N’Golo Kante Ranks 7th World Best Midfielder
UEFA Midfielder of the Year, World Cup winner and Chelsea midfielder, N’Golo Kante, has been ranked as seventh best midfielder in the world.
The ranking was contained in a football publication, FourFourTwo, on the top 10 midfielders in the world, released on Thursday.
In the world of football, midfielders are generally positioned on the field between their team’s defenders and forwards, just as some midfielders play a strictly-defined defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are otherwise known as defensive midfielders.
As contained in the publication, below is the full list of the worlds’s top 10 midfielders:
10. Marcos Llorente (Atletico Madrid)
9. Leon Goretzka (Bayern Munich)
8. Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City)
7. N’Golo Kante (Chelsea)
6. Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich)
5. Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain)
4. Paul Pogba (Manchester United)
3. Jorginho (Chelsea)
2. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
1. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United)
Source: FourFourTwo