From what I saw,we play good entertaining attacking football but we have a shaky defence and goalkeeper at times Eze is the best player I’ve seen since taraabt and BOS must frighten the hell out of any defender Just lack a little bit of balance to be a top 6 team but we are not far off from what I could see
From what I saw,we play good entertaining attacking football but we have a shaky defence and goalkeeper at times Eze is the best player I’ve seen since taraabt and BOS must frighten the hell out of any defender Just lack a little bit of balance to be a top 6 team but we are not far off from what I could see
I told you Warburton in his half time talk said,lads you know who is here today,singlespeed and his son and let’s get the result for him,he’s never seen a home win and make him proud of this football team
Hugill has his best game bullied stoke defence the whole game and created space for our attackers to exploit and got a deserved goal after a shocking miss I’m still in shock and can’t believe what I witnessed to be honest
I told you Warburton in his half time talk said,lads you know who is here today,singlespeed and his son and let’s get the result for him,he’s never seen a home win and make him proud of this football team
Hugill has his best game bullied stoke defence the whole game and created space for our attackers to exploit and got a deserved goal after a shocking miss I’m still in shock and can’t believe what I witnessed to be honest
With my 'Single' hat on I would like to point out that we have beaten Stoke earlier in the season and their style of play suits ours. In other words - this is not going to become the norm! Even if this was not QPR (where anything could and does happen), we will come up against sides that do not allow us to settle into our way of playing and sides that rip us apart. However, in this mediocre season I am still going to enjoy the full 90 minutes on video tomorrow!
Well that was a pleasant 90+ minutes! How many times have we played like this and lost? Too many! Saturday was different, the number of chances was overwhelming (we had 3 attacks on goal where it would have been far easier to score but the ball went over/around the goalposts), but we outplayed an ex-Prem side and proved that you can make quality things cheaply!! It would be unfair to highlight one or two players only, because this was a team effort and all the players deserve praise:
Kelly gave a solid performance in truly horrible conditions and, for me, was better than ex-England Butland at the other end.
Rangel showed all of his experience with great positioning and passes
Hall defended well and should have been awarded a penalty. He may not be captain material but he worked well with the BBC: Ball, Barbet & Cameron
Barbet's left-sided support at the back was a further prop to the defence, and he worked well with Manning
Manning still struggles to close down opponents but his runs, close passing and sheer determination was really good.
Ball showed his importance in the side by closing down or interrupting their play time and time again.
Cameron was determined to prove again that Stoke were wrong to release him, and he succeeded! To find him in the goal area after a late surge wanting the ball was a delight.
BOS still needs to read play better, work with others and ensure he holds onto the ball; but his goal proves he is a threat wherever he is on the pitch.
Eze was everything that I hope BOS will be 12 months on. He was strong on the ball and working hard off it, showed great touches and was just..superb!
Pugh provides something that Chair has not yet got completely - excellent inter-play and dogged determination to regain the ball or retain it. Like BOS, I expect Chair to learn and keep improving. At 32 years of age we need Chair to learn quickly from a good ball-player.
Finally, Hugill's hold-up play and passing was great; but I think his overall effort was the clincher for me. He was superb in defence, making critical clearances at times and following their attackers back all the way to prevent an easy pass or move.
Post by northwesthoop on Feb 17, 2020 17:09:22 GMT
I've seen a few comments that Cameron was giving an extra few percent against his old club and that was evident on the opening day too when we dominated the midfield. In some ways he should be playing like that every week!!
Well that was a pleasant 90+ minutes! How many times have we played like this and lost? Too many! Saturday was different, the number of chances was overwhelming (we had 3 attacks on goal where it would have been far easier to score but the ball went over/around the goalposts), but we outplayed an ex-Prem side and proved that you can make quality things cheaply!! It would be unfair to highlight one or two players only, because this was a team effort and all the players deserve praise:
Kelly gave a solid performance in truly horrible conditions and, for me, was better than ex-England Butland at the other end.
Rangel showed all of his experience with great positioning and passes
Hall defended well and should have been awarded a penalty. He may not be captain material but he worked well with the BBC: Ball, Barbet & Cameron
Barbet's left-sided support at the back was a further prop to the defence, and he worked well with Manning
Manning still struggles to close down opponents but his runs, close passing and sheer determination was really good.
Ball showed his importance in the side by closing down or interrupting their play time and time again.
Cameron was determined to prove again that Stoke were wrong to release him, and he succeeded! To find him in the goal area after a late surge wanting the ball was a delight.
BOS still needs to read play better, work with others and ensure he holds onto the ball; but his goal proves he is a threat wherever he is on the pitch.
Eze was everything that I hope BOS will be 12 months on. He was strong on the ball and working hard off it, showed great touches and was just..superb!
Pugh provides something that Chair has not yet got completely - excellent inter-play and dogged determination to regain the ball or retain it. Like BOS, I expect Chair to learn and keep improving. At 32 years of age we need Chair to learn quickly from a good ball-player.
Finally, Hugill's hold-up play and passing was great; but I think his overall effort was the clincher for me. He was superb in defence, making critical clearances at times and following their attackers back all the way to prevent an easy pass or move.
Ilias Chair is 32???? Bloody hell he had a tough paper round, I never though he was that old
I don’t often come out of a game speechless but some of our attacking play was fantastic,we just pushed forward at every opportunity and did from start of game to injury time We can’t sit back our defence is still a bit fragile for that but it was a good all round team performance and mixture of youth and old worked,Cameron was like a man possessed he was well up for it It’s very frustrating as we show what a great attacking team we really are at times and when it clicks it really does Cardiff and Swansea we blew apart but we then go and lose to a stupid team like Barnsley or something Start of the season we done great because although we couldn’t defend we simply just scored more goals as we know we can I may have just caught the team on a good day but from what I saw it really impressed me and we have some decent players Hugill and hall were players that really surprised me and just a shame we can’t play the same every week
Well that was a pleasant 90+ minutes! How many times have we played like this and lost? Too many! Saturday was different, the number of chances was overwhelming (we had 3 attacks on goal where it would have been far easier to score but the ball went over/around the goalposts), but we outplayed an ex-Prem side and proved that you can make quality things cheaply!! It would be unfair to highlight one or two players only, because this was a team effort and all the players deserve praise:
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Pugh provides something that Chair has not yet got completely - excellent inter-play and dogged determination to regain the ball or retain it. Like BOS, I expect Chair to learn and keep improving. At 32 years of age we need Chair to learn quickly from a good ball-player.
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Ilias Chair is 32? Bloody hell he had a tough paper round, I never though he was that old
Mr Pugh is 32 years old, not Master Chair!
Last Edit: Feb 17, 2020 22:09:11 GMT by kingfisher