Who is the best Premier League midfielder ever?
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So far, we’ve run through the best goalkeepers and defenders the Premier League has ever seen.
Now it’s over to the midfielders to showcase theircombination of brains, brawn and brilliance to make their case of being theleague’s best.
Ready for our midfield four?
Paul Scholes
If the likes of Xavi and Zinedine Zidane are singing your praises,then it’d be downright barmy of us not to have Scholes in here.
A player who could pick a pass tomorrow, play it yesterdayand had the knack of being the right place to score goals – if only he could’vetackled.
Scholes became a lynchpin in the Manchester United sideunder Sir Alex Ferguson, winning eleven Premier League titles and two ChampionsLeagues to name but few of his honours.
Calmness personified.
Patrick Vieira
A shining example of former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’sability to spot a player no-one would have heard of.
Vieira came to Arsenal as a lanky, wide-eyed 20-year-old andleft as perhaps the most dominant central midfielder the league has ever seen.
He gave us some big goals, crunching tackles, and a genuinegreat Premier League rivalry with Roy Keane.
A double winner and an invincible in his days with theGunners. Not many fancied squaring up to Vieira.
Frank Lampard
The ultimate box-to-box midfielder. Goals were his game andhe scored a shed load of them. 177 in fact in the Premier League.
He always found himself in the right place to score, butalso knew when to pass too – take his 102 assists.
Lampard became a Premier League legend bagging three PremierLeagues, a Champions League and room full of individual honours.
If you want show your kids how to become a master midfieldgoal-getter, then stick on a Lampard compilation – they’re all superb!
N’Golo Kante
After France’s World Cup win in 2018, team-mate Paul Pogbaquipped Kante has ‘fifteen lungs’.
But when you really think about it, at his best Kante turnsup on the right, left, and even through the centre of the pitch all in a blinkof an eye.
Kante arrived in the Premier League at Leicester City in2015, and under Claudio Ranieri, became the division’s top defensive midfielderas the Foxes’ stunned all to become 5000/1 champions.
But after moving him into a central position, the diminutiveFrenchman hasn’t looked back. Two Premier League titles already in his trophycabinet, the ‘Kante role’ has become a world-wide phenomenon.
Since his move to Chelsea, he’s proved adept in attackingareas too, showcasing his athleticism. Whether his best days are behind him ornot, he’s taken the league by storm.
