Saturday 6 April 2013

Mata...Juan thing is needful

PFA Player of the Year contenders?


19 goals and 24 assists, those are the statistics, Juan Manuel Mata's contribution this season to Chelsea's cause. Unless you are Messi or Ronaldo, those are incredible statistics. But it is said that statistics don't tell the whole story, and for a player with superb ball control, an eye for a pass and technique to execute it, keys used to unlock defenses in Europe and beyond this season, statistics definitely can't describe his artistry on the football pitch.

Mata has been getting a lot of praise but i think he hasn't gotten the amount due him or how do you explain why a player, who has more assists in the last two seasons for Chelsea  than Iniesta and Xavi (masters of the new order) combined for Barcelona, can't get a place on the Spanish team.  
How this world cup winner and champion of Europe for both club and country is not in contention for the PFA footballer of the year award is even more shocking to say the least. He has been just as good if not better  than the front runners for this award.

Robin Van Persie has been  a quality addition to Manchester united , he racked up points for them  early in the season, Tottenham are a much better team with Gareth bale, he has been a joy to watch but only Luiz Suarez is as indispensable to his club as Mata is to Chelsea and even this nut- megging, slaloming genius doesn’t look like winning the award simply because he isn’t liked by those with the powers to vote. I'm not saying that those three players don't deserve to win but surely an award that was giving in the past to a player just because he should have won it before, a player that played only a handful of league games cannot be a yardstick for knowing  the best player in the English Premier League.


Mata is a great player, may  turn out to be one of the greatest that English football will see, even if  'they' don't see it now. What is most important is that he is blue, nothing else matters.


4 comments:

  1. Yeah yeah we all know u are bias, u don't have to write about it. I mean come oooon! Juan Mata? Yeah he is an excellent player but that Suarez guy alongside Batman's sidekick seem to be neck and neck, waaaaay ahead of the others. But the issue Mata in the Spanish national team?...nail right on head!

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  2. Chelsea fan...

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  3. Well am a die hard chelsea fan buh tryna be realistic suarez has to be the Man for the #PFA award ..

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