It has been quite the season in the Premier League.
At the summit, a fight to secure UEFA Champions League football in the next campaign broke out, lasting right up until the final day.
For the second consecutive year, the three teams promoted last summer were relegated back down to the Championship.
Add to that the rise of Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest (among others) and the struggles of Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, and there has been no shortage of talking points for fans and the media alike to chew on.
It is not only teams that have caught the eye, though.
Individual players have too, and it is them that this analysis will celebrate.
The scout report will select 11 players who have enjoyed stellar campaigns and assemble a Premier League Team of the Year (in a 4-3-3 format), using data to demonstrate why each player included deserves their place in it.
For fairness purposes, no more than two players will be selected per team.
Goalkeeper Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest)
Several goalkeepers, starting at the very back of the lineup, have had strong seasons.
However, there were two who stood head and shoulders above the others, with Arsenal’s David Raya and Nottingham Forest’s Matz Sels sharing the Premier League Golden Glove award at the weekend after picking up 13 clean sheets apiece.
Out of the two, though, the latter is the one selected for this team.
Sels consistently ranks at the top of the clean sheets list this season and is so being rewarded for that.
Matz Sels Statistics At Nottingham Forest 2024/2025
One of the reasons that the Belgium international has been such a tough player to beat this season is because he is more of a conventional goalkeeper, in that he doesn’t tend to move off his line and close the ball down and instead prioritises guarding his net at all costs.
This is reflected in the graphic, which makes it apparent that he ranks very low in the percentile bands for sliding tackles and is rarely seen making risky challenges against opposing attackers.
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