Estève for the defence in Brighton draw
It was a case for the defence in last Saturday’s 1-1 home draw against Brighton but, as was the case at Everton a week earlier, the man of the match and player ratings were both won by central defender Maxime Estève although the tough competition came from his defensive partner Hjalmar Ekdal.
It was a close run thing between Estève and Ekdal, who had come in for the suspended Dara O’Shea and was making his first appearance since the home draw against Fulham at the start of February when he was replaced at half time and replaced by Estève for his debut.
In this game, Estève won the man of the match with 40% of the vote, followed by Ekdal who claimed a 33% share. Josh Brownhill, our goalscorer, was third with 7% and Josh Cullen just beat Sander Berge into fourth place with 6% of the vote.
Those four players all featured at the top of the player ratings too and in the same order. Estève was the winner with a rating of 7.56 out of ten and Ekdal was again second; his rating was 7.50. Brownhill was third with 6.78 and Lorenz Assignon joined Cullen in joint fourth place with a rating of 6.31 out of ten.
This result has given Estève another ten points in the Up the Clarets Player of the Year Table with Ekdal winning six points alongside four points for Brownhill, two for Cullen and one point for Assignon.
Cullen has now moved into joint fifth place in the table alongside Luca Koleosho and last season’s player of the year, on recent form, will be looking to push towards second place in the final games of the season.
The Sheffield United vote will be underway after the game on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Brighton result and the current player of the year table can be found below.
MAN OF THE MATCH
40% – Maxime Estève
33% – Hjalmar Ekdal
7% – Josh Brownhill
6% – Josh Cullen
6% – Sander Berge
4% – Lorenz Assignon
2% – Wilson Odobert
1% – Charlie Taylor
0% – David Datro Fofana, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Arijanet Muric, Jay Rodriguez & Vitinho
0% – Lyle Foster
PLAYER RATINGS
7.56 – Maxime Estève
7.50 – Hjalmar Ekdal
6.78 – Josh Brownhill
6.31 – Lorenz Assignon & Josh Cullen
6.22 – Sander Berge
5.58 – Wilson Odobert
5.47 – Jay Rodriguez
5.33 – Charlie Taylor & Vitinho
5.22 – Jacob Bruun Larsen
4.19 – Lyle Foster
4.14 – Arijanet Muric
3.69 – David Datro Fofana
UP THE CLARETS PLAYER OF THE YEAR
133: Sander Berge
68: Dara O’Shea
66: Lyle Foster
58: James Trafford
54: Josh Cullen & Luca Koleosho
43: Arijanet Muric
39: Charlie Taylor
38: David Datro Fofana
37: Jordan Beyer
33: Josh Brownhill
27: Wilson Odobert
25: Maxime Estève
23: Vitinho
22: Ameen Al-Dakhil
17: Hjalmar Ekdal
15: Zeki Amdouni, Lorenz Assignon & Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson
14: Hannes Delcroix
9: Jacob Bruun Larsen
8: Anass Zaroury
7: Jay Rodriguez
5: Aaron Ramsey
4: Nathan Redmond
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