The Premier League Team of The Season SO FAR Is...

We're now 10 games into the Premier League season so it was time to look at our PL team of the season so far and who makes it in. Not only are there arguments about Trent Alexander-Arnold, whether Erling Haaland should actually make it, and who the manager of the season so far is, but Zac & Patrick Van Straaten both suggest players for every position!
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[@wafiwafinho7343]

Leaving Salah out is ridiculous

[@kurtsudheim825]

No it isn't

[@jamiemullane5065]

@@kurtsudheim825he’s literally been the best player itw this season😂😂

[@HimanshuGupta-nt6kl]

@@kurtsudheim825 you are ridiculous, you

[@robinbarron]

I see Patrick, I click. Simple

[@isacksb]

Why?

[@Hhammer]

Yeah I see Patrick and I prepare for negativity

[@sivuyilemakina2778]

Facts

[@Chuttika9898]

Lol you must love reading stats than watching games if you see Patrick and click.All he does is pick out stats that suits his narrative and ignore how they actually played in the game.

[@sbeeezz]

@@Chuttika9898 stats show how a player played in a game?

[@sigzil1985]

Chris Wood, in every position, and 7 Chris Woods on the bench.

[@tomchamberlain4329]

*Yates

[@Hushyluv]

Zidane with 10 pieces of Wood

[@ToastMalone824]

These videos come out in the last few hours of my shift at work on Friday's and always give me a little boost to push through. Cheers Zac, have a great weekend mate.

[@ZacDjellabb]

Smashing it mate! Have a good weekend

[@nisargtiger3926]

Milos Kerkez should be mentioned.. he has been a monster for Bournemouth against the top clubs especially

[@MathewDryhurst]

Digne a shout for left back. Keeping Maatsen out the side and got back in the French team when everyone expected him to leave.

[@ZacDjellabb]

Great shout

[@MarcosGarcia-pj3pq]

Welcome to the Football Freak Off

[@capsloccc4606]

Bro what 💀💀💀

[@loganadams1205]

P Diddy alt account

[@ZacDjellabb]

FFO has a new meaning

[@ZiyechSZN]

Patrick criticizing Caicedo for Chelsea’s open defense in counters but will praise baleba’s defensive actions despite Brightons defense being easier to counter #noticing

[@hello7032]

I was on your side until I saw you put a hashtag. Now we are enemies.

[@odanewilliams9]

Thts wat im saying , Man U were playing long balls , they weren’t goin through our midfield

[@brettpearce8843]

They're fucking clueless man their takes are worse than their hairlines. VVD, Murillo, gravenberch, caicedo, Salah, haaland, gvardiol, lucho walk into a best XI this season

[@WDAWG577]

Hes clearly just trying to wind up zac cuz hes a Chelsea fan. Its not that deep 😂

[@ericng7656]

Can I just say that ever since "joining" this channel, Henry is showing a lot more personality. May not agree with everything he said but definitely enjoying his content

[@FootballJOE]

I built this channel with my BARE HANDS!!

[@jackladell4751]

Saka over salah is criminal

[@kurtsudheim825]

No it isn't, stop singing & actuality watch some ball, check stats & more than basic ones

[@jackladell4751]

@@kurtsudheim825 Stats lad, Salah is clear of henry... dont talk about saka in this debate, saka is in the conversation with Bowen

[@rymoll]

Not me driving while listening/watching as Zac asks us not to 😭

[@MO-rl9gl]

Some of Pats opinions make me question what games he’s watching😂

[@UnknownAgenda]

He doesn’t watch games.

