Garth Crooks' Team of the Week: Kane, Salah, De Bruyne, Rice, Alisson

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

Alisson (Liverpool): To execute 100 cleanable sheets successful your goalkeeping vocation for 1 nine is rather a statement. I didn't admit goalkeepers really counted cleanable sheets but if strikers number goals I spot nary crushed wherefore they shouldn't.

Alisson is simply a singular goalkeeper, particularly successful the modern era, mostly due to the fact that of the information that helium is not arsenic comfy with the shot astatine his feet arsenic Manchester City's Ederson for example, but to beryllium perfectly honorable determination are not that galore that are.

He is 1 of the champion keepers successful the satellite erstwhile it comes to a one-on-one concern with an advancing striker. That is 1 of the reasons that the Brazilian has achieved this awesome landmark.

Craig Dawson (Wolves): Last week Wolves played Brighton and were thrashed 6-0 and they looked similar their minds were anyplace but connected their jobs. The champion happening that could person happened to them successful bid to absorption the caput was the imaginable of different humiliation but this clip astatine the hands of 1 of their rivals, Aston Villa.

Dawson, who has been their subordinate of the play for me, was outstanding and provided the stimulus for an awesome victory. Julen Lopetegui has done a superb occupation since his accomplishment astatine Molineux. His players person lone truly fto him down erstwhile and that was astatine Brighton. The occupation for Wolves is, tin they support him? Lopetegui is simply a first-class manager and I tin deliberation of a fig of clubs who would payment from his services - Spurs and Chelsea are conscionable two.

Thiago Silva (Chelsea): I ne'er said that refereeing a Premier League shot lucifer was easy. The tackle by Thiago Silva connected Dominic Solanke successful the punishment country looked similar the defender had won the ball. It was lone having seen the situation connected the Match of the Day investigation camera that it was wide Silva hadn't won the shot but the defender's situation did unit Solanke to instrumentality a dense touch. Forcing the striker to mistime his power of the shot is not an offence and referee John Brooks called it perfectly right. It was a important portion of the lucifer and it could beryllium a turning constituent for Chelsea too.

The Blues were shocking successful the archetypal fractional against Arsenal but Frank Lampard's post-match interrogation pursuing the crippled was arsenic honorable and arsenic lucid astir the club's presumption arsenic I person heard from him. His point-blank refusal to beryllium drawn into publically criticising Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who has had a torrid clip astatine Stamford Bridge, was telling. Chelsea's awesome show against Bournemouth seemed to beryllium successful nonstop effect to that honesty. Lampard whitethorn person a aboriginal astatine the nine aft all.

Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool): It whitethorn not beryllium the champion play Virgil van Dijk has ever had but Liverpool are putting a tally unneurotic that conscionable mightiness prevention their season. Van Dijk has ne'er been rather the aforesaid since his wounded sustained successful the clash with Jordan Pickford but he's getting there.

He can't marque the betterment runs helium utilized to and connected the unusual juncture helium is dispossessed oregon idiosyncratic gets a march connected him. A constituent highlighted erstwhile Brentford's Bryan Mbeumo turned him connected the halfway enactment and raced fractional the magnitude of the transportation earlier putting the shot successful the backmost of the net. Fortunately for Liverpool and Van Dijk, the extremity was ruled offside. That wouldn't person happened 3 years ago. Nevertheless the inspirational Dutch defender is starting to look much and much unsafe successful the opposition's punishment area. His beautifully controlled header backmost crossed the six-yard container for Mohamed Salah to pat location was arsenic intelligent arsenic it was unselfish.

Martin Odegaard (Arsenal): This was a precise nonrecreational show by Arsenal. I thought Newcastle mightiness person enactment an extremity to immoderate rubric ambitions by the Gunners but they could person been 3-0 up successful the archetypal fractional had it not been for a operation of missed chances and bully goalkeeping by Newcastle's Nick Pope.

Odegaard was yet again astatine the bosom of different Arsenal victory. The Norwegian's decision-making seems to beryllium getting amended by the crippled arsenic helium continues to supply his squad with the sophistication different players simply don't possess. This distant show volition nonstop the strongest imaginable connection to Manchester City that Arsenal person nary volition of giving up connected the rubric contention and immoderate slip-up successful City's league show would not conscionable outgo them the title but the Treble arsenic well.

Jorginho (Arsenal): When Jorginho arrived from Stamford Bridge I wasn't wholly definite wherefore Arsenal had invested successful the Italian. I indispensable accidental I saw hints of wherefore aft his show successful midweek against Chelsea but the mode helium played against Newcastle explained precisely wherefore Mikel Arteta saw specified worth successful the player. His acquisition astatine important moments successful the lucifer astatine St James' Park was intelligibly evident.

He is the cleanable foil for Thomas Partey, who has had an fantabulous play but is successful hopeless request of a remainder similar astir of the players who played successful the World Cup. Newcastle are a large broadside and the infinitesimal they realised they couldn't outplay Arsenal they tried to intimidate them and, each recognition to the Gunners, they were having nary of it.

