Troy Deeney selection is outrageous | OneFootball

Troy Deeney has picked his best 12 performers from the weekend’s action.

The Premier League team of the week (and manager) that have most impressed him.

I was curious to see just how many Troy Deeney would pick from the match at St James’ Park.

On this occasion I obviously wasn’t expecting to count how many Newcastle United players…

Instead, I was wondering how many from Bournemouth and which ones.

As it happens, Troy Deeney picked out only two of the away side from Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4.

Troy Deeney explains why he has picked out Milos Kerkez and Justin Kluivert for his Premier League team of the week and then the full eleven (twelve) are listed below:

Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth):

“I struggle to see how Bournemouth are going to be able to keep hold of him. He is scoring goals for fun and has an unbelievable engine on him. He defends well, gets forward excellently. A really, really good player.”

Justin Kluivert (Bournemouth):

“He scored a hat-trick of penalties earlier on in the season, but his three goals at Newcastle were all unbelievable finishes. The precision and technique to just pass it into the goal was excellent.”

I think to only pick two Bournemouth players was laughable from Troy Deeney but then as usual, his disrespect is all too obvious. He does it with Newcastle United players all the time, especially Alexander Isak. Rather than just doing what he is paid to do, you know, just the actual proper analysis and justification for his selections, instead Deeney’s first comment is to say that Bournemouth won’t be able to keep Milos Kerkez!

However, that disrespect is nothing compared to what I find really really outrageous from this past weekend of matches and what Troy Deeney has had to say.

This is who the BBC Sport pundit has picked out as the best performing Premier League manager of the weekend

Enzo Maresca (Chelsea):

“The Wolves game was massive for Maresca. It was getting towards squeaky bum time for him – there has been a lot of pressure building in recent weeks. He called Chalobah back from Crystal Palace and started him, which was a big call, and it paid off. They had to win and they got the job done.”

I bet the Bournemouth fans are absolutely fuming about this one and rightly so.

What Troy Deeney says about Maresca and Chelsea is true, after failing to win any of their last six Premier League games, Monday night’s 3-1 home win over Wolves was much needed.

However, it is beyond belief that Maresca is chosen ahead of Andoni Iraola, I am so outraged on behalf of him and the Bournemouth fans. Newcastle United were fourth top and had won nine matches in a row and Bournemouth come to St James’ Park, win 4-1 and make it 11 matches unbeaten, yet their manager doesn’t get recognised for that. Instead, Maresca with his £1billion+ squad gets manager of the week when winning at home against fourth bottom Wolves!

Troy Deeney Premier League team of the week:

Ederson (Manchester City)

Matty Cash (Aston Villa)

Chris Richards (Crystal Palace)

Joachim Andersen (Fulham)

Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth)

Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool)

Youri Tielemans (Aston Villa)

Justin Kluivert (Bournemouth)

Phil Foden (Manchester City)

Iliman Ndiaye (Everton)

Darwin Nunez (Liverpool)

Manager:

Enzo Maresca (Chelsea)

Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4 – Saturday 18 January 2025 12.30pm

Goals:

Newcastle United:

Bruno 25

Bournemouth:

Possession was Newcastle 55% Bournemouth 45%

Total shots were Newcastle 13 Bournemouth 19

Shots on target were Newcastle 5 Bournemouth 10

Corners were Newcastle 7 Bournemouth 6

Touches in the box Newcastle 32 Bournemouth 35

Newcastle team v Bournemouth:

Dubravka, Livramento, Botman (Schar 46), Burn, Hall (Trippier 66), Tonali, Joelinton, Bruno (Osula 90+1), Murphy (Willock 66), Isak, Gordon

Unused subs:

Vlachodimos, Almiron, Kelly, Longstaff, Lewis Miley

(This is excellent from Eddie Howe – Exactly what I expected – Read HERE)

(Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4 – Match ratings and comments on all Newcastle United players – Read HERE)

(The usual suspects embarrassing themselves after Bournemouth 1 Newcastle 4 – Read HERE)

(All good things must come to and end – Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4 – Read HERE)

Newcastle United upcoming matches:

Saturday 25 January – Southampton v Newcastle (3pm)

Saturday 1 February – Newcastle v Fulham (3pm)

Wednesday 5 February – Newcastle v Arsenal (8pm) Sky Sports (League Cup)

Saturday 8 February – Birmingham v Newcastle (5.45pm) BBC1 and BBC iPlayer (FA Cup)

Saturday 15 February – Man City v Newcastle (3pm)