Monday fun - Premier League XI - But not so straight forward ;)

Afternoon all,

I'm bored at work and thought I'd create a little challenge.

Now before everyone thinks this is another "who's the best selection" thread, my one comes with a little twist

So here's the rules:

Pick a current Premier League XI, formation can be either 4-5-1 or 4-4-2.

Now the tricky part, each team can only have ONE player from each club and EVERY player must be of different nationality. It's taken me a while to do my team I have to admit.

Try and keep the players in their natural positons so please don't put the likes of Sandro at LM/ LW, John Terry at RB or van Persie at CM just to fill the spaces.

Here's my team: 4-5-1

GK - Begovic - Stoke - Bosnia

RB - Boyce - Wigan - Barbados
CB - Agger - Liverpool - Denmark
CB - Vidic - Man utd - Serbian
LB - Riise - Fulham - Norway

RW - Ben Arfa - Newcastle - France
CM - Feillani - Everton - Belgium
CAM - Mata - Chelsea - Spain
CM - Yaya Toure - Man City - Ivory Coast
LW - Bale - Tottenham - Wales

ST - Podolski - Arsenal - Germany

Enjoy

 

Goalkeeper - Hart - Man City - England

Right back - Rafael - Man Utd - Brazil
Left back - Jose Enrique - Liverpool - Spain
Centre back - Vertonghen - Spurs - Belgium
Centre back - Huth - Stoke - Germany

Right midfielder - Gervinho - Arsenal - Ivory Coast
Left midfielder - Hatem Ben Arfa - Newcastle - France
Centre Midfielder - Ramirez - Southampton - Uruguay
Centre Midfielder - Taarabt - QPR - Morocco

Striker - Berbatov - Fulham - Bulgaria
Striker - Long - WBA - Ireland

 

Nobody from England, SoS!

 

I was going to choose Hart but then I wanted Yaya Toure in the team, by then I already knew most of my selection. The English always let us down anyway!

 

Jaaskelinen
Sagna, Olsson, Agger, Baines
Ruiz, Toure, Dembele, Mata
RVP, Ba

Still not sure about Olsson but I can't think of anyone that good that I could use, I had to nick Agger off yours for the other CB

 

That midfield would be great going forward yet on the back foot, I pray for your defenders

 

Olsson's having a decent season so far with WBA.

Haha Agger was a good pick for me, I thought I'd struggle with CB choices as the best ones in the league are either English, French or Belgian which then would've made it tough to select in further areas so when his name popped up in my head I thought result! Could've chosen Skrtel too - Slovakian.

 

GK - Howard Eve USA

RB - Ivanovic Che Serbia
CB - Vermaelen Arse Bel
CB - Hangeland Ful Nor
LB - Evra ManU Fra

RM - Etherington Stoke Eng
CM - Tiote New I.Coast
CM - Silva ManC Spain
LM - Bale Spurs Wales

CF - Odemwingie W.Brom Nig
CF - Fletcher Sun Sco

 

Keeper Cesar (Bra/QPR)

RB Reid (Ire/WBA)
LB Figueroa (Hon/Wigan)
CH Mertesaker (Ger/Arsenal)
CH Distin (Fra/Everton)

RW Young (Eng/Man Utd)
CM Dembele (Belgium/Spurs)
CM Mata (Spain/Chelsea)
LW Aguero (Arg/Man City)

St1 Ba (Sen/Newcastle)
St2 Berbatov (Bul/Fulham)

Edit Should have substituted Toure for Aguero and pushed Mata wide. Hey ho.

Edit 2

 

*ahem*

Argentina.

 

Goalkeeper - Cesar - QPR - Brazil

Right back - Reid - West Ham - New Zealand
Left back - Baines - Everton - England
Centre back - Vermaelen - Arsenal - Belgium
Centre back - Agger - Liverpool - Denmark

Right midfielder - Valencia - Man Utd - Ecuador
Left midfielder - Bale - Tottenham - Wales
Holding Midfielder - Toure - Man City - Ivory Coast
Creative Midfielder - Cabaye - Newcastle - France
Attacking Midfielder - Mata - Chelsea - Spain

Striker - Berbatov - Fulham - Bulgaria

You want flair? I'll give you flair!

 

Yeah, it's probably obvious that I built my team from the front apart from Baines who I decided would be my Everton player from the start Initially I put Collocioni at centre back but realised I already had Ba, the only other two I thought of were O'Shea and Huth!

 

I'll spell Argentina how I like

 

GK - Vorm (Holland)
RB - Bardsley (Scotland)
CB - Kompany (Belgium)
CB - Coloccini (Argentina)
LB - Baines (England)
RM - Valencia (Ecuador)
CM - Ramires (Brazil)
CM - Diame (Senegal)
LM - Cazorla (Spain)
CF - Berbatov (Bulgaria)
CF - Suarez (Uruguay)

Edit!

 

Baines and Howard are both at Everton.

 

GK - Al Habsi Wig/OMA
RB - R Martin Nor/SCO
LB - Baines Eve/ENG
CB - Huth Sto/GER
CB - Agger Liv/DEN
RM - Ruiz Ful/COS
LM - Valencia ManU/ECU
CM - Sandro Tot/BRA
CM - Michu Swa/SPA
CAM - Hazard Che/BEL
ST - Aguero ManC/ARG

Much harder than I thought it would be!

 

F*ck!

 

Believe me, when I first thought about trying to do it I thought it'd be a piece of p*ss, must have taken me a good 20 mins to think of my team though. Good to see it generated a decent response, helped make Monday a tiny bit more enjoyable