Premier League Awards: Five-star Forest, Kinksy’s comeback

Premier League Awards: Five-star Forest, Kinksy’s comeback

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.