Darikwa led the way at Derby

Last updated : 28 September 2015 By Tony Scholes

That group of five players have taken all the points on offer towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year after the top four in each of the man of the match vote and the player ratings came from those five players.

And it was Tendayi Darikwa who came out on top in both to take the maximum ten points towards the player of the year. He won the man of the match with 36.5% of the vote, ahead of Michael Duff, Sky's choice on the night, who came second with 22.0%. Ben Mee, my choice, was third with an 18.4% share and that left the one remaining member of the back four to take that last place; Michael Keane claiming 6.3% of the vote.

Mee didn't make the top four in the ratings. He was replaced by Tom Heaton,  but it was Darikwa on top again with a rating of 7.69 out of 10. It was close between the top four. Heaton was second with a rating of 7.64 and was followed by the two central defenders Duff and Keane who had ratings of 7.53 and 7.49 out of 10.

Besides the ten points for Darikwa, Duff won five points, Heaton got three and there were two points each for Keane and Mee. Added to the player of the year table and it takes Darikwa within two points of Keane at the top. They are some way ahead with Duff currently in third place but twenty points behind leader Keane.

The vote is still in progress for last Saturday's game against Reading.

You can vote for your man of the match via the VOTING POLLS page or the front page of the site.

Your Player Ratings can be posted on the message board.

The Derby result is below along with the current player of the year table.

MAN OF THE MATCH

36.5% - Tendayi Darikwa
22.0% - Michael Duff
18.4% - Ben Mee
6.3% - Michael Keane
5.5% - Tom Heaton
3.9% - David Jones
2.4% - Sam Vokes
2.0% - Scott Arfield
0.8% - George Boyd, Andre Gray, Rouwen Hennings & Michael Kightly

PLAYER RATINGS

7.69 - Tendayi Darikwa
7.64 - Tom Heaton
7.53 - Michael Duff
7.49 - Michael Keane
7.31 - Ben Mee
6.84 - David Jones
6.42 - Scott Arfield
6.02 - Sam Vokes
5.89 - Rouwen Hennings
5.82 - Andre Gray
5.31 - Michael Kightly
5.27 - George Boyd

CLARETS MAD PLAYER OF THE YEAR

45: Michael Keane
41: Tendayi Darikwa
23: Michael Duff
20: Tom Heaton
16: Ben Mee
10: David Jones & Michael Kightly
9: Lukas Jutkiewicz
7: Andre Gray
5: Sam Vokes
4: George Boyd
3: Scott Arfield
2: Matt Taylor & Stephen Ward
1: Rouwen Hennings