Barnes stars on memorable night at Middlesbrough
Last Friday’s win at Middlesbrough was special as we confirmed our promotion back to the Premier League at the first time of asking and it was a night when our longest serving player Ashley Barnes gave us another excellent performance before announcing that he’ll be leaving at the end of the season.
He added his fifth goal of the season to give us an early lead and his overall performance has won him both the man of the match and player ratings. He polled 38% of the man of the match vote with Josh Cullen, who is such a good, consistent player, turning in yet another top performance to take second place with a 20% share. Nathan Tella was third with 13% while Jordan Beyer won 9% of the vote to take fourth place.
We had the same top two in the player ratings and it was so, so close. Barnes had a rating of 8.40 out of ten with Cullen just behind on 8.37. Connor Roberts, who scored the winning goal, claimed third place with a rating of exactly eight while Tella came fourth having rated 7.91 out of ten.
That’s given Barnes the maximum ten points towards the Up the Clarets player of the year with Cullen winning six points. There were also three points for Tella, two for Roberts and Beyer collecting one point.
It’s extended Cullen’s lead at the top of the table to eight points ahead of Beyer with Jack Cork remaining third with a twelve point advantage over Tella. Barnes, the winner in this game, has now moved into eighth place.
Voting for the Sheffield United is still running and will do so until the end of tomorrow with the Reading vote to come next after Saturday’s game.
The Middlesbrough result and the current player of the year table can be found below.
MAN OF THE MATCH
38% – Ashley Barnes
20% – Josh Cullen
13% – Nathan Tella
9% – Jordan Beyer
9% – Connor Roberts
4% – Josh Brownhill
3% – Ameen Al-Dakhil
2% – Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson
1% – Ian Maatsen
0% – Arijanet Muric & Vitinho
0% – Anass Zaroury
PLAYER RATINGS
8.40 – Ashley Barnes
8.37 – Josh Cullen
8.00 – Connor Roberts
7.91 – Nathan Tella
7.74 – Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson
7.60 – Jordan Beyer
7.49 – Josh Brownhill
7.31 – Ameen Al-Dakhil
7.17 – Arijanet Muric
7.03 – Anass Zaroury
6.51 – Vitinho
5.94 – Ian Maatsen
UP THE CLARETS PLAYER OF THE YEAR
118: Josh Cullen
110: Jordan Beyer
105: Jack Cork
93: Nathan Tella
84: Manuel Benson
59: Anass Zaroury
56: Ian Maatsen
52: Ashley Barnes
44: Josh Brownhill & Charlie Taylor
40: Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson
36: Arijanet Muric
35: Taylor Harwood-Bellis
32: Connor Roberts
25: Ameen Al-Dakhil
23: Jay Rodriguez
22: Hjalmar Ekdal
21: Vitinho
15: Bailey Peacock-Farrell
10: Matt Lowton
7: CJ Egan-Riley
6: Samuel Bastien
3: Halil Dervişoğlu
2: Darko Churlinov, Luke McNally & Michael Obafemi
1: Dara Costelloe
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