Everton's Kieran Dowell has been given another reason to celebrate this week after winning April's Premier League 2 Player of the Month award.
The 19-year-old midfielder scored once in two matches last month as David Unsworth's Toffees clinched the PL2 Division 1 title, leading to lifting the trophy in front of 17,525 fans at Goodison Park on Monday 8 May.
"The award caps off a great season for him," David Unsworth, the Everton PL2 coach, told evertonfc.com. "Kieran’s had a brilliant second half of the season, his form has been outstanding, he’s scored and created goals for fun."
Dowell was selected by a panel of the Premier League Football Development from a shortlist generated by a poll of all the PL2 managers, who nominated the best individual performance from their opponents throughout the month.
He beat Rory Hale, of Aston Villa, Southampton winger Josh Sims, Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount and Donovan Wilson, a Wolverhampton Wanderers striker
He is the second Everton player to win the award in 2016/17, after Liam Walsh in February.
See: Unsworth on Dowell's progress
2016/17 PL2 Players of the Month
March Julien Ngoy (Stoke City)
February Liam Walsh (Everton)
January Oliver McBurnie (Swansea City)
December Jonathan Leko (West Brom)
November Josh Sims (Southampton)
October Paolo Fernandes (Man City)
September Rushian Hepburn-Murphy (Aston Villa)
August Ethan Robson (Sunderland)
