Let’s start off with the big caveat: I accidentally left Estêvão off the voting form, so there’s a pretty decent chance that Alejandro Garnacho would’ve at least had stronger competition for nabbing the last spot in attack — and I imagine he might have lost out completely, even. Young Steve-o still garnered about 15 per cent of the vote via write-ins, which is pretty impressive. (Mamadou Sarr, who also probably should’ve been added, got exactly one write-in vote.)
Beyond that, we have a fairly familiar bunch picked to start, including all three fit central midfielders.
The one very close race was for the second center back position, where Wesley Fofana just edges out Josh Acheampong (58%).
4-2-3-1 (77%)
Sánchez (97%) | Cucurella (78%), Chalobah (87%), Fofana (59%), Gusto (64%) | Santos (83%), Caicedo (89%) | Garnacho (68%), Enzo (82%), Palmer (93%) | João Pedro (85%)
Liam Delap led the rest, with the likes of Jorrel Hato and Benoît Badiashile following behind. Injury doubts Reece James and Pedro Neto garnered 14% and 19% of the vote, respectively.