Plymouth Argyle at home match thread

[Davefevs]

18 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

The one that Wayne ends up putting wide, it's towards 2 City players, possibly slightly misplaced. From his perspective I think he may have seen 2 City players and a little space, I would have liked him to put his foot through that one. 
I do think , with the amount of space behind their FB's his kicking wide was better than it has been. Lower & firmer giving defenders less time to chase around , and with Bell & Pring either challenging or looking for the flick, we attacked that space well. 
IMO his best game for distribution for a while, but I think we gave him more options and Plymouth made it a little easier. 

Yeah, I think he tried to give it a bit of a “welly”, but hit a “low-hook” instead.

[Ian M]

Looking back at Sykes’ goals this season, there’s more than a touch of the Tinnion to Murray about them. I wonder if this is something they are specifically looking out for during  games?

[Red-Robbo]

3 hours ago, Davefevs said:

@Red-Robbo I don’t recall him throwing it straight to one of their players…can you remind me of the situation.  Maybe I blanked it from my mind.

About midway through the first half. Maybe he felt sorry as it was the only way they could get possession at that point.

Bloke did nothing with it. Naismith was quickly on the scene and took the ball off him. 

Max wasn't awful that game. But when so many of our players were showing their best, he was merely OK. He didn't shine, although I suppose for much of the game he didn't have much to do 

[Rossi the Robin]

Getting some recognition for our atmosphere 

 

[chinapig]

4 minutes ago, Ian M said:

Looking back at Sykes’ goals this season, there’s more than a touch of the Tinnion to Murray about them. I wonder if this is something they are specifically looking out for during  games?

I was thinking the same. I'd have to watch again but it seems to me that key is winning the ball in the opposition's half so catching then out of shape and switching the ball quickly.

Of course if you can overload one side of the pitch and drag the opposition across then switch the ball to the other side quickly you can create space that way as well.

Sykes is good at exploiting these situations. At times it seems as if he wears an invisibility cloak so the defence don't notice he's there.

[Ian M]

13 minutes ago, chinapig said:

I was thinking the same. I'd have to watch again but it seems to me that key is winning the ball in the opposition's half so catching then out of shape and switching the ball quickly.

Of course if you can overload one side of the pitch and drag the opposition across then switch the ball to the other side quickly you can create space that way as well.

Sykes is good at exploiting these situations. At times it seems as if he wears an invisibility cloak so the defence don't notice he's there.

Honestly don’t understand where their left back was on Tuesday

[Ian M]

Is it this guy jogging back on the far side after we had already been in possession on the near side?

incidentally, the deepest Plymouth defender you see in the above picture, almost walks back and we end up 4 vs 1 at the point Sykes scores.

look at the space just 1 second after the above screenshot

Reckon their LB had popped for a comfort break or summat

Only 1 Plymouth player bothered to gamble on their keeper making a save! 

[Davefevs]

 

42 minutes ago, Ian M said:

Honestly don’t understand where their left back was on Tuesday

Narrow, just to the left of Gibson, they’re CB (17) in the pic below.  He (Kesler-Hayden) jogged back in, pretty much gave in.  The player in our half was Callum Wright their LF.

36 minutes ago, Ian M said:

Is it this guy jogging back on the far side after we had already been in possession on the near side?

incidentally, the deepest Plymouth defender you see in the above picture, almost walks back and we end up 4 vs 1 at the point Sykes scores.

look at the space just 1 second after the above screenshot

Reckon their LB had popped for a comfort break or summat

Only 1 Plymouth player bothered to gamble on their keeper making a save! 

Nope, see reply above to your other post.

[Davefevs]

1 hour ago, chinapig said:

I was thinking the same. I'd have to watch again but it seems to me that key is winning the ball in the opposition's half so catching then out of shape and switching the ball quickly.

Of course if you can overload one side of the pitch and drag the opposition across then switch the ball to the other side quickly you can create space that way as well.

Sykes is good at exploiting these situations. At times it seems as if he wears an invisibility cloak so the defence don't notice he's there.

We do tend to set up w/o the ball a tad lopsided, for some reason teams aim GKs towards Pring (LB) and Williams (LCM/8)…which surprises me.

Although this is a GK from their right side of the 6 yard box, most teams going long seem to favour that side anyway so I guess in the main it’s just the natural set up.

We can see WBA’s front-3, Wallace and Thomas-Assante close together, Phillips way out on the left.

Pring has Wallace inside so he can engage Furlong if need be.

Naismith close to Thomas-Assante but marking on his outside, because he has Vyner inside.

Bell splits Furlong and Ajayi

Sykes is only concerned with Pieters and has acres outside him

Tanner only needs to be aware of Phillips because of where kick is gonna be aimed.

Knight, James and Williams happy to pick up Molumby, Yokoslu and Swift if need be.

So, a natural bias to their right, our left.

If play unfolds, say a counter, Sykes is the ball into space.  Which kinda was what happened on Tuesday, albeit it came from Wells intercepting an infield pass.