[@shitsify1]

What chelsea player hurt Pat? It's so tiring

[@djnnyfn8230]

Friday feels, reminds me of an old football podcast name

[@ZacDjellabb]

I have no idea what you're on about

[@EliCoolio317]

No Konate and Salah is criminalll

[@kurtsudheim825]

No it isn't, stop whinging

[@williamgoode6396]

Thank you for putting this on Spotify as well

[@ZacDjellabb]

Most welcome mate

[@PaddyMcMe]

*Saka Premier League:* 3g+7a = 10G+A in 9 games = 1.11 G+A --- *Per 90 Mins* 0.36G + 0.85A = 1.21 G+A Per 90 Mins. *Salah Premier League:* 8g+6a = 14G+A in 11 games = 1.20 G+A --- *Per 90 Mins* 0.75G + 0.56A = 1.31 G+A Per 90 Mins. *Saka this season All Comps:* 4G+7A in 14 Games = 11 G+A, 0.78 G+A Per Game --- *Per 90 Mins* = 0.24G per 90mins, 0.28A per 90mins, 0.52 G+A Per 90 mins. *Salah this season All Comps:* 10G+10A in 17 Games = 20 G+A, 1.18 G+A Per Game --- *Per 90 Mins* = 0.92G per 90mins, 0.55A per 90mins, 1.47G+A per 90 mins. *Summary:* *Saka Prem:* 1.11G+A, *Per 90* 1.21G+A --- *Saka All Comps:* 0.78 G+A, *Per 90:* 0.52 *Salah Prem:* 1.20G+A, *Per 90:* 1.31 G+A --- *Salah All Comps:* 1.47 G+A, *Per 90:* 1.47 Just something to think about when you're saying Saka over Salah.

[@scottyh1238]

is this your first time watching Pat? If not, this should not be a surprise. Arsenal are all gods, and every other team is either crap or lucky, especially Liverpool, Chelsea and Villa. He'll pick Saka over others because of some random stat like 'distance ran per 90 this season'.

[@matthewwils]

@@scottyh1238well he is an arsenal fan so naturally. i don’t think it’s as radical as you make it seem tho. salah is better sure, but i certainly wouldn’t freak out if someone made an argument for saka. he does do some things better than salah

[@cltuxunink]

@@matthewwils even arteta wouldnt start saka over salah dont be stupid

[@kurtsudheim825]

​@scottyh1238 you do know ska is literally, or was, the most creative player on the continent right, oh, so bad

[@kurtsudheim825]

Ntm they have different roles & do different jobs, salad is a striker, the to finish, ska is a creative player, esp when they are missing martin Ø

[@jjrodon5156]

Put Henry in thumbnail! Justice!

[@seanburtt1741]

Those single shots are way too zoomed in Zac 😂 keep thinking my phone screen has zoomed in

[@ZacDjellabb]

Yeah think you're right, will zoom it out a bit

[@seanburtt1741]

@ great video anyways!

[@charliebower615]

So much love for channel! So happy to still see you guys talking about football every week. I just have 2 suggestions. 1. So awesome to see that you are giving people the option to watch these in a podcast form. Would love to see the same for apple podcast users as well 😃 2. I absolutely love your video formats, but I do miss you guys talking about the weekends results. I would love to see you guys incorporate that into the channel somehow, whether it is a shorter weekly show or just a segment of the pod.

[@EvanGeorgeR]

Kulusevski deserves to be here over Tielemans 100%

[@Ben-o6u5b]

Patrick has a seriously unhealthy obsession with Chelsea

[@V-O-V]

Patricks anti Chelsea bias stinks Genuinely thinks hes incapable of praising anything about Chelsea

[@matthewwils]

he despises them and i love it 😂

[@asmrrichard5914]

How? He just says Chelsea isnt as good as ppl thinks, ofc there hasnt been alot of positive shit to say in the last 2 seasons anyway. But he isnt that bad, Chelsea fans just thinks their manager and players are the second coming of christ. Which is fair enough, i would enjoy watching a champions leauge quality team after watch confrence/top 10 lvl football for 2 whole seasons

[@littleninj0r]

@@asmrrichard5914thank you for saying we're CL quality

[@RefnRes]

​​@@asmrrichard5914Nah mate this is a consistent thing from Patrick that his takes are always ill informed about Chelsea and self contradictory with his takes on other teams that he gives lots of praise to. He so consistently has a negative skew on anything that is Chelsea.

