🦁 Premier League Player of the Week: Alexander the great | OneFootball

There were twists and turns at both ends of the Premier League table over the weekend as things heat up ahead of a fascinating conclusion.

And our standout star from it all is…

Alexander Isak (Newcastle)

Before this weekend, only three players in the Premier League era had scored in six straight home games for Newcastle.

The list is a venerable who’s who of Magpies legends, a trio of the club’s modern greats in front of goal.

Les Ferdinand, Andy Cole and Alan Shearer led the line for Newcastle during their golden period in the late 90s and early 2000s.

But since then one could, if you’re being charitable, say that the Tynesiders’ search for a classic number nine has been, at best, hit and miss.

The likes of Papiss Cissé, Dwight Gayle and Salomón Rondón have all attempted to be Newcastle’s attacking nexus to varying degrees of success.

Right now though, it looks as if Eddie Howe has landed on not just the club’s best forward in a decade but one of the Premier League’s too.

Alexander Isak arrived from Real Sociedad over the summer as a jobbing, unspectacular striker who burned bright as a youngster but struggled under the pressure of his big move to Borussia Dortmund as a teenager.

Redemption came in Spain with Isak netting 33 goals in 105 LaLiga appearances for La Real before moving to the north east last summer for a fee in the region of €60m.

It has turned out to be an incredibly shrewd bit of a business from Newcastle with Isak having scored 21 goals in all competitions in his first full season.

Two groin injuries in October and February curtailed his progress somewhat but with the Sweden international now at full fitness and firing on all cylinders, the St James’ Park side are feeling the full effects of his coolness in front of goal.

Isak made it 11 goals from his last 11 games this past weekend as Tottenham came to town on a crucial weekend in the fight for European places next term.

Newcastle – starting the day in eighth – could move up to sixth with a win, whilst Spurs knew three points would keep them fourth and in the final Champions League spot.

What transpired wasn’t so much eighth versus fourth as men versus boys.

Newcastle battered Tottenham from minute one with Isak opening the scoring on the half hour with a burst into the penalty area that put defender Micky van de Ven on skates, before finishing past Guglielmo Vicario.

Isak’s second showed another side of his finishing ability as he broke free of the Spurs offside line, waited for Vicario to make the first move and then sat the goalkeeper down before side-footing into the far corner.

Newcastle would go on to win 4-0 in one of their very best performances of the campaign, with the Toon now in sixth with six games of the season to go.

Home games against Sheffield United and Brighton over the next few weeks could well extend Isak’s run of goals at the cathedral of north east football but it’s safe to say, even if the record ends now, Isak is well on his way to joining that triumvirate of legends.