Man Of The Match V Spurs

[MikeO]

 

Current Player of the Year standings....

Baines 57

 

Distin 39

 

Pienaar 38

 

Cahill 34

 

Fellaini 26

 

Howard 22

 

Yakubu 22

 

Coleman 19

 

Osman 17

 

Hibbert 7

 

Arteta 7

 

Jagielka 8

 

Rodwell 5

 

Beckford 3

 

Gueye 3

 

Neville 2

 

Bilyaletdinov 2

 

Heitinga 1

 

MOTM winners....

 

Liverpool (H)...Tim Cahill

 

Birmingham (A)...Leon Osman

 

Fulham (A)...Steven Pienaar

 

Brentford (A)...Seamus Coleman

 

Newcastle (H)...Sylvain Distin

 

Manchester United (H)...Tim Howard

 

Aston Villa (A)...Leighton Baines

 

Huddersfield (H)...Marouane Fellaini

 

Wolves (H)...Sylvain Distin

 

Blackburn (A)...Leighton Baines

[marcopaulo]

baines for me just cos of the goal...nothin else stood out

[Bailey]

For me it was between Baines, Jags and Pienaar... I went for the latter as he litterally ran everywhere and whilst the quality was always there he didnt stop despite not looking 100% fit.

[Ian C]

For me it was between Baines, Jags and Pienaar... I went for the latter as he litterally ran everywhere and whilst the quality was always there he didnt stop despite not looking 100% fit.

 

Ditto!

[rubecula]

I gave it to Baines for his amount of work and getting his goal. It was a fantastic free kick IMO

[Bill]

If we had another player on the pitch instead of Heitinga today, we would have won that game cos he was awful, missed all his tackles and whenever he had the ball he continually gave it to white shirts or put it out of play, which inevitably stopped our attacks from progressing. He looked as tho he didnt want to be here

Bilyaletdinov was another who did Fook all, we should sell them two in January and bring in two players that want to play.

 

My MOTM was deffo Pienaar.

[Ian C]

In fairness, Bill, Heitinga wasn't fully fit, he was injured last week.

[Bill]

In fairness, Bill, Heitinga wasn't fully fit, he was injured last week.

 

So was Pienaar.

[Romey 1878]

Baines.

[Blue 250]

Jags for his handling of Crouch.

[Madmatt]

apart from the goal, i tohught it was a very strong defensive preformance. Jonny h was obviously not fit enough to be on the pitch, amazed he came out for the second half. i suspect if we had still been 1-0 up we wouldnt have seen him.

 

I went for distan again (two on the trot???) as personally i think he was just as good as last week. i cant remember him putting a foot wrong and controlled the defence with jags well.

[evertonblue]

Coleman and Baines were fantastic. Howard was awful. Cahill was very tired and not at his best. Jagielka was a bit rusty. Distin played hard but went missing and misjudged a few crucial balls. Heitinga was quiet. Pienaar ran his backside off.

 

Man of the match had to go to Modric. He commanded the entire match.

 

For us i will go with Coleman. I thought Baines did okay although his set pieces apart from the goal weren't great and he made a few sloppy mistakes in defence.

 

Modric.

[Kohen]

apart from the goal, i tohught it was a very strong defensive preformance. Jonny h was obviously not fit enough to be on the pitch, amazed he came out for the second half. i suspect if we had still been 1-0 up we wouldnt have seen him.

 

I went for distan again (two on the trot???) as personally i think he was just as good as last week. i cant remember him putting a foot wrong and controlled the defence with jags well.

 

Distin did alright, for his moments of genius he had two bewildering moments!

[evertonblue]

Distin did alright, for his moments of genius he had two bewildering moments!

 

The time he over ran the header was park football. Crazy.

[MikeO]

Modric.

You've not quite got the hang of this have you ?

 

The time he over ran the header was park football. Crazy.

Agreed but to his credit he recovered the situation.

[The Beard]

I will not go into any such conversation, as we are all entitled to out opinion, but Jagielka by a country mile............and I think that is the first time I have voted for him.

[duncanmckenzieismagic]

Jags was easily the stand out performer for me and I am totally amazed that anyone could think he looked rusty

 

Baines and Piennar both did well and I actually thought Bily did ok first half although we did carry him in the second half, unlike Johnny H who we carried for the entire game

 

I also thought Phil Neville handled Gareth Bale superbly

 

All things considered I thought it was a good point

Edited October 24, 2010 by duncanmckenzieismagic

[blueblood]

I went for Jags as there were a few occassions when he got blocks in when, if missed, Spurs would have been through on goal. So, match saver for me.

 

Howard... as good as he can be his lapses to these types of errors or propensity to get beaten from 30+ yards continues to wrankle.

 

Baines, quality free-kick. Take note for when Arteta come back and resumes responsibility, players in the wall have fear!

 

Saha did nothing when he came on for me. Heitinga, comments about his fitness aside, if we don't want to play him CB then when Felli and Rodwell are back fit I'd struggle to justify a place in the starting XI

 

Apart from one attempt at a 40 yard cross field ball that went no-where near the intended target (which happens every game) Jags snatched it for me.

[buddy]

Jags for mine. His composure at the back is so important to us.

 

Overall though most players contributed throughout the game.

 

Howard's mistake was obviously a big one, but he did make some important saves.

 

Bilyaletdinov is a concern - looks too slow to me to play on the left side.

 

Thought Coleman was really good too. Looked like Moyes gave him the job of assisting Neville in containing Bale and they did a fantastic job.

[Matt]

Baines, though it couldve been Jags, Neville (like it or not, he kept Bale quiet), Pienaar (GIVE HIM THE DAMN CONTRACT HE HAS EARNT!) or Yak

[adamsmith69]

first time for everything but i have given it to Captain Pip simply for doing a job on Bale (he did have good help from coleman). could have easily given it to Baines also for his free kick.