Mee and the defenders top the Ipswich chart

Last updated : 07 January 2016 By Tony Scholes

Mee moved into the centre when Michael Duff was rested for the Bristol City game and, alongside Michael Keane, has been involved in two shut outs with us picking up four out of the six points available.

He and Keane were the only defenders in the top four in the man of the match vote.

Mee won it with 36.3% of the vote with Joey Barton, seemingly always up there with every vote, coming second with a 29.7% share.

Keane came in third with 15.6% and Michael Kightly, who played the first hour before being replaced by George Boyd, took fourth place with 6.6% of the vote.

The two central defenders could hardly be separated in the player ratings with Mee just beating Keane. Mee's rating was 7.47 with Keane on 7.42 out of 10.

Barton was pushed into third place with a  rating of 6.92 and a rating of 6.63 out of 10 saw Matt Lowton in fourth place.

Mee, therefore, wins ten points towards the player of the year with five each for Barton and Keane and one each for Kightly and Lowton.

That means the gap between leader Barton and second place Keane remains at two points, but Mee has broken away from the next group with his ten point haul and is now just ten points behind Keane.

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

MAN OF THE MATCH

36.3% - Ben Mee
29.7% - Joey Barton
15.6% - Michael Keane
6.6% - Michael Kightly
2.8% - Stephen Ward
2.4% - Matt Lowton
1.9% - Andre Gray
1.4% - David Jones
0.9% - George Boyd, Tom Heaton & Sam Vokes
0.5% - Scott Arfield

PLAYER RATINGS

7.47 - Ben Mee
7.42 - Michael Keane
6.92 - Joey Barton
6.63 - Matt Lowton
6.53 - Stephen Ward
6.47 - Tom Heaton
6.34 - David Jones
6.26 - Michael Kightly
5.55 - Scott Arfield
5.00 - George Boyd
4.95 - Sam Vokes
4.63 - Andre Gray

PLAYER OF THE YEAR TABLE

78: Joey Barton
76: Michael Keane
66: Ben Mee
56: Tendayi Darikwa
55: Tom Heaton
54: Michael Duff
53: Andre Gray
35: David Jones
20: Dean Marney
18: Scott Arfield
15: Michael Kightly
14: George Boyd
9: Lukas Jutkiewicz
8: Sam Vokes
7: Rouwen Hennings, Matt Lowton & Matt Taylor
2: Stephen Ward