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| January winner Scott Arfield |
They brought us five points from draws against West Brom and Chelsea followed by the home win against Man City and we scored a total of five goals in those seven games.
It's your chance now to select which of the five you thought was the best, and there are undoubtedly some good goals to choose from with the first two coming in the home game against West Brom from Ashley Barnes and Danny Ings.
Dean Marney played a ball across from the right and Ings did really well in ducking under it to let it go through for Scott Arfield. Ings had made his move into the box to receive the ball from Arfield and he cleverly hooked it across for Barnes to head home.
Marney, who was to suffer a serious injury in the game, started the move for the second. He played the ball forward for Kieran Trippier but he dummied brilliantly for George Boyd who was covering ground down the right wing.
Boyd kept the ball in play and moved forward before hitting over the perfect cross for Ings who had got between two defenders to head home, leaving Ben Foster with no chance of keeping it out.
Ings doubled his goal tally for the month in the very next game, Man United at Old Trafford. In a first half that we dominated, despite going in 2-1 down, he equalised with a diving header from a Trippier cross.
Trippier's cross was perfect but this goal for me was all about Danny's movement. He initially made a move to the near post but then dropped off, leaving Chris Smalling marking fresh air. When the ball came across that left him unmarked to head home past David de Gea.
The fourth goal of the month came in Minute 81 at Chelsea. Having fallen behind to a goal from the squealing Branislav Ivanovic in the first half, we came out and played exceptionally well in the second half.
All the talk had been about corners in the two previous games; having conceded four times, but this time it was us scoring from a corner. Trippier's left wing flag kick was aimed to the far post where he found his full back partner Ben Mee whose late looping run saw him get up and head back across goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to head home. I don't think the Portuguese manager on the touchline enjoyed it and I reckon that prompted him to start counting the minutes.
Those four goals came in February with just one scored in the three March games, and that was the winner against City. A Trippier free kick was headed out by Vincent Kompany but only as far as Boyd just outside the box and he hit a first time half volley into the far bottom corner of the net, leaving Joe Hart helpless and three sides of Turf Moor in raptures as we took the lead against the champions.
Your options then are to choose from one of those five goals, from Barnes, Ings, Ings again, Mee and Boyd with the winning goal guaranteed a place in the goal of the season vote. It will join the three previous winners which were Ross Wallace at Leicester (August to October), Barnes at Spurs (November and December) and Scott Arfield at home to QPR (January).
You have until the end of Sunday to vote via the VOTING POLLS page or the front page of the site.