[@V-O-V]

@@asmrrichard5914 Its mainly the Caicedo take for me, hes complaining about his defensive aspects despite caidcedo ranking top 3 for basically EVERY metric a DM/CM is measured by.,

[@PatrickvanStokken]

36:16 Thank you fellow PvS for the proper Dutch pronunciation 🙏🏼

[@RunCe9]

I once met Sir Trevor Brooking and Sir Emlyn Hughes at Butlins in Bognor Regis when I was about 8 years old. Still the two biggest sports stars I've ever met.

[@Imjustchillingincedarrapids]

Patrick is right 95% of the time, he is class, but goddamn does that man hate Chelsea

[@V-O-V]

Its got to the point where its so grating that I cant take the other things he says seriously anymore. Like yeah I'm sure X player has been good but you've just told me Caicedo is the reason for Chelseas defense so how can i trust your opinion?

[@joeycastonguay6888]

Henry was looking at Pat like a proud dad when he was talking about Anderson and Fulham

[@inghell]

Honestly I like the Jibber Djallaber much more 😂

[@ZacDjellabb]

To us it will be known as this! 😂

[@UmarAli-wy2xt]

Remember guys, football analyst and expert Henry Hill said this Arsenal team could "easily beat" Barcelona and Bayern Munich right now. What insight!

[@hello7032]

If you ask pundits, Arsenal is the second best team in the world every season. But if you look at the box score….

[@FootballJOE]

I said that when Arsenal had just beaten Spurs away from home and were top of the Prem but sure enjoy it while you can!

[@matthewwils]

slightly out of context. easily as in it could easily go either way, not easily as in the game would be easy itself

[@UmarAli-wy2xt]

@@FootballJOE Arsenal beat Spurs away from home September 15th. Barcelona beat Bayern Munich October 23rd, where upon watching both teams you said Arsenal could easily beat both. Regardless of the fact the two games were more than a month apart, Arsenal were 3rd on October 23rd, not top of the table. I think someone just can't admit when he made a mistake or gave a poor opinion.... And just to make sure you can't get around this, this was the video Zac posted on October 25th called "One MISTAKE EVERY Premier League Club Is Making This Season!", at 42:00. So no, I don't think thats why you said that.

[@anubhav111196]

@@UmarAli-wy2xt the guy brought the receipts too, i like it

[@nk5960]

The standout player in our defence is absolutely Konate. Especially in transition against us, where Van dijk has been lazy. He deserved a mention

[@gairejr980]

Vandjik is the reason Liverpool backline is in format . Casual alert

[@josh9992]

Everyone shitting on salah year after year cant wait for him to go past henry for goals this season🎉 and any liverpool fan will tell you kounate has been unreal

[@kurtsudheim825]

Delusional lvpl fans whinging as usual as usual. Where did they shirt on salad? I've legality never heard anyone say he's rubbish! Wow, he's going to score more playing 50 more games ntm miles behind in assists.& maybe actually watch ball rather than looking at spreadsheets

[@sbeeezz]

Great idea putting this on Spotify thanks Zac!

[@HappyClapperLFC]

It'd almost be more interesting to do the second best team of the season so far.

[@kakaisclass]

Pat's take on Pedro Neto is still insane

[@odanewilliams9]

Manchester United wasn’t goin through Chelsea’s midfield at all they were playing long balls , Caicedo was great tht game , Pat’s just hating

[@patokev3691]

Patrick should just go live in a computer. He knows expected goal stats and not actual ones. I don't think he even watches the matches. 😅

[@anubhav111196]

he was the one that bought this stat intensive culture at football daily, they all used to be in awe of him whenever they had sunday vibes and he will schooling them and then all of them majorly focused on stats. It's kind of boring

[@CommunionCups]

Caicedo is the easiest choice you could possibly have. Is so weird to have this be your career and not watch games lol

[@isacksb]

Worst is he acts like they watches nearly every game

[@jackladell4751]

Hes been good but not better than grav

[@CommunionCups]

@jackladell4751 disagree personally. Moises has bee. Better both offensively and defensively. More ground duels won. Nearly twice as many tackles. 1 more goal. 2 more assists. More chances created. More through balls. Gravenberch has won one more aerial duel, more ball recoveries and 1% better pass accuracy.

