Football Pundits Reveals Best Football Team Of The Year 2025

The 2025-26 Premier League campaign has reached its halfway point, and the English top-flight football has been packed with thrilling action, upsetting results, and inspirational comebacks. After gameweek 18, Mikel Arteta's Arsenal is leading the way, sitting at the top of the English Premier League points table, picking 42 points. Meanwhile, the six-time champion Pep Guardiola's Man City are gradually working their way up to the top following a dismal 2024-25 campaign.

While the defending champions Liverpool have looked shaky, suffering 6 league defeats in a row, two more than they recorded in the entire campaign last season. Unexpectedly, Aston Villa emerged as a serious contender to claim the silverware, having recorded 8 successive league wins for the first time in a century, since 1910.

Chelsea and Man United kick off their respective campaigns at different ends, but now, even in terms of league points (29), wins (8), losses (5), and draws (5). The Black Cat's campaign has been quite impressive, reviving the spirit of the Tyne-Wear derby in the top flight. Subsequently, Sunderland sits 7th on the points table.

Wolverhampton Wanderers' hopes to stay in the top division are fading away; they have not been able to secure a single victory in a total of 18 league matches. As the business end of the 2025-26 season is upon us, English football pundits and journalists reveal their Best Football Team Of The Year 2025 from the Premier League.

Football Pundits Jamie Carragher, Joe Cole unveil Best EPL XI

Sky Sports pundit and ex-Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has picked his Premier League team of the season so far. To our surprise, the 47-year-old analyst made some difficult choices, while a few major names have been missed out from his Best Football Team Of The Year 2025.

Goalkeeper: Roefs (Sunderland)

Defenders: Munoz (Cry Palace), Guehi (Cry Palace), Gabriel (Arsenal), Riccardo Calafiori (Arsenal)

Midfielders: Xhaka (Sunderland), Rice (Arsenal), Fernandes (Man United)

Forward: Semenyo (Bournemouth), Rogers (Aston Villa), Haaland (Man City)

Meanwhile, ex-Chelsea icon turned presenter for TNT Sports Joe Cole also chose his Premier League team of the year so far. Not aligning with Carragher's thoughts, Cole's XI saw two Chelsea players, including Moises Caicedo and Marc Cucurella, mixed with Arsenal and Palace players.

Goalkeeper: Raya (Arsenal)

Defenders: Munoz (Cry Palace), Saliba (Arsenal), Gabriel (Arsenal), Cucurella (Chelsea)

Midfielders: Guimaraes (Newcastle), Rice (Arsenal), Caicedo (Chelsea)

Forward: Semenyo (Bournemouth), Haaland (Man City), Foden (Man City)