Mika Biereth has been nominated for the Europa Conference League’s Player of the Week award after his goal helped secure Sturm Graz progression to the next round.

Arsenal’s Mika Biereth has made a strong start on loan with Sturm Graz, and he helped the team through to the last-16 of the Europa Conference League with another goal on Thursday.

Sturm were already leading 4-1 against Slovan Bratislava following the first leg, in which Biereth also scored. But they had to travel away to the Slovakian club for the second leg, with the hosts looking to launch a comeback in front of their fans.

Biereth made sure that didn’t come to pass, bagging another goal with a typically battling finish in the 52nd minute.

Sturm defender David Affengruber launched the ball forwards in a rather hopeful fashion, and Biereth took advantage of a misjudgement by one defender before touching the ball past another to get himself in on goal.

Taking one more touch to set himself for a finish on his weaker left foot, Biereth fired underneath the goalkeeper’s grasp for 1-0.

You can watch the goal on the UEFA website from the timestamp 0:45.

The match finished 1-0, with the tie ending 5-1 on aggregate, and Sturm are into the last-16 draw on Friday.

As a result of his winning goal and the big chance he created, Biereth was one of four players nominated for the Europa Conference League Player of the Week award. You can vote for the Arsenal striker here.

Biereth has now scored three goals in his first five starts for his new loan club, an average of one goal every 121 minutes.

The 21-year-old spent the first half of the season on loan with Motherwell, where he contributed six goals and five assists in 1,045 minutes, one goal contribution every 95 minutes.