For me Matt le Tissier takes the cake, managing to score 25 goals from midfield in the 1993/94 season for a Southampton team that finished 18th. Other strong contenders:
- Luis Suarez 13/14, honestly maybe the best individual season a player’s ever had in the league. 31 goals and 11 assists in 33 games in a Liverpool team that was largely Europa League level aside from Gerrard and Sturridge.
- Kevin Phillips 99/00, scoring 30 goals and winning the European Golden Shoe for newly promoted Sunderland.
Who’ve you got?
Auba dragged Arsenal to the FA Cup kicking and screaming
Look at Bellingham right now. Not sure where Madrid would be without him.
Bit of a leftfield one, maybe, but my team Sheffield Wednesday were pretty much singlehandedly kept in the Prem a couple of years longer than they had any right to be by Des Walker.
Post the Di Canio/Carbone era, we were truly abysmal and had barely any prem quality players in the squad. I had a season ticket at the time, and the number of points Des singlehandedly saved us was easily in excess of the amount of points we finished above relegation.
Finally, in 2001, his age caught up with him, and we were deservedly relegated. The rest is history, as they say.
Alan Shearer for Newcastle, Yakubu for Portsmouth.
That Van Persie seasons … carried Arsenal into the top 4 and then won a fairly average United team the Premier league .
Wilf Zaha
Le Tissier was an absolute brilliant player, he had a cannon of a shot on him, used to score brilliant goals from absolutely nothing. I remember one he banged in so hard it bounced up and down off the cross bar at least 3 times…
Kalvin Phillips carried the city team by letting KDB play…this sacrifice eventually led to a treble. If this ain’t the greatest sacrifice in the history of sports then I don’t know what is…💪
aubameyang was our saviour in 19/20 and 18/19 but to a lesser extent as we felt less reliant on him. People forget just how much he carried us when we were appalling defensively
Van Persie in 2012-2013.
Carlos Tevez at West Ham single handedly kept the Hammers up in that season where he scored huge goals including the winner at Old Trafford to give them a 0-1 away win
He carried City on his back so often in the first year or 2 - one of the very best I’ve seen
David De Gea!!! If we are talking about carrying.
Joey Barton for City. Kept them in the league for a few seasons.
Would have said SWP personally. Barton was the best player in a terrible side for us though couple years later yeah.
Maybe that the time I was remembering then
Matthew Le Tissier
Hazard 18/19, Chelsea were so mediocre besides him that season, probably a 6-8th finish without him