Matchday 23 Awards

Some very interesting results this weekend have reinforced our belief that there are still plenty of twists and turns up and down the table for the remainder of this season.

For instance, while some of our writers predicted a Bournemouth win against Forest in our YouTube show, the margin of the victory still took us by surprise. Also, Everton winning away against Brighton on Moyes’ 700th Premier League game was something that wasn’t entirely predictable.

Liverpool and Arsenal both won their games. While the Reds had a comfortable afternoon against Ipswich, Arsenal were made to sweat for a narrow win against Wolves, in large part due to a poor refereeing decision.

Meanwhile, Leicester beat Tottenham because, well, who doesn’t these days? And Manchester City came from behind to defeat Chelsea in an entertaining game.

평소와 같이 다음을 수행할 수도 있습니다. 여기를 클릭하세요 를 클릭해 이번 라운드의 모든 보고서를 확인하세요.

그리고 다음을 수행할 수 있습니다. 유튜브 채널 방문하기 에서 각 경기일의 프리뷰는 물론, 현재 EPL 주제에 대한 예측과 핫 테이크도 확인할 수 있습니다.

But back to the task at hand: who earned our Premier League matchday awards this time? Read on to find out.

베스트 플레이어

Alexander Isak’s two goals against Southampton put them on their way to avoid a shameful result against the league’s weakest side. As almost always, the Swede was at the heart of everything that Newcastle did well going forward, especially with some of his channel runs wreaking havoc in the Saints’ defence.

We can’t help but wonder how much longer Newcastle will be able to keep hold of him, especially if they don’t seal a Champions League spot this season.

베스트 XI

GK – David Raya (Arsenal)

RB - 트렌트 알렉산더-아놀드(리버풀)

CB – Jarrad Branthwaite (Everton)

CB – Riccardo Calafiori (Arsenal)

LB - 요스코 그바르디올(맨체스터 시티)

CM - 산드로 토날리(뉴캐슬)

CM – Justin Kluivert (Bournemouth)

CM – Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool)

RW – Dango Ouattara (Bournemouth)

ST - 알렉산더 이삭(뉴캐슬)

LW – Cody Gakpo (Liverpool)

최고의 목표

Tonali’s goal to seal the victory for Newcastle capped off a sublime team move started by the Italian himself winning an aerial duel in the middle of the park and continued by some silky one-touch football from Isak and Anthony Gordon to send Tonali on his way.

The smoothness of the move, the confidence of all players involved in it and the composure of Tonali to stroke the ball past the Southampton goalie… It was all just so satisfying.

Southampton 1 Newcastle United 3 | Premier League Highlights

최고의 게임

Manchester City vs Chelsea offered plenty of talking points. Two of City’s three new signings were in the starting XI as Guardiola showed the world just how much he wants to turn the season around for his team.

However, just four minutes in, newly-signed defender Abdukodir Khusanov had already made an error leading to a goal and had his name taken by the referee. It was a nightmare start that could have been much worse but for some lackadaisical Chelsea finishing.

Instead, City roared back to life and equalised just before the break, completing the turnaround in the second half to leave Chelsea thinking what might have been. This also might provide the confidence springboard needed for the reigning champions to go on and seal a top four spot, at least.

최고의 통계

Manchester City’s Ederson now has five Premier League assists, joint-most for a goalkeeper along with former England international Paul Robinson.

Since making his debut in the EPL in February 2023, no defender has more goal involvements than Tottenham’s Pedro Porro, who stands on 23 goals and assists (level with Trent Alexander-Arnold).

Ollie Watkins is now Aston Villa’s second-ever player to reach 100 goal contributions (61 goals, 39 assists) in the Premier League. The only other one is Gabriel Agbonlahor, but it is worth pointing out that Watkins did it in 108 fewer appearances than his predecessor.

최고/최악의 VAR 판정

Seriously, Mr. Oliver, a straight red for Lewis-Skelly?

Ok, fine, to err is human, but that the VAR did not instruct you to go to the monitor for a review is just inexcusable. This is a decision that could well have ended Arsenal’s title bid then and there.

At the same time, we would like to point out that some of the abuse on social media directed at you is even more appalling and we sympathise with you and your family. Football is meant to be fun and no one deserves to receive death threats over it.

However, for the sake of the game we all love, we hope that you and your colleagues could do better than this.

최고의 대체품

Riccardo Calafiori came on at half-time in Arsenal’s game at the Molineux and scored the only goal of the game in the 74th minute. This goal might prove invaluable in Arsenal’s quest for their first Premier League title in over two decades.

가장 재미있는 순간

Yoane Wissa celebrating Bryan Mbeumo’s goal before the ball was even kicked showed levels of confidence that some people can only aspire to have in their friends and teammates. Especially since this was the second attempt, after the first one was missed by the Cameroonian winger, but the match officials decided that Palace players had entered the box before the penalty was taken.

Oh, and will Vardy trolling the Spurs’ fans again with his EPL title win ever get old?