| Armstrong's goal 19:02 - Mar 2 with 6122 views | numptydumpty |
LES esque in its power and pace.
What a hit !!
And six seconds after coming on - surely a Rangers record in time on the pitch to score.
Wow !@@! [Post edited 2 Mar 19:03]
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| Armstrong's goal on 19:13 - Mar 2 with 4943 views | Mick_S |
Blooter - Hot Shot Hamish styleeeeeee. |  |
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| Armstrong's goal on 19:23 - Mar 2 with 4852 views | nix |
Great work from Field too to pass the ball in the box and to fend off the defender and prevent him from blocking Sinc's shot. |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:27 - Mar 2 with 4803 views | traininvain |
Armstrong’s now scored good goals against Bournemouth and Leicester who are two of the better teams we’ve faced this season. I know he’s very raw at times but he’s 20 years old and I like his hunger which sometimes turns into frustration.
Plenty to work on but he’s got potential to be an important player for us next season. We need to get him signed up on a longer contract. |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:31 - Mar 2 with 4746 views | numptydumpty |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:27 - Mar 2 by traininvain |
Armstrong’s now scored good goals against Bournemouth and Leicester who are two of the better teams we’ve faced this season. I know he’s very raw at times but he’s 20 years old and I like his hunger which sometimes turns into frustration.
Plenty to work on but he’s got potential to be an important player for us next season. We need to get him signed up on a longer contract. |
20 years old is the kicker, absolutely.
Much potential to still be reached | |
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| Armstrong's goal on 19:33 - Mar 2 with 4725 views | themodfather |
really pleased for him and us |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:41 - Mar 2 with 4664 views | slmrstid |
It was a hell of a hit! Wham bam, pick that out. Celebrations were a bit OTT though, I thought the ref was going to book him because he took so long to get up off the floor when everyone else was ready to go.
He got a lot of unfair stick after that in the away end for not charging around every ball being played back toward the Leicester defence - unfair because he'd clearly been told by Marti to stay where he was and help the whole team keep in shape - not charge off after the ball, get turned and then have one less player behind the ball as Leicester break forward. Did his job well, people in the stands sometimes need to engage brains more. |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:45 - Mar 2 with 4602 views | Benny_the_Ball |
Excellent work by Field to shield the ball followed by an emphatic strike from Armstrong.
It's shame that later on Sinclair chose to pass to Chair instead of driving towards goal when clean through. Having been buoyed by his goal, I fancied him to net a brace.
Still, we won at the King Power so all is good with the world. Well done young man; now sign that contract! |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:56 - Mar 2 with 4517 views | nix |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:41 - Mar 2 by slmrstid |
It was a hell of a hit! Wham bam, pick that out. Celebrations were a bit OTT though, I thought the ref was going to book him because he took so long to get up off the floor when everyone else was ready to go.
He got a lot of unfair stick after that in the away end for not charging around every ball being played back toward the Leicester defence - unfair because he'd clearly been told by Marti to stay where he was and help the whole team keep in shape - not charge off after the ball, get turned and then have one less player behind the ball as Leicester break forward. Did his job well, people in the stands sometimes need to engage brains more. |
Yes, that's what I thought. He was keeping discipline and avoiding leaving gaping holes in our defence. | | | |
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| Armstrong's goal on 21:37 - Mar 2 with 4251 views | terryb |
A great hit & superb goal, but our quickest by a sub?
I remember Alan Wilkes coming on as a sub at Arsenal in 1968 when we had a corner & scoring with his header from that kick.
The difference being we lost 2-1 at Arsenal & won 2-1 at Leicester! [Post edited 2 Mar 22:15]
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| Armstrong's goal on 21:43 - Mar 2 with 4179 views | Boston |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:45 - Mar 2 by Benny_the_Ball |
Excellent work by Field to shield the ball followed by an emphatic strike from Armstrong.
It's shame that later on Sinclair chose to pass to Chair instead of driving towards goal when clean through. Having been buoyed by his goal, I fancied him to net a brace.
Still, we won at the King Power so all is good with the world. Well done young man; now sign that contract! |
Yeah, Sincs got lost there, found himself with the ball in a position that he would rarely experience. Bottled slightly and passed to an older pro, when really he should have put his head down and gone straight for goal. | |
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| Armstrong's goal on 22:01 - Mar 2 with 4088 views | welwynranger |
| Armstrong's goal on 21:37 - Mar 2 by terryb |
A great hit & superb goal, but our quickest by a sub?
I remember Alan Wilkes coming on as a sub at Arsenal in 1968 when we had a corner & scoring with his header from that kick.
The difference being we lost 2-1 at Arsenal & won 2-1 at Leicester! [Post edited 2 Mar 22:15]
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Yea you are right
You beat me to it.
I was there that day.
