James vs Alexander-Arnold vs Cancelo: FIFA 22 reveals the winner

Reece James enjoyed yet another Chelsea masterclass against Manchester United on Thursday night.

In what has truly proven to be the season in which James has announced himself as a world-class full-back, only the Old Trafford post denied him what would have been a perfect Premier League performance.

It’s crazy to think that the Chelsea prodigy is competing at such a dizzying level when he’s still only 22 years old and was competing in the Championship for Wigan Athletic just three seasons ago.

Besides, James has been performing so well on such a consistent basis across the 2021/22 campaign that he’s rightfully earning comparisons to Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joao Cancelo.

While asking a fan to pick who the best full-back is out of those three would cause all manner of drama and debate, it would be far less controversial to say that they’re the best in the division right now.

Kudos to Kyle Walker, Kieran Trippier and most notably Andrew Robertson, but you’ve got to put your hands up and say that Alexander-Arnold, James and Cancelo have been in a league of their own this season.

So, on the back of yet another scintillating performance from James, we couldn’t help looking at different ways to try and settle the debate between the Premier League’s leading full-backs.

And one of the unique mediums through which we can try to achieve that is by looking at the statistics over on FIFA 22, which serves as one of the largest objective measures of football players out there.

Every year, EA Sports takes on the near-impossible task of not only assigning every player on the game an overall rating, but also a total out of 100 for every major aspect of their game.

As such, we can use that system to see how Alexander-Arnold, James and