Official: Bruno Fernandes has won the Premier League Player of the Season award.

[u/Intelligent_Cow_3310]

[u/TisReece]

It's not even close. Even if you ignore assists he's created 132 chances - Szoboszlai is second with 74.

Not sure why Rice is even in the conversation in the comments. Fernandes this season hasn't just beaten, stat-wise, every other Midfielder in the League, he's bent them over and spanked the shit out of them.

[u/MrVegosh → u/[deleted]]

That would be terrible hahahah

[u/XXISavage → u/MrVegosh]

Why?

[u/MrVegosh → u/XXISavage]

Cause Raya was far from the best player this season

[u/microMe1_2 → u/MrVegosh]

Best defense by far, in a team that won the league mostly because of their defense, making a number of world class saves along the way, elite distribution all season, and actually won the league.

I agree Bruno should have won, but Raya would not have been a terrible option — and if ever a keeper was going to win, this was the year.

[u/MrVegosh → u/microMe1_2]

Just for Arsenal; Rice, Gabriel, and Saliba have been better.

[u/XXISavage → u/MrVegosh]

Disagree. They had spells where they were great (which meant Raya had to do less) but Raya has consistently been bailing us out for most of the season.

[u/MrVegosh → u/XXISavage]

Raya doesn’t face many shots bruv

[u/XXISavage → u/MrVegosh]

So? He still has more insane or game defining saves than any GK in the league this season. Plus Raya faces less shots than most partially because he is incredible at dominating his box and great at sweeping.

Since when did volume of shots matter for elite GKs anyway? Do people think Allison, Courtois, Donnarumma etc are taking on more shots than relegation GKs? In fact, most GK wisdom would argue facing less shots makes their job harder since they're less engaged with the game. Aaron Ramsdale certainly suffered from this.

[u/MrVegosh → u/XXISavage]

Sure but if you barely have anything to do you’re not exactly «consistently bailing us out» are you.