I thought about that goal
when he scored today | | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 22:51 - Mar 2 with 3825 views | aston_hoop |
Love this view of it
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| Armstrong's goal on 23:52 - Mar 2 with 3570 views | alexferguson60 |
| Armstrong's goal on 19:41 - Mar 2 by slmrstid |
It was a hell of a hit! Wham bam, pick that out. Celebrations were a bit OTT though, I thought the ref was going to book him because he took so long to get up off the floor when everyone else was ready to go.
He got a lot of unfair stick after that in the away end for not charging around every ball being played back toward the Leicester defence - unfair because he'd clearly been told by Marti to stay where he was and help the whole team keep in shape - not charge off after the ball, get turned and then have one less player behind the ball as Leicester break forward. Did his job well, people in the stands sometimes need to engage brains more. |
To be fair I was one of those people who wanted him to press their keeper, because he was clearly uncomfortable on the ball. But someone explained to me why he shouldn’t do it, and I shut up about it.
As for the ‘OTT celebration’, I loved it!!! | | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 02:42 - Mar 3 with 3372 views | The_Beast1976 |
| Armstrong's goal on 21:43 - Mar 2 by Boston |
Yeah, Sincs got lost there, found himself with the ball in a position that he would rarely experience. Bottled slightly and passed to an older pro, when really he should have put his head down and gone straight for goal. |
I don't think he bottled it. He headed to the corner to ensure that Leicester had no time to get the ball back and attack for a final time. Completely unselfish work. That's how I saw it anyway [Post edited 3 Mar 2:43]
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| Armstrong's goal on 03:06 - Mar 3 with 3336 views | FredManRave |
Armstrong needs (and deserves) a song. |  |
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| Armstrong's goal on 03:13 - Mar 3 with 3316 views | Benny_the_Ball |
| Armstrong's goal on 02:42 - Mar 3 by The_Beast1976 |
I don't think he bottled it. He headed to the corner to ensure that Leicester had no time to get the ball back and attack for a final time. Completely unselfish work. That's how I saw it anyway [Post edited 3 Mar 2:43]
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That was a completely different passage of play. You're referring to the final seconds of the match when Sinclair took it into the corner. That was a good decision. We're referring to an earlier phase where he found himself through on goal with a chance to make it 3-1 and kill the game. He lacked the confidence to take it on so he passed to Chair instead who duly shot wide. [Post edited 3 Mar 3:23]
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| Armstrong's goal on 07:10 - Mar 3 with 3144 views | FDC |
| Armstrong's goal on 21:43 - Mar 2 by Boston |
Yeah, Sincs got lost there, found himself with the ball in a position that he would rarely experience. Bottled slightly and passed to an older pro, when really he should have put his head down and gone straight for goal. |
I thought the same, seemed to take a long time to realise he was on side, then passed it too early when he could have driven forward and released chair after drawing the defender to him, or taken it himself. |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 07:15 - Mar 3 with 3106 views | GaryBannister86 |
My Sinclair observations were:
Brilliant goal, fantastic with first touch, so pleased for him.
I also couldn't understand why he wasn't closing down in his usual belligerent fashion after that, but as posted above must have been a Marti directive. And it worked.
Showed signs of growing maturity with the pass to Chair rather than shooting at the end, and most importantly going for the corner in the last play.
Only downtick for me is the celebrations. Don't mind the passion with the first wave of celebration, but his second wave of antics, done when all his teammates have left to go back to the centre circle, was a bit OTT and just winds up the opposition and fans, especially when the game is still clearly in the balance. Am sure Marti will put a stop to it.
My other thoughts from the game:
> best away support in terms of noise, humour and size that I have been in for quite a while
> credit to Dykes for the first half performance, he doesn't get much on this MB but he was feeding on scraps and did it very nicely and gamely I thought
> Begovic - despite the stats had only one easy save to make all game, and he made a horrendous rick with that and could have cost us the three points.
> Marti. Genius. Nourry - your number 1 priority is to nail this bloke's feet to the floor.
> Chair - skill, passion and running back after 93 minutes to cover like his life dependent on it. He may be between a rock and a hard place at the moment, but how important is he?
Love it. |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 07:21 - Mar 3 with 3075 views | cpgerber |
“Willock obliged with a strike cleaner than Gwyneth Paltrow’s colon after a three-week juice cleanse”
Clive said he had that line in his notes waiting for a goal worthy of it. Cashed in a week too early. |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 08:08 - Mar 3 with 2916 views | traininvain |
| Armstrong's goal on 03:13 - Mar 3 by Benny_the_Ball |
That was a completely different passage of play. You're referring to the final seconds of the match when Sinclair took it into the corner. That was a good decision. We're referring to an earlier phase where he found himself through on goal with a chance to make it 3-1 and kill the game. He lacked the confidence to take it on so he passed to Chair instead who duly shot wide. [Post edited 3 Mar 3:23]
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I actually thought that was good awareness to pass to Chair who is more comfortable on the ball and came very close to scoring. If Armstrong had continued his run and lost the ball, people would be calling him selfish for not getting his head up and seeing Chair. It showed an improvement on his decision making compared with Blackburn away a few weeks ago. | | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 08:25 - Mar 3 with 2815 views | Burnleyhoop |
| Armstrong's goal on 08:08 - Mar 3 by traininvain |
I actually thought that was good awareness to pass to Chair who is more comfortable on the ball and came very close to scoring. If Armstrong had continued his run and lost the ball, people would be calling him selfish for not getting his head up and seeing Chair. It showed an improvement on his decision making compared with Blackburn away a few weeks ago. |
Chair drew the defender away and the space opened up for Armstrong to move forward two or 3 yards for a clear and open goal to aim at. Passing it to Chair when he did, meant Chair had to adjust his feet as the defender came across to him, hence the failure to hit the target.
