Garth Crooks' Team of the Week: Diaz, Foden, Sterling, Mitoma, Wissa and more

At the extremity of each circular of fixtures, BBC shot pundit Garth Crooks is connected manus to springiness you his Team of the Week.

Take a look beneath and, arsenic ever, Garth besides has his accidental connected the game's large talking points successful the Crooks of the Matter.

Ederson (Manchester City): The infinitesimal it near his footwear I was yelling "what a ball!". Ederson is known for his quality to power the shot with his feet, particularly successful and astir his ain punishment area, and seldom kicks it long. But erstwhile helium does it's with purpose.

The shot to Julian Alvarez successful the archetypal fractional couldn't person been amended delivered if Kevin de Bruyne had made the pass. The shot was superb and acceptable up Erling Haaland with a glorious accidental against Newcastle.

Ederson is arsenic bully with his feet arsenic helium is with his hands.

In a highly competitory lucifer wherever six players were booked, referee Robert Jones didn't nonstop 1 subordinate off. No-one wants to instrumentality to the days of the assassins, but however refreshing to ticker a competitory fixture played successful the close spirit. Well done Rob Jones.

Kyle Walker (Manchester City): This was an outstanding show by Manchester City and their skipper Kyle Walker. They had conscionable returned from Athens, having beaten Sevilla successful the Super Cup successful midweek, and competed with Newcastle arsenic if they had ne'er been away.

The people of a apical squad is their quality to triumph successful Europe and get a effect connected their instrumentality to their home league. Walker was arsenic nonrecreational arsenic it gets against Newcastle, contempt having played the full lucifer successful Greece, converted his punishment successful the shootout, lifted the trophy and past led his squad retired a fewer days aboriginal similar it was different time astatine the office.

With this benignant of mentality City look similar they are connected people for different peculiar season.

Cristian Romero (Tottenham): We cognize this footballer is simply a bully defender. You don't play for Argentina successful the World Cup last if you can't play.

Towards the extremity of past play I thought Romero became a small bushed aft his exploits successful Qatar, arsenic good arsenic frustrated by the mediocre show of Spurs, forcing him to marque tackles helium had nary close to make.

He was unlucky to beryllium substituted against Brentford connected the opening time of the play with suspected concussion but was outstanding against Manchester United.

Well done Michael Oliver for not giving a handball against Romero present erstwhile it was intelligibly shot to manus and travelling astatine the velocity of light. Everyone knows the regularisation is simply a atrocious one.

William Saliba (Arsenal): Saliba missed the backmost extremity of past play and it arguably outgo Arsenal the title. Now helium is is backmost successful the Arsenal line-up and they look similar a squad susceptible of keeping cleanable sheets again.

This was an important triumph for the Gunners distant astatine Crystal Palace. Six points successful their 2 opening games keeps the unit connected Manchester City and sends a connection to the remainder of the league that they are up for the conflict erstwhile again this season.

The location broadside made beingness precise hard for the visitors, but they couldn't penetrate Arsenal's antiaircraft backline adjacent 1 the visitors went down to 10 men, and that was mostly owed to the beingness of Saliba.

If referees are going to marque the constituent of booking players for taking a throw-in, arsenic successful the lawsuit of Tomiyasu for clip wasting, tin they acceptable a clip bounds during which the subordinate tin person the shot successful his hands truthful helium knows wherever helium stands, please?

Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool): He tin surely play. Liverpool's caller signing Szoboszlai showed each the touches of a bully subordinate against Bournemouth and looks similar helium wants to beryllium perpetually progressive successful the play.

Well, if he's going to deterioration Liverpool's fig 8 shirt, idiosyncratic astatine Anfield had amended archer him what that means and who has worn that garment earlier him.

Sammy Lee, Brian Hall, Jimmy Case and Steven Gerrard, who immortalised the jersey, person each worn that garment with distinction. Szoboszlai needs to cognize helium has large shoes to capable and a bosom to match.

Phil Foden (Manchester City): In the lack of the departed Ilkay Gundogan and the injured De Bruyne, it needed idiosyncratic similar Foden to measurement up and marque the difference. The shot for Alvarez to people was done without truthful overmuch arsenic a glance.

It was arsenic though Foden instinctively knew wherever his onslaught spouse was and what was required. The large question is Foden whether present what Gundogan and De Bruyne person delivered for Guardiola without them.

His show against Newcastle was of the highest modular and suggests helium can, but winning trophies has ne'er been easy. I accidental the Super Cup is not a atrocious mode to start.

Solly March (Brighton): Wolves suffered a unspeakable injustice against Manchester United, but what took spot astatine Molineux successful the opening 10 minutes of the 2nd fractional against a rampant Brighton wasn't conscionable alarming, but origin for existent concern.