Abdoulaye Doucoure (Everton): This was a monolithic 3 points and an bonzer show by Everton. Their commencement couldn't person been immoderate better, Doucoure was the coolest antheral connected the transportation erstwhile helium tucked successful his extremity aft lone 35 seconds portion his 2nd extremity was amended than his first. The Mali planetary lone grew successful stature and assurance arsenic the crippled went connected aft that.

This results puts Everton connected 32 points and I deliberation they necessitate astatine slightest different 4 points successful bid to beryllium safe. They person Manchester City astatine home, truthful they tin hide that; Wolves away, which is simply a must-win game, and Bournemouth astatine home, which volition astir surely beryllium their biggest crippled of the season. Meanwhile, what a quality a fewer games make. A fewer weeks agone the fans were calling for their committee to resign. The fans person present turned their attraction to the squad and they person responded accordingly. There is anticipation for Everton yet.

Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City): The archetypal extremity from Gundogan was a gem. He virtually stroked the shot location similar a conductor providing the opening changeable of his baton to a symphony. The occupation for Leeds United and their caller manager, Sam Allardyce, was that Gundogan was conscionable getting started. His 2nd extremity came wrong 8 minutes of his archetypal arsenic the Germany planetary received the shot with his near foot, and with 1 interaction feinted to enactment the shot successful the keeper's bottommost left-hand country but brilliantly and deliberately pulled his changeable astir and buried it successful the other country of the net.

Gundogan would person had his archetypal hat-trick successful Premier League shot had helium converted his penalty, generously handed to him by the mean taker Erling Haaland - overmuch to Pep Guardiola's annoyance. The motion was the close happening to do. Haaland, who missed a hatful of chances against Leeds, is conscionable arsenic susceptible of missing a spot-kick arsenic helium is missing goalscoring opportunities and the crippled against Leeds proved precisely that point.

Morgan Gibbs-White (Nottingham Forest): The punishment was a unit infinitesimal for Gibbs-White but the subordinate was adjacent to the occasion. He has had an fantabulous play for Forest and has been 1 of the players successful the squad who ever made maine judge that they had a accidental of surviving successful the Premier League.

I said precocious aft Forest's decision astatine Anfield that this was a squad that would person to beryllium carried retired of the Premier League kicking and screaming. Southampton gave it everything against Forest but this decision means the Saints are doomed. Forest, meanwhile, request 4 points from 3 games: Chelsea away, Arsenal astatine location and Crystal Palace away. It's a gangly bid but I wouldn't stake against them.

Harry Kane (Tottenham): It's hard to permission Harry Kane retired of my team, having scored the winning extremity against Crystal Palace, which brings him person to Alan Shearer's Premier League record, and past clears a definite equaliser disconnected the line. Neither tin you disregard the information that helium has someway remained utterly nonrecreational amid an avalanche of mismanagement and chaos astatine the bosom of his shot club.

Three managers person taken complaint of his dressing country successful a substance of weeks, which means they astir surely volition not decorativeness successful the apical 4 erstwhile astatine 1 constituent they looked nailed on. Spurs are nary nearer uncovering a replacement for Antonio Conte than they were the infinitesimal helium walked retired the door. Yet you wouldn't cognize immoderate of that erstwhile watching Kane. The England skipper is the consummate nonrecreational and that is wherefore helium is successful my team. Read astir what I deliberation of the managerial merry-go-round successful the Crooks of the Matter below.

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool): Seven goals successful 7 games is the biggest indicator to day that Salah is returning to the benignant of signifier that has won him iconic presumption astatine Anfield. To person besides scored 30 goals successful 3 consecutive seasons is an bonzer achievement. Liverpool present find themselves 1 constituent down Manchester United, having played a crippled more.

If Liverpool basal immoderate accidental of bringing Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice to Anfield, and I deliberation they request some to vie with Manchester City adjacent season, past a top-four decorativeness is critical. The purchases would outgo them the champion portion of £200m but what a connection it would make. With Salah dilatory coming backmost to his best, and with Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz each developing, Liverpool would instrumentality immoderate stopping. Anyway it's lone money.

The Crooks of the Matter

Antonio Conte, Brendan Rodgers, Graham Potter and Patrick Vieira are salient shot managers who person each mislaid their jobs successful caller weeks. What is existent astir each 1 of them is that they were each appointed arsenic managers of shot clubs due to the fact that of their reputations and yet presently they are each retired of work.

Roy Hodgson, meanwhile, has been reappointed by his erstwhile leader Crystal Palace, having near successful 2021, and Sam Allardyce has been asked to travel retired of status by Leeds United, presumably for a large woody of money, to spot if helium could execute what helium failed to bash astatine West Bromwich Albion and support the Yorkshire nine successful the Premier League.

I person ever been fascinated by executives astatine shot clubs who marque these decisions. In their mundane beingness they often tally precise palmy companies with main executives who person formidable way records and would ne'er tally their businesses however they tally their shot club.

Spurs presently person Ryan Mason, a rookie caretaker manager successful complaint of squad affairs, which is similar giving an accountant who has conscionable passed his accountancy exams the relation of moving of a FTSE 100 institution for a fewer weeks to spot however helium gets on. Which credible concern would bash that? It makes nary consciousness but it does seems to beryllium the acceptable mode successful which nonrecreational shot is tally these days.

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