From Ivan Toney’s dramatic return to Alexis Mac Allister’s impact on Liverpool, we hand out honours (and dishonours) from the Premier League weekend.
After a month without victory, Arsenal bounced back with a 5-0 thrashing of a limp and uninspired Crystal Palace. Gabriel Magalhães steered Arsenal into an early lead (and effectively ended the game in the 11th minute) when he nodded home Declan Rice’s inswinging corner. It was almost as if the centre-back had enough of his team’s strikers failing to find the net, so he took the goalscoring role upon himself. Why should Mikel Arteta bother to look for a new striker when he’s got Gabriel to get the job done?
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