2016/17 Bundesliga Team of the Season: Right midfielders
Incredible as it seems, the 2016/17 Bundesliga season is already drawing to a close, and as usual at the business end of a campaign, it is time to hand out the prizes. We want you to decide who is honoured by voting for the bundesliga.com Team of the Season.
Ousmane Dembele(Borussia Dortmund)
Next up is the all-important right midfielder position, where some of the Bundesliga's most creative attacking talents ply their trade. Our selection combines two future stars of the game with a man who has won it all...
Borussia Dortmund beat off a host of clubs to sign Dembele in summer 2016, and on the evidence of his first season in Germany, they should be reaping rich rewards for years to come. Announcing himself with a stunning goal in a pre-season friendly against Manchester United, Dembele has scored in handsome wins against Gladbach, Leverkusen and Hamburg and provided a moment for the Bundesliga ages with a truly stunning piece of play to set up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's winner against Leipzig. The scary thing is that there is much more to come from the 19-year-old.
Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich)
He turned 33 in January, but Robben is not ready to slow down just yet. He missed the first two games of the season with injury but has since held down a regular spot in Carlo Ancelotti's side, and reached double figures for Bundesliga goals for the sixth time in eight seasons in Bavaria. He provided one of his trademark moments when he beat three defenders to score against Borussia Dortmund in April's 4-1 Klassiker victory, while he is now also Bayern's second-highest scoring foreign player in the league, behind only Giovane Elber.
Christian Pulisic (Dortmund)
Another precocious talent on whom BVB coach Thomas Tuchel can readily call, Pulisic has enjoyed a breakthrough season after debuting in the Bundesliga in 2016. He scored in March's crushing win over Leverkusen and provided a crucial assist in the victory away at Gladbach in late April that put Borussia in pole position for automatic qualification to the UEFA Champions League. At international level, he also became the youngest player in US Soccer history to start, score and score twice in a FIFA World Cup qualifier. The sky really is the limit for the young man from Hershey, Pennsylvania.
