Premier League Awards: Cole World, Arsenal leave it late

Our weekly Premier League awards honour the best – and worst – of the football action from the weekend.

Premier League Awards: Cole World, Arsenal leave it late

Moment of the Week

Last weekend saw a late goal involving Arsenal that might have repercussions on the title race. John Stones’ last-gasp equaliser denied Arsenal three precious points at Manchester City but the Gunners were on the right side of the late drama this time around.

Leicester levelled from two goals down in an entertaining contest at the Emirates, with the game entering stoppage time with the newly-promoted side closing in on a shock result.

Then, in the 94th minute, Leandro Trossard forced an own goal to gift the Gunners the win. Kai Havertz added an even later effort to put gloss on the scoreline.

It was a huge moment for the North Londoners and lifted them level on points with Manchester City, who dropped points at Newcastle earlier in the day.

Player of the Week

Is Cole Palmer the best player in the Premier League right now? Enzo Maresca certainly thinks so. Brighton Fabian Hurzeler agreed, at least, that the 22-year-old was the best his side have faced.

Palmer became the first player in the league’s history to score four times before half-time as Chelsea beat Brighton 4-2.

It was an astonishing individual performance from a player who has routinely made genius look nonchalant in a Chelsea shirt. His finishing is elite. Weight of pass perfect. Attitude unfazed.

Palmer’s hat-trick goal was the pick of the bunch as he hit a postage-stamp free-kick into the top corner from distance. He could have had more too, hitting the woodwork and at one point appearing human as he miscued a good chance on his weaker right side.

Last season’s Premier League Young Player of the Year has picked up where he left off last season.

Goal of the Week

If you’re going to seal a hat-trick, then this is the way to do it.

The boy is brilliant.

The Cole Palmer influence is crazy.

Assist of the Week

Catch him if you can.

Micky van de Ven produced another outrageous assist this weekend as the Spurs centre-back took matters into his own hands against Manchester United.

Part footballer, part steam train, the Dutch defender is difficult to stop when it gets motoring and he blitzed a route through traffic to tee up Brennan Johnson at Old Trafford.

It’s not even the first time Van de Ven has produced such assist this season. Has there ever been a Premier League centre-back quite like him?

Save of the Week

Mads Hermansen put on a goalkeeping clinic to help keep Leicester in the game at Arsenal, with the Foxes coming agonisingly close to a result at the Emirates.

Hermansen made a staggering 13 saves in North London, the most in a Premier League game since 2017. The pick of the bunch was perhaps his point-blank stop from Kai Havertz, as the Dane denied the Arsenal forward from close range.

Stat of the Week

Things are beginning to look bleak for Erik ten Hag and Manchester United. Not for the first time in his tenure, the Red Devils appear at crisis point after a humbling home loss to Tottenham at Old Trafford.

Bruno Fernandes’ contentious red card did not help their cause, though that decision only distracts from a game in which Ten Hag’s team were firmly second-best long before that flash point.

United sit 12th in the table and look a long, long way from the top sides.

Tweet of the Week

Everton’s new owners reportedly want Maurizio Sarri to replace Sean Dyche…

Donkey of the Week

Robert Sanchez will be pretty pleased he has Cole Palmer as a teammate at Chelsea.

Sanchez’s shaky showing saw the Spaniard at fault for both Brighton goals at Stamford Bridge, only for Palmer’s performance to bail out his goalkeeper. After finding himself flapping in no man’s land for Georginio Rutter’s early opener, Sanchez squandered possession as he looked to play from the back for the second. It’s the harsh reality for goalkeepers but mistakes are more often than not punished.

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