Player (players) who impressed you most on first weekend of Premiership?

Spiritoftheseventies

Okay to all fans out there. Outside of your own club which player or players impressed you most on first weekend of English premiership?

Boggles

bayviewclose wrote: »

Okay to all fans out there. Outside of your own club which player or players impressed you most on first weekend of English premiership?

Arsenal.

syngindub

Boggles wrote: »

Arsenal.

who does he play for?

Xavi6

Lee Cattermole and Thomas Vermaelan

The Hustler

Fabregas

evil_seed

Palacios, Vermaelan, Hart

Carroller16

Vermaelan, fabregas, Hart, Adebayor, Drogba, Rooney

Leprechaun77

Milijas for Wolves looked a decent player.

Redzer7

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Almunia

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Sagna

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Gallas----Vermaelen

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Clichy

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Song Billong

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Fabregas

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Denilson

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--van Persie

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Bendtner

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Arshavin--

Roaster

Rodallega of Wigan

Boggles

Modric, Huddlestone - That ex city full back, can't think of his name.

Mcfadden for the first half against United.

The Hull captain.

Spiritoftheseventies

Leprechaun77 wrote: »

Milijas for Wolves looked a decent player.

Yes thought he did well for them.

flahavaj

Carragher's showing at White Hart Lane pleased me no end.

Roaster

Redzer7 wrote: »

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Almunia

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Sagna

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Gallas----Vermaelen

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Clichy

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Song Billong

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Fabregas

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Denilson

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--van Persie

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Bendtner

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Arshavin--

+100

emc2

Keith Fahey - if sky commentators could only say his name correctly!

Carroller16

Roaster wrote: »

Rodallega of Wigan

Can't wait until Alan Smith off Sky has to say his name

noodler

Ireland was industrious enough - not surprising tho.

Koumas.

PCPhoto

thought benayoun and reina did well.....
most of the spurs team played very well..... with the exception of Keane not able to finish.

Owen didnt do too bad with his appearance at Old Trafford - he should feature in the goals in the game against Burnley (no offence Burnley fans - just dont think you have a chance)

didnt see the arsenal game but reports suggest that everton didnt play - or stopped playing after 2-3goals....fabregas seemed to have control and the midas touch.

saw some of the Man City/Blackburn game - no-one stood out for me ...well.. maybe "Ireland" it was a composed finish but he could/should have passed it across earlier for someone else to score and keeper should have pounced on him instead of backing off.

Sorensen and Shay given did well.

I dont think any of the BIG names performed (well chelsea/liverpools big names didnt).... Rooney did alright....Berb...meh !

Royale with Cheese

Stephen Ireland. I was very impressed with they way he didn't square it to Adebayor at the end and just shot himself. Nice one.

Mr Alan

PCPhoto wrote: »

Owen didnt do too bad with his appearance at Old Trafford - he should feature in the goals in the game against Burnley (no offence Burnley fans - just dont think you have a chance)

owen did nothing of note in his cameo, except miss a sitter?

Impressed by Rooney, but we all know he is an excellent player.

Lemlin

Darren Bent. Roadallega. Drogba. Bassong. Vermaelen. Modric.

AthAnRi

Modric, Rooney didn't see the rest of the games right

Helix

Roaster wrote: »

Rodallega of Wigan

tbh the only thing he did was score

damienmcd

Was extremely impressed with Drogba. More his attitude than anything else. There were a few times when he could have hit the deck looking for frees etc. but he seems to be more determined so far this season (including pre-season and Community Shield).

Plus I had him as captain in my Fantasy Football so that gave me more reason to appreciate his performance.

yahoo_moe

Helix wrote: »

tbh the only thing he did was score

That's what I thought too, surprised so many people are naming him (though maybe they didn't watch the whole match).

I'd say the same about Drogba - scored a nice free kick and a mi**** cross but otherwise didn't impress me too much.

PHB

Modric was very impressive

Mr Alan

such a good player Modric.

Draupnir

I thought Cameron Jerome did well against United, looks a threat and should do well against more equally matched teams.

Mr Alan

that new lad for Birmingham, Benitez, looked decent when he came on.

silly passing judgement on any players this early in the season though.

