Man Of The Match At Villa

[MikeO]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Player of the Year standings....

Fellaini 268

 

Heitinga 201

 

Pienaar 193

 

Osman 141

 

Arteta 135

 

Cahill 129

 

Saha 111

 

Rodwell 101

 

Baines 101

 

Howard 90

 

Bilyaletdinov 88

 

Distin 72

 

Hibbert 71

 

Donovan 71

 

Coleman 70

 

Yakubu 36

 

Duffy 23

 

Jagielka 22

 

Yobo 20

 

Neill 15

 

Anichebe 13

 

Neville 11

 

João Alves Jô 10

 

Vaughan 8

 

Gosling 6

 

Senderos 4

 

Nash 3

 

Baxter 3

 

Agard 2

 

Forshaw 1

 

Akpan 1

 

MOTM winners....

 

West Ham (H) Johnny Heitinga

 

Wolves (A) Steven Pienaar

 

Manchester City (A) Tim Cahill

 

Bolton (H) Mikel Arteta

 

Birmingham (A) Mikel Arteta

 

Hull City (H) Mikel Arteta

 

Tottenham (A) Ayegbeni Yakubu

 

Sporting Lisbon (A) Tim Howard

 

Manchester United (H) Leon Osman

 

Sporting Lisbon (H) Leon Osman

 

Chelsea (H) Landon Donovan

 

Liverpool (A) Johnny Heitinga

 

Wigan (A) Tim Cahill

 

Sunderland (H) Marouane Fellaini

 

Birmingham (H) Steven Pienaar

 

Manchester City (H) Marouane Fellaini

 

Arsenal (A) Marouane Fellaini

 

Carlisle (H) Marouane Fellaini

 

Burnley (H) Steven Pienaar

 

Sunderland (A) Marouane Fellaini

 

Birmingham (A) Leighton Baines

 

BATE Boresov (H)...Shane Duffy

 

Chelsea (A)...Johnny Heitinga

 

Tottenham (H)...Seamus Coleman

 

AEK Athens (A)...Steven Pienaar

 

Liverpool (H)...Marouane Fellaini

 

Hull City (A)...Johnny Heitinga

 

Manchester United (A)...Johnny Heitinga

 

West Ham (A)...Johnny Heitinga

 

Benfica (H)...Marouane Fellaini

 

Aston Villa (H)...Diniyar Bilyaletdinov

 

Tottenham (A)...Tony Hibbert

 

Bolton (A)...Louis Saha

 

Benfica (A)...Sylvain Distin

 

Wolves (H)...Diniyar Bilyaletdinov

 

Stoke City (H)...Johnny Heitinga

 

BATE Borisov (A)...Tony Hibbert

 

Portsmouth (A)...Tim Howard

 

Hull City (A)...Leon Osman

 

Blackburn (H)...Louis Saha

 

AEK Athens (H)...Diniyar Bilyaletdinov

 

Fulham (A)...Sylvain Distin

 

Wigan...(H)...Jack Rodwell

 

Sigma Olomouc (A)...Steven Pienaar

 

Burnley...(A)...Tony Hibbert

 

Sigma Olomouc (H)...Jack Rodwell

 

Arsenal (H)...Steven Pienaar

[MikeO]

Was going to say the big question was... "Having moved into second place will Johnny H have enough games left to close the 67 point gap on Mo to take our player of the season?"

 

Question now is going to be if he'll be fit for the run-in .

[Romey 1878]

What happened to him? I'm not watching you see.

[MikeO]

What happened to him? I'm not watching you see.

Neither was I....just going on Yankee's post in the match thread and the fact that he came off injured. Hope it's nothing serious.

[StevO]

looked to be either an ankle or foot injury, clumsy challenge really.

 

season ending draw in my opinion, once again we cant see out a win. feels like we've lost a game today.

[jcrawfor]

Can't say Villa didn't deserve a point from that; they looked equally likely to score all match. It's too bad Rodwell didn't find Saha on their late break and that Pip couldn't find the inside of the post. All in all I'm not terribly disappointed with the result. Would be much happier with 3 points but we're still on course to finish with more points than last year...so it's not all bad.

