EPL Team of the Week - Gameweek 19
Yet another game week and the last of this year as we witnessed some exhilarating football out on display. Arsenal clawed their back to the zenith of the table with a narrow but important 1-0 away win against Newcastle at the Sports Direct Arena while Manchester City are a close second just two points behind after a hard earned 1-0 win at home against struggling Crystal Palace.
Chelsea handed Liverpool their second defeat in as many games while Everton returned to winning ways with a well taken 2-1 win over Southampton. Manchester United won too, by a stroke of luck at Carrow Road against a determined Norwich side while Tottenham brushed aside Stoke by a 3-0 margin.
With 2013 now a distant memory of all the Premier League action, here we provide you the team of the game week from this weekend’s excruciating action on the pitch.
Goalkeeper: David De Gea
The Spaniard makes the cut in our team thanks to two magnificent saves he put in to earn a well deserved clean sheet at Carrow Road. Peter Cech too deserves the plaudits for keeping Liverpool at bay, but the Red Devils keeper just edges the Czech International thanks to his magnificent saves to keep his side in the clash where they could ill afford to drop points.
Defenders
Sheamus Coleman
The Irishman and Evertonian Coleman walks his way into our side without a stroke of doubt. The full back was magnificent throughout the match and his piledriver of a finish left the Southampton keeper bewildered. Mathieu Debuchy was a close call for the full back role, but we felt Coleman edged it thanks to his goal.
Gary Cahill
Instrumental in Chelsea’s win over Liverpool, Gary Cahill is one of our centre back choice. The Englishman time and again kept Luis Suarez quiet with a dominant and commanding performance.
Per Mertesacker
The tall and lanky German is making a name for himself in the Arsenal squad with his brilliant defending consistently for the last few weeks. Much like Cahill, it was Mertesacker who took the role to keep Loic Remy quiet at the Sports Direct Arena.
Ben Davies
Swansea’s Ben Davies is a familiar figure in Wales. And the more he plays his reputation will enhance. Swansea haven’t had the best of campaigns so far this Premier League season, but Davies was a constant threat and a live wire against Villa on Sunday.
Mifielders
Tom Huddlestone
The former Spurs man put on a great display, and his panache at passing the ball for fun certainly caught the eye in Hull’s majestic 6-0 win over Fulham. Huddlestone later followed one of his goal with a pitch-side hair cut pitch and walks into our team without a shade of doubt.
Tomas Rosicky
A surprise choice for many, but given the Czech’s enormous work rate, we couldn’t help resisting him for our team of the game week. Rosicky tirelessly kept on pressing the home side throughout the game, a testament of his true quality.
Eden Hazard
What a performance yet again from the Belgian who time and again reminds us of his sumptuous quality. Hazard scored Chelsea’s equaliser through a blistering swerving shot from outside the box and was a constant threat to Liverpool throughout the game.
Aaron Lennon
Perhaps Tim Sherwood’s 4-4-2 is helping Tottenham claw their way back towards the top of the table and one of them, Aaron Lennon is making a case out of it. The English international produced one of his great displays in a Tottenham shirt, was brilliant throughout and got a deserved goal for his performance.
Strikers
Nikolas Anelka
Yet another surprise choice perhaps for the readers maybe, but Anelka thanks to his glorious brace takes his place in our 4-4-2 formation. The Frenchman became the ninth player in the history of the league to score for six different clubs but later became the centre of controversies with his quenelle celebration.
Samuel Eto’o
It was certainly a close fight between Soldado and Eto’o but we decided to grant the final place to the Chelsea man thanks to his impressive work rate and the determination to score beating Martin Skrtel to the outstretched leg tap in.
