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1) Koki's 1st touch for his goal. Oooh, World class! 49 times out of 50, even at the top level of football, the player would just smash it and more than likely hit one of the 3 defenders or keeper stood in front of him. Not our Koki. That simple, perfectly executed, cool as absolute f**k, precisely controlled half a yard touch sidewards took out all 4 of the oppo and left him an empty net to thunder it into. Beautiful. Honourable mentions also for his gravity defying leap and stay in mid air to win the header and Yang's 1st touch in the lead up to Chair's 2nd.
2) The press in the 4141 formation, particularly 2nd half. Terrorised Derby as they tried to play out from the back. Field moved up to flank Frey with Chair and they pressed brilliantly as a unit whilst Varane owned the space behind them. Glorious front foot defending. Our number 1 strength right now.
3) Varane's little flashes with the ball. He actually has the ball control and physicality to be able beat the 1st man or 2 and move away up the pitch just with his big stride, without needing any particular tricks or moves. Showed that more than once yesterday. Pinged a couple of nice longer passes too.
I'm hoping that we are seeing the gradual chipping away of his fear based hiding, backwards, sidewards stuff as he clearly as some ability on the ball. Feels like a confidence/mentality thing but there is a lot more potential growth there. Already nailing the defensive side of the game for me.
4) Chair 'arriving' in the box. That lung bursting, get in there ahead of your marker and expect the ball type. Seems to rarely do it much when playing out wide. Delightful to see him do it yesterday for his 2nd. More please.
5) Morrison getting back on the pitch. He's ours, he's 21, he never loses, he has huge potential and he's 1 of only 2 defenders definitely here next year. He needs to be playing.
6) QPR playing with a proper number 10.
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 09:09 - Feb 15 with 4298 views
Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 09:18 - Feb 15 by MrSheen
Nothing much went Frey’s way last night (apart from his crazy volley), but 10/10 for effort, a real menace throughout.
8) Ronnie bringing the ball out. Shame he’s not ours.
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I'm deliberately excluding Ronnie!
Watching him take the ball at the back and decide, sometimes quickly, sometimes after some deliberation, just what he's going to do with it and just how he is personally going to start our next attack is a thing of bittersweet beauty.
There's only so much attachment I will allow myself. The exquisite pain takes me back to a glorious fling in my youth with a Swedish beauty (out my league, like Ronnie) in Thailand. It could only ever last for a fleeting, stars temporarily aligned god given moment. The universe reminding you that events of pure joy can happen but you must always accept and prepare for the Impermanence Of All Things. That's me with Ronnie.
I guess he has to play, in this form, whilst we are still in touch with the crazy pipe dream of the playoffs. You have to play your best team at this stage, loans or not.
But I was already playing this tune in my head yesterday thinking of May's inevitable parting.
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 10:40 - Feb 15 with 3850 views
Chair's fitness looks to be back now, and hopefully this is a sign that the form has followed.
One thing I noted in the early parts of the game before he scored was how hard he was working - not just through the middle but up and down the left flank, then sprinting across to the right side of midfield to win the ball back - great stuff.
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 11:59 - Feb 15 with 3546 views
Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 10:20 - Feb 15 by 1BobbyHazell
I'm deliberately excluding Ronnie!
Watching him take the ball at the back and decide, sometimes quickly, sometimes after some deliberation, just what he's going to do with it and just how he is personally going to start our next attack is a thing of bittersweet beauty.
There's only so much attachment I will allow myself. The exquisite pain takes me back to a glorious fling in my youth with a Swedish beauty (out my league, like Ronnie) in Thailand. It could only ever last for a fleeting, stars temporarily aligned god given moment. The universe reminding you that events of pure joy can happen but you must always accept and prepare for the Impermanence Of All Things. That's me with Ronnie.
I guess he has to play, in this form, whilst we are still in touch with the crazy pipe dream of the playoffs. You have to play your best team at this stage, loans or not.
