PFA Team of the Year revealed: Liverpool and Man City dominate with Paul Pogba surprise inclusion

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Manchester City and Liverpool dominate the PFA’s Team of the Year for this season with 10 of the 11 stars coming from the Premier League’s top two.

In fact, no player from outside either city has made the team with Manchester United’s Paul Pogba a surprise inclusion ahead of Chelsea talisman Eden Hazard, the only player on the six-man Players’ Player of the Year shortlist not to make the XI.

Van Dijk, expected to win the individual title, has been the beating heart of a Liverpool defence which has shipped just 20 goals in 35 games, keeping 18 clean sheets, as Jurgen Klopp’s side continue to push champions City all the way in the title race.

The Dutchman is one of four Liverpool players to make the team, alongside fellow defenders Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson as well as Sadio Mane, the Senegalese having bagged 18 goals and 1 assist so far this season.

Manchester City’s Aymeric Laporte makes up the back four, in front of Brazilian keeper Ederson, while Fernandinho sits at the base of a midfield three behind teammate Bernardo Silva and Manchester rival Pogba.

Up top, Sergio Aguero is flanked by Mane and the expected Young Player of the Year Raheem Sterling.

As well as there being no place for Hazard, 16 goals and 13 assists for Chelsea so far this season, Tottenham forward Heung-min Son also misses out having been a standout star for Mauricio Pochettino.

Son has scored 12 and laid on six during a season in which he has twice been dragged away for international duty with South Korea during the domestic calendar, one with national service on the line, and stood in for Harry Kane during the England captain’s injury problems.

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