Mahrez is on the field, Salah is absent…The ideal Premier League lineup in the past ten years | Sports

Hoscord, a platform specializing in football statistics, has announced the ideal lineup for the best individual season performances of players in the Premier League over the past 10 years.

Algerian star Riyad Mahrez, player for Saudi Al Ahli and captain of the Desert Warriors, is the only player to represent Arab and African football in an ideal squad that includes 11 players, some of whom are still Premier League football. Others moved to other leagues.

It is worth noting that Liverpool’s top scorer and Egyptian star Mohamed Salah is absent from the squad.

The platform’s criteria are the best individual ratings of the 11 players at any position over the past 10 seasons.

According to statistics, no right-wing player in the Premier League in the past 10 years has a better season rating than Mahrez. The right-wing position has witnessed fierce competition between several stars, the most famous of which are Salah and Mahrez.

𝐑𝐖: Riyad Mahrez – Leicester City (2015/16)

🌡️ 7.84 WS Rating
⭐️ 10 Man of the Match Awards
⚽️17 goals
🅰️11 assists pic.twitter.com/m7KQPnSD4T

— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) November 20, 2023

Mahrez played 284 games for Leicester City and Manchester City in the Premier League, scoring 82 goals and providing 65 assists. In addition, he won the Premier League championship 5 times.

As for the captain of the Egyptian national team, he has 149 goals and 68 assists, which is numerically superior to Mahrez, but his selection is based on his best performance in a season, not the accumulation of the past ten years.

🇪🇬 Mohamed Salah’s statistically calculated player characteristics:

✅ Advantages:

🟢Organize
🟢Key Pass
🟢 Pass the ball

❌ Weaknesses:

🔴Aerial Duel
🔴Catch the ball
🔴Defensive contribution https://t.co/z2tv3cE0DJ pic.twitter.com/hFI5Ng82BA

— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) November 17, 2023

Mahrez won the league championship with Leicester City in the 2015-2016 season, with a season rating of (7.84) (out of 10 points). Salah’s highest rating in his first season at Liverpool (2013-2014) was (7.45).

Mahrez’s star shone brightly in the Premier League as he led Leicester to the club’s first and only title in their history in the 2015-16 season before moving to Manchester City in the summer of 2018 and playing for the Citizens. Continue his career. He has won 12 titles, including last season’s historic treble.

🏆𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧

📈 Based on single season ratings over the past 10 years

🧵 Each player’s individual season data👇 pic.twitter.com/tLsOfESTVU

— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) November 20, 2023

Hoscoard said the ideal lineup would include:

• goalkeeper: Polish Lukasz Fabinski (Swansea City, 2014-2015 season)
• Line of defense: Austrian Christian Foch (Leicester City, 2015-2016 season), Argentinian Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City, 2016-2017 season), Dutch Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool, 2015-2016 season) and Englishman Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool, 2021-2022 season).
• Center line: Belgian Hazard (Chelsea, 2014-2015), Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City, 2019-2020), Englishman Steven Gerrard (Liverpool, 2013-2014) and Algerian Riya De Mahrez (Leicester City, 2015-2016).
• Attacking line: Uruguayan Luis Suarez (Liverpool, 2013-2014) and Argentinian Sergio Aguero (Manchester City, 2017-2018).