YES NDIDI, WILF TOPS TACKLE LIST

SO, who does all the tackling these days? You might think it’s defenders, but that’s not the case – it’s players in the middle of the park, particularly defensive midfielders. Top of the Premier League’s ball-winning list this season is Leicester’s Wilfred Ndidi, 20 (below) with 28 tackles. That’s one more than the player he has replaced in the Leicester team – Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante. Huddersfield’s Aaron Mooy is on the same total as Kante and David Wagner’s newly promoted team also have the defender who has made the most tackles – Christopher Schindler, with 26. The only other defender in the current top 10 is West Ham new boy Pablo Zabaleta, still going strong at the age of 32. The only forward in the top bracket is Watford’s Brazilian winger Richarlison,

20. Midfielders also dominated last season, when the players who made the most tackles were Everton’s Idrissa Gueye, Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson and Kante – in that order.

The current top 10 tacklers: Ndidi (28), Kante

(27), Mooy (27), Schindler (26), Gueye (25), Newcastle’s Mikel Merino

(23), Zabaleta

(22), Brighton’s Dale Stephens

(21), Richarlison

(20) and Stoke’s Darren Fletcher

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