Our weekly Premier League awards honour the best – and worst – of the football action from the weekend.
Moment of the Week
All football games are a game of two halves, but not always quite like Brighton vs Tottenham. Spurs seemed out of sight at half-time with a slick performance from the visitors rewarded with a healthy cushion, as the in-form Brennan Johnson and James Maddison put the North Londoners 2-0 up at the break. While not quite job done, the game certainly felt over.
Brighton, however, are made of sterner stuff. Yankuba Minteh’s goal three minutes after the restart breathed life into the Amex Stadium, before Georginio Rutter equalised just ten minutes later. With Ange Postecoglou’s side against the ropes, Brighton completed the comeback when Danny Welbeck headed home from Rutter’s cross, a sweet moment for the evergreen ex-Arsenal forward.
Never give up 💪🏿💙🤍 pic.twitter.com/sWnQIcRmG0
— Danny Welbeck (@DannyWelbeck) October 6, 2024
Postecoglou’s thunderous stare painted a thousand words. The Australian declared this as the worst defeat of his Tottenham tenure.
Postecoglou brands Brighton the worst defeat of Tottenham tenure
Player of the Week
Bukayo Saka is quite brilliant. There seems to be a trend towards dismissing the Arsenal winger of world-class status, but the numbers do not lie. In Europe’s top five leagues this season, Saka leads from the front for assists (7), chances created (13) and key passes (27).
Last weekend, Saka became the first Premier League player in a decade to take seven shots and create seven chances in a single game against Leicester. This weekend, he did it again against Southampton.
In the last ten years, Bukayo Saka is the only player in the Premier League to have created 7+ chances & taken 7+ shots in a single Premier League game on two separate occasions.
He has done it in back-to-back games:
7 shots + 8 chances created vs. Leicester City
7 shots + 7… pic.twitter.com/HMLucEy0Gx— Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) October 5, 2024
After playing the pass for Kai Havertz’s opener, a wonderful back-post cross picked out Gabriel Martinelli for Arsenal’s second. He sealed the comeback win with a third of his own, slammed in on his ‘weaker’ right ride.
It’s easy to forget that Saka is still just 23 years old. He now has more Premier League assists (42) than Arsenal great Robert Pires.
Saka’s starring role wasn’t enough to entertain everyone, however, with sub ‘keeper Neto taking time out of the clash to catch up on some rest…
As just discussed on the radio – looks very much like Neto (I think) is fast asleep pic.twitter.com/a8rXfDMC1N
— Max Rushden 💛🖤 (@maxrushden) October 6, 2024
Goal of the Week
Hits don’t come much sweeter than this.
Jeremy Doku sealed three points for Manchester City this weekend with a fabulous finish against Fulham, a strike that sped and swerved past Bernd Leno in a flash.
Wow, @JeremyDoku! 💥 pic.twitter.com/ErN3cCd02K
— Manchester City (@ManCity) October 5, 2024
Assist of the Week
Take a bow, Raul Jimenez.
The Mexican’s magical assist saw Fulham threaten a shock at Manchester City, as Jimenez audaciously assisted Andreas Pereira’s opener with a brilliant back-heel. Exquisite.
That assist from Raúl. 😮💨 pic.twitter.com/2fdFal7Hx4
— Fulham Football Club (@FulhamFC) October 5, 2024
Save of the Week
It’s fair to say the Everton fans enjoyed this one.
Jordan Pickford was the hero with a penalty save from pantomime villain Anthony Gordon, as the ex-Evertonian saw his spot-kick stopped in the goalless draw with Newcastle at Goodison Park. Gordon is far from the most popular player in these parts and the Toffees took delight in seeing him falter.
https://t.co/fCxiR5mTxo pic.twitter.com/aMC9rG215D
— Everton (@Everton) October 6, 2024
Red card of the Week
Yeah, this is a made up award but James Ward-Prowse’s dismissal at Chelsea is an all-timer. After his mis-control left the Nottingham Forest midfielder in all sorts of trouble, Ward-Prowse went into rugby-mode to stop Nicolas Jackson from racing through. The end result was inevitable.
The only way James Ward-Prowse could stop Nicolas Jackson from getting the ball on a break… 😅 pic.twitter.com/gS2vdLbPET
— ESPN UK (@ESPNUK) October 6, 2024
Stat of the Week
No matter how hard Tottenham try to leave the Spursy jibes behind, it always seems to come back and haunt them…
10 – This is the 10th time that Tottenham have lost a Premier League game in which they led by 2+ goals, the first club to hit double figures for this, and at least three more than any other side in the competition’s history. Spursy. pic.twitter.com/9Xe0zx7ntq
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) October 6, 2024
Tweet of the Week
It’s uncanny.
Mf that’s Erling Haaland 😭 https://t.co/5fSLnv118d
— ͏͏͏𝐉𝐚𝐲 ⌖ (@cagiago_) October 5, 2024
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