It was Chris Eagles' day at Pride Park

I wouldn't think it happens very often that a player misses a penalty in a game and still comes out as the best player, but the spot kick miss was a rare blemish in an excellent Eagles performance and he even recovered from that to convert the rebound.

Such was the all round performance from the team that he only just won both. He polled 32.8% of the man of the match vote but that only narrowly beat Chris McCann who polled 32.4% in his first game of the season on his return from injury.

Fellow midfielder Jack Cork was third with 12.4% of the vote and it was the same three players who went on to take the points in the player ratings.

Again Eagles came out on top with a rating of 9.33 out of 10 and that's beaten the season's best which was the 9.14 rating won by Lee Grant in the previous away win to this one at Hull.

Cork was second this time and his rating beat Grant's too; Cork getting 9.24 whilst McCann had to settle for third place this time with a rating of 8.52 out of 10.

Eagles wins the maximum six points towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year, with both Cork and McCann getting three points. Those points take Eagles to within 27 points of Cork but it would take some top performances from Eagles and a play off place to prevent Cork becoming the Clarets Mad Player of the Year.

The man of the match and player ratings results are below along with the Player of the Year Table.

Man of the Match

32.8% - Chris Eagles
32.4% - Chris McCann
12.4% - Jack Cork
7.2% - Wade Elliott
3.8% - Danny Fox
3.1% - Jay Rodriguez
2.3% - Michael Duff
2.2% - Tyrone Mears
1.8% - Brian Jensen
1.4% - Andre Bikey
0.5% - Chris Iwelumo

Player Ratings

9.33 - Chris Eagles
9.24 - Jack Cork
8.52 - Chris McCann
8.19 - Wade Elliott
8.00 - Tyrone Mears
7.33 - Jay Rodriguez
6.90 - Brian Jensen
6.76 - Michael Duff
6.62 - Chris Iwelumo
6.48 - Danny Fox
6.10 - Andre Bikey

Clarets Mad Player of the Year Table

108: Jack Cork
81: Chris Eagles
55: Jay Rodriguez
47: Andre Bikey
42: Tyrone Mears
32: Wade Elliott & Lee Grant
31: Clarke Carlisle
30: Dean Marney
26: Michael Duff
21: Danny Fox
19: Ross Wallace
18: Brian Jensen
14: Chris Iwelumo
10: Marvin Bartley
9: Brian Easton
6: Martin Paterson
5: Nathan Delfouneso
3: Leon Cort, John Guidetti, Chris McCann & Steven Thompson
1: Graham Alexander & Charlie Austin