Best Defensive players by Season Rating in Premier League 26/27

The best defensive players in Premier League in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

Matheus Martins of Dynamo is the standout for raw talent across players in Premier League, with a Field Insider Rating of 68, and D. Adamov has been the form player this season, grading 60.4, and A. Sobolev leads the scoring with 7 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: D. Adamov has improved his Season rating most, up +50.7 on last season, while S. Varatynov's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +8.3 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, Matheus Martins of Dynamo is the most valuable name in this group at 7.4.

Baltika · 24/25→25/26

Matheus Martins7.4val

Dynamo

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	Player	Team
1	E. Teslenko Centre-back	Rubin	25	51.8	52±0%	34±0%
2	S. Varatynov Full-back	Baltika	23	51.4	51±0%	37±0%
3	Vítor Tormena Centre-back	FC Krasnodar	30	46	46±0%	214.1%
4	I. Vujačić Full-back	Rubin	32	45.1	45±0%	16±0%
5	Gustavo Mantuan Centre-back	Zenit	25	44.4	44±0%	35±0%
6	L. Olaza Full-back	FC Krasnodar	32	44.3	44±0%	173.9%
7	N. Gassama Full-back	Baltika	25	41.4	41±0%	33±0%
8	A. Filin Centre-back	Baltika	30	40.4	4070.5%	1831%
9	D. Krugovoy Full-back	CSKA Moscow	28	38.8	39±0%	29±0%
10	Gedson Fernandes Full-back	Spartak Moscow	27	38.2	3871.3%	301%
11	I. Diveev Centre-back	Zenit	26	38.1	38±0%	342.7%
12	K. Pechenin Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	29	36.4	36±0%	24±0%
13	A. Arroyo Full-back	Rubin	26	36.2	36±0%	29±0%
14	M. Beveev Full-back	Baltika	30	35.9	36±0%	21±0%
15	Fernando Costanza Full-back	Krylia Sovetov	27	35.5	36±0%	28±0%
16	V. Melekhin Full-back	FC Rostov	22	32.2	32±0%	35±0%
17	T. Sundukov Centre-back	Dinamo Makhachkala	25	31.9	32±0%	332.5%
18	I. Vakhania Full-back	FC Krasnodar	25	31	31±0%	341.5%
19	M. Bogosavac Full-back	Akhmat	29	30.1	30±0%	24±0%
20	A. Siljanov Full-back	Lokomotiv	25	29.6	30±0%	35±0%
21	D. Chistyakov Centre-back	FC Rostov	32	29.4	29209.5%	157.6%
22	M. Sivis Full-back	FC Orenburg	28	28.5	291.1%	264.4%
23	M. Rodríguez Centre-back	FC Krasnodar	23	28.4	2870.1%	5412.7%
24	A. Gritsaenko Centre-back	Rubin	31	25.7	264.9%	1438.6%
25	S. Bozhin Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	32	25.4	25±0%	1713%
26	M. Osipenko Full-back	Dynamo	32	23	23±0%	15±0%
27	O. Sako Centre-back	FC Rostov	30	22.6	23±0%	18±0%
28	I. Shumakhov Centre-back	Dinamo Makhachkala	27	22.4	2225.3%	2426.2%
29	A. Gabaraev Centre-back	Fakel	28	20.4	20451.4%	221.8%
30	M. Alibekov Centre-back	Dinamo Makhachkala	29	20.1	20±0%	20±0%
31	M. Lukin Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	22	18.8	1950.4%	330.9%
32	João Victor Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	28	18.3	1829.8%	2347.5%
33	E. Morozov Full-back	Lokomotiv	25	17	17±0%	33±0%
34	Robert Renan Centre-back	Zenit	22	16.6	1713.7%	3839.6%
35	Ygor Nogueira Centre-back	FC Rostov	31	15.6	1620%	1463.9%
36	I. Lepskiy Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	21	14.3	1444.4%	3129.8%
37	N. Chernov Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	30	13.7	14±0%	17±0%
38	R. Vega Full-back	Zenit	22	13.6	1424%	3036.4%
39	João Escoval Centre-back	Akron	29	11.1	11±0%	18±0%
40	J. Palacios Centre-back	FC Orenburg	26	10.8	1118.2%	2614.9%
41	K. Cake Centre-back	Akhmat	27	10.5	11±0%	23±0%
42	I. Kirsch Centre-back	Baltika	22	8.9	9423.5%	3112.3%
43	R. Fernández Centre-back	Dynamo	26	8.1	865.7%	2619.9%
44	A. Alarcón Centre-back	Dinamo Makhachkala	25	8	852.4%	278.9%
45	Jubal Centre-back	FC Krasnodar	33	7.4	7±0%	1128%
46	E. Anderson Centre-back	Baltika	25	6.7	7±0%	26±0%
47	David Ricardo Centre-back	Dynamo	23	6.6	779.8%	2858.1%
48	V. Bardybakhin Full-back	Akron	24	2.9	37.4%	2617.3%
49	M. Bardachev Centre-back	Fakel	20	2.7	3±0%	250.8%
50	A. Adamov Full-back	Akhmat	26	0.3	0±0%	225.5%