Pascal Gross has won the EA SPORTS Player of the Month award for September after one of the best spells of his career. The 35-year-old Brighton midfielder receives the award for the first time.

Gross recorded five goal involvements in September, with two goals and three assists. His run began with a goal and two assists in Brighton’s 5-0 win over Coventry City.

He then opened the scoring against Arsenal and set up Chema Andrés for the goal in the 3-0 win over the champions. Those numbers put him among the league leaders in goal involvements, level with several other players.

At 35 years and three months old, Gross is the sixth-oldest player to win the award. Only Stuart Pearce and Teddy Sheringham, both aged 38, Cristiano Ronaldo, aged 37, Gianfranco Zola, aged 36, and Paul Scholes, who was 35 years and nine months old, rank ahead of him.

Gross beat his teammate Charalampos Kostoulas, Mohamed Belloumi (Hull City), Jayden Bogle (Leeds United), Alexander Isak and Jeremy Jacquet (Liverpool), Kevin Schade (Brentford), and Antoine Semenyo (Manchester City). Among the veteran winners, he sits just ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who won it at 35 years and two months old.

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