Tottenham midfielder Yves Bissouma in the running for unusual Premier League award

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Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Yves Bissouma is one of the nominees for the Premier League's Oracle's Most Powerful Goal award.

The award is given out in recognition of the goal that carried the fastest average speed from being struck, to crossing the goalline and Bissouma's maiden strike for the north London club has made it into the final shortlist of 10 goals up for the honour. The midfielder's strike came in Spurs' first home game of the campaign.

It arrived just 14 minutes into the 4-0 win over Everton in August as Dejan Kulusevski cut the ball back to the edge of the area where Bissouma smashed the ball in off the crossbar to open the scoring for Ange Postecoglou's men.

The winner of the award will be announced on Saturday and Bissouma faces competition from these other players: Nottingham Forest's Elliot Anderson (vs Southampton, 19 January), Aston Villa's Ross Barkley (vs Leicester, 4 January), Wolves' Matheus Cunha (vs Aston Villa, 21 September), Manchester City's Jeremy Doku (vs Fulham, 5 October), Newcastle United's Alexander Isak (vs Liverpool, 4 December), AFC Bournemouth's Justin Kluivert (vs Nott'm Forest, 25 January), Chelsea's Pedro Neto (vs Arsenal, 10 November), Arsenal's Declan Rice (vs Newcastle, 18 May) and AFC Bournemouth's Antoine Semenyo (vs Leicester, 25 May).

Bissouma's Spurs team-mate, goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, has been shortlisted for the Premier League's Save of the Season award. The Italian won the April edition of the monthly award for his terrific one-handed stop to deny Chelsea's Jadon Sancho in our April trip to Stamford Bridge, the goalkeeper has now been nominated for the seasonal title.