Premier League Awards – Magic Mbeumo, Amad again! | OneFootball

Our Premier League awards honour the best – and worst – of the weekend’s top-flight action, featuring Bryan Mbeumo, Ruben Amorim and Trent to Tranmere.

Moment of the Week

Cometh the hour, cometh the man Amad Diallo.

The Ivorian has developed a welcome habit of deciding big games for Manchester United, less than 50 games into his career with the club. In March, he scored an extra-time winner to dump Liverpool out of the FA Cup, before his derby day heroics snatched a last-gap win at Manchester City in the Premier League last month.

This weekend, with Ruben Amorim’s team trailing and heading towards a fifth straight defeat, he slammed in an equaliser at Anfield to rescue a result at Liverpool. Few footballers have such highs in an entire career – Diallo has three huge moments for Manchester United against their fiercest rivals in the space of 10 months.

The win at Manchester City was a false dawn but United will hope their late leveller at Liverpool is the lift-off the Amorim era needs.

Player of the Week

Brentford had not won on the road in the Premier League this season before the weekend. Thomas Frank’s team emphatically ended that record with a 5-0 thumping of struggling Southampton. Bryan Mbeumo was the architect of a demolition on the south coast as the Cameroonian scored twice and created another for the Bees.

Mbeumo has been in sublime form this season, with only Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland outscoring the 25-year-old. He’s now produced 18 goals and assists in his last 22 top-flight performances, the sort of output that will have teams taking a keen interest.

It’s perhaps impolite to tout a team’s top talent for a transfer, but Mbeumo has proven he is capable of performing on a European stage. He’s been so good this season that Ivan Toney’s exit from Brentford has largely been forgotten about.

Manager of the Week

How Ruben Amorim needed this performance.

Manchester United’s torrid form has underlined the scale of the task facing the new manager and a trip to Liverpool hardly screamed the right place to turn around their season. United had not so much as scored a goal at Anfield in six years, but a spirited performance saw the Red Devils take a point.

This week was the first time Amorim had an uninterrupted week on the training ground and there were signs that his team were beginning to understand the plan. United retained the ball well in their own half amid the Liverpool press and built confidence as the game progressed.

Lisandro Martinez looked at home on the left side of the back three, Manuel Ugarte and Kobbie Mainoo were excellent in midfield, and Bruno Fernandes stamped his influence on the game.

There’s a long way to go for Amorim at Old Trafford, but the shoots of growth this weekend were clear to see.

Goal of the Week

Liverpool’s draw with Manchester United delivered the entertainment of the weekend, as the North West rivals exchanged four goals in a pulsating game.

The best of the bunch was Cody Gakpo’s equaliser, as the winger danced inside Matthijs de Ligt to fire Liverpool level after Lisandro Martinez’s similarly thunderous opener. Delightful from the Dutchman.

Miss of the Week

There’s a chance the offside flag might have saved Harry Maguire here…

He’ll certainly hope so after ballooning a glorious chance to snatch a famous win for Manchester United over the bar.

Stat of the Week

The future’s bright for Ethan Nwaneri.

Arsenal’s teenage talent became just the sixth player in Premier League history to score 2+ top-flight goals aged 17 or under this weekend, joining Wayne Rooney (7), Michael Owen (5), Danny Cadamarteri (3), James Milner (3) and Federico Macheda (2).

Bukayo Saka’s absence might just have handed another Hale End graduate their big break.

Tweet of the Week

If you know, you know.

Quote of the Week

Roy Keane just can’t help himself, can he?

The sharp-tongued Sky Sports pundit was far from impressed by Trent Alexander-Arnold’s performance against Manchester United.

Meanwhile, at Tranmere…

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