{"id":571403,"date":"2020-11-06T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=571403"},"modified":"2020-11-06T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:56:13","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-duo-nominated-for-premier-league-player-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/06\/tottenham-hotspur-duo-nominated-for-premier-league-player-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur Duo Nominated for Premier League Player of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The October Premier League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11661\/12125251\/tottenham-duo-harry-kane-and-heung-min-son-on-premier-league-player-of-the-month-shortlist-for-october\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Player of the Month<\/a> shortlist has been announced. There is little surprise to see <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/21a66f6a\/Harry-Kane\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Kane<\/a> on that list along with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/tottenham\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/92e7e919\/Son-Heung-min\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Son Heung-Min<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Premier League Player of the Month Nominations for October<\/h2>\n<p>Joining the Spurs duo on the shortlist are <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/b0b4fd3e\/Jack-Grealish?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Grealish<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/86dd77d1\/Kyle-Walker?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Walker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/2928dca2\/Conor-Coady?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conor Coady<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f2bf1b0f\/Che-Adams?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Che Adams<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/82927de4\/Pablo-Fornals?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pablo Fornals<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/86e7deaf\/Thiago-Silva?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thiago Silva<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Son and Kane Show<\/h3>\n<p>There is possibly not a more prolific strike partnership in Europe right now than Son and Kane. In the Premier League alone they have been responsible for 24 goals between them. 10 assists and 14 goals.<\/p>\n<p>They are also challenging Premier League records and only now behind Chelsea legends <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/945dea33\/Didier-Drogba\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Didier Drogba<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/268df6b1\/Frank-Lampard\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Lampard<\/a> in terms of goals scored and created.\u00a0There is an almost telepathic underrating between the pair and they make a great team.<\/p>\n<h3>The Rise and Rise of Jack Grealish<\/h3>\n<p>Jack Grealish never stops working hard for his craft. Despite outstanding performances last season as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Aston+Villa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Aston Villa<\/a> stayed up against the odds, the midfielder was overlooked by England.<\/p>\n<p>He has not complained but got his head down and earned his call up. Grealish was in imperious form as Villa shocked the Premier League with a 7-2 thrashing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Clean Sheets Put Thiago Silva in the Spotlight<\/h3>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s start to the season saw some shoddy defending and new signing <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/86e7deaf\/Thiago-Silva\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thiago Silva<\/a> had a nightmare debut. Silva has continued to improve and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> managed to keep three clean sheets in October.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Else Makes the Shortlist?<\/h3>\n<p>Conor Coady of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Wolves\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a>, Che Adams of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Southampton\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Southampton<\/a>, Kyle Walker of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Man+city\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City <\/a>and Pablo Fornals of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=West+Ham+united\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">West Ham United<\/a> complete the list for Octobers Player of the Month.<\/p>\n<h3>Favourite<\/h3>\n<p>It is hard to look beyond the Tottenham duo of Son and Kane claiming the award. What could happen is that the pair split the vote and then give a greater chance to one of the others.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Son and Kane, Jack Grealish was the outstanding candidate. It will be interesting to see how this vote goes with all candidates exciting and delighting fans of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"5nXNvhZ2TZN3xg6F55moIw\" 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\/1283377044\" 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:'5nXNvhZ2TZN3xg6F55moIw',sig:'SA27VYVOmcgvvNrlptOWBcdZ6kMx1BbA9v2go2lMB7c=',w:'594px',h:'388px',items:'1283377044',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>The October Premier League Player of the Month shortlist has been announced. There is little surprise to see Harry Kane on that list along with Tottenham Hotspur teammate Son Heung-Min Premier League Player of the Month Nominations for October Joining the Spurs duo on the shortlist are Jack Grealish, Kyle Walker, Conor Coady, Che Adams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":571420,"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":[3,3838,11,17,22,27],"tags":[40,136],"class_list":["post-571403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-aston-villa","category-chelsea","category-manchester-city","category-sunderland","category-west-ham","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571403","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\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}