LB – Cesar Azpilicueta, Chelsea
If it had been said last summer that Azpilicueta would have made the team of the year there probably would have been a few raised eyebrows, but at left-back most would have dismissed it as rubbish.
Yet with Ashley Cole struggling for form and fitness and Jose Mourinho’s dislike of Ryan Bertrand seeing the Englishman shipped out to Aston Villa on-loan, the Spaniard has been asked to fill in on the left and has done so brilliantly.