Sportskeeda Football Awards 2016: Defender of the Year

#8 Laurent Koscielny (Reader's rank: 8 | Sportskeeda's rank: 8)

Arsenal’s Mr Consistent

Arsenal's most consistent defender of recent times. If Cech has anyone to thank for his 12 clean sheets this year, it's this Frenchman.

Koscielny was 5% of our reader's choice for the defender of the year and that too without him winning anything! Koscielny played a huge role in France ending up as runners-up in Euro 2016 and also helped Arsenal become the runners-up in the Premier League.

Arsenal managed to some finish above Tottenham once again and their defending right at the end of the 2015/16 season was one of the main reasons.