Man Of The Match V Spurs

[MikeO]

Current Player of the Year standings....

Baines 130

 

Distin 111

 

Coleman 90

 

Pienaar 85

 

Cahill 83

 

Fellaini 48

 

Yakubu 47

 

Howard 44

 

Jagielka 25

 

Osman 17

 

Arteta 12

 

Hibbert 7

 

Beckford 7

 

Rodwell 7

 

Neville 6

 

Gueye 3

 

Bilyaletdinov 2

 

Heitinga 2

 

MOTM winners....

 

Stoke City (A)...Sylvain Distin

 

West Ham (A)...Sylvain Distin

 

Man City (A)...Tim Howard

 

Wigan (H)...Seamus Coleman

 

Chelsea (A)...Leighton Baines

 

West Brom (H)...Tim Cahill

 

Sunderland (A)...Steven Pienaar

 

Arsenal (H)...Seamus Coleman

 

Bolton (H)...Sylvain Distin

 

Blackpool (A)...Seamus Coleman

 

Stoke City (H)...Ayegbeni Yakubu

 

Spurs (A)...Leighton Baines

 

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

[Greggles]

coleman. just. the whole bloomin team were magnificent.

[Hafnia]

Not much in it between Fellaini and Coleman, Fellaini gets it for his defensive work and winning ball after ball. Another great performance from young Seamus.

 

Mr Moyes, repeat after me, 4-4-2, 4-4-2, 4-4-2

[scouse]

Not much in it between Fellaini and Coleman, Fellaini gets it for his defensive work and winning ball after ball. Another great performance from young Seamus.

 

Mr Moyes, repeat after me, 4-4-2, 4-4-2, 4-4-2

 

 

100% this

[bluemonkey]

gone for coleman but as has been said already fellaini was also magnificent

[lilpyrokid951]

coleman for me. was amazing all through the second half and deserved his goal.

 

not saying its MOTM worthy but its worth noting the big difference from saha. i think its no coincidence that this good game of his has coincided with us playing 442. moyes take note

[marcopaulo]

felli for me..im gonna have wet dreams about that man tonight

[Jimmy the blue]

I found it hard to choose between Coleman and Mo, for me Mo edged it just. The team itself wasn't tripping over itself, moves flowed because players had space and more targets up front.

 

I have to say that when he is playing well Mo is a joy to watch

[Bailey]

Coleman just ahead of Felli.

 

I just love the way he gets at teams and Assou-Ekkoto (sp?) looked scared.

[MikeO]

Coleman just ahead of Felli.

 

I just love the way he gets at teams and Assou-Ekkoto (sp?) looked scared.

According to Hansen "Coleman absolutely decimated him tonight."

 

I see Seamus has graduated to doing post-match interviews, the only problem with that is that is puts his "beard" out there .

 

Someone have a word with him.

[marcopaulo]

According to Hansen "Coleman absolutely decimated him tonight."

 

I see Seamus has graduated to doing post-match interviews, the only problem with that is that is puts his "beard" out there .

 

Someone have a word with him.

 

nowt wrong wi owd seamus' beard..not too dissimilar to mine

[Hafnia]

Was accurately negative about fellaini a good year and a bit ago, what is it that has made me change my mind about him?

 

He is still the same sloooow player who was an advanced bystander when playing in fast flowing midfields, it seems to me that not playing him in defensive midfield totally threw his game off. He was and never will be an attacking midfielder, he would be a better centre half IMO than an attack minded midfielder.

 

His game Is sitting in front of the back four and breaking play up, not only did he do that but he found one of our players time after time. Totally pleased for the lad, we have one of the best defensive midfielders in the prem.

[marcopaulo]

i honestly can't think of any better..perhaps essien but isn't he more attack minded most the time? beyond that it's a struggle

[BrotherEstapol]

Didn't catch much of the game...how did Johnny H go back in his right place?

[hlbunton]

Went with King Louis (where have you been for the past year). He setup alot of chances. His goal was a great shot and Coleman's goal was a by-product of another good shot by Saha. I think him and Yak upfront would be a good setup. I really believe it takes 2-3 games for the Yak to get going. Beckford looks for penalties to often and has had some trouble putting away his chances.

But for tonight, great job and COYB!

