Premier League best XI - left-backs: vote for this season's best No.1 full-back

Maybe it's because left-sided players are inherently rarer. Or that a very good left-sided player is an even greater rarity. But the hot commodity of a top-class left-back has long weld itself as a lynchpin in winning sides, and this Premier League season has revelled in a number of left-backs performing a cut above their peers.

In the fourth instalment of our ‘Best of 2021/22’ series, football fans vote for their top-performing left-back of the season.

In last week’s centre-back edition, voters selected an impervious combination of Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk and Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger, the latter only just pipping Manchester City's Ruben Dias.

The selection means that of the XI's current four players so far, three wear the Liverpool colours.

Vote for your left back of the season below.

Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold regularly dish out lethal performances and, this season, the Scotland captain has only enhanced that reputation as Liverpool vie for an unprecedented quadruple.

In 22 league appearances, Robertson has provided 10 assists, the league’s second highest only behind Alexander Arnold at 11. The full-back’s tenacious spirit, pace and awareness has guaranteed 12 clean sheets, with only 16 goals conceded and a daunting tally of clearances, interceptions and recoveries.

His dual defensive and offensive work rate was epitomised recently whilst marking a typically devastating Bukaya Saka and teeing up Roberto Firmino for a crucial goal.

An ever-present linchpin in manager Patrick Viera’s Crystal Palace, the attacking full-back has played 29 league matches and provided a seemingly indefatigable work rate on and off the ball to succour the south London club’s surprising success story.

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