Almost exactly ten months after Aiden McGeady, Willo Flood and Darren O'Dea lined out for Celtic against Dynamo Moscow in the qualifying round of the Champions League, the season stats for 2009-2010* have been compiled and are available on Irish Abroad: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats?month=14
Aiden McGeady started the most wins of any player, the Celtic winger was on the winning side 26 times this season. Interestingly Damien Duff started more home wins than any other player, the Fulham winger started 15 home wins but only 2 successes away from Craven Cottage.
Richard Dunne topped the defender win table, and also topped the draw table for defenders with 15 games ending all square. Ipswich's Jonathan Walters managed more draws than any other Irishman, with games ending level on 18 separate occasions.
Midfielder Darren Potter reflected his side's relegation form this season by starting the most losing games. Surprisingly Potter also started more games than anyone else this season, appearing in the starting XI no less than 49 times, and tied with Sean St Ledger for the most completed games - 46.
Crystal Palace's Alan Lee had the misfortune to be the most substituted Irishman this season, he was withdrawn from the action 26 times, 13 home and away.
Keith Fahey and Lee Trundle were both introduced from the bench 19 times, while unsurprisingly it was the goalkeepers who were the most unused substitutes over the course of the season, with 4 (Wayne Henderson, Conrad Logan, Dean Kiely, James McKeown and Saul Deeney) clocking up more than 40 appearances on the bench.
Despite the criticism he's had for the season, Robbie Keane was still the top scoring Irishman, finding the back of the net 25 times, and also the top penalty scorer finishing from 12 yards 6 times in 2009-2010. Even more impressive was that he never finished on the losing side when scoring, and all but one game ended in a win for the Tallaght striker.
Note: stats do not take into account games played by teams in League One and League Two, to include them would render the pages unreadable and, with all due respect, the players have little chance of getting into the senior squad.
