Pfa Awards: Leicester And Spurs Dominate Premier League Team

Leicester and Tottenham have provided eight players between them for the Professional Footballers’ Association Premier League Team of the Year.

Jamie Vardy is one of a quartet of players from league leaders Leicester, while Premier League top scorer Harry Kane is one of four men from Spurs.
Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil, a PFA Player of the Year nominee, misses out.

Women’s Super League 1 champions Chelsea have three players in the WSL 1 Team of the Year.

The PFA had planned to reveal the team at its annual awards ceremony on Sunday but said it was forced to publish early because the details were leaked.

It blamed a member of the public for choosing “to deliberately leak our representative teams from the official brochure of the awards evening”.

The players’ representative body added: “As a matter of urgency, we are seeking a detailed explanation from the brochure printers as to how they were able to secure a copy of the publication.”

Kane has scored 24 league goals this season for Tottenham, who are five points behind Leicester with four games remaining.

As well as Vardy, Wes Morgan, N’Golo Kante and Riyad Mahrez are included from Leicester while Toby Alderweireld, Danny Rose and Dele Alli join Kane from Tottenham.

Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea, Arsenal full-back Hector Bellerin and West Ham’s Dimitri Payet make up the rest of the team.

The PFA awards evening takes place on Sunday 24 April, when the PFA Player of the Year will be announced. Vardy, Kane, Mahrez, Kane, Ozil and Payet are on the shortlist for that award.

PFA Premier League Team of the Year
Statistics supplied by Opta
David De Gea David de Gea has kept more clean sheets this season than in any other previous Premier League campaign (14).

Danny Rose Only Charlie Daniels (5) and Hector Bellerin (4) have supplied more assists among defenders than Rose (3) this season.

Toby Alderweireld Only Scott Dann (5) has contributed more goals to his side among defenders than Alderweireld (4) this season.

Wes Morgan The Leicester captain has made more blocks (34) than any other member of the Foxes’ team this season.

Hector Bellerin Only Mesut Ozil [18] has supplied more assists for Arsenal than Bellerin (four) this season.

Dimitri Payet Dimitri Payet has had a hand in 18 league goals this season for West Ham, eight more than any other player – nine goals, nine assists (Carroll next on 10).

N’Golo Kante Kante has made more tackles (149) than any other player in the PL this season.

Dele Alli Eight of Dele Alli’s 10 Premier League goals have come away from home.

Riyad Mahrez Only Jamie Vardy [28] has been directly involved in more goals than Mahrez (27 – 16 goals, 11 assists) this season.

Harry Kane Harry Kane (24) has scored more Premier League goals than Aston Villa this season.

Jamie Vardy Jamie Vardy’s goals (22) have won Leicester 21 points in the Premier League, more than any other player for any team.

Source:- BBCsports