In a dramatic weekend of Premier League motion, Arsenal thrashed Manchester Metropolis, Manchester United’s dwelling woes went on and Nottingham Forest recorded the most important win of the season.
And our Participant of the Week from the motion is…
Anthony Elanga (Nottingham Forest)
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As beforehand acknowledged, Nottingham Forest bounced again from their hammering by the hands of Bournemouth in really beautiful trend.
They took seven off Brighton with out reply and though Chris Wooden took dwelling the match ball with a hat-trick, it was his attacking colleague Elanga who was really the star of the present.
He claimed his personal hat-trick, organising team-mates for 3 of Forest’s objectives with devastating deliveries that the Seagulls merely had no reply to.
An inviting nook first arrange Morgan Gibbs-White earlier than organising Wooden for his first two objectives to take his purpose involvements for the membership to 25 since leaving Manchester United for the Metropolis Floor.
In reality, because the begin of final season, solely Mo Salah, Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer have contributed extra Premier League assists than Elanga. Not unhealthy firm to be in in any respect.
It was solely the second time this season that somebody arrange three objectives in a single sport, with Palmer the one different participant to take action.
His newest exhibiting was the type of electrical efficiency that Forest followers have change into accustomed to from the 22-year-old, whose pace of toes and thought bamboozled Brighton all afternoon.
As well as, his partnership with Wooden particularly is proving extraordinarily fruitful.
Of the New Zealander’s 17 objectives this season, Elanga has assisted 10 of them. No one has arrange a selected team-mate extra because the opening of the 2023/24 marketing campaign.
It’s time to begin taking discover of the Swede. Definitely within the eyes of his captain.
“He is completely superb. He is so quick so that you simply know you could find him in area each time. He’ll in all probability attain the ball,” Gibbs-White advised TNT Sports activities after Elanga’s weekend heroics.
“This season he has labored actually laborious and has been completely superb. I feel he deserves extra recognition. He works so laborious each on and off the sphere.”
Is he deserving of extra reward than he has gotten? With performances like this, his flowers will not be lengthy in coming.
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