Premier League Awards: Fulham on fire, Super Sarabia | OneFootball

Our Premier League Awards honour the best – and worst – of the weekend action, featuring Fulham, Pablo Sarabia and a Manchester Derby snoozefest.

Moment of the Week

Liverpool will be sick of the sight of Fulham. After holding the league leaders to a draw at Anfield earlier in the campaign, Fulham were their nemesis again this weekend. An emphatic first-half performance provided the platform for a 3-2 win, ending Liverpool’s 26-game unbeaten league run that stretched back to September.

Rodrigo Muniz was a handful for the Reds all afternoon, winning a game-high 10 duels and scoring a brilliant individual effort after leaving Virgil van Dijk for dead. He bulldozed the usually commanding pair of Van Dijk and Konate, who after a shaky performance against Everton in midweek looked well below their usual level again.

Liverpool’s lead is such that it would take an unthinkable implosion to not win the league from here, but Arne Slot’s side have been below-par for weeks now. Fulham, meanwhile, have reignited their chase of Europe. The Cottagers are five points from the Champions League places ahead of upcoming clashes with Chelsea (fourth) and Aston Villa (sixth).

Player of the Week

Talk about an impact.

Pablo Sarabia came up trumps for Wolves this weekend with a delightfully decisive performance from the bench. Wolves trailed at Ipswich in a huge six-pointer at the bottom, until Sarabia stole the show as a substitute. The Spaniard scored the equaliser with a crisp finish into the bottom corner, before teeing up Jorgen Strand Larsen for the winner just moments later.

Wolves were in danger of seeing their advantage over the bottom three slashed to six points, but it now stands at a healthy 12 after their Sarabia-led turnaround. Out of contract in the summer, it could be the perfect goodbye gift to Molineux.

Manager of the Week

Wolves’ appointment of Vitor Pereira represented a gamble but it’s one that has paid off.

Pereira arrived with no prior Premier League experience. However, an extensive coaching career that has taken in a nomadic route to Molineux has provided the tools required to thrive. Wolves were 19th at the time of his arrival, but now look to have secured safety with games to spare.

In consecutive games, Wolves have taken maximum points from sides around them in the table, beating Southampton, West Ham and Ipswich Town. No side has taken more Premier League points across the last six games than Wolves, who would be ninth in the table if the Premier League had started when Pereira arrived through the door. What a job the 58-year-old has done.

Goal of the Week

File this one under great goals that ultimately proved pointless.

Liverpool will want to forget their away-day blues at Fulham this weekend, a defeat that had started so well after this glorious goal from Alexis Mac Allister. There’s no saving that.

Save of the Week

While we’re on the subject of brilliance in vain…

The referee’s whistle would have saved Everton regardless, but Jordan Pickford wasn’t to know. What a save from the England goalkeeper.

Stat of the Week

Southampton’s time in the top-flight will not extend into next season after an inevitable relegation was confirmed this weekend.

The Saints’ loss at Tottenham Hotspur confirmed relegation to the Championship – with seven games still to play. No side has ever been relegated earlier in Premier League history.

Tweet of the Week

Spurs’ season summed up via the face of Ange Postecoglou.

At least a win over Southampton this weekend has briefly halted the Ange-guish.

Quote of the Week

The best part of the Manchester Derby was arguably the final whistle. An absolute snooze-fest at Old Trafford was not warmly welcomed by ex-Manchester United captain Gary Neville.

He’s not wrong, to be fair.

They just don’t make ’em like this any more.

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