It’s NBA All-Star weekend, and you know what that means – it’s time for us at 90min to do our own knockoff version of the main event.
This year, we’ve brought in Sean Walsh and Jack Gallagher to draft two teams based on the Premier League 2022/23 season so far.
Jack won the coin toss (Sean’s belief that ‘tails never fails’ in fact failed) and so had the first pick. Here’s how the draft played out – be sure to vote for your favourite team below or on 90min’s social media pages.
1st picks
Jack: With my first pick, I have to go for Erling Haaland. He’s Erling Haaland, he’s scored, what is it, a million goals this season? I think it would be quite nice for me to build a team here that will actually see him go in behind a backline and then pass it to him. It’s a good move not just for me but for him.
Sean: I think I’m going to have to take Harry Kane off the board, if anything just so you can’t build a team with both of them. He’s had an underrated season, second-most goals in the league, if Haaland wasn’t here we’d be talking about him more as a Player of the Year contender. It’s gone under the radar because Spurs have been crap.
2nd picks
Jack: (After literally 47 seconds of deliberating) I’m going to go for Marcus Rashford because left wing’s a bit sparse. I actually think for this team, maybe Rashford isn’t the perfect guy because he’s more perfect for Kane. I might play him up top in a two. Rashford in your team is amazing because Kane drops deep and plays it over the top like for Son Heung-min from two years ago. In my team, two players running in behind, I’m not sure, but it’s hard to argue with the form. There’s quite a drop off from a superstar like Rashford to the rest of the left forwards.
Sean: I’m going to take Bukayo Saka. He’s turned into one of the best players in the league this season, stepped up and shown he can be the main man on a team contending for the title. He leads a lot of their attacks.
3rd picks
Jack: My next pick, I will go for Kevin De Bruyne because Pep Guardiola’s not the manager in this situation, I am. I’ll play him just in behind Rashford and Haaland as like a ‘trequartista’ with the remit of actually passing to them. He’s got these incredible numbers this season but there’s a lot of assists left on the table because of how Man City play.
Sean: I’m going to take Martin Odegaard next. It was close between these two, Odegaard’s become a bit De Bruyne-lite…
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