Who will win the Premier League Golden Awards?

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What are the Premier League Golden Awards?

At the end of each Premier League season, three individual awards are handed out.

The Golden Boot recognises the league’s top goalscorer, with Manchester City striker Erling Haaland collecting the gong for the past two seasons. Arsenal legend Thierry Henry is the record winner, having received it four times in his career.

The Golden Playmaker is given to the player who has provided the most assists. Aston Villa forward Ollie Watkins triumphed last year, while Man City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has won it a record three times in the seven years it has been awarded.

The Golden Glove goes to the goalkeeper who has kept the highest number of clean sheets. Arsenal's David Raya collected the award last season. Petr Cech (with Chelsea and Arsenal) and Joe Hart (Man City) both top the all-time charts with four award wins apiece.

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Can Salah achieve a double-double?

The last player to win the Golden Boot and Golden Playmaker awards in the same season was Salah, who achieved the feat when notching 23 goals and 13 assists in 2021/22.

That made him the fourth person to lead the way for goals and assists in the same Premier League season after Andrew Cole (34 goals, 13 assists for Manchester United in 1993/94), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (18 goals, 13 assists for Chelsea in 1998/99) and Harry Kane (23 goals, 14 assists for Tottenham Hotspur in 2020/21).

Salah would become the first person ever to complete the double for a second time, while a fourth Golden Boot win would put him alongside Henry at the top of the all-time charts.

Golden Boot

Despite scoring just once in his last eight Premier League outings, Salah looks highly likely to reclaim a Golden Boot trophy he last won in 2021/22.

The Liverpool man heads into a final-day meeting with Crystal Palace on 28 Premier League goals, five clear of Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak, who missed his side’s defeat at Arsenal last weekend and is an injury doubt for the last game against Everton.

Should Isak play, he would need to match the record of five goals scored in a Premier League game, which is shared by Cole (Man Utd 9-0 Ipswich Town, 1994/95), Alan Shearer (Newcastle 8-0 Sheffield Wednesday, 1999/2000), Jermain Defoe (Spurs 9-1 Wigan Athletic, 2009/10), Dimitar Berbatov (Man Utd 7-1 Blackburn Rovers, 2010/11) and Sergio Aguero (Man City 6-1 Newcastle, 2015/16).

Haaland, who missed all of Man City's April matches due to an ankle injury, sits in third place on 21 goals.

Golden Boot race 24/25

Player Club Goals Final-day fixture Mohamed Salah Liverpool 28 Crystal Palace (H) Alexander Isak Newcastle 23 Everton (H) Erling Haaland Man City 21 Fulham (H) Chris Wood Nott'm Forest 20 Chelsea (H) Bryan Mbeumo Brentford 19 Wolves (A) Yoane Wissa Brentford 19 Wolves (A)

Golden Playmaker

The state of the Golden Playmaker standings is near-identical to that of the Golden Boot, with Salah having all-but wrapped up the award, despite providing just one assist in his last nine Premier League matches.

The Egyptian last won the award in 2021/22 and looked set to overtake Henry and De Bruyne’s record tally of 20 assists in one season before his current dry spell. Nonetheless, two more assists are still within his reach against Palace, which would see him match those two at the top of the charts.

Competitors are in short supply. Bukayo Saka began the campaign with a remarkable 10 assists in his first 12 league appearances but, after missing a large portion of the season with a hamstring injury, the Arsenal star has not added to that tally since.

Jacob Murphy, the Newcastle winger, leads the distant chasing pack behind Salah with 12 assists.

Golden Playmaker race 24/25

Player Club Assists Final-day fixture Mohamed Salah Liverpool 18 Crystal Palace (H) Jacob Murphy Newcastle 12 Everton (H) Anthony Elanga Nott'm Forest 11 Chelsea (H) Morgan Rogers Aston Villa 10 Man Utd (A) Bukayo Saka Arsenal 10 Southampton (A) Mikkel Damsgaard Brentford 10 Wolves (A) Antonee Robinson Fulham 10 Man City (H)

Golden Glove

With one game remaining, the battle for the Golden Glove is down to two candidates.

Arsenal goalkeeper Raya picked up last year’s award while on loan from Brentford, and he has a strong chance of retaining the crown despite falling short of his 2023/24 clean-sheets tally. He registered 16 shutouts last year, compared to 13 so far this season.

The last goalkeeper to win successive Golden Gloves was Man City's Ederson, who claimed three in a row from 2019/20 to 2021/22.

Level with Raya on 13 is Sels, who has not kept a clean sheet in the last seven Premier League matches. His Forest side face one of the highest-scoring teams in Chelsea on the final day, while Arsenal visit the lowest scorers Southampton.

If Sels does triumph, he would make history for Forest. No goalkeeper from outside of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and Man Utd has ever won the award, which launched in 2004/05.

Golden Glove race 24/25

Player Club Clean sheets Final-day fixture David Raya Arsenal 13 Southampton (A) Matz Sels Nott'm Forest 13 Chelsea (H)

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