Santa Cruz scoops award
The EFT panel had a lot of games and good individual performers to consider in the busy football month of December. Votes for our player of the month came in for Man Utd's Ronaldo and Rio Ferdinand, Tottenham's Dimitar Berbatov, Middlesbrough's Tuncay and Aston Villa's Ashley Young. However, with two first choice votes and two second choice votes it was Blackburn's in-form striker, Roque Santa Cruz, who deservedly scooped our player of the month award.
Eight goals in seven December games - and he didn't score in the first two games of the month - was fantastic going for the former Bayern Munich striker whose game looks to adapt very well to the Premier League and in particular the superb crossing of the ever-improving David Bentley.
What will be disappointing for Santa Cruz and Blackburn supporters is that most of these goals were in vain - scoring a hat-trick in an amazing 5-3 defeat at Wigan and two goals as Blackburn were edged out in an exciting League Cup quarter-final against Arsenal. Nonetheless, the 26 year old Paraguyan international should be proud of his efforts and he also becomes the first Blackburn player to win our award. As ever a picture of our player of the month goes into our EFT awards sidebar.
Are there any other players who you feel should be recognised for their performances in December?
posted by T at 1/08/2008 09:57:00 am
EFT match of the season for 2008/2009: Barcelona construct a masterclass footballing performance to defeat the reigning Champions League holders and current English champions, Manchester United, by a scoreline of 2-0 in the 2009 Champions League final in Rome
EFT player of the season for 2008/2009: Chelsea central midfielder, Frank Lampard
EFT player of the month for May 2009: Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea)
EFT player of the month for April 2009: Andrey Arshavin (Arsenal)
EFT player of the month for March 2009: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for February 2009: Phil Jagielka (Everton)
EFT player of the month for January 2009: Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd)
EFT player of the month for December 2008: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for November 2008: Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea)
EFT player of the month for October 2008: Dirk Kuyt (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for September 2008: Frank Lampard (Chelsea)
EFT player of the month for August 2008: Amr Zaki (Wigan Athletic)
EFT match of Euro 2008: Turkey's amazing comeback from two goals down to beat Czech Republic 3-2 as captain Nihat Kahveci's two goals in the last three minutes sensationally put his country through to the quarter finals at the expense of their beaten opponents
EFT player of Euro 2008: Spain (anchor) central midfielder, Marcos Senna
EFT match of the season for 2007/2008: Liverpool win titanic Champions League quarter-final second leg 4-2 against Arsenal that also saw two of the best football moments of the season - Fernando Torres' top corner strike and Theo Walcott's thrilling run across the whole of Anfield.
EFT player of the season for 2007/2008: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
EFT player of the month for May 2008: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
EFT player of the month for April 2008: Ashley Young (Aston Villa)
EFT player of the month for March 2008: Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for February 2008: David James (Portsmouth)
EFT player of the month for January 2008: Ronaldo (Manchester United)
EFT player of the month for December 2007: Roque Santa Cruz (Blackburn Rovers)
EFT player of the month for November 2007: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for October 2007: Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)
EFT player of the month for September 2007: Francesc Fabregas (Arsenal)
EFT player of the month for August 2007: Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for May 2007: Carlos Tevez (West Ham Utd)
EFT player of the month for April 2007: Wayne Rooney (Manchester Utd)
EFT player of the month for March 2007: Carlos Tevez (West Ham Utd)
EFT player of the month for February 2007: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester Utd)
EFT player of the month for January 2007: Thierry Henry (Arsenal)
EFT player of the month for December 2006: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester Utd)
EFT player of the month for November 2006: Didier Drogba (Chelsea)
EFT player of the month for October 2006: Jussi Jaaskelainen (Bolton Wanderers)
EFT player of the month for September 2006: Andrew Johnson (Everton)
EFT player of the month for August 2006: Nwankwo Kanu (Portsmouth)
EFT match of World Cup 2006: Italy win a thrilling 'end-to-end' World Cup semi-final 2-0 against Germany courtesy of two late extra time goals from Fabio Grosso and Alessandro del Piero 
EFT player of World Cup 2006: Italy captain and centre-back, Fabio Cannavaro
EFT match of the season for 2005-2006: Liverpool win the FA Cup final 3-1 on penalties against West Ham after a Steven Gerrard-led fighback saw the Anfield side recover from 2-0 and 3-2 down to level the match in normal time
EFT player of the month for May 2006: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for April 2006: Jamie Carragher (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for March 2006: Robbie Keane (Tottenham Hotspur)
EFT player of the month for February 2006: Aiyegbeni Yakubu (Middlesbrough)
EFT player of the month for January 2006: Jason Roberts (Wigan Athletic)
EFT player of the month for December 2005: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
EFT player of the month for November 2005: Robin van Persie (Arsenal)
EFT player of the month for October 2005: Frank Lampard (Chelsea)
EFT player of the month for September 2005: Danny Murphy (Charlton Athletic)
EFT player of the month for August 2005: Wayne Rooney (Manchester Utd)
EFT match of the season for 2004-2005: Liverpool win Champions League final 3-2 on penalties against AC Milan after sensationally recovering from 3-0 down to level the match in normal time
3 Comments:
A worthy winner indeed, I love the way he has been finding himself in the right position at the right time. He has such good aerial ability too. I wish Peter Crouch could head like this, well I am sure Crouch wishes that he could too, but will never be able to do so.
1/08/2008 10:38 am
Yes, he definitely deserves the award. He seems to have finally got his career on the right track after much promise but very little end product at Bayern Munich. It really surprised me to recently read that in his time in Germany, he never managed to score more than 5 league goals a season.
His talent is undoubted and his finishing skills will be desperately needed if Blackburn are going to get over their recent slump in form.
1/08/2008 10:47 am
Roque was an unknown coming to the EPL, like Voronin and even Berbatov, from the Bundesliga. Yet he has settled in excellently at The Rovers and not only that has proven McCarthy wrong. His goals have kept Rovers in the game more or less and made him a worthy winner of EFT POTM for December.
RedsMan.
1/08/2008 4:14 pm
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