Players of the First Half: Premier League
Sorry for the long break, there was a data issue where I was not getting any new data in. That’s fixed now, I have updated everything in the PL and will hopefully have some stuff out soon. For now, will just summarize the player of the weeks for the first 19 match days. To pick the team of the first half, it’s simple I am just looking for how many times you made my broad (sometimes over 20 players) team of the week in each of the first 19 weeks. This could overrate erratic players, underrate guys who missed time, etc, but that’s the way we ease back in here.
Defense
FB: Antonee Robinson (8) has made it almost every other week and for me is the clear defender of the year so far. Milos Kerkez (5) is the other first team member.
Andrew Robertson (5), Josko Gvardiol (5), Malo Gusto (4) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (4) make up the second and third teams.
CB: Virgil van Dijk (5) leads the way in the middle, partnered by William Saliba (3).
Cristian Romero (3) and Ibrahima Konate (3) are the second team, with Nathan Collins and Jan Paul van Hecke the third team.
Midfield
Moises Caicedo (5), Bruno Guimaraes (4) and Martin Odegaard (5) take home the first team.
Enzo Fernandez, Mikkel Damsgaard, and Bruno Fernandes (4) fit in the second team.
Ryan Gravenberch, James Maddison and Dominik Szoboszlai (3) are on the 3rd team.
Forward
Mo Salah has the most team of the week appearances of any player with 11. Alex Iwobi, Alexander Isak and Bukayo Saka join him with 7+ appearances and make up the first team forwards.
Cole Palmer, Antoine Semenyo, Morgan Gibbs-White and Anthony Gordon are on the second team.
Morgan Rogers, Erling Haaland, Luis Diaz, and Matheus Cunha are the third team.
First Team
Second Team
Third Team
More to come soon!