Mane, Maguire, Lukaku: Revisiting our Premier League Team of the Season prediction

The 2021/22 Premier League season is coming to a close.

While Manchester City and Liverpool duke it out for the title and Burnley and Everton scramble to avoid the drop, most of the narrative threads in England’s top-flight this year have been neatly tied into a bow.

As such, that means the time is nigh to look back on the season as a whole and reflect on who should be named the finest player, manager, emerging star and so forth.

However, with many of those awards tending to feel pretty obvious by the time that a campaign concludes, often one of the most exciting and debatable accolades is the Team of the Season.

While it might be obvious that Mohamed Salah has the PFA Players’ Player of the Year award in his back pocket, it’s less clear as to who will occupy the 11 spots of the Premier League’s finest XI.

That being said, you can bet your bottom dollar that the final Team of the Season selection is a lot clearer now than it was back in August 2021.

Although that might sound like the most obvious statement of all time, what we’re alluding to here is the fact that we put our necks on the line and predicted the 2021/22 Team of the Season before a ball was kicked.

Here at GIVEMESPORT, we love the fun and games that come with pre-season predictions where you either look like a genius or idiot a year down the line by revealing how you think the campaign will play out.

And while, yes, we’ll react to how we thought the Premier League table would finish once every single game is concluded, we now have plenty of information to go back and look at our Team of the Season forecast.

Plus, bear in mind that we were coming into the prediction with a pretty good record having correctly called five out of the 11 members of the 2020/21