Match Day Thread Derby County v Leeds Utd

AN ULTRA defensive MF should have high success rate on passes

I think he’s doing a good job mind, but that stat is meaningless imo

 

Reminds me of Harold Wilson. He always did brilliantly in telly interviews. Main reason was he got the pipe out for the hard questions & had a god puff before answering, giving him a huge advantage over those who had to answer immediately. And the funny thing is, I don't think many people got it during his political lifetime - he completely got away with it.

 

Wilkins and Ince played little sideways crab passes and meant a high pass rate and pass accuracy, so I agree to a certain extent but please remember Phillips right now is no Ray Wilkins he is a Championship player in a new position. I think he is doing an ugly job and much goes unnoticed?

 

I thought jeremy thorpe liked a good puff

 

I'd say every manager in the division is studying our game now. Probably from behind the sofa peeping out between their fingers...

 

and ****ting themselves when we come to town

 

I think he did an excellent job 2nd half and though might not have created the 'assists' (another meaningless stat) the amount of ball he won back arguably created the momentum for the attacks that led to the goals. I understand he is not anyone's favourite player but credit must be given when it's due.

 

I agree, just think the stat is bollox. He broke up loads of attacks. Sais loses the ball quite a bit (as you’d expect) and Phillips gets it back and says ‘try again’

Just wrote that and remembered Hunter saying that was his job when Giles and Bremner lost it

 

The only stat I like is the 4.1 stat

 

You can't be a Leeds fan and miserable this morning.

 

Biggest surprise stat is the headers won! Who'd have thought with all of our midgets?

 

Oh I know a few, well one

 

OI

 

On the assists point, he won’t get that many.

I posted earlier, for both of Roofes goals there was a good assist (Alioski for the header and I think it was Klich for the shot). But equally important was:
A) Douglas facing wrong way doing an inch perfect reverse pass to Alioski to then assist the header
B) Phillips getting the ball back after Sais got tackled and simply giving it to Klich who then made a key pass

Neither Douglas or Phillips get an assist but they were the initial reason we had the chance.

 

Gutted

 

...ffs there's me rattlin on and the offy has been open since 12.30........back soon

 

Kindly leave the stage.

 

Exactly the point I was trying to make

 

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