Wrong decision for me, a confident and experienced striker( tend to be greedy) wouldn’t have even considered passing with an opportunity like that. Still, he ripped the net off earlier and we beat the top of the league.
Another tough one to come on Wednesday, Bring it on. | | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 08:43 - Mar 3 with 2728 views | westberksr |
| Armstrong's goal on 08:25 - Mar 3 by Burnleyhoop |
Chair drew the defender away and the space opened up for Armstrong to move forward two or 3 yards for a clear and open goal to aim at. Passing it to Chair when he did, meant Chair had to adjust his feet as the defender came across to him, hence the failure to hit the target.
Wrong decision for me, a confident and experienced striker( tend to be greedy) wouldn’t have even considered passing with an opportunity like that. Still, he ripped the net off earlier and we beat the top of the league.
Another tough one to come on Wednesday, Bring it on. |
this.......
it was pretty much a 2v1 and the defender had left Sinc a fairly clear passage to smash another on target effort. Opting for Chari reduced the chance of a positive outcome imho.
he'll continue to learn and develop |  | | |
| Armstrong's goal on 08:58 - Mar 3 with 2640 views | traininvain |
| Armstrong's goal on 08:25 - Mar 3 by Burnleyhoop |
Chair drew the defender away and the space opened up for Armstrong to move forward two or 3 yards for a clear and open goal to aim at. Passing it to Chair when he did, meant Chair had to adjust his feet as the defender came across to him, hence the failure to hit the target.
Wrong decision for me, a confident and experienced striker( tend to be greedy) wouldn’t have even considered passing with an opportunity like that. Still, he ripped the net off earlier and we beat the top of the league.
Another tough one to come on Wednesday, Bring it on. |
But if Chair had scored (as he arguably should have) we’d all be saying well done Armstrong. For me it was a 50:50 decision and I can see why Armstrong went with the pass after Blackburn away when he was rightly castigated by his teammates for not passing when in a similar position.
I actually thought it showed maturity and improving awareness to look up, see the more technically gifted Chair and release the ball rather than going for glory as we’ve seen him do earlier in the season without much success. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s something Marti has been working on with Armstrong. [Post edited 3 Mar 9:03]
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| Armstrong's goal on 10:41 - Mar 3 with 2378 views | LazyFan |
It was a close call as the Leicester defence was defending correctly when you get outnumbered like that; the Leicester defence adjusted to the situation.
Really, Armstrong should have run at them, then if, as I suspect, the oppo closed in on him, he then needs to either shoot if it's a clear shot or, more likely, play Chair in as he's drawn the Leicester defenders to him.
He played Chair in too early at that point as he had not run at them a bit more. However, he did not lose the ball, and Chair should have taken his man on as well. Big let off for Leicester that.
But in the end, it did not matter; hopefully, they learn and next time, they get it right. Better they learn in a match we win and then get it right in a match we need it, than in some loss to Millwall or some such. |  |
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| Armstrong's goal on 11:01 - Mar 3 with 2320 views | traininvain |
| Armstrong's goal on 10:41 - Mar 3 by LazyFan |
It was a close call as the Leicester defence was defending correctly when you get outnumbered like that; the Leicester defence adjusted to the situation.
Really, Armstrong should have run at them, then if, as I suspect, the oppo closed in on him, he then needs to either shoot if it's a clear shot or, more likely, play Chair in as he's drawn the Leicester defenders to him.
He played Chair in too early at that point as he had not run at them a bit more. However, he did not lose the ball, and Chair should have taken his man on as well. Big let off for Leicester that.
But in the end, it did not matter; hopefully, they learn and next time, they get it right. Better they learn in a match we win and then get it right in a match we need it, than in some loss to Millwall or some such. |
Having rewatched the highlights I think this is probably about right. Leicester defender took up a good position and if Armstrong runs into the space I think the defender steps across to block the run. But it would’ve opened up more space for Chair which would’ve allowed Armstrong to slip him in.
I still think it’s an improvement on Blackburn away when Armstrong found himself in similar situations and gave the ball away. | | | |
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