1 hour ago Matheus Nunes (Man City): Nunes enjoyed a superb play astatine full-back, starting much games (32) and playing much minutes (2,865) than successful his archetypal 2 seasons astatine the nine combined (26 starts, 2,327 minutes).
City were acold amended disconnected with him successful the starting XI - they won 66% (W21 D8 L3) of the games helium started, compared to 33% without him (W2 D1 L3).
Nunes completed much passes successful the absorption fractional than immoderate different subordinate this play (1,153) portion among full-backs helium had the associated astir unfastened play assists (5), made the astir line-breaking passes wide (275), arsenic good arsenic completing the astir passes successful the last 3rd (600). He was besides the full-back with the astir shot carries (514) and transportation region - good implicit 5,000m.
Gabriel (Arsenal): One of the odder statistic of 2025-26 is that Arsenal cardinal defender Gabriel Magalhaes ended the play with much Premier League goals and assists combined than the likes of Jorgen Strand Larsen (5) and Bernardo Silva (6) and arsenic galore arsenic Bournemouth striker Evanilson (7).
Of his 7 extremity involvements (3 goals, 4 assists), six unsurprisingly came via set-pieces arsenic the Brazilian caused chaos successful absorption boxes, helping the Gunners to people a grounds 19 country goals successful 2025-26.
It is, of course, astatine the different extremity wherever Gabriel truly stands out, ending the play with 17 cleanable sheets, which was much than immoderate different defender contempt being absent from 8 starting XIs successful 2025-26.
Arsenal conceded conscionable 20 goals successful 2,751 minutes with him connected the pitch, an mean of 1 each 138 minutes, which was the champion by an Arsenal defender to play 2,000+ minutes since 2003-04, erstwhile Sol Campbell went 140 minutes betwixt goals going successful with him connected the pitch.
William Saliba (Arsenal): Alongside Gabriel, who other but Saliba? The brace are forging a legendary Premier League cardinal antiaircraft partnership, losing conscionable 15 of the 117 games they've played unneurotic for Arsenal and the Gunners concede connected mean a extremity each 44 minutes much often erstwhile they aren't playing unneurotic since 2022-23.
Only Gabriel kept much cleanable sheets (17) than Saliba (15) during the 2025-26 Premier League season, with Arsenal conceding a extremity each 131 minutes with Saliba connected the pitch, the second-best of immoderate defender this play behind… well, you guessed it, Gabriel.
On the ball, Saliba was accomplished, completing 92.9% of his passes, the third-best of immoderate subordinate to effort 2,000 oregon more. He completed 67 passes per 90 minutes; connected grounds since 2003-04, the lone Arsenal defender with much successful a play is Saliba successful 2023-24 (69) and 2024-25 (71).
Adrien Truffert (Bournemouth): The show of Truffert flying down the left-hand broadside of Bournemouth's flank is good known to Cherries fans and it is borne retired successful the information - the Frenchman was the lone subordinate to marque much than 50 overlapping runs successful the Premier League successful 2025-26. It wasn't conscionable connected the extracurricular either - helium ranked successful the top-five for underlapping runs, too.
Truffert was 1 of lone 3 players to triumph possession successful the antiaircraft 3rd 100+ times (105), portion helium was apical for some interceptions (48) and for tackles (103) among full-backs.
He besides made the astir progressive shot carries of immoderate full-back (279) and progressed the shot adjacent to 2 miles upfield with shot carries, the second-most of immoderate full-back.
He was the lone Bournemouth outfield subordinate to commencement each 38 matches of their historical Premier League campaign.
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