Gross
Mohamed Salah – Harry Kane – Wilfried Zaha
Premier League top goalscorer Mohamed Salah is the only player to appear in all eight teams, while Harry Kane, David De Gea and Kevin De Bruyne make it into seven each. Burnley’s standout center-back, James Tarkowski, got selected in six teams, while Wilfried Zaha, who played such a crucial role in saving Cystal Palace from the drop, made it into five starting XIs. The composite team, made up of the players selected by the greatest number of our writers, is as follows:
David de Gea
Alfie Mawson – Harry Maguire – James Tarkowski – Jamaal Lascelles
Mesut Ozil – Kevin De Bruyne – Pascal Gross
Mohamed Salah – Harry Kane – Wilfried Zaha
That’s a lot of center-backs. And a lot of attacking midfielders. De Bruyne as a holding midfielder? Ozil as a shuttler alongside him? Mawson and Lascelles charging up the wing on the overlap? That sounds like a recipe for disaster, but hey, they all had impressive seasons. Why not celebrate them?