Garth Crooks' Team of the Week: Leno, Van Dijk, Silva, Saka, Isak, Haaland

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.

Bernd Leno (Fulham): When you permission past season's starring goalscorer retired of your starting line-up you had amended travel distant with a result.

Fulham manager Marco Silva's clean expanse connected his instrumentality to Goodison Park mightiness person been little palmy had it not been for Bernd Leno successful the Cottagers goal, and the unfortunate Neal Maupay up beforehand for Everton.

The prevention by Leno from Abdoulaye Doucoure was important and acceptable the German keeper up for an inspired afternoon. Was Leno fortunate to beryllium fixed a free-kick having dropped the shot and conceding a goal, arsenic helium came to cod a cross? Yes helium was, but that's football, and determination is nary crushed wherefore luck should not play its portion successful the crippled contiguous arsenic it ever has.

Joachim Andersen (Crystal Palace): Wilfried Zaha whitethorn person gone, but that does not look to person affected Crystal Palace and their attack to the caller season. Eberechi Eze looked comfy successful midfield and susceptible of replacing Zaha, supported by Palace's latest summation to the squad Jefferson Lerma.

But it was astatine the backmost that the Eagles looked astir awesome successful their 1-0 triumph astatine Sheffield United, restricting their hosts to precise fewer chances. Joachim Andersen appeared to beryllium successful bid successful defence for Palace and was unlucky not to person scored with a header successful the 2nd half.

However, for Max Lowe to behave truthful aggressively towards Roy Hodgson arsenic the subordinate tried to retrieve the shot was rather disgraceful and helium should person been booked. I anticipation the Sheffield United defender astatine slightest had the decency to apologise to the Crystal Palace manager for his loutish behaviour.

Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool): Virgil van Dijk was the calming power successful Liverpool's defence against a Chelsea broadside determined to commencement the play good nether their caller manager Mauricio Pochettino.

In the lack of James Milner and Jordan Henderson, 2 erstwhile captains who person present near the club, Van Dijk handled the relation of skipper peculiarly good successful the 1-1 gully astatine Stamford Bridge.

The booking issued to Alexis Mac Allister successful the 2nd fractional mightiness person been problematic had Van Dijk not intervened and calmed the concern down. The Argentina midfielder was adamant that an injustice had occurred.

Van Dijk whitethorn besides person to use his diplomatic skills erstwhile dealing with Mohamed Salah during the week. The Egypt guardant reacted severely to being substituted 77 minutes into the match, leaving his manager Jurgen Klopp a small reddish faced.

Thiago Silva (Chelsea): I wasn't wholly definite of the merits of Pochettino appointing Reece James arsenic Chelsea's caller skipper erstwhile you person Thiago Silva successful your team. The quality successful age, acquisition and astir of each contented betwixt the 2 players is incalculable. However, Silva is 39 adjacent period and intelligibly coming to the extremity of an illustrious career, portion James and the arrival of Moises Caicedo for an archetypal £100m represents a caller epoch astatine Stamford Bridge nether Pochettino.

Nonetheless, Silva approached the fixture against Liverpool with the aforesaid unflappable authorization helium has displayed successful his crippled passim his career. He is an outstanding professional.

Bukayo Saka (Arsenal): If Mikel Arteta is having to harass the 4th official, having played 30 seconds implicit the authoritative 7 minutes of clip added on, past it is going to beryllium a precise agelong play for him.

The information is successful their 2-1 triumph implicit Nottingham Forest Arsenal looked similar a comparatively caller squad inactive trying to find its rhythm. In information they were fortunate to travel distant with the points. Had Forest started the crippled the mode they finished it this would person been a antithetic effect entirely. The lone subordinate who showed immoderate existent people oregon consistency successful an Arsenal garment was Bukayo Saka. It wasn't conscionable his outstanding extremity that acceptable him isolated but his full show was conscionable connected point.

Sandro Tonali (Newcastle): It was lone a substance of clip earlier the bubble burst successful Unai Emery's look aft specified an astonishing extremity to past season's campaign. He loses 5-1 astatine Newcastle connected the opening time of the play and with it his champion centre-half. Tyrone Mings suffered a nasty wounded conscionable earlier the interruption and his departure changed the crippled for Villa.

Newcastle's Anthony Gordon enactment successful a bully displacement and truthful did Bruno Guimaraes, but it was the show of Sandro Tonali that exposed Villa's precocious line. Isn't it fantastic to spot a midfielder playing guardant and not continuously sideways oregon backwards and really playing team-mates in?

Rodri (Manchester City): For years Manchester City were disquieted astir however they were going to regenerate Fernandinho. Well, it took immoderate clip due to the fact that of the imperious quality of the Brazilian, but they yet recovered Rodri.

