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After every round of Premier League matches this season, BBC football pundit Troy Deeney will give you his team and manager of the week.
Here are this week’s choices. Do you agree? Give us your thoughts using the comments form at the bottom of this page.


Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace): Not a great weekend for goalkeepers in terms of the shots faced. But a penalty save and a clean sheet against a poor Wolves team was big for Crystal Palace who really needed that win.

Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool): People have been questioning whether he or John Terry is the better Premier League centre-back. For me, Van Dijk is just a Rolls Royce and the two of them go in the same category. He delivers all the time and has started to make Milos Kerkez look better with his organisation. It was a tough game against Forest but he stood up and delivered.
Harry Maguire (Manchester United): Mr Dependable. I was going to put Luke Shaw in but Harry just got the nod. Manchester United are on a great run under Michael Carrick and look like they are continuing to be a solid team, and Maguire being fit and available has coincided with that. He was great for Ruben Amorim and now he’s great again. Not so long ago, they were trying to shift him out for anything and now he is the Guvnor.
Lewis Hall (Newcastle): I had to find a place for him because he has been fantastic over the course of the Premier League and even though his goal against Manchester City was a deflected strike, I just thought he was brilliant.

Nico O’Reilly (Manchester City): The player of the weekend for me, and the player of the month by a country mile. Since O’Reilly has moved into that midfield, Rodri has looked better, Manchester City have looked better, he has looked amazing and the job he has done for the past 18 months at left-back shows his versatility. What a player. Both his goals against Newcastle were great and totally different. He offers so much to Manchester City and is a shoo-in for the England squad. We were looking at him as a left-back but does he now play midfield?
Anton Stach (Leeds): I thought Leeds might falter and fall away. I think they have to be careful with these draws but he was a really good performer against Aston Villa – and that free-kick he scored against a World-Cup winning goalkeeper in Emi Martinez means he goes in my team.
Eberechi Eze (Arsenal): He has to go in this week with his two goals against Spurs on Sunday. He has scored five goals against them now in two games – so Spurs are obviously his team to face. Good for him and good for Mikel Arteta to pick him. He has been up and down this season, in and out of the team, but this will be a real confidence booster for him and Arsenal.
Diego Gomez (Brighton): He got a goal in the win against Brentford, but it was also an important midfield performance from him. Brentford weren’t at their best, with injuries in the squad, but you have to be able to break through the lines and he did that a lot. He was fantastic. It was Brighton’s first win in seven league games and they needed it.

Zian Flemming (Burnley): Yes, he scored against Chelsea, but it was an old-school number nine performance. I have got a lot of time for this sort of display. He was horrible, he was beating people up, making little fouls, and was a real nuisance. He was doing it to the point where Chelsea were getting so frustrated, he was probably part of the reason why Wesley Fofana got sent off.
Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal): He scored two against Spurs. Yes, the opposition were mediocre with a terrible backline but he doesn’t care. The rest of of his play was better as well. I can’t give him too much credit but you can only score against the teams put in front of you.
Raul Jimenez (Fulham): He goes through these spells when he scores a run of goals and he looks a real top player. Then he goes quiet again. He scored another couple of goals at Sunderland on Sunday – he is a big powerful player, and the one thing you know is he is going to work that backline on his own.

Mikel Arteta (Arsenal): It was a big week for the Arsenal manager. With Manchester City winning, there was a lot of pressure on his team going into the north London derby against a poor Spurs team. Arsenal had to handle the pressure and they did that very well. I give Arteta all the credit. He is handling it every step of the way.
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