Vote for your man of the match against Watford

[ClaretTony]

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[jdrobbo]

Trafford should walk this. Three great saves; one world class.

[DAVETHEVICAR]

Agree he kept Burnley in the game with several outstanding saves
Should get 100% of the votes

[Rileybobs]

Trafford was obviously class, but Egan-Riley was also awesome.

[Quickenthetempo]

Try explaining your keeper getting man of the match when we played against 9 men for so long.

[Rileybobs]

Try explaining your keeper getting man of the match when we played against 9 men for so long.

Probably because we played against 9 men for just 25 minutes which we treated as a keep ball session. The big game-defining moments pretty much all occurred during the preceding 65 minutes, pretty simple really.

[Quickenthetempo]

Probably because we played against 9 men for just 25 minutes which we treated as a keep ball session. The big game-defining moments pretty much all occurred during the preceding 65 minutes, pretty simple really.

Plus another 10 minutes with 10 men.

[Rileybobs]

Plus another 10 minutes with 10 men.

Yeah, what's your point? Pretty much every game-defining moment, other than the actual sending-offs themselves, happened when there were 22 players on the pitch.

[Roosterbooster]

Trafford was obviously class, but Egan-Riley was also awesome.

Easily 2nd place for me
The pass to Anthony and the tackle at the end were sublime

[Anonymous Claret]

Try explaining your keeper getting man of the match when we played against 9 men for so long.

All the good/great saves were made when it was 11 v 11. What do you need explaining?

[Paul Waine]

Try explaining your keeper getting man of the match when we played against 9 men for so long.

Burnley had gone 2-1 ahead when 1st Watford player got his first and second yellow cards. Approx 10 mins later the second of 2 yellows = red reduced Watford to 9 men. Game over. I'd expect instruction was to play "keep ball" and that's what Burnley did for about 20 minutes. Bigger game in 3 days time. No need for any injuries. OK, in added time the team let things slip a little. For a moment or two I said I was nervous. However, once CJ and Traffs had shown they were still at the best everything was all good and 3 points in the bag.

Traffs gets my mom for some great saves earlier in the game. A top 8 out of 10 performance. It would have been 9 if he'd saved Watford's goal.

[Claretitus]

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Try explaining your keeper getting man of the match when we played against 9 men for so long.

Burnley had gone 2-1 ahead when 1st Watford player got his first and second yellow cards. Approx 10 mins later the second of 2 yellows = red reduced Watford to 9 men. Game over. I'd expect instruction was to play "keep ball" and that's what Burnley did for about 20 minutes. Bigger game in 3 days time. No need for any injuries. OK, in added time the team let things slip a little. For a moment or two I said I was nervous. However, once CJ and Traffs had shown they were still at the best everything was all good and 3 points in the bag.

Traffs gets my mom for some great saves earlier in the game. A top 8 out of 10 performance. It would have been 9 if he'd saved Watford's goal.
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Basically, when they went down to 9 men, and we were 2-1 up, what’s the point of going gung ho for maybe 2 more goals? We ain’t gonna match Leeds on GD, but we can catch them on points. So, if we manage the game, keep the ball, Watford in all likelihood don’t score, and we win - which we did. Simples.

[NL Claret]

All the good/great saves were made when it was 11 v 11. What do you need explaining?

Some cannot see or don’t want to see beyond negativity. If you only watch the 2 minutes of the highlights Trafford makes 2 game changing saves when it was 11v11. The minority aren’t happy that we didn’t score another 5 goals as we had a 2 man advantage.

I mentioned in another post that I’m sure there are a lot of parody posters on here.

Trafford MOM irrespective of how many we played against for a small part of the game.

[Paul Waine]

Basically, when they went down to 9 men, and we were 2-1 up, what’s the point of going gung ho for maybe 2 more goals? We ain’t gonna match Leeds on GD, but we can catch them on points. So, if we manage the game, keep the ball, Watford in all likelihood don’t score, and we win - which we did. Simples.
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Glad we agree.

[martin_p]

Try explaining your keeper getting man of the match when we played against 9 men for so long.

There were four games to go and we’re in a big promotion battle, players are understandably nervous. It’s not that hard. Is this your first season watching football?

[Bosscat]

Trafford was MotM end of thread

[IanMcL]

81% currently.

[IanMcL]

James Trafford (80%, 467 Votes)
CJ Egan-Riley (6%, 37 Votes)
Josh Cullen (5%, 30 Votes)
Zian Flemming (3%, 15 Votes)

The only ones with double figures.