GOT Player of the Month - August 2018

[AndyC]

Following a largely abject pre-season, Marcel Brands and Marco Silva oversaw a flurry of late transfer window activity. A number of departures eased the pressure on the wage bill but more importantly, a number of arrivals boosted the thinned out squad to hopefully add some much needed quality.

Just the four games in August to get the season underway and Everton went unbeaten in three Premier League encounters and overcame the first hurdle in the Carabao Cup. Two decent draws away at newly promoted Wolves and Bournemouth sandwiched a Goodison victory over Southampton in the league.

Many Blues fans though felt that the five points gained could and perhaps should have been nine given the team led twice at Molineux and relinquished a two-goal lead at Bournemouth. Both games saw the Blues reduced to ten men with Phil Jagielka and Richarlison drawing straight red cards in the first halves.

All tolled, twenty-two players saw action with four featuring in all four outings – Mason Holgate, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Theo Walcott and Cenk Tosun.

In terms of the individual Man of the Match winners, Richarlison was the runaway winner of the Wolves game vote, while Gylfi Sigurdsson picked up the vote the win over Southampton and narrowly edging the Bournemouth game over Theo Walcott. Another of our new recruits Lucas Digne, claimed the plaudits for the Carabao Cup win over Rotherham, squeezing two-goal Dominic Calvert-Lewin into second place.

The highest single game vote came following the 2-2 draw at Wolves… the lowest being after the 2-2 draw at Bournemouth.

As with last season, we intend to continue posting match reports, managers quotes and MotM polls as quickly as possible after each game, and we encourage all our forum members and readers to vote.

MotM poll voting will be open until the morning of the next game or for seven days, dependant upon international breaks and our progress in the domestic cup competitions that inevitably will condense the game day diary somewhat.

So now we’re in September, it gives us great pleasure to announce the result for August… cue drumroll…
in third place was Theo Walcott…
in second place was Gylfi Sigurdsson…

and the congratulations go to, with over 36% of the total votes cast, and the GOT Player of the Month for August…

Richarlison.

 

[tim gabbott]

 

[Connor]

Surprised Jagielka didn’t take this one

 

[Eggs]

..brilliant stuff @AndyC, great start for one of the new boys.

 

[Brisan123]

Well done Rico
Look who got second , and he’s crap like according to some lads lol

 

[Toffe3m4n]

In reality it's surely Sigurdsson though?

Richarlison was superb at Wolves and for one half of the Southampton game before betting sent off in the first half at Bournemouth and not playing since... not sure he deserves it based on that personally. Infact I'd probably place Walcott just ahead of him.

 

[evertonarntwe]

In reality it's surely Sigurdsson though?

Richarlison was superb at Wolves and for one half of the Southampton game before betting sent off in the first half at Bournemouth and not playing since... not sure he deserves it based on that personally. Infact I'd probably place Walcott just ahead of him.

sigurdsson went off vs wolves didn't he to make way for Holgate?
he was subbed vs huddersfield because he was terrible
played decent against the other two like but richarlison had far more of an impact

 

[Toffe3m4n]

sigurdsson went off vs wolves didn't he to make way for Holgate?
he was subbed vs huddersfield because he was terrible
played decent against the other two like but richarlison had far more of an impact

Wolves was a forced change because of the sending off, made sense to bring a defender on for an attacker. Sigurdsson perhaps made sense more from a fitness perspective.

Also, he was wrongly subbed against Huddersfield.. let's get that right. Weird decision from Silva that, still one of the better players in blue on the pitch despite the whole team being well below par in general.

Richarlison's 'impact' this month is subjective and, for me, was almost entirely nullified after the sending off. Sigurdsson, overall, has been more responsible for our better football for the best part of 3 of the games at least.

 

[evertonarntwe]

Wolves was a forced change because of the sending off, made sense to bring a defender on for an attacker. Sigurdsson perhaps made sense more from a fitness perspective.

Also, he was wrongly subbed against Huddersfield.. let's get that right. Weird decision from Silva that, still one of the better players in blue on the pitch despite the whole team being well below par in general.

Richarlison's 'impact' this month is subjective and, for me, was almost entirely nullified after the sending off. Sigurdsson, overall, has been more responsible for our better football for the best part of 3 of the games at least.

I know he was subbed for a good reason against wolves, but he was still subbed so his impact in the game was minimal

I also agree I would have subbed davies before glylfi against Huddersfield but again he was still subbed and his impact was AGAIN minimal

richarlison single handedly won us points vs wolves, and had a blinder against Southampton,, Sigurdsson has had a couple of half decent games

 

[peteblue]

Does he get the £5 prize money and a mug.......