Garth Crooks' team of the week: Ederson, Lascelles, Fred, Salah, Origi



Manchester City won their first ever title in the premier league with a 3-1 victory overWatford.

Substitute Divock Origi scored a 94th minute winner asLiverpool moved up to second with a win at Wolves, while Chelsea were dropped to third after losing a match at West Ham.

In other games, Newcastle defeated Burnley by a single goal, andBrighton scored in the 98th minute to draw at Saints.

Patrick Bamford scored a 94th minute goal for the Whites against the Bees, as they climbed to fifth, while Manchester United started with a win, and Spurs and United both had wins.

After falling behind, Villa fought back to win.

You can check out my team of the week and then make your own selections at the bottom of the article.

Ederson is a goalkeeper for Manchester City.

He must be the best man on the planet.

Ederson is as comfortable with the ball at his feet as any goalkeeper I have ever seen.

He shows remarkable nerve with the ball, almost as if he is trying to get the player to commit himself in order to exploit the space.

The Brazilian likes to clean his sheets. You could see the annoyance on his face when he saw the goal.

Goalkeepers: Davinson Sanchez (Spurs), Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle), and Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa).

I watched this lad have a shock in Spurs' defeat in the Europa Conference League.

I thought that Antonio Conte wouldn't play the defender again in a serious match.

The player returned for the game against the Canaries and played his part in a defensive unit that kept a clean sheet, but also scored the goal that put the game beyond the Canaries.

Maybe there's hope for this player.

When you only have two clean sheets at home in the last 30 matches, you're entitled to make a fuss about them whenever they come along.

The clean sheet was more important than the score line in the victory over Burnley.

Nick Pope dropped the ball because of the presence of Fabian Schar in attack, but it was the leadership of Jamal Lascelles that kept heads cool in a tense and anxious atmosphere.

It was an important goal for Villa.

It was Ezri Konsa who got the final touch. There was no doubt who scored the first goal and who scored the second.

Konsa was looking to complete his hat-trick as the game wore on and he was proving to be a real threat in the penalty area.

Midfielders include: Fred (Manchester United), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), and Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).

I've never been a fan of the kid because he can't play but because he should be scoring more goals.

He gets into great positions but doesn't finish them.

Against a desperately unlucky Chelsea, it was the man who seized onto Jorginho's poor back pass that led to the penalty.

The Senegal international was too proud to put his foot through the ball and into the crowd, where it should have gone and paid the price.

The Hammers were galvanised by Bowen's performance. Mendy's destroyed the place.

The man of the moment for Manchester City is Bernardo Silva.

The Portugal international has been playing with fire all season. The way one player rises to the occasion when another is injured or off form is astounding.

When Kevin de Bruyne was not fit, Ilkay Gundogan took hold of the conductors baton. Silva has been responsible for City's return to the top of the table.

His first goal against a spiritedWatford was beautifully measured while his second was world class.

The way Manchester United played in the first half against Crystal Palace under new manager Ralf Rangnick makes the question why couldn't they do that against the Hornets.

They struggled to maintain their fitness due to playing a pressing game.

The miss by Jordan Ayew must have made Patrick Vieira wince, especially when the most unlikely player on the pitch for Manchester United scores the winner.

Fred scored a goal that would have been great forRonaldo. The Brazilian looked surprised.

United got away with this result.

The fact that the England forward is starting for Manchester City suggests he is coming back into his club form.

He is comfortable in front of the goal. I thought the defending for their first goal was so bad that it was bordering on outrageous.

The first four minutes of the match saw two Manchester City strikers in their own six yard box against a singleWatford defender.

Is anyone really expecting the Hornets to win the match with that kind of defense?

The forwards are: Mohamed Salah, Divock Origi, and Callum Wilson.

This was a spirited performance by Wolves who seem to have found their way again under their new manager.

If Bruno Lage is trying to convince me that his player who lost the ball 10 yards from the corner flag was at fault for the counter attack and goal at the end of the game, then he's in cloud cuckoo land.

His team was well placed to deal with the counter attack.

It was a brilliant goal by the Reds and one of the few times in the match they took Wolves apart.

The goal was scored by substitute Divock Origi, but it was created by the man who created it.

If you want to play regularly for the Reds, you have to survive by goals alone.

I've seen many good finishes, but Divock Origi is the best. He scored one of the best goals I've seen in such circumstances when he came on against Spurs in the final.

The manager and his team-mates know that if you have that finishing ability, you can stay at a club.

Origi is the most dangerous man on the pitch when he is called on by his team.

His team-mates who came from all over to congratulate him after he won against Wolves tells me how popular he is in the dressing room.

Fourteen matches without a win must be on the mind of anyone.

Eddie Howe and his players had just won their first game of the season, so they told their own story.

Nick Pope was impeded and so should be taken into account.

Pope had no business coming so far off his goal line and trying to catch a ball over a bunch of players.

He should have hit the ball clear.

Under such immense pressure for the Magpies, it was simply superb that Callum Wilson's finish was superb. It looks like they might have a chance under Howe.

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The criminals of the matter.

I want to make it clear that the man I'm going to talk about is one of the greatest football players ever to have graced the planet.

Was he better than Messi? Football fans all over the world have been debating and engaging with each other.

The row that has overshadowed this year's Ballon d'Or isn't just unseemly, it's worthy of the event.

The Portugal star accused the France Football organisation of lying after he said that his only ambition was to retire with more Ballon d'Or's than Messi.

I don't doubt the validity of the accusation, but if the Manchester United forward did say that, so what?

Is it so bad to want to be the best in the world, or is it just a desire to be the best?

It's similar to Wayne Rooney saying all he wants in life is to win more caps than Bobby Charlton and then never miss an England game to achieve his ambition.

I can't comprehend why he is offended by the claim that he had such ambitions.

I would be more concerned about being voted sixth in this year's vote than I would be about what the event's promoter has to say.

How does he know what the future holds for him?

People's ambitions change on a yearly basis. At 36, he has no ambitions left, and it is to his credit that.

He has won the title more times than any other player.

Portugal went on to win the European Championship because he single-handedly got them to the final. He has won league titles with every club he's played for.

Why does he care what people say about his career? Those who have never had one.