Omar Da Fonseca holds deep admiration for former FC Barcelona and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Touré. “The best defensive midfielder in history over the past 20 years is... Mr. Yaya Touré,” ...

Being a defensive midfielder in soccer isn’t always the most glamorous job on the field. They’re rarely the ones scoring goals or grabbing headlines like strikers, gliding past defenders like elite ...

Every great team in history has almost always been built around a world-class central defensive midfielder. Think Roy Keane at Manchester United, Claude Makélélé at Chelsea, Sergio Busquets at ...

'The best defensive midfielders in the world' is the kind of list we might not have been able to publish 20-odd years ago. According to a raging Roy Keane, midfielders weren't separated into ...

There are several terms for the player in the deepest midfield role. The defensive midfielder. The holding midfielder. The sitting midfielder. The anchorman. They all convey roughly the same kind of ...

The introduction of defensive contributions has opened up new player options this season for fantasy football managers. With the new bonus leaving managers questioning who to pick, we’ve found the top ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

A new arrival in a strange land, Martin Zubimendi is already in the midst of the best goalscoring season of his career. With Wednesday's decisive strike in Arsenal's 3-2 win at Stamford Bridge, the ...