{"id":778208,"date":"2026-09-21T21:38:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778208\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:38:49","slug":"alan-shearers-team-of-the-week-for-matchweek-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778208\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Shearer&#8217;s Team of the Week for Matchweek 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chema Andres&#8217; dominant display against Arsenal earns him a place in the Premier League&#8217;s record goalscorer&#8217;s starting XI<\/p>\n<p>Premier League record goalscorer Alan Shearer has named his Team of the Week for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/matches\/premier-league\/2026-27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matchweek 5<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/36\/brighton-and-hove-albion\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/players\/592984\/chema-andres\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chema Andres<\/a> earning a place in midfield following a brilliant performance at the Amex Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Chema starred in his first Premier League start for the Seagulls, scoring a towering header against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/3\/arsenal\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2645237\/brighton-and-hove-albion-vs-arsenal\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton secured a statement 3-0 victory<\/a> on the club&#8217;s 125th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>He is joined by team-mates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/players\/610799\/luka-vuskovic\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Vuskovic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/players\/60307\/pascal-gro\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Gross<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/players\/647850\/charalampos-kostoulas\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charalampos Kostoulas<\/a>, while Seagulls head coach Fabian Hurzeler has also been named manager of the team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/94\/brentford\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brentford<\/a> duo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/players\/513086\/jannik-schuster\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Schuster<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/players\/444180\/jaidon-anthony\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaidon Anthony<\/a> have also been included, with the pair impressing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2645236\/brentford-vs-chelsea\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bees&#8217; 3-0 home victory over Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as no surprise, that after recording three goal involvements, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/43\/manchester-city\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/players\/437730\/antoine-semenyo\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antoine Semenyo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/56\/sunderland\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a>&#8216;s hat-trick hero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/players\/441264\/brian-brobbey\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Brobbey<\/a> have also been named in the line-up following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/video\/4724729\/man-city-5-3-sunderland-watch-all-eight-goals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s eight-goal thriller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"image-promo__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4718866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-event-type=\"Enter here\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"image-promo__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4718866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-event-type=\"Enter here\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pick your own Team of the Week<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Shearer&#8217;s picks, or do you think you can do better? You can pick your own line-up below, and we&#8217;ll combine everyone&#8217;s choices to reveal the official Premier League Fan Team of the Week on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chema Andres&#8217; dominant display against Arsenal earns him a place in the Premier League&#8217;s record goalscorer&#8217;s starting XI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}