Jensen on top in cup defeat

02 October 2012 11:15
Burnley went out of the Capital One Cup last Tuesday after turning in a shocking performance against Swindon, and it is goalkeeper Brian Jensen who has been voted our best player.

Jensen conceded three goals, looked at fault with two, but came second in the man of the match vote and was joint winner of the player ratings on a night when those marks were very low.

Charlie Austin, again the goalscorer, polled 33.3% of the man of the match vote to take first place and that was ahead of Jensen who came in second with a 18.4% share of the vote.

Ben Mee, playing on the left of three central defenders was third with 14.9% of the vote and second half substitute Sam Vokes won his first points of the season, coming fourth as he won 8.8%.

Vokes did even better in the player ratings, coming joint first with Jensen. Both had ratings of 6.23 out of 10, just ahead of Austin, the only other player to reach the average score of six, who was third with a rating of 6.15. Fourth place went to Mee whose rating was 5.54 out of 10.

Jensen has won eight points towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year. Austin is just behind with seven points, Vokes has picked up six points with Mee getting three points.

Those points have extended Austin's lead at the top. He now stands 10 points ahead of Lee Grant in second place with Dean Marney a further five points behind.

Voting is still underway for the Millwall game. You can vote for the man of the match via the front page of the site or the VOTING POLLS page and PLAYER RATINGS can be left on the message board. Voting will continue until the end of today and will be immediately followed by the vote from tonight's game against Sheffield Wednesday.

The results from the Swindon game are below along with the current player of the year table.

MAN OF THE MATCH

33.3% - Charlie Austin (38 votes)18.4% - Brian Jensen (21 votes) 14.9% - Ben Mee (17 votes) 8.8% - Sam Vokes (10 votes) 6.1% - Kieran Trippier (7 votes) 5.3% - Dean Marney (6 votes) 3,5% - David Edgar (4 votes) 1.8% - Marvin Bartley, Michael Duff, Chris McCann, Joseph Mills & Brian Stock (2 votes) 0.9% - Ross Wallace (1 vote)

PLAYER RATINGS

6.23 - Brian Jensen & Sam Vokes6.15 - Charlie Austin5.54 - Ben Mee5.46 - Dean Marney & Kieran Trippier4.85 - Chris McCann4.46 - Joseph Mills & Ross Wallace4.38 - Michael Duff4.08 - David Edgar3.77 - Brian Stock3.46 - Marvin Bartley

CLARETS MAD PLAYER OF THE YEAR

45: Charlie Austin35: Lee Grant30: Dean Marney19: Chris McCann18: Brian Jensen15: Joseph Mills14: Kieran Trippier10: Ben Mee9: Jason Shackell6: Marvin Bartley & Sam Vokes5: Brian Stock4: Junior Stanislas3: Martin Paterson2: Steven Hewitt & Ross Wallace1: Michael Duff

Source: FOOTYMAD