[@brettpearce8843]

Forget that they left fucking Salah out. 😂😂 Lads probably shouldn't have picked the pipe up before doing this.

[@charliewells6514]

@@CommunionCups£115 mil he should be better

[@simoncallister6071]

Also love Henry echoing all the BBC message board users' missing Garth's nonsense over Deeney's even more inane nonsense 😂

[@LucasFerreira-tr6bt]

Omg my suggestion was used 🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️

[@nickwoodward819]

Friday feels is gash, dont do it! 😂 Nice work on the podcasts

[@nickwoodward819]

Djibba djelabba it is

[@MattJDiver]

Rate PVS but not his best outing

[@QazwerDave]

? ?, Konate, VvD, Gvardiol Gravenberch Kulusevski, Palmer Mbuemo, Wood, Diaz

[@akshaykalale8442]

Djellab if you saw the World Cup in ‘22 you had to know Gvardiol was going to be among the best in the coming years. Crazy shout to call it an overspend but hindsight does assist

[@ZacDjellabb]

Tbf I always thought he would be an unreal CB, it was the fact he was at LB for the start of last season that i thought he'd been poor, then he became unreal there too 😂

[@scottyh1238]

Pat: "Chelsea have a whole load of defensive issues".....yet only conceded 1 more goal than "the best defence in the league" Arsenal. This is with Chelsea having a much harder schedule to start the season than Arsenal, based on the league coefficients. Also, Gravenberch over Caicedo is just getting comical at this stage.

[@RefnRes]

Patricks takes on Chelsea are always so ill informed and skewed with a clear negative bias against them. Anyone who follows Chelsea closely can't take him seriously.

[@ashdude3058]

Agreed with most of this comment besides the “gravenberch over caicedo is just getting comical” Gravenberch has been a top 3 player in the team that’s top of the premier league and top of the champions league.

[@isacksb]

Patrick doesnt really watch games. He just watches Numbers and stats

[@kurtsudheim825]

Since when do arsenal have the vest defence in the pl? That's last year muppet, they've changed their back line a lot this year, idk how many commissions it whatever, but injuries etc means it's changed, & there's more to it than just goals conceded, that's why they look at deeper stats.

[@scottyh1238]

@@kurtsudheim825 thats what all the delusional Arsenal fans claim. More excuses, "injuries", "referee's", "the grass is too long".

[@swikarneupane]

Patrick wearing a keffiyah? Yeah he's in the right side of history.

[@BOBINKINGA]

Thanks for the Springboks Shoutout 🇿🇦❤️

[@NicolasKane]

Welcome back Henry Hill! ❤

[@sasmate3758]

Spotify! Legend mate appreciate it been asking since the start haha

[@markjooste4277]

Salah is the fastest player in PL history to reach 10 goals, 10 assists in all comps and he hasn’t been put in the team. Alright man

[@adamginger32]

Mads Hermanson 100% best GK this season. Kept us in games

[@gairejr980]

" Kept us in game " 😂😂😂😂 yeah go on 😂😂😂😂

[@littleninj0r]

As a Chelsea fan, can we stop saying a team "should have won?" (Referencing them talking about Bournemouth) After potter and Pochs nonsense of "high xg but no goals" I at least realised that the team that "should have won" is the one that walks away with 3 points!!

[@kitmackenzie-johnson9846]

Jibber djelabber is so much better guys. I can’t express how much of a hack Friday feels is. It’s somehow more generic than Sunday vibes which is actually incredible achievement.

[@shaunboyle6985]

Patos bias for Arsenal is co clear, you can see he's struggling to cope with the fact his teams well off it to challenge for a title. His opinions against Liverpool and Chelsea are embarrassing

[@keyson1323]

Good vid, shocking name

[@Mukhtaarrrr]

Shout out to Patrick. Love the solidarity 🍉

[@QTC1688]

I’m not worried about how good saka will be when he’s 26 because he’ll be at Madrid

[@sydwellmyataza]

As a south African we big like that🇿🇦🤣

[@MattWrafter]

Will there be a regular podcast feed so we can listen on other podcast apps?

