5 villains from the weekend's Premier League action

This weekend there were performances as emphatic as Alexis Sanchez's three-goal haul at West Ham United, and some as distinctly average as the showings Claudio Yacob habitually churns out for West Bromwich Albion.

But what about the proper stinkers? Here, theScore picks out five personalities that assumed the role of villain in their respective matches:

Marouane Fellaini

For a large chunk of the second half at Everton, Manchester United went for the jugular, trying to double its one-goal advantage in a manner which harked back to the Red Devils under Alex Ferguson. But later on, Jose Mourinho burned that master plan when he produced a player resembling a giant match from the bench.

The ungainly, pillow-topped Marouane Fellaini has failed to win over the Old Trafford faithful since he was brought in by David Moyes from Everton in 2013, but could outlast three managers in Stretford if Jose Mourinho continues to deploy him as a super sub.

His 85th-minute introduction was disastrous. A couple of minutes later, the bumbling Belgian clumsily felled Idrissa Gueye in the box with his first touch, and Leighton Baines took up his former teammate's invitation with a finely struck penalty.

Then, with the clock winding down, Fellaini received the ball in the Everton area but then tried to pick out a teammate with a ball that rolled limply out for a Toffees throw-in.

Sergio Aguero

What was Sergio Aguero playing at?

Clearly perturbed at not getting the best of an old foe in David Luiz, and Manchester City surrendering three second-half goals to lose 3-1 at home to Chelsea, the Argentinian ploughed into the Brazilian with merely seconds left. His studs were showing, his legs were splayed ahead of him, and it was very ugly.

Following his suspension earlier in the season for elbowing Winston Reid, Aguero was handed a four-match ban on Monday for his dangerous tackle, and in the subsequent melee Fernandinho got rough with Cesc Fabregas, incurring a three-game spell on the sidelines.

Related: 4 ways City can line up without Aguero, Fernandinho

It's bad timing for manager Pep Guardiola, heading into the busy festive period without his free-scoring frontman and the tempo-dictating scholar in the middle.

Anthony Taylor

Aguero and Fernandinho only have themselves to blame for their conduct, but the officiating from Anthony Taylor before that was of a man who desperately didn't want a referee's call to become a talking point of such a big match.

Through the brilliance of Diego Costa and stupidity of two senior City players, he succeeded, but Taylor couldn't have curried favour with the assessors in the stands.

When Aguero was racing through on goal in the opening stanza and was barged to ground by the last man Luiz, Taylor reached towards his pocket but then stopped, neither making an incorrect decision of a dive or the correct one: a red card to Luiz.

Then, with the score still locked at 0-0, he inexplicably waved off N'Golo Kante's upending of Ilkay Gundogan in the box.

A very poor outing for Taylor.

Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp is far from being under pressure, and is the most popular manager in the division, but the criticism of the lack of organisation at the back at Liverpool has to be levelled at the German.

Finding a superior goalkeeper to Simon Mignolet shouldn't have been difficult - Klopp could've found one in a deserted car park in Prescot - but he's instead produced Loris Karius, who, despite being hardened with rugby-inspired training, still has hands like feet.

And up ahead of him, the defending from Dejan Lovren and Jordan Henderson for Nathan Ake's late winner in Bournemouth's 4-3 win on Sunday was inexplicably bad. Ake rolled away from Henderson with ease to meet the rebound, but Benik Afobe was another candidate for a tap-in after falling past the static Lovren.

Klopp has to act in the January transfer window, especially with Joel Matip heading out to the Africa Cup of Nations.

Mark Noble

When Mark Noble was left off Roy Hodgson's England squad at Euro 2016, it was a terrible oversight by the old-hat boss after a sensational term for West Ham United.

This season, however, has been woeful.

The industrious captain presided over a tatty 5-1 home loss to Arsenal on Saturday, and was shamefully hauled off on 72 minutes after offering nothing defensively (no tackles, no interceptions, no blocks, no clearances) or attacking-wise (no shots, no key passes, no dribbles).

Influential stuff, skipper.