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The Team of the Week will be given to you by the pundit at the end of the week.

Who has he chosen? Pick your own team after taking a gander. He will have his say on the game's big talking points.

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Garth Crooks' Team of the Week
Garth Crooks' team of the week
Goalkeeper

Alisson is a member of the football team.

It's refreshing to see a goalie catch a ball in the air.

Alisson caught the ball with both hands as he descended to the ground on two occasions in the win at Spurs, even though he parryed or punched most of the time.

The match could have gone either way. The Brazilian is one of my top five keepers in the world. When you have a keeper like Alisson between the sticks, it makes life a lot easier. If there was a top-class keeper, he would be it.

Defenders

Trippier is from the city ofNewcastle.

The intercept by Trippier followed by the pass for Willock typifies why the right-back should be considered for the England squad.

He's playing the football of his life and taking places that haven't been seen in a long time.

The Saints didn't get anything out of this game because of poor finishing and their choices in front of the goal. Che Adams needs someone to share the load with. Danny Ings left to join Villa Park.

William Saliba is a player for the football team.

There was only one team that won the derby, and it was the other team. You only have to look at the way the players celebrated their victory after the game to know how serious the challenge is.

If there was a statement, this was it. The trio of Gabriel, Ben White and Saliba looked like a solid unit. France's World Cup squad needs this child.

The team looked tired and lacking in ideas. They are doing well in the European competition, but finishing outside the top four isn't good for them. Graham Potter is worried.

Lucas Digne is a footballer.

It had to be a free- kick from Digne to beat de Gea. Manchester United should never have lost this game at Villa Park, but Villa were the better team on the day.

The arrival of Unai Emery as the new manager clearly boosted Villa's performance, but how long will it last? They get these spikes when a new manager comes on the scene, but then they stop working.

Digne is a good player and could appeal to Emery. I want to know who stays and who goes at the end of the season.

Midfielders

Kevin de Bruyne is a member of the Manchester City football team.

Last week, De Bruyne helped Manchester City to a three-point victory overLeicester City.

This weekend the Belgium international did the same again, having dispatched Sevilla in midweek and was just as brilliant against Cottagers, who failed to come to terms with De Bruyne.

The side has picked up valuable points in the league thanks to their play in Europe.

It will be very difficult for any team to stop them doing something extraordinary in the second half of the season if City can get past them in the cup and in the league.

Maddison is fromLeicester.

At one point this season, fans of the team started to show signs of panic and booed their manager after some games. Now, they are not doing that.

If not for the fact that they couldn't compete withLeicester's quality in the middle, their performance againstEverton would have been even better. The kind of game England could benefit from is being displayed by Maddison.

There is a man named Adam Lallana.

His goal was executed well, while his assist for Kaoru was very good. He is playing the kind of football he used to play.

He didn't play the kind of football he was capable of. While at St Mary's, he failed to reproduce the artistry we saw from him.

The Seagulls are playing the best football I have seen them play in the top flight and he seems to have regained that touch of class.

The wolves are all over the place. There is no manager, no centre forward available due to injury and suspensions, and they are dropping points like they are going out of style. Julen Lopetegui has a lot of work to do to turn things around when he takes charge of the team in November.

Crysencio is from Yorkshire.

Bournemouth should have wrapped up the game at Elland Road when they were up by three. There was only one winner whenLeeds tied the game.

Jesse Marsch deserves some credit for this comeback. The changes the manager made to the side worked and the strongest 19-year-old I have ever seen is Wilfred Gnonto.

Last week, the star of the show was again Summerville, who put the city to shame. The young Dutch player was a constant threat to the Cherries and in the end they lost the match.

Forwards

The person is Kaoru Mitoma.

His performance against Wolves was very impressive, even though he played a part in the dismantling ofChelsea. A top-class player can be found in the Japan international.

Spurs' Son Heung-min has a very similar game. He wants to score goals and is willing to take people on. It's not clear what shape he'll be in after the World Cup, but Seagulls have a player here.

He is from Crystal Palace.

Is it me or the other way around? He scored the winning goal in the game. I've seen him play in a centre forward's role before and he looks like a threat.

I've always thought that Zaha should be scoring more goals and that he should be playing as an out-and-out forward in order to give him more chances to score. It's certainly worth thinking about.

If you are going to head the ball, you must do it away from your own goal and not behind you, even if you don't know what your goalkeeper is doing. Spurs never recovered from Eric Dier's decision to do that.

It took Spurs far too long to get going in this match and they looked a shadow of the team that won the European competition a few days ago. Although they have been inconsistent this season, they have one of the best players in the game in Egypt.

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The Crooks of the Matter

I told Australia last week that they shouldn't go to the World Cup if they were upset about it. The teams competing in the tournament have been told to "now focus on the football" by the sport's world governing body. One sponsor has removed their name from a team's jersey in order to not be associated with the tournament. French authorities don't allow fan parks in their cities to show games and team captains are being asked to wear solidarity armbands in support of human rights issues.

The best football competition in the world can't be stopped by Fifa because they can't stop people from saying what they think. In the final analysis, this may prove to be a huge embarrassment for the hosts.

The letter states that players should not allow football to be dragged into politics. The world governing body did just that when they awarded the World Cup toQatar.

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