 

(In fairness though Saha had that back pass which was horrible and would have been a Spurs goal if Crouch knew about offsides)

Edited January 6, 2011 by hlbunton

[marcopaulo]

ok nothing special but solid enough..he got crouch's arms in his face a lot and made a bit too much of it for my liking

[coxy051]

Fellaini absolutely amazing! this is what we bought this lad for he's class, we have been missing someone like him since Carsley but this boy can pass and break up play as good as anyone in the prem! Ive always had my doubts about him since he got here but he was never played in his right position (cue david moyes here). This is what he does and he's arguably one of the best defensive midfielder's in the league. 15 million pfff! for a player of his quality that's nothing in today's market. like others have said 442 has to be the way forward, as long as we have a player like Felli in midfield breaking up play and even doing Arteta's job supplying the forwards with neat short passes an always available for the ball we can stick to this formation. Put him next to a inform Arteta and things should work out nicely.

 

Well done the boys today and well done Moyes taken his finger out of his arse an trying something new! I was shocked with the team sheet! May his attacking style of play continue. We've got the team the players an we all know we should be up there in the top 6 at least this is are best squad in years. Have faith in the boys and Moyes (if he plays players in there position) and lets climb this table! Mention for Coleman tonight as well! Gareth Bale who??

[coxy051]

Ohh an a mention for van der farts. Best signing in the prem by far! He's like a Cahill with good feet but without the head, 8 million my word! Saying that Cahill 2.5 million that was in the old market tho, I wonder what he would have cost in today's market.

[jcrawfor]

Ohh an a mention for van der farts. Best signing in the prem by far! He's like a Cahill with good feet but without the head, 8 million my word! Saying that Cahill 2.5 million that was in the old market tho, I wonder what he would have cost in today's market.

 

I was quite please when we were linked with him. Too bad we're too fucking skint for a steal like that. He would have been a wonderful buy at 8 mil. Pissed that he's at spurs though.

[Romey 1878]

Coleman.

 

But I could have just as easily voted for Fellaini or Saha ( ).

[adamsmith69]

Just to echo every other post. I gave it to Coleman, he seems to put the willies up that Assou Ekotto. Fellaini was immense though, again looking a v good player. Lets hope we can push on from here.

[FellainisHair]

Fellaini, the guy is class. Can't think of many better Dm's in the league at the moment, £12.5mil + clauses well spent. Coleman was very good too, if he keeps progressing at this rate I can see him becoming a very good right mid.

[Ian C]

Was a very very happy lad in the pub with my Coleman kit on last night. He did us proud. MOTM.

 

 

But dear lord there was just so much space for our forward players to roam. Cahill wasn't standing in the hole clogging up all the space. Our midfielders could actually make forward runs and with 2 strikers one could run the channel and there would still be a target in the middle. Don't get me wrong, Cahill's one of our best players but after last night we cannot go back to 4-4-1-1 just for his sake. Will Moyes learn his lesson?

[The Beard]

Fellaini just edges it for me. Re-iterating what most people have already said about him, when he is on form he is an awesome player. A word of praise for Coleman for his all round effort and him and Nevilla negated Bale for the second time this season, Saha had his best game for what seems like an age. Happier days all round and oh! how good was it to see 4-4-2?

[duncanmckenzieismagic]

Felli for me he was everywhere and never stopped all night.

 

Coleman had a good game as did Saha in fact a pretty good performance all round. I couldnt beleive Garbutt never got a game though !

[c1982]

Felli was world class. Coleman worked his little irish socks off. Saha actually put in a shift. Distin was solid. Neville beat bale phsycologically. Johnny grew as the game went on. Distin was solid. Becks kept chipping away. Arteta looked more like his old self. Baines was always a threat and coped well with lennon. Piennar showed flashes of brilliance. Howard made a couple of fantastic saves... and Moyes got it tactically spot on!!!

[rubecula]

Pity I couldn't vote for more than one player, in the end it went to Felli, but only just.

 

Brilliant game, brilliant result and for me it was totally unexpected.

 

I can't get the grin off my face. Well done to the entire team.

[smeghead1]

Gone for Felli dont know why coz all eleven did me proud, there was an extremely quiet spurs fan in work today thanx lads!

[Matt]

Coleman for his none stop attacking. Felli close up, followed by T-How and the rest. Awesome performance.