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Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski has been the best male player in the world in 2020.
With the New Year upon us, countless publications and award galas recognize the Polish striker as the undisputed number one after an astonishing 12 months of goals.
When the Bavarians made their way to the hat-trick last season, Lewandowski’s lethal spike played a huge role, finishing as the top scorer in every competition Bayern conquered.
Best Players of 2020
As a result, there were few complaints when Lewandowski was crowned UEFA Player of the Year and later secured FIFA’s ‘The Best’ award as he started the 2020/21 campaign strong.
So when it comes to picking the best male player in the sport, 2020 was pretty straightforward, but the same can’t be said for the best XI, which is often a subject of much debate at the end of each year.
The world famous FIFA FIFPro World XI has already thrown its hat into the ring, but we wanted to express our opinion on the best 11 players of the year before 2020 was completely relegated to the past.
GIVEMESPORT best XI of 2020
Consequently, we turned to the GIVEMSPORT 100, our newly released list of the best male players for 2020, and worked backward through the rankings to make it a starting XI.
In other words, our suggestion of the World XI is not necessarily the top 11 on the list, furthermore, that would make our lineup incredibly offensive, but rather the top ranked for each respective position.
For the sake of discussion, we’re going for the ever-popular 4-3-3 formation and you can see our final selection, as well as seven players for the best bench of all time, below:
BY: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich)
RB: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
CB: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
LB: Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich)
CM: Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich)
CM: Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich and Liverpool)
CM: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
Forward: Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain)
ST: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
Forward: Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus)
Bank: Jan Oblak (Atlético de Madrid), David Alaba (Bayern Munich), Andrew Robertson (Liverpool), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) and Erling Braut Haaland (Borussia Dortmund)
Two changes in FIFA
So how does our XI compare to the one chosen by the professionals themselves? Well, pretty similar with just two differences and identical midfield and defensive picks.
We support Neuer over Alisson Becker, who is not even on the bench, with complete confidence, although it is true that it is a difficult decision when it comes to our choice of Neymar compared to the selection of Messi by FIFA.
If you look at the data manual, all signs will point to Messi deserving a start, but Neymar gets the upper hand in 2020 for our money after his inspiring Champions League demonstrations for PSG.
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