{"id":1191883,"date":"2026-09-07T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1191883\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:00:28","slug":"cody-gakpo-and-alexander-isak-up-for-premier-league-player-of-the-matchweek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1191883\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Gakpo and Alexander Isak up for Premier League Player of the Matchweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788807628_0_Isak-Gakpo-main-070926_53d76649bc3f8b4ae9ba5b2fcbbd1dec.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%\"\/>Published 6 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Joe Urquhart<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Cody Gakpo and Alexander Isak have both been nominated for Premier League Player of the Matchweek.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool duo combined for each of the Reds&#8217; goals in their 2-0 victory at Ipswich Town on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Gakpo twice set up his fellow forward in Suffolk, with Isak scoring twice inside the opening nine minutes to earn Andoni Iraola&#8217;s men a win on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The pair are among six players nominated on the shortlist, alongside Gianluigi Donnarumma, Tyrique George, Martin Odegaard and Tyrick Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters can cast their vote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4711998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Published 6 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 6 hours ago By Joe Urquhart Cody Gakpo and Alexander Isak have both been nominated for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1191741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":["post-1191883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-alisson","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-firmino","tag-great-britain","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117231304591366446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}