Premier League: Team of the Week XXI feat. Spurs and Everton stars

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Right-Midfield: Tom Davies (Everton)

As well as creating two, and then scoring a first career goal of his own, Tom Davies was an absolute workhorse for his side against Manchester City, covering more ground than any of his teammates at 11.9km and helping inflict Pep Guardiola’s worst ever defeat as a manager. Not bad for only his second career start.

After a disappointing FA Cup exit, this was just the tonic that manager Ronald Koeman and his Everton side needed, and his gamble on the local teenager who would  put in the mileage for his club was a masterstroke, and Davies already looks an older head on young shoulders after putting in a performance worthy of a player beyond his years.

A string of showings like this and we may already have another Dele Alli waiting to emerge.

Centre-Midfield: Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur)

There is something about Spurs and brilliant midfielders. But even when the brilliant ones move on from the surroundings of White Hart Lane, they have a delightful tendency of being able to replace them, and this recent string of performances is making an already good midfielder in Eriksen, look like he is in the form of his career.

His four key passes to create chances were more than any other Spurs player managed in their win over the Baggies, and it was his presence in the pockets of space between defence and midfield that wrought havoc for Albion all game and his incsive passing continually picked holes in what has been a solid defence in recent weeks. It was a slow start for Eriksen and Spurs, but now they look like they are on song, and it is no surprise that his return to peak form has coincided with this superb run that Spurs are on.

Left-Midfield: Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City)

Gifted, yet inconsistent, when it is his day, Arnautovic look unplayable. He was in the mood against Sunderland though, and to devastating effect, as the Potters blew their hosts away on Wearside, with the Austrian bagging a brace, his first Premier League goals in 12 games.

Arnautovic’s link-up play with opposite wide-man Xherdan Shaqiri and spearhead Peter Crouch was too much for Sunderland to deal with from the word ‘go’, and their potency going forward has been key to their own return to form. Mark Hughes will need this to continue if his Potters side are to keep climbing the table.