[@ZacDjellabb]

Currently on Spotify and Apple podcasts, let me know what you listen to it on and i can try there too

[@sbeeezz]

Zach comparing tielemans to a war commander 😂

[@ZacDjellabb]

I went on a weird tangent

[@EDMHazard47]

Gravenberch over Caicedo is kinda nuts to me, a biased Chelsea fan

[@colinstacey7579]

Why don’t you sort the positions by chapter? It makes a video like this so much more watchable.

[@apexmva7614]

Love from South Africa

[@ashdude3058]

Saka over Salah at RW is just embarrassing, have to get that checked 💀 not only the best player in the premier league but top 3 in the world this season.

[@Jamiereid967]

Djibber Djellaber was my suggestion!!!

[@Jake71st]

Zac would you ever bring back the spaceship?👀 missing the fd banter era

[@Neblotensol]

What premier league are you guys watching?

[@anubhav111196]

@1:13:55 I'm bored of this all pre peak thing, so pat pls let me know how do you know this isn't saka's peak? Please stop using pre peak bs, are you trying to be twitter troll?

[@kurtsudheim825]

Because you work on age numptey, most players peaknat roughly the same age per position numptey. It's called stats, you look at data over a period & compare it to your current case study, that's literally what they do so we don't have to

[@anubhav111196]

@kurtsudheim825 you imbecile, every player do not hit the peak at the same age, just because some players did doesn't mean others will do the same, every player don't evolve at the same age some peak at the early stage and then their performances fall down like Varane, there is no universally accepted formula for this it's just an assumption

[@kurtsudheim825]

& funny how you only got upset when he said that term for 1 player, but didn't for other players previously.mentioned, but just didn't say that term

[@anubhav111196]

@@kurtsudheim825 I didn't realised he used the pre peak thing for other players, which players did he used it for pls let me know

[@anubhav111196]

@@kurtsudheim825 my comment got taken away by KZbin, like I was saying every player's peak doesn't take place at same age, every player do not evolve at same time there's no study which says at after some age every player plays at their peak that is just an assumption , got it genius?

[@brettpearce8843]

This absolutely stinks. Don't watch these guys and this shows why the lack of knowledge here is top tier. Also far lad still isn't on the "Liverpool haven't played anyone" Milan at San siro, united at old Trafford, arsenal, Chelsea, Bayer, Leipzig who were top of the league, Brighton twice. 🤦

[@ericingtywatre]

Pat again with his insane bias against Chelsea. But then again, Arsenal fan, so why argue when you can just wait. Zac's videos are really great, but he should probably have different people coming to his podcasts.

[@ericingtywatre]

Also, he keeps talking about how bad Chelsea's defence is, while Arsenal has conceded just one less goal.

[@OdeanSmith-y9y]

@@ericingtywatreour defense has been kinda ass he isn’t wrong

[@ericingtywatre]

@@OdeanSmith-y9y Well yes, they've not been solid. But Chelsea do not deserve the kind of biasness against them from pat and the other dude. Pat really believes Arsenal are some super team which they aren't. Sad because he has good ball knowledge, but he stinks of biasness.

[@OdeanSmith-y9y]

@@ericingtywatre yea as a chelsea fan it’s annoying but it’s an arsenal fan and a fulham fan so I can’t say im surprised

[@farhanzahid5077]

Where is Kulusevski????

[@jamiemcalister4600]

I agree with this..he stands out on all stats in quite a fragile midfield at times

[@J3rv]

It’s funny how Caicedo was the most expensive midfielder last season when he was underperforming, now somehow Enzo has been labeled most expensive midfielder. Glad to see the length the media will go to spin negative narratives about Chelsea hasn’t died. Headlines went from Chelsea set the British record for Caicedo last year, and this year Enzo is more expensive. Brilliantl

[@kurtsudheim825]

Numptey, they are both around the same price, whilst they do often spin to make a narrative, esp since these guys aren't journalists themselves, they just look at data & talk, they talk in general & forget details, notice even on this video a couple times they're looking at each other checking, having forgotten who's on scary position in the table, exact points. So whinging over a few £ is crazy, if it wer 80m vs 120m then you can complain

[@J3rv]

@ When in my comment did I blame anyone in this video about getting the price tag wrong genius? I was having a go at the media’s narrative. If you’re going to call someone stupid, at least get your facts straight. Also I don’t care if it’s a couple of pennies, there’s a reason why they are trying to switch the narrative. If it didn’t matter, they wouldn’t lie about it.

