true99blade
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You can’t help yourself can you, “says a lot more about you than me”. The constant point scoring is cringe worthy.IIRC, your response was personal and somewhat childish. Hence, 'rusks'. I shouldn't have to explain, let alone to you, but I am okay with people who say 'I disagree, and here is why', but you're all about the ad hominem straight away, aren't you? Which says more about you than me. And as before, if you don't like what I put, scroll the fuck on past and don't comment. I don't give a shit if you do.
Roll it back two seconds and you'll see how Camara danced through our big old midfield and advanced toward our 18 yard box with that wingback in acres of space, free to run on goal. Given the shit-your-pants way we had to defend that (and I'd add that an angled drive low into the far corner would have beaten Ramsdale any day) it hardly suggests us being 'in control' of our first division opponents, does it?
What was it then? A lucky deflection? Wind assisted? A poor VAR decision? Face it, they pressed us started playing further up the pitch, Norwood was already being outrun and picked up a yellow and Lundstram is caught in possession, dispossessed, Basham makes a fuck up of the challenge and it's squared to their man and he tucks it under Ramsdale. Not exactly luck, is it? More 'pressing' and outfighting us in the middle of the park and burying the chance, from the same spot Lundstram missed in the first half.
Yes, because as with most games this season, he gets found out and can't defend and ends up legging his opponent up, frustrated by his lack of ability and energy. I get that when he's up against PL players - then he does it against Plymouth. That's not 'solid', is it? They know what his game is and they play round it and counter it. NOte: I haven't suggested we were any better with Ampadu in the CM role. Note also: I consistently say that three in midfield is our undoing this season and all three 'regulars' are not a patch on last season and this isn't 'recent' news - since lockdown the midfield has been a disaster. See also Norwood's crossing which until recently has been hitting the first man on the front stick.
Yes I do. Booting it all over the pitch to no effect is simply showing off, especially if the receiver is instantly put under pressure or is in no position to capitalise on space in front of him. See also these neatly clipped balls across the backline which twenty seconds later are going the other way. Looks great. Achieves nothing. Now if you want to go watch Oliver Norwood do that for ninety minutes then groovy, fill your boots. But as soon as he actually looks up and there is Billy Sharp, back to defender, opening the door for a central through pass we are suddenly in on goal and two-up. Go check and see if I praised that, will you? No need for this fancy-arsed 'ping'. Just find a fucking forward, eh? As it stood with that, Plymouth were expecting him to go sideways again and a huge space opened up in front into which he could have run into also, something else he's not great at doing.
Yep - we should have been four up and controlling the game. But it wasn't because Norwood was subbed that we started to shit our pants and let them get back at us. We were still error prone and going nowhere before that, hence two nil instead of four.
Glad we are discussing the game here. Makes a change.
pommpey
So do you agree he wasn’t clean on goal? Because that was all I said. Nothing to do with the decent bit of play from Camara. And now you’re spinning it to ‘if he put it in the bottom corner he would’ve scored’. No shit. Would’ve done tremendously well to score from there. That one half chance hardly suggests we weren’t in control either.
Everything else you’ve said has been repeated over and over, we just simply disagree on how comfortable we were prior to their goal. Gonna leave it there it’s been a long day for me. Rusk time.