Most In-Form defenders This Season

The most in-form defenders, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

J. Timber of Arsenal is the standout for raw talent across defenders, with a Field Insider Rating of 92.8, and L. Lozano has been the form player this season, grading 77.6, and Š. Chaloupek leads the scoring with 9 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Lisandro López has improved his Season rating most, up +59.8 on last season, while R. Jansson's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +50.4 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, J. Timber of Arsenal is the most valuable name in this group at 167.

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	Player	Team
1	L. Lozano Full-back	Boca Juniors	27	7815.8%	3626.8%
2	F. Sjøvold Full-back	Bodo/Glimt	23	7860.5%	522.2%
3	Lisandro López Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	37	75174.4%	18136.8%
4	T. Palacios Full-back	Estudiantes L.P.	23	71100%	556.6%
5	O. Wójcik Centre-back	Werder Bremen	23	70	4024.2%
6	O. Bjørtuft Centre-back	Bodo/Glimt	27	7063.7%	404.2%
7	F. Álvarez Centre-back	Argentinos JRS	26	6921.5%	523.8%
8	K. Hajrizi Centre-back	FC Sion	27	675491.7%	3937.5%
9	J. Timber Full-back	Arsenal	25	67±0%	93±0%
10	Hassan Tambakti Centre-back	Al-Hilal Saudi FC	27	65±0%	47±0%
11	S. Prieto Full-back	Argentinos JRS	33	6522.8%	228.3%
12	R. Porteous Centre-back	Los Angeles FC	27	65343.5%	3922.5%
13	L. Morales Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	35	6410.3%	203.5%
14	I. Zabarnyi Centre-back	Paris Saint Germain	24	6461.2%	8311%
15	E. Segura Centre-back	Los Angeles FC	29	6366%	321.6%
16	Nathan Full-back	Vitoria	24	62386.7%	645%
17	T. Crama Full-back	Millwall	24	62192%	7973.3%
18	Álex Full-back	Burgos	23	62	73
19	W. Saliba Centre-back	Arsenal	25	6217.3%	885.7%
20	Yehia Zakaria Full-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	24	61	37
21	J. Cornejo Full-back	Coquimbo Unido	36	61	10
22	A. Maldonado Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	29	6170.8%	3911.6%
23	M. Villa Full-back	Atletico Tucuman	29	61901.6%	3433.3%
24	Raniele Centre-back	Corinthians	29	6181.8%	468.5%
25	M. Weigandt Full-back	Boca Juniors	26	61364.1%	4322%
26	Léo Pereira Centre-back	Flamengo	30	611%	461.7%
27	Ali Majrashi Full-back	Al-Ahli Jeddah	26	613.2%	526.5%
28	E. Herrera Full-back	San Lorenzo	23	6014.3%	542.7%
29	M. Svoboda Full-back	Brighton	27	59294%	598.1%
30	N. Schlotterbeck Centre-back	Borussia Dortmund	26	59±0%	77±0%
31	E. Skoglund Centre-back	Hammarby FF	22	5911.4%	40±0%
32	S. van der Sloot Centre-back	Fortuna Düsseldorf	24	5955.4%	641.8%
33	Ahmed Shousha Centre-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	32	59	20
34	K. Wagner Full-back	Philadelphia Union	29	58±0%	2426.6%
35	Ahmed El Aash Centre-back	National Bank of Egypt	28	58	29
36	N. Lavanchy Full-back	FC Sion	33	58	24
37	M. Fernández Centre-back	Coquimbo Unido	37	58	8
38	F. Salinas Full-back	Coquimbo Unido	26	58	27
39	Marco Moreno Centre-back	Bahia	25	58143.3%	6816.5%
40	N. Otamendi Centre-back	River Plate	38	58±0%	571.9%
41	N. Tafari Full-back	Los Angeles FC	29	5887.9%	3110%
42	S. Yohou Centre-back	Le Mans	35	57±0%	26±0%
43	M. Bentayg Full-back	Zamalek SC	26	57330.8%	3733.4%
44	L. Di Lollo Centre-back	Boca Juniors	22	5714.2%	57±0%
45	L. Martínez Centre-back	River Plate	30	5719.1%	3413.6%
46	L. Nikolić Full-back	Vojvodina	27	56	36
47	T. Guddal Full-back	Tromso	24	5633.3%	467.8%
48	Sergio Akieme Full-back	Reims	28	56±0%	53±0%
49	L. Seema Centre-back	Orlando Pirates	25	56	2
50	Léo Duarte Centre-back	Atletico-MG	30	5691.4%	3311.6%