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DEFENDER: GEORGE FRIEND, MIDDLESBROUGH

After you’ve picked the most valuable players, the goalscoring defenders, and the household names, it really does start to get difficult to fill that fifth defender position in your squad. What credentials do you look for? A kind face? The player with the nicest hair? Well George Friend has both of those, but thankfully he backs it up with some decent football too. You might nor fancy a Middlesborough defender, as a newly promoted team but last week I told you to captain Mahrez and include Rondon so cut me some slack. Daniels at Bournemouth last season was the surprise value package in your back line and Friend has the potential to do the same. Boro conceded the fewest goals in the Championship for two consecutive seasons and if you watched Friend play…