James Maddison: Tottenham star is the Premier League's most influential player this season, says Jamie Carragher

James Maddison scored Tottenham's second goal and won the Player of the Match award as they beat Fulham 2-0 to go two points clear at the top of the Premier League table

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Monday 23 October 2023 23:10, UK

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Jamie Carragher has labelled James Maddison the most influential player in the Premier League this season after his goal helped Tottenham beat Fulham 2-0 and go top of the Premier League.

Maddison converted coolly from Heung-Min Son's pass after the South Korean had put Spurs in front at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to notch his third Premier League goal of the season.

The former Leicester playmaker, who has also registered five assists, was named Player of the Match and Carragher feels he has been the competition's most impressive performer this season.

«For me, he's been probably the most influential player in the Premier League,» Carragher said on Monday Night Football. «I think he has been that influential.

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»The credit has to go to the manager. It's his philosophy, his way of playing, but he (Maddison) has been a major part of that."

Maddison, 26, joined Tottenham for £40m in the summer and has started every one of their nine Premier League games, adapting instantly and helping them to the summit of the Premier League.

«He has come in and taken the No 10, Harry Kane's shirt, possibly the greatest player to have played for Tottenham. I think at one stage early on he had the captain's armband on.

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