Report: It’s A Fact. Luke Shaw was certifiably the Best Premier League Player at Euro 2020

Dry your eyes Englishmate. Don’t be sad that it’s over, be glad that it happened. England may have missed out on the biggest piece of silverware at the 2020 European Championships, but what a journey it really was. Heroes were made, hearts were broken, and, as a result, BettingOdds.com has now crunched the numbers to find out who exactly from the Premier League verifiably made their mark the most in the competition, backed up with data that has been dissected to within an inch of its life.

We’ve organised the findings into 3 categories:

• Best Premier League XI Based On Player Participation At Euro 2020;
• Worst Premier League XI Based On Player Participation At Euro 2020 ((NOTE: Players must have played at least 3 Matches totalling 90+ Minutes);
• Best To Worst Premier League Teams Based On Player Participation At Euro 2020.

Manchester United’s resurgent Mourinho-defying left-back Luke Shaw has consequently proven to be far and away the best Premier League player at the 2020 European Championships, and slots easily into the defence of this Best Premier League XI Based On Player Participation At Euro 2020.

Shaw completed 576 minutes across 6 games of England’s campaign (9.6pts), had an 84.9% passing success rate (2pts) kept 4 clean sheets (16pts), produced 3 assists for his Three Lions’ teammates (9pts), and even popped up with a goal (6pts) for a tournament record for a Premier League player of 42 points.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, the worst Premier League player at the 2020 European Championships was poor Newcastle United goalkeeper Martin Dúbravka who endured a slog with Slovakia and ended up with a negative points total of -2.

2020/21 Premier League champions Manchester City had a total of 13 players participating at this summer’s European Championships. Cumulatively these 13 totalled a brobdingnagian 220 points based on our system, or an Average Points Per Player of 16.9. Unsurprisingly, it was John Stones and Raheem Sterling who contributed the most to this haul, having featured prominently in all 7 games of England’s brilliant run to collect 34 and 33 points respectively, and so such both feature in the statistically proven Best Premier League XI Based On Player Participation At Euro 2020.

Using the official Fantasy Premier League structure as a basis, the points were tallied as follows:

Every 60 minutes played : 1pt

Goal by Defender : 6pts

Goal by Midfielder : 5pts

Goal by Forward : 4pts

Assist : 3pts

Clean Sheet (Goalkeeper/ Defender) : 4pts

2+ Goals Conceded (Goalkeeper / Defender) : -1pt

Yellow Card : -1pt

Red Card : -3pts

Passing Success was judged as follows:

90%+ : 4pts

87%+ : 3pts

84%+ : 2pts

81%+ : 1pt

77%+ : 0pt

-77% : -1pt

-73% : -2pts

-70% : -3pts

-60% : -4pts

The results were compiled from data taken from UEFA and WhoScored.

Best Premier League XI Based On Player Participation At Euro 2020 (Points Total)

GK : Jordan Pickford (England / Everton) 28

DF : Luke Shaw (England / Manchester United) 42

DF : John Stones (England / Manchester City) 34

DF : Kyle Walker (England / Manchester City) 28

DF : Harry Maguire (England / Manchester United) 24

MF : Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland / Liverpool) 28

MF : Ferran Torres (Spain / Manchester City) 24

MF : Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Denmark / Tottenham Hotspur) 22

FW : Raheem Sterling (England / Manchester City) 33

FW : Harry Kane (England / Tottenham Hotspur) 33

FW : Andriy Yarmolenko (Ukraine / West Ham United) 24

Subs:

GK : Rui Patrício (Portugal / Wolves) 7

DF : Aymeric Laporte (Spain / Manchester City) 23

MF : Kalvin Phillips (England / Leeds United) 20

FW : Diogo Jota (Portugal / Liverpool) 13

: Kai Havertz (Germany / Chelsea) 13

Worst Premier League XI Based On Player Participation At Euro 2020 (Points Total)

(NOTE: Players must have played at least 3 Matches totalling 90+ Minutes)

GK : Martin Dúbravka (Slovakia / Newcastle United) -2

DF : Ben Davies (Wales / Tottenham Hotspur) 1

DF : Çağlar Söyüncü (Turkey / Leicester City) 3

DF : Fabian Schär (Switzerland / Newcastle United) 3

DF : Jan Bednarek (Poland / Southampton) 5

MF : Mateusz Klich (Poland / Leeds United) 2

MF : Ezgjan Alioski (North Macedonia / Leeds United) 5

MF : Stuart Armstrong (Scotland / Southampton) 5

FW : Timo Werner (Germany / Chelsea) 2

FW : Teemu Pukki (Finland / Norwich City) 3

FW : Cengiz Ünder (Turkey / Leicester City) 3

Subs:

GK : Danny Ward (Wales / Leicester City) 0

DF : Neco Williams (Wales / Liverpool) 6

MF : John McGinn (Scotland / Aston Villa) 6

FW : Che Adams (Scotland / Southampton) 5

Best To Worst Premier League Teams Based On Player Participation At Euro 2020

1. Manchester City  Number of Players: 13  Total Points: 220  Average Points Per Player: 16.9

2. West Ham United  Number of Players: 5  Total Points: 66  Average Points Per Player: 13.2

3. Manchester United  Number of Players: 10  Total Points: 128  Average Points Per Player: 12.8

4. Aston Villa  Number of Players: 3  Total Points: 37  Average Points Per Player: 12.3

5. Tottenham Hotspur  Number of Players: 8  Total Points: 93  Average Points Per Player: 11.6

6. Liverpool  Number of Players: 7  Total Points: 69  Average Points Per Player: 9.9

7. = Chelsea  Number of Players: 15  Total Points: 139  Average Points Per Player: 9.3

    = Everton  Number of Players: 3  Total Points: 28  Average Points Per Player: 9.3

9. = Arsenal  Number of Players: 4  Total Points: 24  Average Points Per Player: 6

    = Southampton  Number of Players: 4  Total Points: 24  Average Points Per Player: 6

11. Wolverhampton Wanderers  Number of Players: 7  Total Points: 38  Average Points Per Player: 5.4

12. Leicester City  Number of Players: 7  Total Points: 34  Average Points Per Player: 4.9

13. Leeds United  Number of Players: 7  Total Points: 31  Average Points Per Player: 4.4

14. Crystal Palace  Number of Players: 4  Total Points: 18  Average Points Per Player: 4.5

15. Newcastle United  Number of Players: 4  Total Points: 14  Average Points Per Player: 3.5

16. Watford  Number of Players: 2  Total Points: 6  Average Points Per Player: 3

17. Brentford  Number of Players: 4  Total Points: 11  Average Points Per Player: 2.75

18. Norwich City  Number of Players: 4  Total Points: 6  Average Points Per Player: 1.5

19. Burnley  Number of Players: 1  Total Points: 1  Average Points Per Player: 1

20. Brighton & Hove Albion  Number of Players: 5  Total Points: 1  Average Points Per Player: 0.2