Best Defensive players by Season Rating

The best defensive players, ranked on Field Insider.

Best defensive goalkeepers Best defensive defenders Best defensive midfielders Best defensive attackers Best players Most in-form players

At a glance

Y. Minteh of Brighton is the standout for raw talent across players, with a Field Insider Rating of 93.5, and J. Quiñones has been the form player this season, grading 95.9, and D. Beljo leads the scoring with 31 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Neymar has improved his Season rating most, up +71.5 on last season, while K. Peprah Oppong's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +49.2 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, W. Saliba of Arsenal is the most valuable name in this group at 145.4.

K. Peprah Oppong+49.2RTG

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	Player	Team
1	L. Lozano Full-back	Boca Juniors	27	77.6	7815.8%	3626.8%
2	Lisandro López Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	37	74.9	75174.4%	18136.8%
3	T. Palacios Full-back	Estudiantes L.P.	23	71	71100%	556.6%
4	O. Wójcik Centre-back	Werder Bremen	23	70.3	70	4024.2%
5	F. Álvarez Centre-back	Argentinos JRS	26	69.4	6921.5%	523.8%
6	T. Koga Centre-back	Kashiwa Reysol	27	69.2	69±0%	50±0%
7	K. Hajrizi Centre-back	FC Sion	27	67.1	675491.7%	3937.5%
8	S. Prieto Full-back	Argentinos JRS	33	65.2	6522.8%	228.3%
9	L. Morales Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	35	64.1	6410.3%	203.5%
10	I. Zabarnyi Centre-back	Paris Saint Germain	24	64	6461.2%	8311%
11	Nathan Full-back	Vitoria	24	62.3	62386.7%	645%
12	T. Crama Full-back	Millwall	24	62.2	62192%	7973.3%
13	F. Sjøvold Full-back	Bodo/Glimt	23	61.8	6228%	51±0%
14	Álex Full-back	Burgos	23	61.7	62	73
15	W. Saliba Centre-back	Arsenal	25	61.7	6217.3%	885.7%
16	M. Woledzi Centre-back	Nashville SC	25	61.4	6124%	452.8%
17	Yehia Zakaria Full-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	24	61.4	61	37
18	J. Cornejo Full-back	Coquimbo Unido	36	61.3	61	10
19	A. Maldonado Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	29	61.3	6170.8%	3911.6%
20	M. Villa Full-back	Atletico Tucuman	29	61.1	61901.6%	3433.3%
21	Raniele Centre-back	Corinthians	29	60.9	6181.8%	468.5%
22	M. Weigandt Full-back	Boca Juniors	26	60.8	61364.1%	4322%
23	Léo Pereira Centre-back	Flamengo	30	60.6	611%	461.7%
24	Ali Majrashi Full-back	Al-Ahli Jeddah	26	60.5	613.2%	526.5%
25	E. Herrera Centre-back	San Lorenzo	23	60.1	6014.3%	542.7%
26	M. Sarr Centre-back	NEOM	27	59.3	5912.3%	4831.3%
27	R. Porteous Centre-back	Los Angeles FC	27	59.3	59303.4%	3821.9%
28	M. Svoboda Full-back	Brighton	27	59.1	59294%	598.1%
29	S. van der Sloot Centre-back	Fortuna Düsseldorf	24	58.6	5955.4%	641.8%
30	Ahmed Shousha Centre-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	32	58.6	59	20
31	Ahmed El Aash Centre-back	National Bank of Egypt	28	58.3	58	29
32	N. Lavanchy Full-back	FC Sion	33	58.3	58	24
33	E. Segura Centre-back	Los Angeles FC	29	58.1	5853.3%	310.6%
34	M. Fernández Centre-back	Coquimbo Unido	37	58.1	58	8
35	F. Salinas Full-back	Coquimbo Unido	26	58	58	27
36	Marco Moreno Centre-back	Bahia	25	57.9	58143.3%	6816.5%
37	N. Otamendi Centre-back	River Plate	38	57.7	58±0%	571.9%
38	M. Bentayg Full-back	Zamalek SC	26	57.3	57330.8%	3733.4%
39	E. Skoglund Centre-back	Hammarby FF	22	57	578%	40±0%
40	L. Di Lollo Centre-back	Boca Juniors	22	57	5714.2%	57±0%
41	L. Martínez Centre-back	River Plate	30	56.7	5719.1%	3413.6%
42	L. Nikolić Full-back	Vojvodina	27	56.4	56	36
43	L. Seema Centre-back	Orlando Pirates	25	55.9	56	2
44	Léo Duarte Centre-back	Atletico-MG	30	55.7	5691.4%	3311.6%
45	Alex Sandro Centre-back	Flamengo	35	55.4	5579.9%	2321.5%
46	F. Tomori Full-back	AC Milan	28	55.2	5580.4%	616.9%
47	C. Ferreira Centre-back	Atletico Tucuman	23	55.1	55206.1%	5313.9%
48	Gustavo Henrique Centre-back	Corinthians	33	55.1	5584.9%	2920%
49	Héliton Centre-back	Karlsruher SC	30	55.1	55107.1%	3216.9%
50	Gabriel Paulista Centre-back	Corinthians	35	55	55423.8%	25134.3%