FIFA 19 Premier League Defenders Guide

Who are the best FIFA 19 Premier League defenders? Let’s find out good right-backs, left-backs and centre-backs to your team!

 
POSITIONS GK CB RB LB CDM CM CAM RM RW LM LW CF ST TEAMS

 
 

The Best FIFA 19 Premier League Centre-Backs

CB
 

A goalkeeper task is made easier if in front of him are quality central backs. Their function is to stop the opponent from getting dangerously close to your team’s goal.

Jan Vertonghen, Nicolás Otamendi and Azpilicueta are now the centre back with best reputation in the Premier League.

On a centre back, two attributes assume particular importance on their performance: defending and physical, which represents strength, stamina, aggression and jumping.

A player with good at defending will have an easier chance of dispossessing the opponent and avoid him reaching your box.

It’s the case of the two Belgian Tottenham centre backs. If you wanna try an hybrid squad, having these two players together may help you a lot to achieve a decent chemistry.

The physical attribute shows the old heading capability but also how likely the players are to win game with their body. This is a crucial attribute when looking for the best centre back.

In this chapter, the players from the Premier League are very balanced.

Defending and heading may be useless against fast opponents. It’s necessary to fight fire with fire. No one likes feeling impotent when seeing you get overrun by extremely fast players. Even though, in a way, centre backs aren’t that fast, every team needs one of these players with a high pace attribute.

With the exception of Azpilicueta, Davinson Sánchez and Virgil van Dijk, this is where the most rated centre-backs are weaker. In the bottom of the list, Mertsacker was replaced by Wes Morgan who only has 30 of pace. It is strange to see a Jamaican player in this position.

There are plenty of good defenders in this league but most of them are too slow. It’s the case of Kompany, Otamendi or even Vertonghen. Pace will always be crucial in this game and that’s why our first choices are Dijk, Azpilicueta, Bailly and Sánchez. The first two are more balanced players, while the other two stay more at the back.

If you need someone cheaper, we recommend you Sokratis, who has, in our opinion, more quality than other better rated players like Otamendi or Kompany.

 
 
TOP 10 CENTRE-BACKS

01 85 ?? Virgil van Dijk
02 86 ?? Azpilicueta
03 84 ?? Davinson Sánchez
04 82 ?? Eric Bailly
05 87 ?? Jan Vertonghen
06 84 ?? Sokratis
07 81 ?? Antonio Rüdiger
08 85 ?? Toby Alderweireld
09 86 ?? Nicolás Otamendi
10 82 ??????? John Stones
 
 

Best FIFA 19 Premier League Centre-Backs

The Best FIFA 19 Premier League Right Backs

RB RWB
 

Full backs have the role of troubling the job of wingers. In addition, good full backs also support their team mates on offensive manoeuvres.

Every year Kyle Walker becomes more popular and this one is no exception.

There are very important attributes for any right back: defending and pace.

Since they’re defenders they should have good defending capacities. This reduces a team’s risk of conceding.

Kyle Walker replaced Zabaleta as the right back with best defending stats.

A flanked game tends to be faster than a game based in the middle of the field. The players that fill these spaces are obligated to be fast, both penetrating defensive and attacking moves of the team. Pace is one of the most important requirements for a good full back. Even in FIFA 19.

Bellerín and DeAndre Yedlin are the fastest Premier League defenders in FIFA 19 Ultimate Team. They are far superior in this aspect when compared to every EPL full back. Besides them, only Kyle Walker may be considered reasonably fast.

Kyle Walker is undoubtedly the best option to the right side of your defense. He is the fastet but also has the best defending and physical stats. Not as fast as he is, Antonio Valencia is the obvious alternative to him. But because pace is not everything, we prefer Ricardo Pereira over Bellerín, and Trippier over Yedlin. The Newcastle players has an amazing pace but he is also the one with the lowest passing stat.

Before you ask, let’s share what do we think about Zabaleta. He is not in our top 10 right-backs list because he is the slowest right-back in this league (pace 51). However, with the right instructions and custom tactics, you can make him a decent option to give security to your back line. Just keep in mind that he will not attack because if he does, he will not be able to recover to his position back.

 
 
TOP 10 RIGHT-BACKS

01 84 ??????? Kyle Walker
02 82 ?? Antonio Valencia
03 81 ?? Ricardo Pereira
04 80 ?? Héctor Bellerín
05 82 ??????? Kieran Trippier
06 76 ?? DeAndre Yedlin
07 81 ?? Serge Aurier
08 80 ?? Séamus Coleman
09 80 ??????? Nathaniel Clyne
10 79 ?? Danilo
 
 

Best FIFA 19 Premier League Right Backs

The Best FIFA 19 Premier League Left Backs

LB LWB
 

Left backs have exactly the same role of their team mates on the other flank. In other words, they try to make a winger’s job hard and participate in the team’s offensive manoeuvres.

Marcos Alonso is the most rated left back playing on the Premier League.

Besides being the high rated LB, Alonso is also the one who defends better in this league.

Patrick van Aanholt is the fastest left back in the English league. He makes his speed his biggest threat, and no one can be compared to him in this stat.

It’s really impressive the lack of quality this league has in this position. Maybe because of that, the choices are not obvious and you may not agree with some of them. Starting with the best left back, it’s not easy to choose between Benjamin Mendy and Andrew Robertson. The first one is stronger but the Liverpool’s left back is more active in the game. It’s up to you to decide which one will be more useful on your team.

You may disagree with us but we relegated Marcos Alonso to the fifth position because of his poor pace. His stats are OK but the speed of Patrick van Aanholt and Luke Shaw can make the difference on the field.

 
 
TOP 10 LEFT-BACKS
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01 81 ?? Benjamin Mendy
02 81 ??????? Andrew Robertson
03 75 ?? Patrick van Aanholt
04 78 ??????? Luke Shaw
05 82 ?? Marcos Alonso
06 76 ?? Arthur Masuaku
07 77 ?? Alberto Moreno
08 75 ??????? Joe Bryan
09 80 ??????? Danny Rose
10 79 ?? Jonny
 
 

Best FIFA 19 Premier League Left Backs