Troy Deeney's Team of the Week: Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alexander Isak, Lisandro Martinez, Dango Ouattara
2025-01-27
Category: sports

After every round of Premier League matches this season, BBC football pundit Troy Deeney will give you his team and manager of the week.Here are this week's choices. Do you agree? Give us your thoughts using the comments form at the bottom of this page.
David Raya (Arsenal): Solid performance, especially in that little 15-minute spell where they went down to 10 men and Wolves tried to have a go. He keeps them in with a fighting chance of the Premier League title.
Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool): This is the first time you're going to hear me say this and probably the last. I was at the game and I would pay a huge amount of money to watch that. He was incredible; passing range, fitness, endeavour, defensive work as well as attacking work. He hit the bar. I thought he was excellent. Player of the weekend by a country mile.Josko Gvardiol (Manchester City): I think this guy's got an unbelievable ceiling. He's only going to get better and better as the games carry on, and as he gets more and more confident, and City get more on it. I don't think City go on to win against Chelsea if they don't score before half-time - I think Chelsea regroup and go again.Jarrad Branthwaite (Everton), Lisandro Martinez (Manchester United) and Riccardo Calafiori (Arsenal): They've all been solid, just proper defenders and what I'm finding is these guys are stepping up more and more. I know a couple of them scored but they're starting to mature into proper centre-halves.
Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool): Szoboszlai is growing. He has high energy and gets shots off. You think back to last year and there were a lot of questions as to whether he could actually step up. He is getting into the 10 role and scoring goals. Tyler Adams (Bournemouth): Tyler Adams is the unsung hero for Bournemouth - even when he was on the bench at the start of the season - with his energy. I think we forget that he had a tough time of it at Leeds United and I like a redemption story.
Dango Ouattara (Bournemouth): There's been a void and a question mark for Bournemouth on who's going to step up with their two strikers being injured. With a hat-trick against Nottingham Forest, he's doing a pretty good job of it so he goes in for that.Alexander Isak (Newcastle): He just keeps scoring. You can't leave someone out when they score two goals every week. He has been excellent and deserves to keep going.Cody Gakpo (Liverpool): I thought Luis Diaz would step up more if I'm being totally honest but Cody Gakpo just seems to be growing in confidence under Arne Slot, scoring vital goals. He came off after 68 minutes and he probably would have scored four or five if he'd stayed on.
Andoni Iraola (Bournemouth): If the season stopped now, it'd be a real tough pick between him and Arne Slot for manager of the season. No-one thought Bournemouth would do anything this year, it was probably seen as more of a transition year. However, they're probably the favourite to break into Europe this year, so he's been excellent and they've been excellent.
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