 

Howard- 8 made some crucial early saves and did well otherwise.

Neville- 7.5 One of his better games...he cut out some of the long balls and had some neat touches.

Distin- 7 at fault for the first goal but solid otherwise

Jags- 7 at fault for the second, not his best showing.

Baines 8 beautiful cross for TC's first.

Pienaar 8 some brilliant balls to a clumbsy Yak. Also, good to see him stay on after Young's attack on his kids.

Osman 7.5 too selfish sometime, but nice to see an attacking streak in him.

Bily 6 should have had the opener. still too lightweight for me.

Cahill 9 immense game. Settled nicely into heitinga's role once rodders came on. Beautiful headers.

Rodwell 7.5 good half of football from him, can't wait for next year.

Heitinga 7.5 did well enough in the 1st 45. hope it's nothing serious.

Yakubu 6 ran a lot. horrid control and didn't have any service.

Saha 7 no real chance but he controlled nicely and made some pretty runs.

 

 

...almost forgot?

 

Yobo 5 was he even on the pitch?

Edited April 14, 2010 by bluenoseyankee

[CraccerC]

poor performance but yakubu for me, put in a good shift

[jcrawfor]

poor performance but yakubu for me, put in a good shift

 

you're joking. yak may have run around a bunch but he couldn't handle even the most perfect balls from baines, pienaar or anyone for that matter.

[CraccerC]

i am indeed joking, by the way i thought your ratings were far too generous

[jcrawfor]

fair, for sure. probably should have waited a few more hours to look back....

 

bily wasn't his best (who really knows what that is?)

 

I do stand by my ratings of cahill, neville, howard and rodwell though. felt they were all significant to us blues staying in the match.

[Matt]

thats a really creepy photo of O'Neil....

[CraccerC]

fair, for sure. probably should have waited a few more hours to look back....

 

bily wasn't his best (who really knows what that is?)

 

I do stand by my ratings of cahill, neville, howard and rodwell though. felt they were all significant to us blues staying in the match.

 

im not howards biggest fan, and i don't think he had a marvellous game, the goal wasn't brilliant.

 

and i don't think any of our back 4 players brilliantly, baines put over a good ball but villa were allowed to ping crosses in all game long.

 

i also dont think yo ucan give a 7.5 for 45 minutes of football without being substantially good, heitinga and rodwell, did alright, but nothing more.

 

also 7s for players you consider to be at fault. actually that's made me realise maybe your ratings base is different to mine (im being serious here not a dick btw), what are you giving a player as default? im using 6. basing off 6, 7 would suggest a good solid game for me, which a mistake leading to a goal would pretty much void in my book. 8 being a great contribution and good performance, 9 being fantastic, 10 being flawless and therefore pretty much impossible.

[troy8]

Cahill for me.

[barryj]

Was the Bily vote a joke? I thought that was the worst performance from an Everton player this season!

[jcrawfor]

I'm giving a 7 as an average performance. Both CBs made a mistake, but I don't see that as wrecking the other 89:30 of play. I really though Distin and Jags put in a 7. Would have to say I'd take a point off of what I wrote for Bily, Yak, and Baines.

[inertia8]

I gave it to Cahill, scored two brilliant headers and did well to fall into the gap left by Johnny.

 

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but didn't the commentator say after Cahill's first goal that he as equal with Peter Crouch for most headers in the Premier League? So.. with his 2nd that make him the most prolific scorer of headed goals???

 

I cannot find the stats and must goto work... someone should ask Martin Tyler in his Sky Sports blog thingy

[CraccerC]

I'm giving a 7 as an average performance. Both CBs made a mistake, but I don't see that as wrecking the other 89:30 of play. I really though Distin and Jags put in a 7. Would have to say I'd take a point off of what I wrote for Bily, Yak, and Baines.

 

 

that's football though mate, it's a game of 90 minutes, the odd second can win and lose you game, it often defines a game, unfortunately for jags, distin, neville and howard they made a few mistakes over a couple of seconds that meant that we didnt get 3 points.