Manchester United legend Nemanja Vidic names his top five current Premier League defenders

Nemanja Vidic has named Arsenal duo William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes arsenic 2 of the Premier League’s apical 5 existent cardinal defenders.

Vidic is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the champion centre-backs of the Premier League epoch having won 5 league titles arsenic good arsenic the Champions League during his clip astatine Manchester United.

Alongside Saliba and Gabriel, Vidic named Tottenham’s Micky van de Ven, Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk and Manchester City’s Ruben Dias arsenic the different 3 champion Premier League centre-backs successful his apical 5 successful an interrogation with CGTN Sports Scene.

Van de Ven acceptable the grounds for the fastest subordinate successful Premier League past successful January arsenic helium clocked a velocity of 37.38 km/h during Tottenham’s clash with Brentford.

Van Dijk has established himself arsenic 1 of the champion Premier League centre-backs since his £75 cardinal determination to Liverpool successful 2017 and helped Jurgen Klopp’s broadside triumph six trophies, including the Premier League and the Champions league.

Dias has been a cardinal portion of the Manchester City squad that has won 9 trophies successful the past 4 seasons, including 4 Premier League titles successful a row.

Meanwhile, Vidic has revealed however helium needed to accommodate to the difficulties of facing antithetic Premier League strikers pursuing his £7 cardinal determination from Spartak Moscow to United successful January 2006.

‘You person to accommodate and change, if you spell to Italy it’s not the aforesaid football,’ Vidic said successful an interrogation with his erstwhile United teammate Rio Ferdinand.

‘If you expect ever that players volition accommodate conscionable to your game, similar Berba [Dimitar Berbatov], due to the fact that Berba believes radical should accommodate to his crippled due to the fact that helium understands the mode he’s playing is the champion mode to play.

‘That was the contented for him, the players didn’t similar that helium ever wanted the shot to feet and helium would walk for radical to tally behind, but sometimes players would archer him to run. Sometimes you person to bash both, to beryllium accepted to the radical you person to bash some things.

‘When I came evidently I had an contented with not playing successful Europe connected a large stage, I played successful Russia truthful radical didn’t cognize astir my game.

‘I didn’t commencement well, truthful I had to adapt, to bid hard, to find my way, to prime up my confidence, archetypal pass, header, dilatory you win.

‘I was watching the games of the teams I would play successful the adjacent lucifer to hole due to the fact that I didn’t cognize galore players I was playing against. One crippled I would person Berba, who I cognize who would ne'er tally behind, past you person Peter Crouch, past you person accelerated players similar Craig Bellamy, it was each crippled I would person a antithetic player.

‘If you play successful Italy much oregon little you person akin players, you person a No.9 who is going to travel to the shot oregon tally successful behind, much tricky players, truthful I had to larn each players and effort to recognize the mode they’re playing.’

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