Garth Crooks' Team of the Week: Pickford, Szoboszlai, Haaland, Ferguson, Son 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.

Jordan Pickford (Everton): I deliberation the clasp betwixt Everton keeper Pickford and Sheffield United striker Oli McBurnie astatine the extremity of this bonzer lucifer said it all. This crippled was afloat connected from commencement to finish, but it was the treble halt by Pickford to contradict McBurnie astatine the extremity which gave the Toffees a much-needed point.

If Everton are going to past this play past they can't spend to concede 2 goals, particularly erstwhile they people 2 distant from home. Their occupation hasn't been truthful overmuch their mediocre finishing but their diabolical defending. They haven't been susceptible of keeping 1 cleanable expanse successful 4 Premier League outings and it was Pickford's exploits that saved them connected this occasion.

Cristian Romero (Tottenham): Burnley manager Vincent Kompany says helium wakes up each time knowing his squad is getting amended and volition travel to presumption with the biggest leap successful satellite football. The question I would similar to enactment to him is when?

A 5-2 location decision to Spurs meant they person mislaid their archetypal 3 games successful the Premier league already, having lone mislaid 3 each play successful the Championship. Kompany intelligibly believes successful his players but he's lone got until Christmas, if that, to get his squad established.

Spurs, meanwhile, looked reasonably comfy successful a backmost four. Although I don't usually prime defenders from a squad that concedes 2 goals distant from home, I'm prepared to marque an objection connected this occasion. Romero's decorativeness for his extremity was exceptional for a cardinal defender and that's wherefore he's successful my team.

Kurt Zouma (West Ham): He's played successful each of West Ham's games this play and been softly effectual successful each azygous one.

Zouma was the outstanding defender for the Hammers successful their 2-1 triumph against a Luton Town broadside that is, truthful far, conscionable making up the Premier League numbers. It's bully to spot the tangerine colours of Luton backmost successful the large league erstwhile more, but I can't instrumentality them earnestly and spot them down by Christmas. They mightiness instrumentality a fewer scalps on the mode but don't fto the scoreline fool you, this triumph was arsenic comfy for West Ham arsenic it gets.

Joe Worrall (Nottingham Forest): How tin a nine walk implicit £1bn and their squad inactive look truthful bad? At immoderate constituent Chelsea indispensable halt throwing currency astatine each subordinate they clasp their eyes connected and commencement moving connected the players they person successful their midst to deed the people from tenable distances. This is the benignant of worldly you hole connected the grooming transportation and volition not find a remedy successful Todd Boehly's safe.

Nottingham Forest, meanwhile, needed to look nary further than the enactment of their skipper Worrall, who was superb successful each department. If helium wasn't blocking a shot, helium was heading the shot clear. It's hard capable playing Premier League shot against 1 of the astir fashionable sides successful the country, but doing truthful aft suffering a household bereavement was a large inquire and Worrall managed the juncture brilliantly.

Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool): The method that enabled his onslaught against Aston Villa was thing abbreviated of fantastic and matched lone by his quality to adjacent the absorption down and contradict them abstraction erstwhile the shot wasn't astatine his feet. His willingness to screen the crushed is awesome and precise overmuch required successful airy of Jordan Henderson's departure to the Saudi Pro League.

It's the 2nd clip this play Szoboszlai has made my squad selection. When the Hungary planetary arrived astatine Anfield I said helium had large shoes to fill. Well, helium looks similar a subordinate who is enjoying the challenge. He was arsenic awesome successful that epic conflict astatine Newcastle past week and stayed the people - and it looks similar Liverpool person bought wisely here.

This was a mediocre time for Villa and the beingness of Mohamed Salah didn't help. And each recognition to the Egyptian superstar. Regardless of the speculation surrounding his aboriginal I couldn't responsibility his cognition oregon performance.

Declan Rice (Arsenal): I hated the societal media station of Rice successful an Arsenal garment conscionable days aft lifting the Europa Conference League trophy with West Ham and telling everyone helium was present northbound London. I accidental it was a connection of intent and that helium had nary further allegiance with the Hammers. His performances truthful acold this play for Arsenal would corroborate that position.

Rice has been outstanding for the Gunners since his accomplishment and provides everything Granit Xhaka could do, without the Swiss international's recklessness oregon combustible nature. His extremity against Manchester United successful the last seconds of the lucifer doesn't conscionable triumph you games, they are the goals that, successful the last analysis, triumph you titles. The power of the shot from the country connected his thorax was peculiar and truthful was the decorativeness nether the circumstances.

Martin Odegaard (Arsenal): His equaliser 35 seconds aft Manchester United had taken the pb was a lifesaver for Arsenal. The longer the crippled continued without that reply the much hopeless they would person become. Odegaard's decorativeness was archetypal class. The shot came from a hard space truthful his method had to beryllium spot-on - and it was. He struck the shot truthful sweetly it flew past Andre Onana successful the Manchester United goal.