_blank_

Mr Alan wrote: »

that new lad for Birmingham, Benitez, looked decent when he came on.

ffs Al, it's clear you're only saying that because of the lads name :rolleyes:

Stargate

Modric had a blinder

Roaster

Helix wrote: »

tbh the only thing he did was score

I could have sworn that's what he's paid to do...

Mr Alan

yea, but it doesn't mean he had a very good game as a result.

i'm paid to do my job every day, and i do it everyday, but some days its done better than others.

similarly, Gerrard had a stinker at the weekend, really really poor game, but was still on the score sheet-does that mean he had a very good game? nope, scoring is his job-its the bare minimum he has to try & do.

Spiritoftheseventies

damienmcd wrote: »

Was extremely impressed with Drogba. More his attitude than anything else. There were a few times when he could have hit the deck looking for frees etc. but he seems to be more determined so far this season (including pre-season and Community Shield).

Plus I had him as captain in my Fantasy Football so that gave me more reason to appreciate his performance.

Yes Houghton said that the goal he scored off the free kick is hard enough to do.

greendom

Helix wrote: »

tbh the only thing he did was score

After scoring such a beaut he probably thought to himself "my work here is done"

Spiritoftheseventies

greendom wrote: »

After scoring such a beaut he probably thought to himself "my work here is done"

On the flip side just because some one scores a goal doesn't mean they didn't also play well.

Helix

bayviewclose wrote: »

On the flip side just because some one scores a goal doesn't mean they didn't also play well.

no it doesnt

my point was that all the actually did on saturday was score

implying that he didnt have a particularly good game, so im not sure how he couldve impressed anyone. unless all they saw was a 45 second highlight clip on motd

Pro. F

The games I saw: Blackburn v Man City, Man United v Birmingham and Spurs v Liverpool.

Lennon, Modric and Palacios stood out the most for me. Liverpool are so good at breaking up the play, I was impressed with how the Spurs' midfield took them on and managed to play their way through at times.

I thought Benayoun did well when he came on.

City didn't seem to be tested that much. None of them really stood out for me except for Ireland's finish, which was class imo.

Redzer7

Song!!

ChumpStain

For me the best were;
Modric - Looks like he's really found his role in the Spurs team
Palacios - Tenacious but has good feet and doesn't give the ball away
Cattermole - Same as above just in red and white
Rooney - Looked focused and I think he'll have a good season
Drogba - Strong, quick and a constant threat.

1967

Have to say i was impressed with Keith Fahey and Stephen Hunt who took his goal well.

Headshot

Vermaelen

the lad reminds me of vidic.

JPA

Headshot wrote: »

Vermaelen

the lad reminds me of vidic.

They do lookalike.

Raskolnikov

Boggles wrote: »

The Hull captain.

Boateng is his name, he was very impressive.

Jugs82

Other than the obvious few that have been mentioned, I was very impressed with Miljas at Wolves - cracking shot on him!!

Bellamy (hurts me to say it) played well for city

Koumas looked tidy for Wigan while Bent looks set to be a hit at Sunderland - he just scored again tonight. Also at Sunderland, Cana is what they missed last year, a hard tackling defensive midfielder

Noble and Jimenez at West Ham looked good - Noble looks set to build on a good season last year

Benayoun looked lively when he came on - hope he gets a few starts and isnt used as an impact sub by Rafa

Shawcross at Stoke, a goal and a strong presence at the back

Frisbee

From an Arsenal POV:

Song - He's improved drastically

Vermaelen - It's great to have a leader in defence and he'd put his head places you wouldn't put a crowbar


Aside from that was quite impressed by Larsson and Fahey, can see them doing well this year.

mink_man

fahy for birmingham alright!

lordgoat

Thought Arsenal looked great against Everton. Tore them apart. Song in particular was immense, he let Fabregas play and hr ran the show. Bendtnar was good in the first half too. The whole team really closed Everton down well and out fought them in midfield. Scary if they can keep this up for the season, it was a new side that i hadn't seen before.

mink_man

yer man from wolves was supposed to be very good too!

mink_man

also joe hart!