{"id":16945,"date":"2026-11-13T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/jackson-wins-aston-villas-first-epl-player-of-the-month-award-in-11-years-bags-october-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:46:29","slug":"jackson-wins-aston-villas-first-epl-player-of-the-month-award-in-11-years-bags-october-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/jackson-wins-aston-villas-first-epl-player-of-the-month-award-in-11-years-bags-october-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Wins Aston Villa\u2019s First EPL Player Of The Month Award In 11 Years, Bags October Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa and Senegal international Nicolas Jackson has been named the EA SPORTS Player of the Month for October.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first Aston Villa player to win the award since Christian Benteke in April 2015, according to premier premierleague.com.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson is also just the fourth Senegalese star to claim the prize, and the first since Sadio Mane in November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The striker topped the vote after netting four goals in four games in October.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the month, Jackson scored Villa\u2019s equaliser in a 2-2 draw against Brentford, before putting in a strong performance in a 1-0 away win at Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea forward then bagged a brace in a memorable 2-1 victory over Manchester City, as Villa became the first team to take points off Enzo Maresca\u2019s side this season.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"csa1x-widget csbw-odds-card\" aria-label=\"Match odds\">\n<p><label class=\"csbw-oddschip\"><span class=\"csbw-oddsbar__label\">Show odds<\/span><button class=\"csbw-oddsswitch\" type=\"button\" role=\"switch\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-label=\"Show odds\" data-csbw-global=\"1\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"csa1x-actions\">\n<details class=\"csa1x-tipster-details csbw-article-tips\">\n<summary class=\"csa1x-tipster-toggle\">Match prediction<\/summary>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/palmer-looks-lost-without-jackson-at-chelsea-mikel\/\">Palmer Looks Lost Without Jackson At Chelsea  \u2013Mikel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jackson completed the month with the first goal in a 1-1 draw with Fulham, as he catapulted himself into contention for the Coca-Cola Golden Boot, with only Erling Haaland and Alexander Isak scoring more than him this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old led an eight-man shortlist that included Evanilson (AFC Bournemouth), Ezri Konsa and Declan Rice (Arsenal), Jack Rudoni (Coventry City), Jan Paul van Hecke (Tottenham Hotspur), Bart Verbruggen and Luka Vuskovic (Brighton &amp; Hove Albion).<\/p>\n<p>Jackson won after the public\u2019s votes on the EA SPORTS website were combined with those of a panel of football experts.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa and Senegal international Nicolas Jackson has been named the EA SPORTS Player of the Month for October. He is the first Aston Villa player to win the award&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}