The Premier League's most underrated XI: Man Utd, Arsenal and Spurs stars feature

Who is the Premier League’s most underrated player?

It’s the type of question that you often see posed on social media to the tune of furious debate with fans swiftly piling in to opine that this player or that player simply don’t get the credit they deserve.

In reality, the whole ‘underrated’ and ‘overrated’ debate is an incredibly complex one because it not only hinges on what you think about a certain footballer, but how you view the way that others, well, view them.

Nevertheless, perhaps foolishly or perhaps bravely, we’re taking on the challenge regardless by attempting to name the most underrated players in the Premier League right now.

To ensure that there’s fairness across all positions, we’re compiling these under-loved gems within a starting XI format using the oft-popular 4-3-3 formation and not getting too particular about certain players being ever so slightly away from their favoured roles.

In other words, while we’ll only be deploying midfielders in the midfield positions, we’re not going to lose our minds ensuring we have a defensive, box-to-box and attacking trio… you get the picture.

The decisions will ultimately be informed by the opinion of your humble writer with the aim of the game being to highlight the players for whom there is the biggest cavity between their quality and the praise they get for it.

So, while, sure, players like Rodri often get called underrated and we’ve said as such ourselves in the past, he’s probably now labelled as ‘underrated’ too regularly to actually be underrated, you follow?

At the opposite end of the spectrum, it’s impossible for us to plug ourselves entirely into the never-ending stream of football fan discussion as to know how every single Premier League player is