The Top Flight's 'Outside the Top Six' Premier League Team of the Year

The Top Flight’s ‘Outside the Top Six’ Premier League Team of the Year

WOLVERHAMPTON, ENGLAND - APRIL 24: Raul Jimenez of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Diogo Jota of Wolverhampton Wanderers plays the ball over the line during the Premier League match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Arsenal FC at Molineux on April 24, 2019 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images) /

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Keane earned a move to Everton after an impressive season under Sean Dyche at Burnley where the young Englishman even earned a spot on the PFA Player of the Year shortlist.

He continued that form at Everton, eventually earning a spot in the English side that reached the semifinals of the World Cup in Russia last summer. This campaign, he has been even better.

Keane is dominant in the air, with 5.8 aerial battles won per 90 (ranking second in the league among players who have played at least 45% of their side’s minutes – only behind Cardiff’s Sean Morrison), and the former Manchester United product is exactly the kind of commanding center-back his former side so desperately needs.

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