UEFA Europa League Player of a Season contenders

Zlatan Ibrahimović, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Paul Pogba have been shortlisted for a 2016/17 UEFA Europa League Player of a Season award.

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All 3 were inspirational in Manchester United winning a foe final term, a delight that completed a English giants’ set of vital UEFA bar trophies.

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Nominees’ 2016/17 highlights reel

Mkhitaryan and Pogba were on aim in the 2-0 feat over Ajax in a Stockholm final, while Ibrahimović had scored 5 goals, including a turn of 16 hat-trick opposite Saint-Étienne, before nutritious a critical knee damage late in a quarter-final second leg contra Anderlecht.

Mkhitaryan’s strike opposite Ajax was one of 6 he managed in United’s successful campaign, notwithstanding not creation his initial European tour of 2016/17 until matchday four. Fellow midfielder Pogba started all 15 of José Mourinho’s side’s UEFA Europa League fixtures.

The endowment will be presented for a initial time during a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre pull in Monaco on 25 August.

How a players were shortlisted
The jury was stoical of a coaches of a 48 clubs in final season’s organisation stage, together with 55 reporters comparison by a European Sports Media (ESM) group, representing any of UEFA’s member associations. The coaches were not authorised to opinion for players from their possess teams.

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Zlatan Ibrahimović scores a hat-trick opposite St-Étienne

Jury members comparison their tip 3 players, with a initial receiving 5 points, a second 3 and a third one. The 3 players who perceived a many points, in alphabetical order, are:

• Zlatan Ibrahimović (Manchester United, now unattached)
  Appearances: 11
  Goals: 5
  Assists: 4

• Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United)
  Appearances: 11
  Goals: 6
  Assists: 0

• Paul Pogba (Manchester United)
  Appearances: 15
  Goals: 3
  Assists: 1

The UEFA Men’s Player of a Year award©Getty Images

This fame complements a UEFA Men’s and Women’s Player of a Year awards, a finalists for that will be announced on 15 August.

Player rankings (4 to 10)

4 Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon, now Arsenal) – 70 points
5 Kasper Dolberg (Ajax) – 40 points
6 Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) – 37 points
7 Davy Klaasen (Ajax, now Everton), Ander Herrera (Manchester United) – 33
9 Bertrand Traoré (Ajax, now Lyon) – 28 points
10 Edin Džeko (Roma) – 23 points

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