Newly appointed manager Gary O'Neil had inherited each the assurance and information his predecessor Julen Lopetegui could person fixed his squad anterior to his astonishment departure. All that seemed to evaporate minutes into the 2nd fractional erstwhile the Seagulls ripped Wolves apart.

Solly March epitomised the thrust and determination shown by the squad from the southbound seashore and his goals were worthy rewards for his efforts.

Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton): What a goal. The run, power and prime of decorativeness against Wolves were world-class. In information Mitoma has been producing this benignant of signifier with specified regularity that I can't judge he's inactive connected the southbound coast.

Manchester United person Jadon Sancho and Antony successful their ranks and I haven't seen thing similar the prime oregon quality from either of those 2 players that I person seen from this lad. How bash United get it truthful wrong?

I judge that Old Trafford is simply a daunting signifier and the stakes are overmuch higher there, but Mitoma is simply a United subordinate if ever I saw one.

Luis Diaz (Liverpool): He scored a good taken extremity past week against Chelsea, but the improvisation Diaz displayed successful his decorativeness against Bournemouth shows conscionable however competent helium tin beryllium successful beforehand of goal.

The punishment awarded to Liverpool by referee Thomas Bramall was arsenic astonishing arsenic it was unnecessary, nevertheless it was the dismissal of Alexis Mac Allister that was alarming.

The tackle was precocious due to the fact that the shot sat up, but the situation was neither unsafe oregon reckless. Fans, players and managers should not beryllium amazed by a sending disconnected - it should beryllium evident - and this was not. If a referee is going to nonstop a subordinate disconnected due to the fact that helium cannot find the quality betwixt a bad, unsafe oregon reckless foul, I question whether helium should beryllium retired determination astatine all.

Raheem Sterling (Chelsea): This crippled should person been mode retired of show for West Ham successful the archetypal 45 minutes.

You'd deliberation that a subordinate who outgo £106m mightiness person a spot-kick from 12 yards, and his team-mate who outgo £115m mightiness marque a tackle without giving a punishment distant - but Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo failed respectively connected some counts.

It utilized to beryllium the goalscorers that outgo the large money, but Chelsea look to person much wealth than consciousness these days. The Blues person present spent a full of £221m for 2 midfield players and determination are hardly 10 goals a play betwixt them.

Sterling was their lone shining airy successful this fixture and helium did everything helium perchance could to bring his squad backmost into the game. This was the champion crippled I person seen from the England subordinate since helium starred successful Euro 2020.

Boy, person Chelsea got immoderate enactment to do. At slightest it looks similar they've got Sterling playing again.

Yoane Wissa (Brentford): Bryan Mbeumo whitethorn person scored 2 goals against Fulham, but it was Yoane Wissa who did each the damage. All recognition to Brentford's manager Thomas Frank, who didn't panic and spell retired and bargain a striker to regenerate past season's apical scorer Ivan Toney pursuing his suspension.

The Bees person 2 fantabulous beforehand players successful Wissa and Mbeumo, who person the capableness to origin immoderate broadside each kinds of problems. What a pity referee Darren Bond saw thing successful the situation from Tim Ream that no-one other saw, giving a needless punishment to the distant broadside arsenic good arsenic marching orders to the Fulham captain, and with it ruined a damned bully game.

The Crooks of the Matter

The determination by Howard Webb to driblet Simon Hooper and his squad from officiating successful this weekend's Premier League fixtures was the close happening to do. It took the vigor retired of a hard concern and gave the referee clip for immoderate quiescent reflection.

Hooper's determination not to grant Wolves a punishment aft Manchester United's goalkeeper Andre Onana had severely impeded Sasa Kalajdzic, having failed to marque immoderate interaction with the ball, was a not conscionable a wide and evident mistake but a shocking mistake of judgement.

When you past see that neither VAR nor the referee's assistants felt the request to intervene successful bid to close the calamity, you could person been forgiven astatine this constituent for wondering what connected world was going on.

Playing distant against Manchester United oregon Liverpool is arsenic large a trial for officials, arsenic it is for players. I cognize however demanding that tin beryllium - but that's the job. The officials, similar players, request to beryllium astatine the apical of their game.

However, erstwhile the estimation of the league is being brought into question - and it took Webb 24 hours aft the incidental astatine Old Trafford took spot to intervene - it is incumbent connected the game's authorities to measurement in. The contiguous effect from the PGMOL to condemn Hooper's mediocre judgement and apologise to Wolves for the mistake was proportionate arsenic it was essential.

The Premier League indispensable support the estimation of its league astatine each costs. The crippled is thing if it cannot recognise erstwhile a genuine mistake has been made and ain up to it. After all, we each marque them.

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