Premier League Team of the Week: Erling Haaland, Bruno Fernandes, Bryan Mbeumo

Missed opportunities were the taxable successful Premier League gameweek 20, and not conscionable if your sanction is Harry Maguire, arsenic Liverpool failed to summation their pb astatine the summit of the table erstwhile they dropped 2 points successful a pulsating 2-2 draw with Manchester United.

The Reds were incapable to capitalise connected rubric rivals Arsenal and Chelsea besides slipping up, arsenic the Gunners were held to a 1-1 stalemate by Brighton & Hove Albion, as were the Blues astatine the location of Crystal Palace.

Nottingham Forest proceed to dazzle and delight, though, going level connected points with Arsenal by beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0, portion Newcastle United's Champions League complaint is gathering gait acknowledgment to their 2-1 triumph distant to Tottenham Hotspur.

Reigning champions Manchester City look to person stopped the rot if their 4-1 thrashing of West Ham United is thing to spell by, but Bournemouth stay blistery connected their tails acknowledgment to their 1-0 triumph implicit Everton.

Elsewhere, Aston Villa edged retired relegation-battling Leicester City by two goals to one, Ipswich Town near Fulham's Craven Cottage basal with a hard-earned constituent from a 2-2 draw, and Brentford enactment five unanswered goals past a atrocious Southampton.

Here, Sports Mole selects its Premier League Team of the Week for the latest circular of matches.

DEFENCE

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It would beryllium unfair not to notation Matz Sels's show successful betwixt the posts for Nottingham Forest astatine Wolves connected Monday night, but with 7 apical saves astatine the Vitality Stadium - including a treble halt from Justin Kluivert and Antoine Semenyo - Everton's Jordan Pickford was the sole crushed that the Toffees did not suffer by much successful Bournemouth.

There is simply a chap honourable notation successful the right-back class - Tottenham's Pedro Porro excelled against Newcastle, adjacent though helium came retired connected the incorrect extremity of the scoreline - but Daniel Munoz was a antiaircraft and attacking instrumentality against Chelsea, creating 4 chances, making 5 tackles and winning 9 of his 11 crushed duels to further heighten his ever-growing reputation.

The M's are the taxable for our four-man backline this week, arsenic Nottingham Forest's rearguard stone Murillo forces his mode successful yet again. Strengthening his lawsuit for a squad of the play information by the week, the 22-year-old made a terrific clearance disconnected the enactment to contradict Wolves' Jorgen Strand Larsen, portion besides putting successful 4 blocks, 2 interceptions and 3 tackles successful different antiaircraft masterclass.

A South American who has been little awesome implicit the people of the season, Manchester United's Lisandro Martinez went from being lambasted against Newcastle United to lauded against Liverpool, opening the scoring with a devastating decorativeness disconnected the crossbar and besides contributing 3 interceptions, 3 tackles and 4 clearances to gain the Red Devils an unexpected point.

Ending the defence with a subordinate linked to some Liverpool and Man United, Bournemouth left-back Milos Kerkez fashioned the delightful David Brooks victor against Everton with a fantastic transverse to the Welshman - 1 of 3 chances the Hungarian created - portion 2 interceptions and 2 tackles were besides pivotal to keeping Everton astatine bay.

MIDFIELD

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"Good luck" was the connection from Brentford brag Thomas Frank erstwhile asked astir the anticipation of teams buying Bryan Mbeumo, and the Cameroonian nary uncertainty added a fewer much pounds to his transportation worth astatine Southampton, chalking up different 2 goals with a precocious decorativeness and assured punishment earlier laying connected the assistance for Keane Lewis-Potter's effort.

Over successful the West Midlands, Aston Villa's Ross Barkley made a Premier League starting XI for conscionable the 3rd clip this season, but helium good and genuinely vindicated his manager's determination against Leicester, opening the scoring with a venomous drive, completing each 3 of his dribbles and registering an astounding walk accuracy of 98%.

Sticking with the taxable of walk masters, Man United skipper Bruno Fernandes did thing that nary Red Devils subordinate has managed to bash successful the Premier League since 2003, make 4 chances successful a crippled astatine Anfield. The Portuguese playmaker's delicate reverse walk teed up Martinez for the archetypal extremity of the encounter, and that slick assistance besides saw Fernandes bring up 200 vocation top-flight extremity involvements.

From Manchester reddish to Manchester blue, Man City's revival has coincided with a Savinho resurgence, arsenic the Brazilian winger followed up his extremity and assistance against Leicester with some helpers for Erling Haaland and the transverse for Vladimir Coufal's ain extremity successful the hammering of West Ham.

ATTACK

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Briefly mentioned portion we were singing Savinho's praises, Citizens talisman Erling Haaland scored his archetypal Premier League brace successful three-and-a-half months - a scarcely believable statistic - erstwhile the Irons came to visit, pursuing up a back-post header with a delicate dink to support Mohamed Salah honorable successful the Golden Boot race.

Another two-goal striker completes a two-man strikeforce this week, arsenic Fulham hitman Raul Jimenez entered the grounds books arsenic the highest-scoring Mexican successful Premier League history, leaving Javier Hernandez successful his wake. Converting 2 penalties with aplomb successful the Ipswich gully - including the 1 that yet stole a constituent for the Cottagers - Jimenez is present 10 for 10 connected Premier League spot kicks, becoming conscionable the 3rd subordinate successful the past of the contention to instrumentality astatine slightest 10 penalties and people each of them.

SPORTS MOLE'S PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM OF THE WEEK

Sports Mole's Premier League Team of the Week (4-4-2): Pickford; Munoz, Murillo, Lisandro Martinez, Kerkez; Mbeumo, Barkley, Fernandes, Savinho; Haaland, Jimenez

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