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#3 Shaun Wright-Phillips - 42
Shaun Wright-Phillips has had a fairly successful career in the Premier League. The former midfielder played over 300 games in the competition for three different clubs.
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Wright-Phillips bagged 32 goals and 35 goals across 14 seasons in the English top flight, with most of these goal contributions across two stints for Manchester City. The 40-year-old's only Premier League triumph, though, came with Chelsea in 2005-06, with Wright-Phillips contributing three assists in 27 games.
His last league game came with Queens Park Rangers in 2013-14, with the player not making a goal contribution in four games that season.
#2 Lee Sharpe - 59
Lee Sharpe is a three-time Premier League winner, winning three of the competition's first four editions in the early 1990s with Manchester United.
The left midfielder bagged 22 goals and 25 assists in 175 games in the competition. Most of these goals (17) came with United. Sharpe contributed 14 goals and 16 assists in his three triumphant Premier League campaigns with the Old Trafford outfit.
After leaving Manchester United in the summer of 1996, Sharpe made 60 Premier League appearances for Leeds United and Bradford City. All five of his goals during this period came while he was at Leeds.
#1 Virgil Van Dijk - 60
Virgil Van Dijk has been a colossal signing for Liverpool. Eyebrows were raised when the Reds splashed €84.65 million in January 2018 to land the former Southampton centre-back.
However, the Dutchman silenced his naysayers with a series of superlative performances, becoming a mainstay at the heart of the Liverpool defense. In the process, he has become one of the best active centre-backs in the game.
Van Dijk played a key role in the Reds reaching successive UEFA Champions League finals (2017-18, 2018-19), winning in 2019. He also made an impact in the Premier League.
Liverpool finished second in a titanic 2018-19 title race, falling short to Manchester City by a solitary point. The Reds amassed 97 points, with Van Dijk playing all 38 games, contributing four goals and two assists. Jurgen Klopp's men won 17 of their 19 home games, drawing the other two.
The Reds fared even better next season, dropping only two points at home, as they won their first league title in three decades and first in the Premier League era. Van Dijk once again played all 38 games, scoring five times and assisting once.
With the Dutchman suffering a season-ending injury last year, the Reds lost six league games at home as the defending champions finished a distant third in the league. Van Dijk, back to full fitness this season, has powered the Reds to within six points of league leaders Manchester City, with the Dutchman contributing three goals and an assist so far this campaign.
In the process, the 30-year-old created a new record for the longest unbeaten run at home in the Premier League era.
The Dutchman has scored three times and provided one assist as the Reds eye an unprecedented continental quadruple.
