3 Up, 3 Down: Featuring Manchester United and Leicester City stars

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Down: Jores Okore

Marko Arnautovic may have been Stoke City’s hero at the weekend with two goalss, but if not for the heroics of Mark Bunn, Villa defender Jores Okore could have been the one wearing that tag.

After a 6-0 thrashing to Liverpool before the FA Cup break, Villa desperately needed a solid defensively display to please their much-maligned fans. Sadly for them, Okore tried his level best to score for Stoke, once attempting to deflect in a shot, the other was a header which Bunn had to desperately claw out.

Maybe he was just trying to show the Villa fans that their team could score on the road. Even in the wrong net.

Down: Crystal Palace

This is getting silly now.

Crystal Palace may be into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, but in the league, they are without a win since before Christmas. That is now over two months and 10 games ago. In that time, Palace have accumulated a mere 3 points as they have stumbled through the middle section of the season.

With an eight point gap to 18^th placed Newcastle, relegation still seems unlikely, but on their current run of form, they will end the season with around 35 or 36 points, which would leave them right in the relegation mix. They need to up their game.

Down: Nathan Ake

Watford defender Nathan Ake drops into the down column this week after an unusually literal mishap during the Hornets goalless draw with Bournemouth.

Ake played perfectly well, but falls into the down category thanks to, well, falling down. After striving to keep a ball in play, Ake launched himself over the nearest advertising hoardings, only to find himself in a huge ditch, thankfully avoiding injury on the way down.

He’ll avoid that corner of the ground in the future.