[@baritoneystark]

won’t mind pato removing that anti-chelsea goggles every now and then

[@hello7032]

Needed this distraction

[@harveycox7516]

Haaland over wood is outrageous.

[@sydwellmyataza]

Friday feels ain't it but love you Zac

[@ZacDjellabb]

I’ve gone blank over every name haha. If we think of something better I’ll replace it to that

[@MarcosGarcia-pj3pq]

@@ZacDjellabb Football Freak off

[@hello7032]

@@ZacDjellabbFootball Gab with Djellab was right there

[@hcnza]

You linked your Spotify for creators page in the description Zac! Better fix the link

[@EDMHazard47]

“That’s racist” 😭😭😭😭

[@paulgeggie3684]

Pat warnie is a goat and top 5 sporting legend ever

[@delboy895]

Nobody even mentions kulusevski

[@MarcosGarcia-pj3pq]

Wise guy Henry hill

[@abh2188]

RIP Shane Warne

[@Chuttika9898]

Liverpool have played 5 out of the top 10 in the league and Arsenal have played 6 of the top 10. Pat must have done some great research to say that Liverpool have easier fixtures.For a guy who only looks at stats and doesn't watch games he good ignoring some stats. Liverpool have also played United away while Arsenal have played Leicester and Southampton at home but but easier fixtures guys. Also in Champions league have played much tougher opponents than Arsenal.

[@Chip_in]

Friday beers ⛳

[@tanishqrahuja987]

No shout for kelleher?

[@kevinwichlin9889]

Patrick is overly harsh on Chelsea and Zac picks Chelsea players past and present. Just watch and enjoy sports banter okay?

[@tomdreler6528]

I guess, there are a lot of fm manager gamers here in the comment section. Guys, milenkovic was always a must have, am ibright?

[@justjames1348]

Friday feels, sounds like a diddy party

[@kagisela9664]

Do best XI in Europe

[@Ch00x-kt2fr]

I see jaleb I click. Complicated

[@itzthomas6947]

Senesi above Huijsen en Zabarnyi?

[@callmeaj4846]

Goalkeeper so far this season is not Onana and it's not up for discussion. I'm a United fan I watch them every week 😭 and yes where on stats Onana has improved but in game he still makes the same mistakes, he always slows play down just to kick it long, he's so slow to get down, and he always parries into trouble. He's fine but not in contention. Other than that big fan 😅👌

[@shitsify1]

Zac you let Pat walk all over you..

[@anubhav111196]

yeah he just surrenders

[@nibbles7463]

What happened to Henry’s mullet😢

[@darshankarthik6254]

Start doing more European content please

[@brianstevens1473]

Friday feels or fills lol

[@louig4049]

Caicedo ain't a DM. Getting that Kante misprofiling

[@ZacDjellabb]

Yeah tbh, Lavia is more of the DM, however just for the squad in midfield it fit easier

[@reinderrider45]

Im taking McNeil at Arsenal idc

[@nikolasavic1525]

Whats henry on about, Pavlovic is better than Milenkovic

[@FootballJOE]

What's nicola on about, Milenkovic is way better than Pavlovic

[@nikolasavic1525]

@@FootballJOE haha touche, but for thee national team its not even close and its generally the whole nations opinion, we wanted him for our captain. Also look at the state of Salzburg since he left

[@FootballJOE]

@@nikolasavic1525 I'm more focused on the state of his performances at AC Milan plus Milenkovics work in the Prem but I shall not die on that hill!!!!

[@michaellord2844]

Saka is going to be using a zimmerframe in his peak years, as he's getting used way too much. Cant believe Salah was left out, always eclipses Saka.

[@jackbalmer3487]

No kulusevski??