The 22-year-old scored the match-winning goal for Newcastle against Southampton at the weekend and he put on a very good performance as well.
It is no surprise that he has made it to Crooks’ team of the week.
The BBC pundit has lavished praise on the young Frenchman as well. In his column with the BBC, he wrote that the Saints players simply failed to cope with his pace and he terrorized them throughout the game.
He wrote: “This lad terrorized Southampton. The Saints simply couldn’t cope with his pace. While Saint-Maximin was carving his way through the Southampton defence, Dwight Gayle was missing chances set up by the Frenchman with alarming regularity.