After each spherical of Premier League matches this season, BBC soccer pundit Troy Deeney gives you his crew and supervisor of the week.
Listed below are this week’s selections. Do you agree? Give us your ideas utilizing the feedback type on the backside of this web page.
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Bart Verbruggen (Brighton): He made 4 or 5 actually good saves and saved them within the sport within the . On one other day West Ham go on to win that. He was bang on it and a giant cause why Brighton nicked a draw.
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Matty Money (Aston Villa): Fantastic objective as Aston Villa and nice defending. As a Birmingham fan it pains me to provide him credit score however he was nice and Aston Villa have been unbelievable. Everybody feels Arsenal are going to run away with the league, however Aston Villa mentioned “no, not on my watch”.
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Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace): He received his crew over the road for his or her and led by instance as he at all times does. He received my thoughts pondering – not solely did he play nicely this weekend and has been nice all season, how a lot would Liverpool not be on this mess if they’d managed to signal him? How good may Liverpool be if they’d a correct centre-half like him?
Marco Senesi (Bournemouth): I do not know the place Bournemouth hold getting these gamers from. They bought two centre-halves in the summertime and he has simply stepped in no drawback. He is been completely unbelievable, and was once more as they .
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Bruno Guimaraes (Newcastle): I am placing Bruno on the base of a diamond in midfield as a result of he’s the guts, soul and spirit of Newcastle’s crew, and was good once more . He’s simply an excellent soccer participant and there usually are not many individuals you may say that about.
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Anton Stach (Leeds): He was the participant who stood out for Leeds of their . The guests have been clearly cruising however I take a look at gamers and groups in that second and take a look at who’s hiding. This man turned it up – not solely a notch however one other 10 notches – scored a objective and received an help.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor (Everton): Is he the signing of the season? He has been unbelievable. Not solely is he scoring, he’s pulling the strings and has develop into the heartbeat of this new-look Everton crew underneath David Moyes, who can get one other gear out of those gamers as they did .
Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United): High of the diamond is Fernandes. Two targets and an help. His passing was unbelievable. He loses a little bit of credit score as a result of it was towards arguably the worst crew I’ve ever seen in Wolves, however he did very nicely. Manchester United are again on the profitable path.
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Xavi Simons (Tottenham): He has had a little bit of a troublesome time at Spurs however it felt like this was his second to point out everybody why individuals suppose he’s so gifted. He has tempo, energy and glides previous individuals. We used to name individuals like {that a} luxurious however if you put in a match-winning efficiency like he did , it’s important to begin saying he’s simply good.
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Hugo Ekitike (Liverpool): Although he’s in a crew that may be a shambles, he will get in by way of the center. He scored two targets towards Leeds. I perceive Liverpool spent some huge cash on Alexander Isak – and I’m an enormous fan – however simply begin this child. Get the 2 of them up entrance and determine it out.
Rayan Cherki (Manchester Metropolis) My favorite footballer to look at in world soccer. Not solely was his help for Phil Foden within the well worth the admission charge, he was simply pleasant. He’s just like the cult heroes I grew up with and makes me really feel like a child once more watching soccer. Again within the day you had Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, JJ Okocha – a plethora of them. Now there’s simply Rayan Cherki – and he’s unbelievable.
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Unai Emery (Aston Villa): A large sport for Aston Villa. Towards Arsenal it was that match the place he will get to say: “Bear in mind me? You removed me.” I believe with all that being mentioned, Emery is supervisor of the week.
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Opta’s gamers of the week
Hugo Ekitike
With Liverpool and Mohamed Salah showing to be – and Salah heading to hitch his Egypt team-mates for the Africa Cup of Nations subsequent week anyway – the Reds want different gamers to step up and fill the Salah-shaped gap within the scoring charts. In Hugo Ekitike, they might have discovered that man.
Ekitike is now Liverpool’s main Premier League scorer with 5 targets, whereas in all competitions he additionally tops the charts with eight. On Saturday at Elland Street, the Frenchman scored the primary double of his Liverpool profession, and with the targets coming within the forty eighth and fiftieth minutes, he was the primary Premier League participant to attain twice within the opening 5 minutes of the second half since Raheem Sterling in March 2019 for Manchester Metropolis towards Watford.
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He led all gamers within the match for pictures (5), pictures on the right track (3) and touches within the opposition field (9) and his solely disappointment should have been the scoreline – he was the primary Liverpool participant to attain two targets in a Premier League and never win since Salah final December in a 3-3 draw with Newcastle.
Rayan Cherki
Regardless of taking part in simply 398 minutes within the Premier League this season, no participant has extra assists than Manchester Metropolis’s Rayan Cherki (5), with two of these coming within the 3-0 victory over Sunderland.
Cherki created six probabilities in open play, the joint most by a participant in a Premier League sport this season, whereas at 22 years and 111 days on Saturday he was the second-youngest Manchester Metropolis participant to realize that in a Premier League sport, older solely than – possibly surprisingly – Mario Balotelli in February 2012 towards Blackburn Rovers.
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Amongst gamers to play 300 minutes within the Premier League, no participant has created extra probabilities per 90 minutes than Cherki (3.4) and solely 4 have had extra touches within the opposition field per 90 minutes (7.7). The Frenchman is at the moment helping a objective, on common, each 80 minutes – additionally a league finest.
Bruno Guimaraes
Bruno Guimaraes has taken 10 corners within the Premier League this season and it’s clear which a kind of was most memorable – his in-swinging supply on Saturday towards Burnley caught his former team-mate Martin Dubravka out to provide the Magpies the lead.
It was not the primary Premier League objective direct from a nook however it was Newcastle’s first ever nook to be put straight into the opponent’s objective within the Premier League, to provide Guimaraes a slice of Magpies historical past. Given the time period Olympico objective originates from South America, it appears apt that 4 of the previous seven direct nook targets have been scored by gamers from that continent – all, in reality, from Brazil. These scorers are Matheus Pereira, Douglas Luiz, Matheus Cunha and Guimaraes.
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Apart from swinging corners straight into the web, Guimaraes has been in glorious latest type – he now has 4 targets and two assists throughout his previous 9 Premier League appearances, scoring 5 in complete this season. Solely in 2023-24 has he ever scored extra in a single season, netting seven instances.