Our Premier League Awards honour the best – and worst – of the weekend’s top-flight action, featuring a five-star performance from Nottingham Forest and Eberechi Eze.
Moment of the Week
The headline moment of the weekend arrived in the first fixture, as Nottingham Forest took a giant step towards Premier League safety. Vitor Pereira’s team ran riot at the Stadium of Light to thrash Sunderland 5-0 and extend their unbeaten run to six games.
Forest were four goals up at half-time in a ruthless performance, one which might just be enough to preserve their Premier League status. Wins for West Ham and Spurs mean Forest are not out of the woods yet, but a five-point cushion with four games to go suggests they are almost there.
Forest were so clinical that hordes of Sunderland supporters poured out of the ground before the half-time whistle. This was a relegation battle statement.
Player of the Week
For the second straight week, Morgan Gibbs-White takes our Player of the Week award. The Tricky Trees talisman has helped drag Nottingham Forest clear of trouble, with seven goals in seven games.
His quick-thinking assisted Chris Wood for Forest’s second at Sunderland, before a beautifully controlled strike made it three and put the visitors out of sight. He must surely have put himself in Thomas Tuchel’s thoughts for the World Cup after being excluded from the England squad in March.
10 – Across 2026, no player has scored more goals in the Premier League than Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White (10 – level with Igor Thiago). Plane. pic.twitter.com/ih4NhMxEns
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 24, 2026
Goal of the Week
Arsenal needed a moment of magic to get their title dream back on track, and Eberechi Eze found it.
A sweeping strike from the midfielder earned Arsenal a 1-0 win over Newcastle, to move the Gunners back to the top of the table for now.
No Premier League player has scored more goals from outside the box than Eze across the last four seasons (10).
Another stunning goal for the Ebs collection 🤩 pic.twitter.com/OyK6dNV3hs
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) April 26, 2026
Save of the Week
With 98 minutes on the clock and Spurs, winless in 2026, holding on to a narrow 1-0 lead at Wolves, Antonin Kinsky came up trumps. His dive to deny Wolves a stoppage-time equaliser has kept Spurs alive in the battle to beat the drop.
It’s fantastic to see him bounce back after his Champions League nightmare at Atletico Madrid last month.
A match-winning save from the POTM 🔥 pic.twitter.com/yv75sMqRw4
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) April 26, 2026
Stat of the Week
A different corner routine for Arsenal this week, but the same old outcome.
Set piece again, Ole, Ole.
17 – With Arsenal’s opener against Newcastle, they now hold the individual season record in the Premier League for:
Most goals from corners (17)
Most goals from corners to go 1-0 up (10)
Perfected. pic.twitter.com/T4rUXMBO7i
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 25, 2026
A week to forget for…
David Moyes. A second straight stoppage time defeat has put the brakes on Everton’s European hopes.
After Virgil van Dijk’s sucker punch in the Merseyside Derby last week, the Toffees came unstuck when Callum Wilson fired West Ham a late winner this time around.
Their European hopes are not over, but in a congested table where every point matters, the Blues look up against it now.
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