🏆 PL Awards: Caicedo's nightmare debut, Mitoma magic, Foden on fire | OneFootball

It was another fascinating weekend in the Premier League with some great performances, top goals and big upsets.

It’s time to hand out our awards.

Player of the Weekend

Manchester City were dealt a big blow last week when it was revealed Kevin De Bruyne faces four or five months on the sidelines with a hamstring injury.

But on Saturday night, Phil Foden showed that he might be the ideal candidate to fill the void left by De Bruyne.

Foden caused havoc in the pocket of space between Newcastle’s midfield and defence as City won 1-0 at the Etihad, assisting Julián Álvarez for the goal and making a nuisance of himself all evening, with seven chances created from open play.

This could be the 23-year-old’s time to really shine.

Team of the Weekend

Goalkeeper: Vicario (Tottenham)

Defence: Aurier (Nottingham Forest), Pinnock (Brentford), Gvardiol (Manchester City), Estupiñán (Brighton)

Midfield: Bissouma (Tottenham), Foden (Manchester City), Ward-Prowse (West Ham)

Forwards: Bailey (Aston Villa), Álvarez (Manchester City), Mitoma (Brighton)

Goal of the Weekend

Brighton winger Kaoru Mitoma is a special player and his stunning solo goal in Saturday’s 4-1 win at Wolves was one to remember.

Result of the Weekend

After drawing at Brentford last weekend, a win on his home debut was just the just the ticket for new Tottenham Hotspur boss Ange Postecoglou.

Spurs played on the front foot throughout, with Yves Bissouma and James Maddison expertly pulling the strings in midfield and the goals coming from the unlikely sources of Pape Matar Sarr and Ben Davies (although Davies’s went down as a Lisandro Martínez own goal).

On another day United might have had a penalty and the visitors had chances to alter the scoring, but it was a positive start for Postecoglou and now it’s back to the drawing board for Erik ten Hag.

Surprise of the Weekend

At the London Stadium on Sunday, Chelsea recovered well from conceding an early goal to West Ham, with Carney Chukwuemeka netting an emphatic equaliser.

From that point it looked for all the world like the Blues would go on to win the game, but Michail Antonio had other ideas when he put West Ham 2-1 up in the second half.

The hosts then went down to 10 men when Nayef Aguerd was given his marching orders, before Chelsea’s British record signing Moisés Caicedo then came off the bench for his debut.

But the Ecuadorian’s maiden voyage ended in despair when he conceded a late penalty, which Lucas Paquetá converted to seal victory for the Hammers.

Welcome back to the Premier League Mauricio Pochettino.

Stat of the Weekend

After twice narrowly escaping relegation in the last two seasons, is this a new low for Everton?

Quote of the Weekend

“We started well, but it reminded me of last season when we conceded a goal and you smell the group going soft very quickly. You concede another one then everyone is looking at each other.”

That was Everton boss Sean Dyche lifting the lid on his interesting sense of smell after his side’s 4-0 thrashing at Villa Park.