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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

MNF Extra: Carra picks his Premier League team of the season so far

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

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Sports News, Sports, News, Soccer

4.0760 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Jamie Carragher joins Dave Jones in the Monday Night Football studio to pick his Premier League team of the season so far.

We also select a stats team of the season, a Fananalysis team of the season and an alternative team of the season.

You can view all the teams, and how the lineup, in this article: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13486760/jamie-carragher-picks-his-premier-league-tea…

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0:00.0

Now we are moving on to talk about the season so far.

0:09.0

So where are we? 2.83 goals per game actually represents the fourth highest in any season.

0:15.0

I think the previous three seasons are one, two and three.

0:20.0

And people say the Premier League's boring.

0:21.2

He needs to go back to the 90s.

0:22.4

Unbelievable.

0:23.1

But we are seeing more set pieces, Jamie.

0:25.4

The second highest in any season.

0:27.2

29% of goals have come from set pieces.

0:30.4

We've got a top three that have all got 36 points or more.

0:34.1

And that's the eighth time that's happened at this stage of any season and nine

0:39.0

goals between full of man city a couple of weeks ago was the joint highest scoring match since 2013

0:44.9

Harlan leading the way on 19 goals the third most at this stage in any season 57 points already

0:52.1

amassed between the three promoted sides the most combined at this stage for 10 years.

0:58.1

And leading the way of them, Sunderland with 27 points, the most by a promoted team since that same season,

1:03.9

2015, 16 and poor old wolves, just two points so far, the joint fewest by any team at this stage. So I think this is arguably the story of the season, isn't it, Jamie? What's going on here that is just sort of sent a bit of a shockwave? Certainly through a lot of clubs down that bottom end. Yeah, but it's just brilliant for the league. It's brilliant for those clubs. You know, we were getting to the stage where promoted clubs almost didn't want to get promoted.

1:28.3

It was like I'd rather be in the championship. Yeah, it felt inevitable. Yeah, and it was like I'm watching my team get beat every week. And I just think what Sunday have done especially and what Leeds have done out late has been absolutely fantastic. And it was getting a little bit too comfortable for a lot of teams in the Premier League. by a little bit of a rocket up the backside, shall we say.

1:45.3

So there's only one in the relegation zone right've had a little bit of a rocket up the backside, shall we say.

1:44.8

So there's only one in the relegation zone right now, that is Burnley, but we'll see how many finish there at the end of this season, remember only 17 games in. Right, so Jamie's team, and I think that will be reflected some of these promoted sides in that team, or certainly one of them, perhaps. We will see. We'll start with your goalkeeper, Jamie.

2:01.8

Yes, I'm going to go with the Sundering Gold. of them, perhaps. We will see. We'll start with your goalkeeper, Jamie.

2:01.8

Yes, I'm going to go with the Sunderland goalkeeper, Robin Roof, being really impressed

2:07.2

with him.

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