{"id":568155,"date":"2020-10-06T08:07:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=568155&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=568155"},"modified":"2020-10-06T08:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:07:32","slug":"premier-league-team-of-the-week-gameweek-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/06\/premier-league-team-of-the-week-gameweek-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Team of the Week: Gameweek Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was fun, wasn&#8217;t it? Although fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> and Liverpool may not agree. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/04\/brutal-tottenham-hotspur-punish-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">United&#8217;s 6-1 demolition at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> on Sunday afternoon wasn&#8217;t even the most surprising result of the weekend. The dust had hardly settled at Old Trafford when <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Aston Villa<\/a> put seven past the current Premier League champions <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a>. Villa&#8217;s 7-2 win maintained their 100% start to the campaign, ending Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s perfect start in the process. With those exceptional performances, it has made it difficult to choose a Premier League Team of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the table, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/fulham\/\" target=\"_self\">Fulham<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/sheffield-united-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Sheffield United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/burnley\/\" target=\"_self\">Burnley<\/a> all remain pointless as they were defeated by after losing yet again. Elsewhere,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/west-ham\/\" target=\"_self\">West Ham United<\/a> beat <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/leicester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City<\/a> 3-0, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/southampton\/\" target=\"_self\">Southampton<\/a> came out 2-0 winners against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/west-brom\/\" target=\"_self\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> put four past <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_self\">Crystal Palace<\/a> without reply. The only draw of the weekend came at Elland Road &#8211; where Premier League new boys <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Leeds United<\/a> held <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> 1-1.<\/p>\n<h2>Premier League Team of the Week<\/h2>\n<h3>Premier League Gameweek Three<\/h3>\n<p>With that being said, lets take at who makes this week&#8217;s Team of the Week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>GK: Ederson (Manchester City)\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>It is Ederson who gets the nod this week. Granted it was his mistake that let Leeds United back into the game, but the Brazilian pulled off an array of stops, including a stunning fingertip save onto the crossbar from Rodrigo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>RB: Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur)\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s indicative of this season&#8217;s Premier League that all four of this week&#8217;s backline did more going forward than they did defensively. Aurier helped himself to a goal and an assist in his sides romp of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<h3>CB: Kurt Zouma (Chelsea)<\/h3>\n<p>The Frenchman scored his second goal of the season with a towering header against Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<h3>CB: Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United)\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Predominately a left-back, Cresswell has been playing on the left of a back three for the Hammers. He set up his sides opening two goals in their 3-0 away win at Leicester City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>LB: Ben Chilwell (Chelsea)<\/h3>\n<p>The 23-year-old put in a man of the match display on his Premier League debut for Chelsea, scoring their first and teeing up the second in a 4-0 victory over Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CM: Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur)<\/strong> &#8211; While Son and Kane will grab the headlines in Spurs&#8217; 6-1 victory against Manchester United, former Southampton midfielder Hojbjerg was everywhere at Old Trafford and put Serge Aurier through with a delightfully weighted through-ball for their sides fifth goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>CM: John McGinn (Aston Villa)\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>The first of three Villa men in this week&#8217;s Team of the Week and the only player to maintain their spot from last week. McGinn scored his first of the campaign, as well teeing up Villa&#8217;s seventh and final goal against Liverpool.<\/p>\n<h3>LW: Jack Grealish (Aston Villa)<\/h3>\n<p>Villa&#8217;s main man had a hand in all but two of his sides seven goals against Liverpool. The Englishman continued his fine form from last season, claiming three assists and bagging a brace in an unforgettable night at Villa Park.<\/p>\n<h3>RW: James Rodriguez (Everton)<\/h3>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/real-madrid\/\" target=\"_self\">Real Madrid<\/a> man has taken to the Premier League like the proverbial duck to water. Rodriguez scored a brace in the Toffees 4-2 victory over Brighton, as well as teeing up Yerry Mina to head home on the stroke of half-time.<\/p>\n<h3>ST: Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur)<\/h3>\n<p>The South-Korean just edges out teammate Harry Kane in this weeks Team of the Week. Both bagged a brace in Spurs&#8217; 6-1 hammering of Manchester United, but Son&#8217;s composure in front of goal was clinical. He now tops the goal scoring charts along with Dominic Calvert-Lewin .<\/p>\n<h3><strong>ST: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Villa&#8217;s record signing bagged his first Premier League goals of the season with a hat-trick against reigning champions Liverpool. The former Brentford striker also crashed one against the woodwork, as well as teeing up teamate Jack Grealish for Villa&#8217;s sixth of the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"2EFTjDOvRY93b2EZNV9x8w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1228914882\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'2EFTjDOvRY93b2EZNV9x8w',sig:'WvL8kLvgBi6Dyw9ktYSquxv34fdMuKvO2_P-9AQbPp8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1228914882',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was fun, wasn&#8217;t it? Although fans of Manchester United and Liverpool may not agree. United&#8217;s 6-1 demolition at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday afternoon wasn&#8217;t even the most surprising result of the weekend. The dust had hardly settled at Old Trafford when Aston Villa put seven past the current Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3669,"featured_media":568792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29,3],"tags":[6800,2942,2880,320,2138,1111,2907,2610,4249,2704,1296,136],"class_list":["post-568155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-editorials","category-premier-league","tag-aaron-cresswell","tag-ben-chilwell","tag-ederson","tag-heung-min-son","tag-jack-grealish","tag-james-rodriguez","tag-john-mcginn","tag-kurt-zouma","tag-ollie-watkins","tag-pierre-emile-hojbjerg","tag-serge-aurier","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}