Many of the newspapers and websites are giving the nod to VDV this morning for his all round contribution to yesterday’s win. Rafa linked up with the two strikers well after Harry shuffled the pack on 27 minutes and his neat pass let in Pavlyuchenko for the goal.
Pav could conceivably be a contender too while elsewhere, Scott Parker made his usual telling contribution.
In the absence of Bale, BAE was asked to come forward more and but for an unfortunate intervention from VDV, could even have opened the scoring in the first half.
Other members of the defence were quiet, but generally solid when they needed to be.
Overall, do you agree that Van der Vaart was yesterday’s stand out performer or is there a more worthy winner?
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