We're into the entire swing of Welcome to World Class 2021, and it's time to discuss the great proper-sided defenders on the planet.
While the name may additionally examine 'right-backs', the rise to prominence of the wing-returned function means we've additionally integrated people who are adept at doing the first-rate of both: supplying width to attacks as they bomb forward and usually mucking in at the returned.
There has already been masses to discuss in our rankings of goalkeepers, centre-backs, defensive midfielders, vital midfielders, attacking midfielders, left-backs AND left forwards.
If you are come what may surprising with #W2WC, we've spent the remaining couple of weeks judging the sport's pinnacle gamers in opposition to a sequence of metrics, and now we're liberating our top fives in keeping with function in ranked order.
But before we get to that, a few ground guidelines on how we arrived here.
#W2WC21 runs until Friday, December 24, with some final freebies coming your manner on Christmas Day.
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All statistics are provided through StatsPerform over the period of January 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021 (inclusive of domestic and continental cup competitions).
Games performed: 46 Goals: 5 Tackles: seventy six Interceptions: 26 Clearances: 50 Clean Sheets: 14 Reece James' upward push over the last years has been not anything short of meteoric. The Chelsea academy product didn't even make the W2WC shortlist in 2020, however unearths himself among the very best in his function this 12 months - and that is undisputed. The embodiment of the ingrained do or die attitude at Stamford Bridge, James is already a master of the wing-returned role and has been unplayable there at instances in 2021, combining giant strength with depraved crossing technique and finishing capability. Just 22 years antique, he earned big plaudits for his shielding performance in opposition to Manchester City inside the Champions League very last victory (large metric factors), and he has greater than demonstrated his attacking prowess this season with five goals and assists on the time of writing.
