The Premier League World Cup Eleven Featuring Arsenal & Chelsea Stars, None From Man United

Forget the silly season for sometime and get into the mood of the World Cup for a bit. We here at soccersouls have lined up XI players from the Premier League, who could do well with their respective national teams when the showdown kicks off on June 12th.

Goalkeeper:

David De Gea personally had a good season under the sticks for Manchester United, while Liverpool’s Simon Mignolet, barring some obvious mistakes was well assured, unfortunately the Anfield side’s goalkeeper is second choice to Thiabut Courtois for Mats Wilmots’ side. Crystal palace’s Julian Speroni was brilliant though by the way while Golden Glove winners Petr Cech and Wojciech Szczesny will miss out the action in Brazil as their respective countries have failed to make the cut. This leaves us with the obvious choice in Manchester City’s Joe Hart who stakes a claim under the sticks in our Premier League World Cup X1.

Honorable mention: Tim Howard (USA)

Defenders:

For the left back slot, Everton’s Leighton Baines will be a key figure for Roy Hodgson’s side and picks himself up in the side. Argentine Pablo Zabaleta will man our right back slot with his overlapping runs giving an extra dimension to the Albiceleste in their already enviable front four.

Belgium are certainly everyone’s dark horses going into the showpiece tournament and when you have a defender of Vincent Kompany’s caliber, you can be reassured at the back as the Manchester City Captain partners Chelsea’s brilliant Gary Cahill at the heart of our defense. Cahill was an integral part of Chelsea’s parsimonious defense in the 2013-14 campaign. Close contenders should be Arsenal’s Laurent Koscienly and Bacary Sagna who have to over come the likes of Raphael Varane and Mathieu Debuchy for a spot in the France’s starting XI.

Honorable mention: Per Mertesacker (Germany)

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Midfield:

Steven Gerrard plays in his new quarterback role in between the two centrebacks, trying to dictate the tempo from the deep. Mesut Ozil is definitely a key player for the Germans and Joachim Loew in particular would look for the Gunner’s intelligent layoffs for his lone striker up front. Loew has only gone with a specialist striker in Miroslav Klose which would mean Ozil would be given the license to play in a more advanced role for his country. Having come into the limelight in the previous edition of the competition, this is the time where Ozil inscribes his name in history helping the Germans to lift the coveted trophy for the first time since 1990.

Elsewhere, Oscar fits in the number ten role behind the front three for us as he will be the focal attacking point apart from Neymar for the Selecao. Eden Hazard who recently squashed speculations regarding the rumours that have linked him to PSG will start on the left wing as an inverted winger looking to cut inside with his trickery and make space for the overlapping defender to pulverize crosses in the penalty box.

Honorable mentions: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast) David Silva (Spain)

Strikeforce:

Since we have preferred a 4-3-3 setup, we had to Fit In Aguero on the right as Mesut Ozil’s presence on the flanks would have completely taken the balance out of the setup. Edin Dzeko’s presence up front ahead of England’s Daniel Sturridge helps our cause, as the Bosnian is a brilliant runner off the ball, his intelligent movements will create space for Aguero to cut inside like he will do for Argentina playing from the left flank in Brazil.

Honorable mention: Luis Suarez, Wayne Rooney.