You don’t want your team’s defenders to be left having to make too many last-gasp tackles but, when they do, you want them to be able to get them right.
And, according to stats from our friends at WhoScored.com, there are three men you most want in that position.
Arsenal duo Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny lead the way with a league high 11 last-man tackles.
In third is Southampton’s Jose Fonte with eight, making his availability in January that little more enticing for any onlooking managers.
Who would you rely on the most and who would you not like to be left with it all to do and a striker bearing down on your team’s goal?
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José Fonte: Only Mertesacker & Koscielny (11 each) have made more last man tackles in the last 5 PL seasons than Fonte (8) pic.twitter.com/zyOSnz9Nkg
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) January 20, 2017