But I was already playing this tune in my head yesterday thinking of May's inevitable parting.
Ronnie is 2025's version of Mark Kennedy, don't get too attached
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 12:25 - Feb 15 with 3367 views
Fantastic OP. Agree with all of it and some of the posts following . Can’t get too carried away as Derby’s heads went once they went 1-0 down.
But still buzzing this morning .
There were 2 or 3, 1 touch passing moves last night that shows that we are starting to believe in ourselves more . We are growing as a side . Players like Koki, Yang, Frey and even Varane want to move the ball quicker and even Ilias is doing it more . Doesn’t always work but it’s not going to . There will be defeats and upsets in the weeks ahead but I think most of us can see progression and improvements in most areas of our play . Talking of Ilias , every week his work rate and graft for the team becomes more and prevalent . He puts in some yardage now just like Smyth does .
Lose next week and of course I’ll be complaining that Paal is the week link and Field isn’t quite good enough for what we want , fully aware that I can be as fickle as anybody . But for now I’m just starting to feel like we are getting somewhere as a football team . And after the last 2 years and more, that’s a great feeling .
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 14:28 - Feb 15 with 3082 views
Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 11:09 - Feb 15 by BklynRanger
Chair's fitness looks to be back now, and hopefully this is a sign that the form has followed.
One thing I noted in the early parts of the game before he scored was how hard he was working - not just through the middle but up and down the left flank, then sprinting across to the right side of midfield to win the ball back - great stuff.
I came here to say this. First half we got caught a little bit down our right and he sprinted 60 yards back to cover and challenge to help a team mate out.
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 14:48 - Feb 15 with 3001 views
Chairs first was a beauty but from kokis jump , Yangs touch and cut back and that thunder bastard finish from Illy for the third, Class. Derby just couldn’t handle it .
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 14:59 - Feb 15 with 2939 views
All 4 goals had critical moments of quality: From Chair's banger, to Koki's composed touch before the finish, to Koki's salmon leap/Yang's placed cut back/Chair's clinical finish, to Paal's superb delivery.
Some of these in the Plymouth home, Watford away, Millwall away games (to name a few) and we would be flying.
The progress over time is undeniable, especially when you consider the average age of the players on the pitch at the final whistle last night.
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 15:01 - Feb 15 with 2918 views
My observation ( and agree with all about last night). Our perceived weakness of not having a 20 goal a season striker is even more offset by another 2 newbies scoring last night for the 1st time this season. This is the definition of team. So I think we have Dunne, Edwards, Fox, Paal, Field, Morgan, Varane, Madsen, Saito, Smyth, Chair, Celar, Frey, Kolli, May, Dembele and Colback?
I have no idea of where that sits in the league but 17 on the scoresheet seems something to me.
Cook is bound to get one before the season ends
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 18:28 - Feb 15 with 2543 views
I thought that was Varanes best performance for us, he was really impressive last night and seemed to get better as the game wore on, that little rest he's had last few games hasreally helped, he looked fresh
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 18:34 - Feb 15 with 2521 views
Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 15:35 - Feb 15 by Andybrat
My observation ( and agree with all about last night). Our perceived weakness of not having a 20 goal a season striker is even more offset by another 2 newbies scoring last night for the 1st time this season. This is the definition of team. So I think we have Dunne, Edwards, Fox, Paal, Field, Morgan, Varane, Madsen, Saito, Smyth, Chair, Celar, Frey, Kolli, May, Dembele and Colback?
I have no idea of where that sits in the league but 17 on the scoresheet seems something to me.
Cook is bound to get one before the season ends
Missed Lloyd, so 18.
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 20:14 - Feb 15 with 2335 views
Really hope we can keep Koki beyond this season. In martis interview with WLS he alluded to how it’s taken him a little while to get used to the league and the coaching staff’s tactics, and if he was to go elsewhere come season end it would feel like he’s left with more to give.
Could be a real player for us next couple of seasons
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Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 21:09 - Feb 15 with 2174 views
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