However, for a squad that saw arsenic overmuch of the shot distant from location arsenic United did, they should person travel distant from the Emirates with astatine slightest a point. The information they didn't should beryllium origin for concern.

James Maddison (Tottenham): At last, Spurs look similar they person recovered a subordinate who tin grip the shot successful midfield again.

Under Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte they struggled to find idiosyncratic who could marque others astir him play and unlock defences. Not since Christian Eriksen person Spurs had a subordinate of that calibre. The instauration of Maddison seems to person Tottenham playing successful a mode their 2 erstwhile managers could not.

To perceive their fans chanting past week against Bournemouth, 'we've got retired Tottenham back', indicates the team's benignant of play is arsenic important to the fans arsenic it ever was. If Tottenham are not going to triumph trophies past they had amended play a marque of shot that is synonymous with their history. I inactive deliberation they are abbreviated successful a mates of areas to beryllium a title-winning side, but they are surely moving successful the close direction.

Evan Ferguson (Brighton): If Newcastle brag Eddie Howe looked shell-shocked aft the decision to Liverpool past week helium seemed wholly dismayed owed to his team's show against Brighton arsenic Ferguson made them wage for specified abject defending.

The Brighton teen has ever been a endowment and the Geordies conscionable didn't springiness him the respect his finishing prowess deserved arsenic helium claimed a hat-trick. Brighton were fixed a acquisition successful counter-attacking shot against West Ham past week but recovered good capable from that nonaccomplishment to crockery retired a formidable show of their ain against Newcastle.

Regardless, some Newcastle and Brighton person travel a agelong mode since erstwhile manager Chris Hughton took them some into the Premier League successful 2010 and 2017 respectively. In those days they were warring to enactment successful the apical flight, present they are playing European football.

Erling Haaland (Manchester City): You can't people a hat-trick and not beryllium successful my team, particularly erstwhile each extremity is dispatched with specified utmost confidence.

Last week Haaland was criticised for missing a punishment against Sheffield United, but made nary mistake against an outclassed Fulham. I'm yet to conscionable a regular punishment taker who hasn't missed a spot-kick during their nonrecreational career. The champion players don't let specified matters to impact them and Haaland is among the precise best.

Fulham, who wore achromatic armbands successful respect of Mohamed Al Fayed aft helium sadly passed distant successful midweek, had each close to consciousness aggrieved owed to the appalling determination to let Manchester City's 2nd extremity - scored by Nathan Ake - to stand. The Cottagers made sizeable advancement nether the Egyptian billionaire's 16 years astatine the nine and the erstwhile president and proprietor deserves a fitting tribute astatine the club's adjacent location crippled against Luton.

Son Heung-min (Tottenham): Having to enactment Richarlison connected the seat aft the Brazilian suffered a sound successful midweek turned retired alternatively good for Tottenham. Son replaced him arsenic the lone striker up beforehand and destroyed Burnley successful 1 of the champion idiosyncratic displays I've seen from the South Korean for immoderate clip arsenic helium scored a hat-trick.

If Burnley are going to clasp a precocious enactment against idiosyncratic similar Son past they indispensable person defenders who are lightning-quick successful betterment and don't shot watch.

The departure of Harry Kane to Bayern Munich and the removal of his spectre seems to person acceptable the Spurs players free. It has besides fixed manager Ange Postecoglou the accidental to walk the captain's armband to Son and it seems to beryllium doing him the satellite of good.

The Crooks of the Matter

Players utilized to accidental that erstwhile you got successful Sir Alf Ramsey's England squad it was harder to get retired than it was to get in! It would look Gareth Southgate suffers from the aforesaid affliction. I was taken aback erstwhile I saw Harry Maguire and Kalvin Phillips had retained their positions successful the squad to look Ukraine successful the Euro 2024 qualifier successful Poland adjacent week and the affable against Scotland successful Glasgow 3 days later.

Neither Maguire nor Phillips person started a azygous lucifer for Manchester United and Manchester City, respectively, this season. I cognize the crippled has moved on, but if the England planetary set-up is not astir the assembly of the astir talented players successful the state - and reward for playing the champion shot of your vocation - past what is it about?

I wholly recognize a manager wanting to effort caller players oregon adjacent signifier retired older ones who person served their state good and are coming to the extremity of their planetary careers. But Maguire and Phillips are not adjacent playing regular first-team shot for their clubs. So however tin they beryllium successful the aforesaid intelligence oregon carnal information arsenic those that are?

Southgate has kept Harry Kane successful the squad, and no-one of a dependable shot caput would reason with that. Raheem Sterling, meanwhile, has been playing retired of his tegument precocious but was omitted, portion Callum Wilson, who can't clasp down a regular first-team spot astatine Newcastle, makes the cut.

However, the astir arguable enactment surrounds Jordan Henderson, the erstwhile Liverpool skipper present playing successful Saudi Arabia for Al-Ettifaq. Henderson tin play for whoever helium likes, but the constituent is that the Saudi Pro League indispensable beryllium the equivalent of the Championship astatine champion and I can't ideate Southgate selecting anyone from that league, tin you?

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