Man On The Match V Sunderland

[MikeO]

Current Player of the Year standings....

Fellaini 191

 

Baines 148

 

Coleman 127

 

Distin 124

 

Pienaar 85

 

Cahill 83

 

Howard 79

 

Saha 53

 

Yakubu 47

 

Arteta 35

 

Jagielka 26

 

Osman 19

 

Bilyaletdinov 10

 

Rodwell 8

 

Hibbert 7

 

Beckford 7

 

Neville 6

 

Heitinga 4

 

Gueye 3

 

Baxter 2

 

Anichebe 1

 

MOTM winners....

 

Chelsea (A)...Tim Howard

 

Bolton (A)...Mikel Arteta

 

Blackpool (H)...Louis Saha

 

Arsenal (A)...Marouane Fellaini

 

Chelsea (H)...Marouane Fellaini

 

West Ham (H)...Marouane Fellaini

 

Liverpool (A)...Marouane Fellaini

 

Scunthorpe United (A)...Marouane Fellaini

 

Tottenham (H)...Seamus Coleman

 

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

[Matt]

Ossie easily. But couldve been any of the defence, Howard, Arteta, Rodwell.... good solid performance and a clean sheet!

[Steve_E]

Ossie. Arteta and Rodwell were excellent as well. And Saha and Beckford had good games. I'm pleased with today's performance.

[hlbunton]

Went for Beckford but Ossie had a great game - however he cannot shoot. His final shot should have been a goal but he sprayed some wild shots throughout the match. His passing and positioning was really good.

 

Good games by Arteta, Rodwell, Jags and Howard as well. Coleman has been giving the ball up a bit too much recently but still has the occassional stroke of genius

[storm]

Ossie for me, played really well

[Adam Partington]

Jags, Osman, MIkel for me lads (in that order). I thought Jags was brilliant, solid, did everything that was asked of him. Osman was everywhere, really impressed me with his work rate, that little run at the end was Messi like! Finally Knowbody better, he looked back to his best, sprayed the ball around well and looked sharp and controlled.

 

Beckford just misses out for me, however his movement was brilliant as ever, maybe if he'd have done the full 90 he might have got in my top three...

 

MOM - Jags

 

Funny how people see the game differently isn't it?

[Greggles]

I also went for jags, thought he was back to his best and we finally kept a clean sheet! thought the whole team was dominant though, easily could have had more than 2 goals.

[adamsmith69]

Thought Arteta looked very good today, gave him MOM, back to something near his best.

[smeghead1]

Thought Arteta looked very good today, gave him MOM, back to something near his best.

My sentiments aswell, goto be honest tho and tossed a coin between him and Ossie! Soz Ossie it came out heads.

[marcopaulo]

beckford for the goals..no one really stood out to me just a good team performance

[LexKing]

We didnt play well, got clean sheet and so on, lot of player did theri job, but still 2 golas done. Its Becks oBV.

[Hafnia]

Ossie played as good as he can which is a high standard. Saha played well in a front two which gets my vote. Went the match with a sunderland fan who said sahas first half was class in a glass, in terms of touch, ability to scare defenders etc. His vote is mine today

[Bailey]

Ossie played as good as he can which is a high standard. Saha played well in a front two which gets my vote. Went the match with a sunderland fan who said sahas first half was class in a glass, in terms of touch, ability to scare defenders etc. His vote is mine today

 

First half he was unplayable at times and he was toying with the sunderland defence, although I thought he got a little lazy in the second half, although i probably didnt help that we went long a bit too regularly.

[duncanmckenzieismagic]

Could only really have been Ossie, even if he didnt have his shooting boots on

 

Like most have said Jags and Arteta both had great games also.

[Romey 1878]

Jags.

 

But I thought it was more of a team effort with no single player standing out.

[The Beard]

Osman, just for me, his work rate (as usual) was excellent. His willingness to stay on the left until he was asked to move further infield later on did him credit. He actually won a few defensive headers and even tried crossing the ball, and shoot, with his left foot on more than one occasion. Arteta was definately getting back to what we know he can do and had his best game for a while, great run for the second goal. Fellaini was doing his usual sound stuff, breaking up play and driving us on until his injury, whilst the defence looked quite solid, decent marks for Jagielka, Distin et al. Disappointing day for Coleman, I thought. Have teams found him out, denying him space to race into, getting him to shift onto his left foot. If we had any options then it maybe time for a rest for Seamus!

[Hafnia]

Anyone else notice jags giving Neville a piece of his mind?

[rubecula]

Pleased with the result. Mostly pleased with the performance. Still lacks something, but better all round I think.

 

I actually had to ponder who to pick this game for MOM. Ossie deserved it I suppose but I decided that the improvement in Arteta gave him the edge. Partly for his on the pitch work, and partly for the fact that he seems to have finally pulled his socks up and got on with it.

[FellainisHair]

Beckford. The skill involved to calculate the movement of Bramble was superb and his placement for the second was sublime.