Super Steve or Terrific Tunchev?

[Stuliasz]

Leicester City 4-0 Peterborough United

20 December 2008

Never mind the Christmas No. 1, the real result that the world is waiting for is who is going to be celebrating a player-ratings.com man of the match award over their Christmas turkey? It was a close run thing but Aleksandar Tunchev just pipped Steve Howard to collect his seventh man of the match award of the season.

Tunchev was on top form to keep the high profile strike partnership of Aaron McLean and Craig Mackail-Smith at bay in the 4-0 victory and there can be no doubt that Steve Howard would have sacrificed the man of the match award for a goal before the game. His fine strike was his first goal since October and ensured that he was a very close runner-up. Third place went to captain Matt Oakley who just stole ahead of 23-goal striker Fryatt and on loan midfielder Mark Davies.

There were no poor performances from those who started and this reflects in a scoreline which helped Leicester move four points clear at the top of League One.

Full results below:

Player Awards:

Man of the Match: Aleksandar Tunchev – 8.45

Flop of the Match: David Martin – 6.83

Best Defender: Aleksandar Tunchev – 8.45

Best Midfielder: Matt Oakley – 8.16

Best Striker: Steve Howard – 8.42

Full Ratings:

1. Aleksandar Tunchev – 8.45

2. Steve Howard – 8.42

3. Matt Oakley – 8.16

4. Matty Fryatt – 8.11

5. Mark Davies – 8.02

6. Andy King – 7.61

7. Kerrea Gilbert – 7.40

8. Lloyd Dyer – 7.10

9. Jack Hobbs – 7.03

10. Bruno Berner – 7.01

11. David Martin – 6.83

12. Paul Dickov – 5.60

Voter Awards:

Top/Fairest Voters: Gyepes / rowlattsfox / amagnafox / Steve Emmo / SamL / Leon Thorne / Flynny / sheffieldfox / King Cal / Josh_Leicester / Sparky / Stevo__ / Walker / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Most Generous Voter: 1st – newtonfox – 9.25; 2nd – Bevan / Chris P / rmc – 8.33; 3rd – LCFC_4EVA / mitchofox – 8.25

Harshest Voter: 1st – E Jones – 6.42; 2nd – Bilborough Fox – 6.50; Hazzman – 6.58

(Anonymous voters are not included in the voter awards)

Total Votes: 141

Brilliant turnout again, nearly half way through the season and the site is growing ever popular. Voting will be open shortly after the Leeds game on boxing day so please remember to log on and vote if you go to Elland Road.

[Koke]

It was such a good performance that it was difficult to give one person man of the match. Tunchev got it which is fantastic, and if it was Howard or Oakley I wouldn't have complained either.

Everybody played great.

Good stuff sheffield_fox

[Ric Flair]

Tunchev was amazing, but it still irks me a little that a defender get's man of the match in a game where we showed our most devastating attacking prowess for the first time this season at home.