The Spain midfielder has go everything Fernandinho was to the club. His publication to City completing the Treble, not to notation his winning extremity successful the Champions League final, is unquantifiable.

In Friday's season-opening 3-0 triumph astatine Burnley it was concern arsenic usual. No dramas, nary fuss, but conscionable different time astatine the office. What a player.

Mario Lemina (Wolves): Every truthful often you spot a crippled erstwhile a squad wholly outplays the absorption and loses the match. Manchester United's 1-0 triumph implicit Wolves connected Monday was 1 of them.

Had this lucifer been assessed connected the show of an idiosyncratic past Mario Lemina would person taken each 3 points backmost to the West Midlands. Wolves played United disconnected the parkland but missed a hatful of chances, and that is wherefore they near Old Trafford bare handed.

However, what took spot heavy into stoppage clip astatine the extremity of the lucifer was concerning. United's recently installed keeper Andre Onana's situation connected Sasa Kalajdzic was reckless and a wide penalty. How referee Simon Hooper did not to grant the visitors a spot-kick volition erstwhile again rise the question that referees 'bottle it' and definite teams bash not get a just shingle erstwhile they spell to definite clubs. This accusation is simply a stain connected the crippled and indispensable beryllium addressed.

Alexander Isak (Newcastle): His archetypal extremity against Aston Villa for Newcastle was important, but his 2nd was delightful. What precisely was Ezri Konsa trying to achieve, having won the shot from Isak and past trying to rotation his ft implicit the shot successful an effort to amusement america conscionable however bully a footballer helium is - and helium was the past man? Well Isak made the Villa defender wage a dense terms for his folly.

This was a decent show by Newcastle but a mediocre time astatine the bureau for Villa. However, I interest for Newcastle this season. The Champions League, portion highly attractive, volition person a monolithic bearing connected their play and I'm not wholly definite they person the squad to execute different top-four decorativeness arsenic a consequence.

Erling Haaland (Manchester City): We cognize Erling Haaland tin people goals but his 2nd against a Burnley broadside woefully retired of their extent was sensational. What past took spot arsenic the players near the tract astatine half-time was thing abbreviated of staggering. Pep Guardiola mightiness beryllium 1 of the finest tacticians successful the crippled but helium has not taught Haaland however to people goals.

Guardiola's nationalist admonishment of his striker astatine half-time was not conscionable severely timed and unnecessary but an appalling show of arrogance. Not lone is the manager successful information of hacking disconnected the champion striker successful the world, but if I were Carlo Ancelotti I would support a watchful oculus connected that situation. Real Madrid is lone a three-hour formation from Manchester.

Read wherefore I deliberation Guardiola was bang retired of bid successful the Crooks of the Matter below.

Jarrod Bowen (West Ham): Well helium surely started the play the mode helium finished it. Jarrod Bowen's extremity against Fiorentina, successful past season's Europa Conference League triumph successful Prague whitethorn good supply the subordinate with legendary presumption successful eastbound London.

Meanwhile, his superbly taken extremity successful the 1-1 gully astatine Bournemouth lone secured the Hammers a constituent erstwhile it should person been each three. The suggested accomplishment of Harry Maguire and the caller signing of James Ward-Prowse should marque a difference, though I can't recognize wherefore it is taking truthful agelong to get these players successful the club. West Ham request to finalise some these issues precise quickly.

The Crooks of the Matter

Well, we each saw it. Guardiola playing the overbearing brag by insisting his each instructions beryllium obeyed to the letter. To person admonished Haaland truthful publically astatine half-time against - hold for it - Burnley, would person been greeted with a precise antithetic absorption from definite players successful my day, but these are antithetic times.

It wasn't arsenic if Haaland was having a atrocious time oregon City were struggling, successful information they were 2-0 up astatine the clip and coasting. It is not antithetic to spot large managers grounds tremendous egos during matches, but what was truthful important that it could not person waited until the subordinate and manager entered the dressing room?

What was worse is that the Manchester City manager did not lone privation to behaviour his spat with his astir invaluable subordinate successful public, helium thought that the incidental had thing to bash with the remainder of america and proceeded to propulsion distant the cameraman filming the incident.

How situation he?

If Guardiola wants to rant and rave with his players arsenic helium leaves the transportation past we are entitled to spot it. If helium thinks that is unacceptable past instrumentality his discussions into the dressing country wherever helium is entitled to his privacy. What takes spot connected the transportation indispensable beryllium accessible to the viewing public, and tv successful peculiar is entitled to spot it. Goodness knows tv companies and fans person paid a king's ransom for that privilege.

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