Team of the Week:

Mignolet (Liverpool)

Azpilicueta (Chelsea) Mertesacker (Arsenal) Gabbidon (Palace)

Navas (Man City) Toure (Man City) Lampard (Chelsea) Oscar (Chelsea)

Aguero (Man City) Lukaku (Everton) Giroud (Arsenal)

Hero of the Week:

Among the heroes this week are Giroud, Lukaku, Aguero, and Lampard who all bagged braces for the respective teams. Shane long of West Brom and Kim of Cardiff were also heroes for their sides but for me it has to be that man Lampard. Frank Jr has got some slack recently and hasn’t been getting many games so he needed to take his opportunities to state his claim – and he did. Lampard scored two of Chelsea’s three goals against his former club West Ham after a 10-game goalless drought. That means Lampard has scored 5 times in his last 5 appearances against the club that produced him and he thoroughly enjoyed it kissing the badge in front of the Boleyn faithful. A clinical penalty smashed down the middle opened the scoring before finishing the tie off with a trademark finish from just outside the box. For all the money Chelsea spend and the wealth of talent they have, Lampard has always been the hero for Chelsea in their most successful era and continues to be.

Nipple of the week:

Kevin Friend is the nipple this week due to his mental decision to send off Wes Brown for a totally fair tackle. Brown won the ball and got very little of the man. He did fly in at quite some pace and was off the ground for a second but he got to the ball first and was sliding away from the opponent. It was a challenge that didn’t warrant a yellow card let alone a red card. Considering that Sunderland haven’t had the best season so far and that Brown was captaining the side, it was definitely a crucial call. Sunderland went on to lose 2-0 to Stoke City and understandably Poyet was not a happy man and immediately appealed the decision. The decision has now been reversed thanks to the FA Panel reviewing the bizarre dismissal and Brown will be available next week as Sunderland take on Villa.

This wasn’t the only strange decision over the weekend though as Rooney somehow managed to avoid being sent off after a petulant kick on Cardiff’s Jordan Mutch. Rooney had lost the ball and Mutch ran across his path leading to Rooney kicking him in the back of the calf. Kevin Mirallas was also lucky to get away without seeing red as he put a vicious challenge in on Suarez that was off the ground, high, and studs up catching Suarez just above the knee. If it was Suarez who committed the tackle I’m sure it would have been red but Mirallas stayed on the pitch to be on the receiving end of a late challenge late on by, yep you guessed it, Suarez.