Bukayo Saka was, by a ways, the most effective participant within the Premier League for Gameweek Seven this previous weekend.
Arsenal beat Southampton on Saturday, coming again to win 3-1 after going a objective down, and Saka performed a component in each Gunners objective with a strike of his personal plus two assists.
When it got here to pleasure, no recreation matched Brentford versus Wolves as that completed 5-3 to the house aspect which earned a ten.0 Match Pleasure Score on Soccer Critic.
Southampton really took the lead within the second half within the recreation on the Emirates however Saka hauled the Gunners over the road with a glowing final half-hour or so. He arrange the equaliser with a threaded move by way of the center for Kai Havertz to attain, then curled an attractive cross to the again submit for Gabriel Martinelli to stab dwelling.
Saka then made certain the Saints couldn’t mount a comeback by netting a deserved objective of his personal, latching on to a free ball contained in the opposition field to complete with a right-footed strike throughout objective into the underside left nook.
He was at all times the most important menace for Arsenal and induced mayhem along with his signature dip of the shoulder inside onto that left foot.
He despatched 30 passes into harmful areas within the remaining third which was greater than anybody else on the pitch and despatched 11 crosses into the field which was practically treble the quantity of anybody else.
Who else made the Crew of the Week?
One other good performer was Mateo Kovacic (9.3) of Man Metropolis, who emerged because the unlikely match winner for the defending Premier League champions as he scored two to provide his aspect a slender 3-2 win at dwelling to Leicester.
He was within the high 5 for probably the most quantity of touches (100) and most quantity of balls despatched into the ultimate third (33).
It has taken some time for Jarrod Bowen (8.5) to search out his kind for West Ham this season however he regarded just like the Bowen of final season this weekend as he scored one and arrange one other within the Hammers’ 4-1 win at dwelling to Ipswich.
Solely two gamers this weekend recorded two or extra assists and that was Saka and Brentford’s Mikkel Damsgaard (8.1), who arrange two for Brentford within the win over Wolves.
Defensively, the most effective performer was Virgil van Dijk (8.1), although his excessive score principally comes all the way down to his exemplary passing as no one accomplished extra profitable passes to team-mates (101) than the massive Dutchman, whereas solely Man Metropolis’s Josko Gvardiol had extra touches of the ball.
