After winning two Golden Boots this season – for being league’s first player reached 10 and 20 goals, the time for the third and the last one has finally come! Dimitar Berbatov has been awarded the Barclays Premier League Golden Boot for the 2010/2011 season.
The Bulgarian’s 20 goals helped the team to win the Premier League trophy, a historical 19th for United!
In this magnificent season Berba hit three hat-tricks, performed an amazing five-goal show against Blackburn, and most importantly – crushed Liverpool with a hat-trick. Тhings that will never be forgotten.
Here’s what Dimitar said for United’s official website:
“On a personal level I’m delighted to win this award. To finish as the joint-top scorer in the best league in the world is a huge honour and something I’ll always be very proud of. I love scoring goals and providing entertainment for the fans – I hope I’ve done that this season.
Most importantly, though, I feel happy knowing that my goals helped the team win the league. We made history this season by winning the title for the 19th time and it was a great feeling to be involved in that achievement. Individual awards are fine, but they mean nothing if you don’t win trophies as well.”
Even being a substitute for most of the games lately, Dimitar Berbatov is still the best player in the Barclays Premier League this season. He is first in the Player Performance Index, a statistics by EA SPORTS.
What is the EA SPORTS Index?
The EA SPORTS Player Performance Index is the only official player rating index of the Barclays Premier League which measures a player’s all round contribution to the success of his team using six key indices.
Key indices are:
1. Winning Performance;
2. Player’s Performance per match;
3. Appearances;
4. Goals scored;
5. Assists;
6. Clean sheets;
The overall EA SPORTS Player Performance Index is a correlation between all of the above six indices.
More info is available here.
Berbatov is the current goalscorer in the Premier League with his 21 goals (up to April 18th, 2011). In the Player Performance Index mentioned above, he is one of the fifth United players, followed by Nemanja Vidic, Luis Nani, Wayne Rooney, and Patrice Evra.
Interesting fact is that in the Top20 there are only a 6 English players, and none of them is in Top5.
Dimitar Berbatov scored the first goal in saturday’s match against Fulham. It was a beautiful attack with a deadly finish. United won the match 2:0. Enjoy the video:
Dimitar Berbatov, the Bulgarian striker of Manchester United, won his 2nd Barclays Golden Boot for being the first player who reach season’s 20-goals barrier. Early this season Berbatov won another Barclays Golden Boot for his 10 goals in Premiership.
