Bryan Mbeumo and six other overachievers who have ripped up Dream Team’s blueprint this season
Bryan Mbeumo and six other overachievers who have ripped up Dream Team’s blueprint this season
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THE 2024/25 Dream Team campaign is halfway complete. Now is a great time to take stock of the season so far and who better to highlight than the heroic overachievers?. Mohamed Salah (£8.1m), Erling Haaland (£8m) and Bukayo Saka (£6.6m) are leading the way in terms of overall points but the truth is that gaffers expect nothing less from the game's most expensive assets.
![[Illustration of three soccer players in their team uniforms, part of a Dream Team.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DD-14-01-dream-team-brennan_COMP-1.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The following players are those who have defied the odds and made a real difference to the overall leaderboard. Brentford's main man has punched well above his weight with 13 goals from his first 20 league outings. At the time of writing, Salah and Haaland are the only players ahead of him in the race for the Golden Boot.
![[Bryan Mbeumo of Brentford celebrating a goal.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/editorial-use-no-use-unauthorised-959000677.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Mbeumo has racked up 197 points to put him third among Dream Team midfielders with only Saka and Cole Palmer (£6.1m) above him in the rankings. That the Cameroon international has outperformed the likes of Bruno Fernandes (£6.2m), James Maddison (£4.1m) and Luis Diaz (£4m) without European fixtures to pad out his schedule is testament to his electric domestic form.
![[Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels in action.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/mi-news-sport-alamy-live-938796291.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
No list of surprise packages would be complete without a Nottingham Forest representative. Nuno Espirito Santo's side have performed well above expectations and find themselves third in the table at the halfway stage - a remarkable effort from the club that finished 17th in 2023/24.
![[Matheus Cunha of Wolverhampton Wanderers in a purple jersey.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/crop-32549042_fbb90b.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
