Darikwa wins his first man of the match

Last updated : 20 August 2015 By Tony Scholes

Officially, Darikwa was responsible for Birmingham's second goal. That's the one when his horrendous challenge on Clayton Donaldson won Birmingham a penalty (I believe that may be referee David Coote's version).

Everyone knows it was a shocker of a decision and the real truth is that Darikwa had an excellent game. He got forward well to support the attacks and his performance fully warranted his winning of both the man of the match vote and the player ratings.

Almost half voted for him for the man of the match, 49.0% in total, to give him a comfortable win over defensive partner Michael Keane who polled 28.0%. Another defender, Michael Duff, came third with 6.6% of the vote with Lukas Jutkiewicz finishing fourth with a 3.5% share.

The player ratings saw just one change to the top four with goalkeeper Tom Heaton replacing Duff.

Darikwa's rating of 7.28 out of 10 was well clear of Heaton whose 6.77 won him second place. Keane came third with a rating of 6.53 with a rating of 6.20 out of 10 giving Jutkiewicz another fourth place.

The result means the maximum ten points towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year for Darikwa. Keane gets five points, there are three points for Heaton and two each for Duff and Jutkiewicz.

The player of the year table hasn't settle yet with only three games gone, and we've already had three different leaders. Darikwa is the third of them, he's now five points ahead of both Duff and Ben Mee at the top.

The Ipswich vote and ratings are still in progress and will be until the end of Friday.

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

Your Player Ratings can be posted on the message board.

The next vote will be for Saturday's home game against Brentford which will be underway within an hour of the final whistle.

The result for the Birmingham game is below, followed by the current player of the year table.

MAN OF THE MATCH

49.0% - Tendayi Darikwa
28.0% - Michael Keane
6.6% - Michael Duff
3.5% - Lukas Jutkiewicz
3.1% - George Boyd
2.8% - Ben Mee
1.7% - Scott Arfield
1.4% - Tom Heaton
1.0% - David Jones, Michael Kightly & Jelle Vossen
0.7% - Sam Vokes

PLAYER RATINGS

7.28 - Tendayi Darikwa
6.77 - Tom Heaton

6.53 - Michael Keane
6.20 - Lukas Jutkiewicz
5.83 - David Jones
5.67 - Ben Mee
5.59 - Sam Vokes
5.52 - Michael Duff
5.38 - Michael Kightly
5.30 - Jelle Vossen
5.16 - Scott Arfield
5.00 - George Boyd

CLARETS MAD PLAYER OF THE YEAR

15: Tendayi Darikwa
10: Michael Duff & Ben Mee
9: Lukas Jutkiewicz
8: Tom Heaton & Michael Keane
3: Sam Vokes
2: Stephen Ward
1: George Boyd