Spurs PL (H) | Man of the Match

[FantasyIreland]

Mahrez and Jack were both up there and Rico not far behind. Rihad takes it for 2 goals.

Not just the goals,his attitude and approach has had a full U Turn.

 

[KS55]

I love a fight back led by an old stalwart, so I gave it to Murray.

 

[Akira]

Mahrez for me. Was the crucial spark behind the comeback.

 

[flook]

Mahrez, special mentions to Nathan Ake, Rico Lewis and Jack Ghoulish, despite the pelters he was getting on the matchday thread

 

[tommybooth]

Only one winner with Rico on the outside.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Very close decision. Marhez 2nd half match winner when the team finally pulled together, but I went for Lewis, who was head n shoulders above anybody in the first half when the team were struggling. What a player we have on our hands here.

 

[blueabdi]

If not the goals, Ake would have been the man of the match. The guy is solid.

 

[stonerblue]

Lewis was getting my motm after a fantastic game where he took on some top senior pro's and made them look foolish in the end. Holjberg tried every trick in the book to rile the lad and a couple of other Spurs players went for the 'kick him out of the game' approach. None of it worked and Lewis remained calm and assured throughout, defending well and helping out in attack.
Unfortunately for Rico, Mahrez had a fantastic second half and his two goals just edge Lewis out of top spot.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Had a quick glance at this thread last night, and in my view it was suffering from an excess of immediate post-match euphoria. Nothing wrong with that, I was suffering from it myself. And I can take that kind of suffering till the cows come home.
Sorry, but this is the way I saw it, and I tell it like I saw it.
Man of the match? Of the match? That is, of the full ninety minutes? It isn't Riyad. He had a marvellous second half, perhaps the best he's had since pulling on a City shirt. He played with aggression, determination, intent, intelligence. Hats off. But, in short, everything that he basically didn't show in the first half. He started well, had a lively first ten minutes, and I thought, “Oh great, Mahrez is on it tonight, this is one of his good matches”. He then faded, and became an absence in the rest of the half. Not getting on his case, he wasn't alone in that respect, far from it. But that is the truth of what I saw.
Man of the Match? Who delivered, from first to last, until he was taken off a few minutes from the end? Hands down, our astonishing eighteen-year-old. I simply cannot understand his level of maturity, his reading of the game, his 360° awareness of what's going on around him, his patient attempts to build attacks, his coolness on the ball, his alertness to danger and swiftness in picking up the man who needs to be picked up, at the age he's at.
My vote goes to him, without a second thought.

 

[jim tolmies perm]

Rico young man...feel the love..))