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Leicester and Tottenham dominate PFA team of season

Title-chasing sides each have four players on team

N’Golo Kante is one of four Leicester City players in the Professional Footballers’ Association’s team of the year. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images via Reuters/Livepic
N’Golo Kante is one of four Leicester City players in the Professional Footballers’ Association’s team of the year. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images via Reuters/Livepic
Thu Apr 21 2016 - 21:49

Players from Premier League title-chasers Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur dominated the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) team of the year announced on Thursday.

Four players from each club were voted in with Arsenal, Manchester United and West Ham United the only other clubs represented in the XI.

Not surprisingly Tottenham striker Harry Kane, who leads the scoring charts with 24, was joined by Leicester's Jamie Vardy, whose 22 goals have fuelled leader Leicester's title quest.

Leicester midfielders N'Golo Kante and Riyad Mahrez and defender Wes Morgan were also included.

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Toby Alderweireld and Danny Rose, part of Tottenham's defence which has conceded a league low 25 goals in 34 matches, made the list, as did 20-year-old midfielder Dele Alli.

Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea, Arsenal full back Hector Bellerin and West Ham's French playmaker Dimitri Payet make up the team.

The PFA announce the Player of the Year on Sunday when Vardy, Kane, Mahrez, Kane, Mesut Özil and Payet are on the shortlist.

Alan Judge’s season may have been ended by a broken leg but the Republic of Ireland and Brentford midfielder impressed his fellow Championship players to make the team of the season.

PFA Premier League team of the season: D De Gea (Man Utd); H Bellerin (Arsenal), W Morgan (Leicester), T Alderweireld (Tottenham), D Rose (Tottenham); N Kante (Leicester), D Alli (Tottenham), D Payet (West Ham), R Mahrez (Leicester ); H Kane (Tottenham), J Vardy (Leicester).

Champiponship team of the season (12 players named after Dawson and Ayala received the same votes) : T Heaton (Burnley); B Saltor (Brighton), M Keane (Burnley), M Dawson (Hull)/D Ayala (Middlebrough), G Friend (Middlesbrough); J Barton (Burnley), M Judge (Brentford), B Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday), A Clayton (Middlesbrough); A Gray (Burnley), R McCormack (Fulham).