Band 2 Bulletin: Belgian Pro League Team of the Half-Season

Will Daniels offers us his unique brand of analysis as he handcuffs himself in very useful ways to help identify players who are high performing but potentially attainable

With the Jupiler Pro League regular season now just one game shy of the halfway mark, I have set myself a little challenge. For today’s bulletin, I am attempting to piece together a Team of the Half Regular Season. And yes, I can already hear your protest: Will, this is not a thing. It has never been a thing. It will never be a thing.

Well, today it is.

As if these selections were not tricky enough on their own, I have decided to make the whole thing borderline impossible by adding two self-imposed constraints. Only one player per club and everyone has to be 28 or under. Why make life easy?

We are also leaving out the sides competing in Europe. Not because they are not brilliant, although Genk may be testing the limits of that adjective, but simply because their squads tend to live in a price bracket most clubs reading this bulletin can only admire from afar.

I have opted to go with the favoured formation of the majority, which is 4-2-3-1.

Anyway, constraints applied, mental gymnastics complete, here is what I have managed to put together.