In soccer, midfielders come in all shapes and sizes.
Some excel in passing, able to drive the ball the length of the field or slide in killer through-balls into spaces unseen by the opposition.
Others are instead better at tackling, stopping their opposing number dead in their tracks to help keep in-tact that all important clean sheet.
Some even work in the shadows, appearing from the outside to be doing very little, but to the trained eye, masterfully dictating the tempo of a match like a human metronome.
Here, ranks the best to ever do it, regardless of their chosen niche.
