Premier League team of the week: Gameweek 2
The shine of the new season begins to fade, Fantasy Football teams are left unchanged and bold title predictions are made with false confidence. The Premier League is back in full swing.
The second week of the 32nd Premier League season brought fewer goals than the first (27 to 28) but five times as many red cards (five to one). Yet, those that did stay on the pitch produced some sparkling displays.
Here are the best performers from gameweek 2 of the new campaign.
Across the second weekend of the Premier League, no goalkeeper made more saves than Tottenham Hotspur's Guglielmo Vicario, working hard to keep a clean sheet against Manchester United.
The Italian nicknamed Venom rebuffed half a dozen efforts, particularly impressing with rapid reflexes to deny both Marcus Rashford and Casemiro from close range. Although, some United fans may snipe that Cristian Romero made the best save of the match.
Serge Aurier was once an infamous liability but reliability is what he now offers Nottingham Forest on the right side of defence — as incredible as that sounds.
The prickly defender had a hand in both of Nottingham Forest's goals as Steve Cooper's side recorded what could prove to be a crucial 2-1 victory against newly promoted Sheffield United on Friday night.
As recently as 2016, Ethan Pinnock was playing non-League football for Dulwich Hamlet. Now the Jamaica international is one of Brentford's rotating carousel of hulking central defenders mixing it with the Premier League's elite.
Pinnock promised to «give everything for three points against Fulham» and lived up to his word, making a team-high number of interceptions and blocks to blunt the Cottagers in front of their own fans.
There was a brief moment of uncertainty as the
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