Neves better than Rice and Jose Sa beats Emi Martinez in best side outside the 'Big Six'

Wolverhampton Wanderers pair Jose Sa and Ruben Neves have been selected as two of the best players currently playing outside the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ clubs.

Neves has been a standout performer in midfield since joining Wolves in 2017, and his excellent performances this season will no doubt see at least one of the six biggest clubs in England come in for his signature when the summer transfer window opens again.

Sa, meanwhile, has become one of the side's most important players due to his outrageous shot stopping ability and ball playing skill, even though he only joined the Molineux outfit last summer.

The Portuguese netminder has the highest save percentage in the Premier League, stopping 83.7 percent of the shots that come his way, while only Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool have conceded fewer than Wolves' 21 goals against.

Now, according to Bet Victor’s supercomputer, the pair have been picked as two of the players in the best XI that don’t play for Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, or Tottenham Hotspur.

The research, using data from this Premier League season, uses more than 25 per 90-minute performance statistics for outfield players and factors in both their offensive and defensive contributions.

The report states: "Players were sorted and grouped by shared position and their statistical profiles were input into the ranking algorithm.

"The algorithm is designed to find the player with the most optimised output per 90-minutes by calculating a Z-score (standard score) per performance statistic and average Z-score per player.

"A high average Z-score indicates that a player is outperforming other players in that position across multiple statistics."

Neves (0.57) received a