More examples today of argyles tremendous spirit. Twice coming from behind to eventually win this westcountry thriller.
A massive 13k crowd meant there were no spare seats to be found around me for a change. Knowhere to lounge around unfortunately,
so compressed kneecaps and a stiff back were the order of the day. A biting north easterly blowing snow in under the roof adding
to a miserably cold pre game experience. Never mind boy, kick offs coming and youll soon warm up i thought.
Sure enough a cracking end to end encounter ensued with both teams similar in style and attitude. Both wanting to play out when possible.
Both also pressing high at times so plenty of errors on the ball making it a tight and nervy game.
Rovers had a lot more pace up front than us with harrison, bennett and their rasputin looking no24 caused us no end of problems with it.
Especially poor old remi who kept on getting his clearances charged down by these onrushing "usain bolt" gasheads.
One such moment led to him chasing the ball out onto our right flank and ended up with him hacking down an opponent to retrieve the
situation. Quite comical watching it unfold but seriously some much quicker kicking practice for remi on monday i would predict.
First half started scrappily with rovers earning a FK on the edge of our area. Our wall covering the near post and remi the far post as is usual.
So a well struck right footed low shot from them then flew inside our far post, so possibly remi at fault? I was not in a good position to
be sure tbh.
Whatever its 0-1 and the Rover fans now roaring away with the green army silenced.
We were struggling to get our normal passing game going. We needed some TLC and sure enough the cavalry duly arrived.
GC10 putting an inswinging cross right onto nessies forehead. A quick glance and its beyond the rovers keeper. 1-1.
Green army now roaring with the gas switched off. Lovely jubbly i thought. Time to push on now.
Pacey rovers had other ideas though and a simple ball went over the top for harrison to run onto. Yanner went with him and instead
of staying on his feet and holding him up away from goal, he tried to contest possession with no covering teammate. So after losing the
challenge he ended up on his arris looking on as harrison drove home under remi from an angle. 1-2. The Gas now switched back on again and
the green army aghast but i thought that there wasnt that much between us in that first half tbh. We obviously missed sonny and sarce but foxy
and nessie were still putting in strong performances in our key centre mid area.
Second half and we upped our tempo thereby disturbing their play more, bringing us much more into it. Young newbie moses was tripped
in the box following a nice flowing move. Another newbie, this time assigned for pens. Ruebs stepped up and though stiking the ball well their
keeper made a fantastic diving save away to his left. Groans from the green army.
Seconds later though argyle played there way back into an attacking position on the left and nessie walloped in a left
footed drive that pingponged, literally, off a gashead and then the near post, flashing across goal to finish up just inside the far post.
All in the a blink of an eye. Home park erupts. My Stiff back and sore kneecaps now bouncing around but pain not an issue anymore.
"Get in there you *******" the perfect pain relief. 2-2.
Nessie(MOM)s 2 goals summed up his performance today. He seemed to be wherever the action was. Outstanding performance again from jamie.
The argyle boys were well up for it now chasing and harrying with the green army in full voice.
Could we get a winner? Course we could and it was good old yanner. Making up for his earlier error. Fiercely competetive, as ever,
forcing a foul from a defender as he tried to get on the end of a far post corner. One of many corners we created through pressure
and good passing football in that second half.
Who would take the pen after ruebs failure? That was the question.
Right in front of his adoring demport. Just had to be the man. Yep GC10 it was smacking it in sending the keeper the wrong way. 3-2.
Home park bedlam again. "We got carey" etc etc etc. Just about the loudest ive heard i reckon.
Heard it being sung and hummed outside afterwards too.
DA did his usual ATS for ruebs substitution to tighten us up as rovers turned the gas up on our defence.
A few shaky moments followed as rovers threw their sink and gas cooker, whatever, at us but we held on for a really big win.
Thought our defence was overall a bit shaky today especially on our left. Though tbf i thought rovers looked a decent team going forward.
I hope sonny returns soon as today showed how much we miss him through his defending, aerial threat and in how we play out from
the back. As thats when we are at our best imho. Oscar and zakatak were both very good at all this on our right hand side.
I thought young moses grew into the game and maybe he can fill in for sarce in his CM role despite his inexperience? He did look
pretty good on the ball at times linking well with the other 2 CMs.
TLC not quite so effective today but still always capable of, when required, to produce assists and goals. GC10 assist and goal today
for example.
So a crucial win and an entertaining action packed game to keep us all warm.
Thanks again to all these current argyle boys for all their effort. Much appreciated as always.
Well done the green army and gasheads on a great atmosphere too. :scarf:
