🏆 PL Awards: Unstoppable Salah, Arsenal see red and scouting success | OneFootball

It may be a new year, but we were treated to the same old Premier League shenanigans this weekend.

It’s time to hand out some weekly awards.

The How Do You Stop Him? Award

We should have called this the ‘Thanos Award’ because Mohamed Salah is simply inevitable.

After his sensational goal against Chelsea, the Liverpool forward has now been directly involved (148 goals, 52 assists) for the club in 229 appearances.

The Looking Good Award

We’ve only dipped our toes into January yet Manchester City ten points clear atop of the Premier League table.

They’ve now won their last 11 games and despite injuries and COVID absentees, are still picking up wins while others stumble.

The Seeing Red Award

After another dismissal against Manchester City, Arsenal became the first side in Premier League history to receive 100 red cards – with the Gunners already having 11 players sent off under Mikel Arteta.

There might need to be some stress balls handed out at London Colney.

The Midfield Maestros Award

Chelsea v Liverpool was played at an absolutely ferocious pace and some of that was down to these two.

N’Golo Kanté and Mateo Kovačić were brilliant at both ends on Sunday and bossed the game after Liverpool took charge early on.

The Better Late Than Never Award

It’s not over until the final whistle and Davinson Sánchez understood the assignment.

His header against Watford was the latest winning goal Spurs have scored in a Premier League game since Opta recorded times of goals in the division (from 2006-07), timed at 95:45.

The Hammer At Heart Award

Declan Rice may have started his footballing education at Chelsea but he’s a Hammer at heart.

After his start against Crystal Palace on Saturday, Rice became the youngest player to make 150 top flight appearances for West Ham (22y, 352d).

The New Hope Award

Everton fans don’t have much to cheer about right now but they could have unearthed a gem.

Anthony Gordon (20y, 312d) became the youngest player to score two goals for Everton in a top flight game since Romelu Lukaku vs Liverpool in November 2013 (20y & 194d).

The Scouting Success Award

Maxwel Cornet was stuck in French football, out of favour and stagnating at Lyon.

We certainly didn’t imagine him ending up at Burnley but what a signing he’s been – scoring six Premier League goals for Burnley already.

The Pozzo Pressure Award

If the Pozzo family had spidey senses, they would be tingling right now with Claudio Ranieri.

Watford have now lost more Premier League games than any other side (nine) since Claudio Ranieri took charge of his first game – it’s not looking good.