Pro Combat Player Of The Week

The best come ready for battle. But who battled best this week?

It's not about scoring goals. It's about total match performance. It's about running all over the field, winning every 50/50 ball. It's all the intangibles that don't show up on the score sheet but in the end turn the game for your team.

That's a Pro Combat Player, and now it's your turn to tell us who is the first Pro Combat Player of the Week.

Each Monday we'll select three players who personified what it means to be a Pro Combat Player from the weekend, and then you tell us who you thought came best prepared for battle.

To vote, head to Facebook/nikesoccer or reply to @nikesoccer at Twitter with your vote and the hashtag filter #procombat. We'll announce the winner on Wednesday.

This week, clubs returned to league competition after the international break and looked to begin the home stretch toward the winter break with strong play. Who stepped up? Here's the three we've selected who exemplified what it means to be a Pro Combat Player. Now you tell us which battled the best.



Patrice Evra

Earning the highest (and nearly perfect) player rating on the field, the Manchester United left back not only locked down opponents on defense but pushed forward to provide offense for a team whose usual attackers didn't produce as they usually do. When the team needed him, he was there, killing it at every opportunity.



Mesut Ozil

Quite simply, the young German put on an absolute masterclass. in a 6-0 victory that temporarily put his team, Werder Bremen, on top of the league table, Ozil scored one goal and set up 4 others, working up and down the field, forcing defenders to hack him down in order to stop him. But this weekend, there was no stopping the man that might be the next big European star.



Aaron Lennon

Don't tell him size matters. One of the shortest but fastest players in England's top flight looked like one of the biggest this weekend, and maybe became the best winger. Lennon drove his marker mad up the flank for the entire 90 minutes while providing four assists and a goal in the 9-1 shocker that earned him a perfect 10 player rating.

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