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Chelsea and their title rivals Tottenham both have four players in the PFA
Premier League Team of the Year. Chelsea midfielders N’Golo Kante and Eden
Hazard, both nominated for the PFA Player of the Year award, are included,
while Blues central defenders
Gary
Cahill and David Luiz are also in the line-up.
Spurs, who trail Chelsea by four points in the
title race, are represented by midfielder Dele Alli and striker Harry Kane, as
well as full-backs Danny Rose and Kyle Walker. Manchester United’s David De Gea
gets the nod in goal, while Liverpool winger Sadio Mane and Everton striker
Romelu Lukaku, the division’s top scorer with 24 goals, complete the line-up.
While Kane and Lukaku are also on the
shortlist for player of the year, the other two nominees, United’s Zlatan
Ibrahimovic and Alexis Sanchez of Arsenal, miss out. Anthony Knockaert is one
of four Brighton players in the Championship Team of the Year.
The
French midfielder, the Championship’s Player of the Year, is joined by
goalkeeper David Stockdale and defenders Bruno and Lewis Dunk for the Seagulls,
who celebrated promotion on Monday.
Newcastle trio Jonjo Shelvey, Jamaal Lascelles
and Dwight Gayle are included, along with Leeds striker Chris Wood, Aaron Mooy
of Huddersfield and Fulham duo Tom Cairney and 16-year-old full-back Ryan
Sessegnon.
This story was first published On Vanguard
