Ronaldo - Best Young Player

[janaage]

Lennon = The English David Odonkor, all pace, no end product.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Lennon looked ok, however how many telling final balls did he produce?  How many goals did he create or score?  How many did Beckham?

Lennon was on the pitch for less than 90 minutes in total for the whole tournament. He was involved in both the goals against Trinidad and Tobago, did a great job against Ecuador where he prevented a tense finish by winning throwings and corners and going on a great run which was exactly what we needed to run the clock down. His run into the box from Crouch's knock-on against Portugal was one of our best chances of the game and could have easily won a penalty. Beckham in the same match took a corner which didn't even clear the first man and didn't even clear the wall with his free kick. Even if Beckham hadn't been injured he should have been taken off for Lennon at that time anyway.

[janaage]

In that case he definitely deserves the best young player of the tournament award.  I mean a bit part as a sub, an "amazing" performance against a super power of international football like Trinidad and Tobago completely overshadows Ronaldo being Portugal's most important player and getting them as far as the semi's (if not further).

Where do I vote?

[Ben Wah Balls]

The point is Ronaldo wouldn't have been able to have the same impact if he'd only played for 90 minutes.

It's not Lennon's fault that he didn't play for longer, he was superb every time he played and that's all you can ask.

Portugal have a number of decent players, it's not all Ronaldo, Ricardo won them the match against England.

[my-velocity]

Lennon made an immediate impact when he came on in his games. He was amazing, better than Beckham.

[oxford_fan]

Aaron Lennon easily. Only about an hour on the pitch and still our best player.

Think you will find that Hargreaves was your best player of the tournament.

Hargreaves was decent but for the amount of time he was on the pitch Lennon was better. He looked superb in all 3 games he played, shame he wasn't played more.

hargreaves was immense vs portugal, ran the midfield and sprinted about the shop for the full 120, easily our MotM i reckon.

i voted senderos. looked solid until his injury and bagged an important goal.

[Sade]

Ronaldo is romping it at the moment, I blame scotland.

 
Agreed.

[SwindonTartanArmy]

Ronaldo is romping it at the moment, I blame scotland.

 
Agreed.

Me too!

[Ben Wah Balls]

Luis Valencia is way ahead now.

[janaage]

10,000 votes ahead, this is an official fifa poll, ruined by english and Scottish supporters!!  Funny as fuck, this guy's gonna go down in history as the first ever best young player of a world cup tournament.  Class.

[Ralphy]

He's flying now! Fuck off Ronaldo you greasy cunt  :fu:

[Batch]

Lennon = The English David Odonkor, all pace, no end product.

But at least he's better than Downing.

[red macca]

Lennon = The English David Odonkor, all pace, no end product.

But at least he's better than Downing.

up for debate though isnt it???lennon can go past players but with no end product,where as downing cant go past as easy as lennon but does have the end product,please dont tell me lennon is a better crosser of the ball than downing because he isnt.one thing i will say is give it 2 years and lennon should be almost the complete winger but just not yet

[DMR]

Lennon = The English David Odonkor, all pace, no end product.

But at least he's better than Downing.

One's a leftie and one's a rightie, ergo your comparison is basically pointless.

[Simon Pieman]

Ronaldo rarely produces a good cross either. Personally I would go with Senderos or Podolski, but I can't be fucked to vote either. Why the fuck Theo and Carson are in there when they haven't played is funny as fook.