MANCHESTER City pair of Antoine Semenyo and Pep Guardiola have been voted the English Premier League’s best player and manager respectively for February.
Ghana forward Semenyo has won the February Player of the Month award, capping an impressive first full month at the club after joining from AFC Bournemouth in January.
It is the first time Semenyo has won the award, having recorded three goals and one assist across five appearances in the Premier League in February, netting against Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham and Leeds United.
Semenyo has made an immediate impact at his new club, impressing in numerous roles, including on both wings, as a forward and in midfield.
Semenyo is the first Manchester City player other than Erling Haaland to win the award since Raheem Sterling in December 2021. Haaland himself has won the award four times, most recently in September of this season.
Meanwhile, Semenyo becomes just the third Ghanaian to win the award, after Tony Yeboah (March and September 1995) for Leeds and Andre Ayew (August 2015) for Swansea City.
Semenyo topped a six-man shortlist that included Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal), fellow Man City team-mate Nico O’Reilly, Dango Ouattara (Brentford), Benjamin Sesko (Manchester United) and Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool).
He won after the public’s votes on the EA SPORTS website were combined with those of a panel of football experts.
It is the second award Man City have won in February, after Guardiola was named the Barclays Manager of the Month, his first success for over four years.
Despite having not won the award since December 2021, this is Guardiola’s 12th Barclays Manager of the Month honour, sending him outright third behind Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger. The Man City boss now sits one clear of Everton manager David Moyes.
After opening the month with a draw against Tottenham Hotspur, Guardiola guided Manchester City to a league-high 13 points in February, thanks to victories against Liverpool, Fulham, Newcastle United and Leeds United.
Guardiola topped a four-man shortlist also featuring Keith Andrews (Brentford), Michael Carrick (Manchester United) and Arne Slot (Liverpool).
