After each spherical of Premier League matches this season, BBC soccer pundit Troy Deeney gives you his crew and supervisor of the week.
Listed here are this week’s decisions. Do you agree? Give us your ideas utilizing the feedback type on the backside of this web page.
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Martin Dubravka (Burnley): Saved a clear sheet however confronted 19 pictures of their . They’d an xG of two.4, however he stored them out in a large, huge sport. It was a sport I did not suppose Burnley would win, I believed Leeds would run away with it. However Burnley’s defensive decision got here out on prime.
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Reece James (Chelsea): I used to be vital of him to take outing from England, however whenever you try this it’s important to put a efficiency on and he did. He was incredible at right-back within the , an actual captain’s efficiency and capped with a aim. He stored Chelsea strong, particularly after a extremely poor first half, and within the second half his high quality shone via.
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Josh Acheampong (Chelsea): At simply 19 years outdated, he’s the way forward for Chelsea at centre-back. I do know he’ll come out of the crew in some unspecified time in the future this season however he was so calm, stored the ball, stored it shifting and did all his jobs rather well. For a participant his age to be so environment friendly was glorious.
Axel Tuanzebe (Burnley): One other man for Burnley who was a monster towards Leeds. I all the time discover it attention-grabbing when groups signal a centre-back from a crew who has been relegated, particularly one who was injured as a lot as Tuanzebe was final season. Clearly, he has discovered a house and Kyle Walker was additionally glorious subsequent to him.
Harry Maguire (Manchester United): Man of the weekend. He was completely unreal within the . What number of occasions has this man been written off, each as a participant for England, as a captain for Manchester United? In the event you take heed to every thing, he has been the issue apparently, nonetheless he was incredible. An actual chief, nothing too fancy and that’s what you need out of your centre-backs. He was efficient and excellent.
Nico O’Reilly (Manchester Metropolis): This younger man is prospering. I believed once they introduced in Rayan Ait-Nouri, he could be deployed in the course of the pitch however with Ait-Nouri’s harm, he has stored going from energy to energy at left-back. He’s so calm. His capacity to drive and run previous individuals is scary and one other help as they win as properly.
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Moises Caicedo (Chelsea): I used to be on the Chelsea match and Caicedo simply modified the sport. He got here on at half-time when Chelsea have been 20 to 30% off their sport, and everybody raised their sport. He got here in, stored the ball, stored it strong and immediately Chelsea rating. Arguably one of the best holding midfielder in world soccer. I’d say actually within the prime 4 and Chelsea battle with out him.
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Yehor Yarmolyuk (Brentford): He did every thing in Monday’s . So strong, so environment friendly. He goes about his enterprise gracefully and will get issues carried out. I may have chosen three or 4 different central midfielders however I’ve gone for him.
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Erling Haaland (Manchester Metropolis): This man is setting data for enjoyable. These numbers within the Premier League are ridiculous. We’re in October, it’s scary. He’ll rating 50 targets simple.
Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace): This can sound actually mad, however he practically wasn’t within the crew for that large miss on the finish – regardless of scoring a hat-trick within the . That might have gained the sport however he has to go in there and follows on from him scoring for France.
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Danny Welbeck (Brighton): Two targets for Brighton and even having individuals speaking about him being known as up by England. By the way in which, I clearly second that. Great efficiency at they , and the flexibility to maintain going. It appears the older he’s getting, the extra he’s having fun with it.
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Unai Emery (Aston Villa): His crew have been 1-0 down at Spurs. His tactical adjustments turned the sport of their favour for a .
Opta’s gamers of the week
Jean-Philippe Mateta
Star of the present in Saturday’s six-goal thriller at Selhurst Park was Jean-Philippe Mateta, with the in-form Frenchman scoring a hat-trick towards Bournemouth which meant he hit the 50-goal involvement mark within the Premier League for the Eagles, courtesy of 43 targets and eight assists (51 in complete).
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The striker has scored two of Palace’s three Premier League hat-tricks, whereas courtesy of his late penalty strike, he was the primary participant to have his third aim of the sport come courtesy of a Ninetieth-minute equaliser since Somen Tchoyi in Might 2011 for West Bromwich Albion towards Newcastle United.
Alas, Mateta’s trio of targets was not sufficient to earn all three factors for the hosts, thus changing into the primary participant to attain a house Premier League hat-trick and never win since Andy Carroll in April 2016 in a 3-3 draw for West Ham towards Arsenal.
General Mateta had six large probabilities within the sport (scoring three), the joint-most in a Premier League sport on report (since 2010-11).
Danny Welbeck
He could also be within the autumn of his profession, however at 34 years outdated Danny Welbeck is exhibiting no indicators of slowing down.
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In opposition to Newcastle on Saturday, Brighton’s veteran striker scored a match-winning double to make it 4 targets in his previous three Premier League video games, greater than in his earlier 15 appearances within the competitors mixed (three).
The previous Manchester United and Arsenal man’s latest targets have tended to be game-changers, with 12 of his previous 13 top-flight strikes both placing the Seagulls forward (9, together with two on the weekend) or drawing the sport stage (three), with 5 of these targets winners.
Welbeck has Georginio Rutter to thank for establishing one among his targets towards the Magpies, with 4 of the Dutchman’s 5 Premier League assists for Brighton coming for the previous England striker, with all 4 placing Brighton forward within the sport.
In an all-round very good show, Welbeck additionally arrange a joint-game-high three goalscoring probabilities for team-mates.
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Erling Haaland
It will not be a Premier League weekend with out one other tour de power show from Erling Haaland, with the unstoppable Manchester Metropolis striker among the many targets once more on Saturday towards Everton.
The Norwegian scored his tenth (and eleventh) Premier League targets of the season, with this being the third earliest (MD8) a participant has reached double figures in a marketing campaign within the competitors, with, you guessed it, Haaland himself additionally accountable for the opposite two (MD5 in 2022-23, MD6 in 2024-25).
With 11 Premier League targets underneath his belt already, Haaland has, extremely, scored as many or extra targets than 12 of the opposite 19 sides within the competitors this season.
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Haaland had Savinho to thank for establishing one among his targets on Saturday, with seven of the Brazilian’s 12 assists for Manchester Metropolis in all competitions coming for the Norwegian. For the reason that begin of final season, solely Jacob Murphy has assisted a particular team-mate extra usually amongst Premier League sides (9, for Alexander Isak at Newcastle).
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