Final season’s high two have been each overwhelmed, Liverpool continued their spectacular begin, Tottenham blew Aston Villa away and Manchester United and Chelsea performed out a stalemate within the newest spherical of Premier League motion.
However who stood out most to take our Participant of the Week award?
Antoine Semenyo (Bournemouth)
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The Bournemouth winger has discovered himself being linked with a giant transfer away with rising regularity of late and performances just like the one he produced towards Manchester Metropolis on Saturday are precisely why.
From begin to end, the 24-year-old tormented the champions, who could not deal with his physicality and directness.
Within the 2-1 win, Semenyo scored one and had a giant hand within the different when his ahead operating led to Evanilson’s winner – which is why he narrowly edges team-mate Milos Kerkez out for the honour.
By the shut of play, he had gained extra duels than some other participant on the park with 11, accomplished extra dribbles than anybody else on the south coast and even had extra take-ons (six) than anybody else within the league final weekend.
As he has proven over the previous 18 months, when he’s on kind and clicking, he might be unplayable and Saturday supplied the most recent piece of proof.
It was an much more notable displaying contemplating that he was shifted from his standard proper wing function to take up place on the left – a lot to the frustration of Kyle Walker, who by no means bought to grips with the Ghana worldwide.
“He is been taking part in very nicely all season. I believe we demand rather a lot from him as a result of we imagine he may give rather a lot,” his coach Andoni Iraola stated afterwards.
“I believe he is all the time going to be harmful for each full-back or each centre-back he assaults. He scored once more and everyone seems to be giving him extra recognition.”
That is an understatement.
Increasingly more prestigious golf equipment at the moment are being linked and he deserves each little bit of it, having come a good distance from the participant who took a 12 months away from the sport as a 16-year-old after being rejected by Crystal Palace.
What a turnaround.
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