5 early predictions for 2015/16 PFA Player of the Year contenders
The PFA Player of the Year award is a prestigious award given to the best performer in English football over the course of a season. Some of the recent recipients of the award include world class players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Luis Suarez, Gareth Bale, Robin van Persie and Eden Hazard. A quick glance at the list of winners tells us that the player needs to be extraordinary to win the award and that is why it is not easy to win it.In the ongoing season, after ten match days, we have seen some noteworthy performances from many individuals. Some of these individuals have been pivotal to the brilliant form of their respective teams so far and if they can keep this up, they are sure to be named in the shortlist for the PFA Player of the Year award at the end of the season.
#1 Jamie Vardy - Leicester City
After ten league games, the top scorer of the Premier League season so far is Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy. The Englishman scored five league goals last season, which was also his first season in the Premier League, but this time around he has already doubled that tally scoring a goal a game.
Vardy scored his first league goal in Leicester’s opening day win over Sunderland. The 28-year-old didn’t score in the next three games, but he assisted Riyad Mahrez’s goal against Tottenham to help the Foxes salvage a point. In a game against Bournemouth, Vardy scored his second of the season to win a point for his side. He then followed this up by scoring in the next six league games.
This run of seven successive league games in which he found the back of the net includes braces against Arsenal and Southampton. And the latter one came very late in the game and rescued a point for his side from the jaws of defeat.
Vardy’s latest goal came against Crystal Palace and it took his tally to ten for the season and increased the gap at the top of the Premier League top scorers chart. His closest competitors for the Golden Boot are Sergio Aguero, Alexis Sanchez and Georgino Wijnaldum with six goals each.