Ten Premier League players who have improved this season...headed predictably by an Arsenal man.
In the last two Premier League seasons, Pascal Gross has opened his account against Manchester United. Those goals came just three months apart.
Those two efforts Gross dispatched at Old Trafford laid the foundations for a scintillating start, both individually and as a team. The German’s magnificent flick laid on a Leandro Trossard goal at West Ham in August, before he set up the same teammate with a fine touch against Leicester the following month. He remains Brighton’s most artistic and innovative player in his sixth Premier League season, with underlying creativity numbers to rival all but Kevin de Bruyne.
Whether that allegation is fair or not, it cannot be made in relation to Roberto Firmino. The Brazilian already has more Premier League goals than he managed last season and is flourishing in the rather unfamiliar role of Liverpool’s top scorer. The signing of Darwin Nunez was supposed to render him more obsolete, but particularly with the travails of Mo Salah, Firmino has never been so conspicuously important to Liverpool.