Garth Crooks' Team of the Season: Dias, Casemiro, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Haaland

At the extremity of the Premier League campaign, BBC shot pundit Garth Crooks is connected manus to springiness you his Team of the Season.

Ederson (Manchester City): It's not often I disregard the victor of the Golden Glove grant but connected this juncture I deliberation I must. David de Gea has played his portion successful an awesome Manchester United betterment this play but overmuch of that has been down to the mode United person organised their defence alternatively than the benignant of heroics we person seen from De Gea successful the past.

This play belongs to Ederson, who has quietly, but precise effectively, played a blinder for Manchester City. The Brazilian goalkeeper is astir arsenic bully with the shot astatine his feet arsenic helium is with it successful his hands.

This sets him isolated from each the different keepers successful the world. Any squad that retains possession arsenic good and arsenic often arsenic City has to person a keeper whose attraction is astir unbreakable. He is simply a superb fig 1 who has been cardinal to City winning the rubric this season.

Kieran Trippier (Newcastle): I'm not wholly definite what Kieran Trippier was hoping to execute erstwhile helium arrived astatine St James' Park but immoderate it was it couldn't person been amended than qualifying for the Champions League.

The Newcastle United skipper has been much than an inspiration to a squad that has dilatory but surely believed astatine each crook that a top-four decorativeness was not conscionable imaginable but achievable. The squad person been aided and abetted by the brilliance of Eddie Howe, my manager of the season. He was appointed by Amanda Staveley and her consortium and they person taken the nine wherever the erstwhile proprietor Mike Ashley could not - and that is into the Champions League aft a 20-year absence.

William Saliba (Arsenal): The nonaccomplishment done wounded of William Saliba successful the second portion of the play astir surely outgo Arsenal the title. The games against Southampton astatine location and West Ham distant were ones the Gunners would person won nether mean circumstances, but these were fixtures fuelled with unit and anticipation and Arsenal's defence buckled nether the value of them.

When Saliba came into the Arsenal broadside successful the aboriginal portion of their run helium looked immense, and the bigger the crippled the much composed helium appeared. The interaction of the Frenchman's wounded to Arsenal's rubric chances was determination for each to spot and they simply had no-one successful their ranks bully capable to regenerate him.

Ruben Dias (Manchester City): He has been truthful effectual since his accomplishment astatine Etihad Stadium that no-one mentions however overmuch Manchester City miss Vincent Kompany immoderate more. Is it immoderate wonderment they telephone Ruben Dias 'Pep 2' successful the dressing room?

The Spain planetary indispensable beryllium Guardiola's archetypal enactment connected the squad sheet, particularly successful the large games. Even erstwhile helium is rotated and rested for the occasional fixture helium returns and slots close backmost into the broadside arsenic though helium was ne'er near out.

When helium archetypal arrived connected the country I thought helium could beryllium bullied and that the physicality of the Premier League mightiness beryllium a small excessively overmuch for him. Now helium is doing each the bullying and City are the beneficiaries.

Manuel Akanji (Manchester City): What a play this lad has had. Strong, almighty and quick, I can't deliberation of 3 amended qualities successful a defender and Manuel Akanji is equipped with each of them.

He besides has capable quality to grip the shot successful hard areas, which is indispensable if you are a defender who has immoderate ambitions to play regularly for Pep Guardiola. What is astonishing astir Akanji is that helium lone outgo City astir £15m from Borussia Dortmund - however is that imaginable successful this time and age?

Manchester City bash person a wont of uncovering these gems and Akanji is decidedly 1 of them.

Casemiro (Manchester United): I'm convinced the accomplishment of the Brazilian saved Manchester United's season. Before Casemiro appeared connected the country they were successful freefall.

Cristiano Ronaldo was making demands of the nine that were thing abbreviated of outrageous and determination was cipher who seemed susceptible of doing thing astir it. Suddenly Casemiro came on and showed Ronaldo however a superstar should truly behaviour himself. Casemiro enactment his estimation to 1 side, rolled up his sleeves and dug in.

He gives everything for the team. In information Casemiro did the 1 happening Ronaldo couldn't bash and that was instrumentality United backmost into the Champions League. A world-class subordinate with a estimation to match.

Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City): This is my subordinate of the play and his biggest accomplishment has yet to beryllium achieved. He has already won the Premier League title, the FA Cup last awaits and the biggest prize of each and the 1 that has eluded him and Manchester City - the Champions League trophy - sits successful Istanbul waiting to beryllium lifted by their captain.

Should Ilkay Gundogan and City bash the Treble, it would beryllium the astir magnificent achievement. However, they person to bushed Manchester United successful the FA Cup earlier they tin bash that and determination can't beryllium immoderate greater information for their neighbours and arch-enemies than to destruct City's dream.

Martin Odegaard (Arsenal): For truthful overmuch of this play Arsenal looked similar they were going to marque it. The crushed they appeared truthful convincing was owed to their skipper Martin Odegaard.

The Norwegian playmaker brought a calm sophistication to the Gunners' performances that the Premier League rubric abruptly seemed doable. The Arsenal skipper intelligibly talked immoderate consciousness into Granit Xhaka, who was nary longer wanting to combat everyone and abruptly was looking similar a subordinate who was engaged, similar the remainder of his team-mates, successful winning the title.

Sadly for Arsenal they ran retired of steam but not without giving Spurs and Chelsea fans weeks of destroyed weekends and sleepless nights. That indispensable springiness them a small satisfaction.

Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City): You can't permission Kevin de Bruyne retired of immoderate team. If this subordinate turns up and is not nobbled by either Manchester United successful the FA Cup last oregon Inter Milan successful the Champions League last I americium convinced City volition execute the Treble. Erling Haaland mightiness people the goals but it is De Bruyne who is the team's creator director.

The situation for De Bruyne is that helium indispensable get done these games without wounded and his team-mates indispensable support him.

This could beryllium De Bruyne's defining infinitesimal and 1 that could found him arsenic the champion subordinate successful the world.

Harry Kane (Tottenham): I thought agelong and hard astir this enactment considering the mediocre play Tottenham person had, but I couldn't clasp Harry Kane liable for that.

Kane has hardly had a notation this play owed to the goalscoring exploits of Erling Haaland. Regardless, the England striker has scored 30 league goals again for Spurs, which nether the circumstances is rather remarkable.

The large question for Kane present is what does helium bash next? He is the astir bonzer nonrecreational and a subordinate of his calibre deserves to person a furniture afloat of medals. Meanwhile Spurs stay successful a messiness - however other would you picture a nine who has had 5 managers successful 4 years? Another play without a trophy is not conscionable a atrocious look for Kane it plays into the hands of his critics who volition commencement to question his ambition.

Erling Haaland (Manchester City): Manchester City's biggest occupation erstwhile Erling Haaland arrived was getting him to acceptable into their squad without it causing excessively overmuch disruption to the mode they played.

Once they worked that retired the Norwegian superstar has astir go unplayable. His goals talk for themselves, nevertheless you would beryllium doing the striker a large disservice if you were to see him thing much than a goalscoring machine.

For a subordinate who has scored truthful galore goals helium is really 1 of the astir unselfish strikers I've ever seen. He shows a decent interaction erstwhile the shot is occasionally fired into him and tin play radical successful with his backmost to goal. His top spot of people is putting the shot into the backmost of the nett and helium seems to emotion the large occasion. That is wherefore I volition beryllium amazed if City don't bash the Treble.

No much playing the wretched mendacious fig nine. City present person a due centre guardant and helium makes each the difference.

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