{"id":376975,"date":"2025-12-28T23:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:11:07","slug":"troy-deeneys-team-of-the-week-watkins-and-wirtz-make-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376975\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Deeney&#8217;s Team of the Week: Watkins and Wirtz make the cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool): His influence is very simple: if he plays well, Liverpool play well. Obviously he got a goal against a Wolves team that they had to break down, nice finish. You don&#8217;t really get that much credit for scoring against Wolves if I&#8217;m being totally honest, but he was very instrumental.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tijjani Reijnders (Manchester City): Probably his best game since the first game of the season against Wolves. Not only the goal but his impact on the game. He&#8217;s starting to show what he did at AC Milan. I really like him as a player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Florian Wirtz (Liverpool): Again, he scored against Wolves &#8211; who will probably go down as the worst team in Premier League history &#8211; but he&#8217;s growing into it and starting to fill into the shirt. Maybe the absences of Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak have made players start to play through him &#8211; and he&#8217;s starting to be the player we all believed he could be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rayan Cherki (Manchester City): For me, he&#8217;s the best player in world football to watch at the moment. He tries things and he&#8217;s confident on the ball. Even when he makes mistakes, he doesn&#8217;t care and tries again. He finished the weekend with a goal and an assist. He&#8217;s the most exciting footballer to watch at this moment in time, and I say that over Lamine Yamal and everyone else. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kevin Schade (Brentford): If you score a hat-trick, you end up in the Team of the Week. It&#8217;s as simple as that. I nearly put Keith Andrews as the manager of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool): His influence is very simple: if he plays well, Liverpool play well. Obviously he got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-376975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}