A-League Team of the Week: Mata sits in behind Auckland pair

Spanish legend Juan Mata produced one of the great performances of the season.
Spanish legend Juan Mata produced one of the great performances of the season.Daniel Pockett / Getty Images via AFP

Two members of Auckland's front third, Guillermo May and Jesse Randall, have been chosen as the two strikers in our Team of the Week.

Here are the eleven top performers (by position) from Round 17 of the A-League, according to Flashscore's in-house player rating system.

Catch up on all A-League results and statistics on Flashscore.com.au here.

Round 18 Team of the Week
Round 18 Team of the WeekFlashscore / Enetpulse

GK: Harrison Devenish-Meares - Sydney FC (8.0)

Devenish-Meares saved five shots coming his way to keep an important clean sheet in a 1-0 win over Brisbane.

LB: Jake Girdwood-Reich - Auckland FC (7.3)

Girdwood-Reich was the highest rated left back of the competition despite being booked, winning nine of his 11 individual duels as well as making seven clearances.

CB: James Donachie - Central Coast Mariners (8.2) 

Donachie was in the right place at the right time to pounce on a deflection and sink a game-winning goal that has the Mariners just three points outside the top-six. A game-high ten clearances also contributed highly to his rating of 8.2. 

CB: Daniel Hall - Auckland FC (7.3)

Hall has been a pillar of consistency in the last few weeks, without doing anything too spectacular, but his 13 clearances played a big part in Auckland's clean sheet.

RB: Callum Talbot - Macarthur FC (8.2)

The hard working 24-year-old recorded the highest Flashscore rating of the match in two of his last four appearances, this time for five shot attempts, a game-best 82 touches, three accurate crosses and two big chances created.

LM: Ryan Fraser - Western Sydney Wanderers (8.6)

It didn't take long for Fraser's class to begin oozing and, after two bench appearances, he's now making an outstanding impact for a full 90 minutes.

The man with more than 180 Premier League appearances already has three goals and an assist in only 360 minutes of football.

CM: Ryan White - Adelaide United (8.1)

21-year-old White helped put the game to bed by assisting United's third goal shortly after the half-time break.

CM: Juan Mata - Melbourne Victory (9.3)

Mata had a direct hand in all three of Melbourne Victory's goals and, having exploded in the months of January and February, is now a standout Johnny Warren Medal favourite.

RM: Marcus Younis - Melbourne City (7.7)

Younis was rested up during City's midweek Champions League game and it paid off as he has now assisted and/or scored in four of his last five games in all competitions.

FW: Jesse Randall - Auckland FC (8.3)

Randall stood out in the derby with four shots, whilst passing at an excellent rate of 82% in the final third.

FW: Guillermo May - Auckland FC (7.9)

May pounced on a rare start for this season with a goal and an assist in the first half to ensure Wellington had too much to do after half-time despite their fight. 

Honourable mentions: It was an outstanding weekend for central midfielders, so shout outs must go out to the trio of Juan Muniz (8.0), Paul Okon-Engstler (7.9) and Tiago Quintal (7.7), who all fell just short.

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