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Post by bloodtypered on Nov 28, 2018 23:55:52 GMT
Great game tonight....made a lot of important tackles
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 23:57:21 GMT
Him and shawcross looked decent.
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Post by Scouse on Nov 28, 2018 23:58:14 GMT
Great game tonight....made a lot of important tackles Agreed , lot of important foot-ins , interceptions ( lost count ) and cleared his lines well
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Post by davejohnno1 on Nov 29, 2018 0:02:36 GMT
As good as he was and it was a real roll back the years performance, no one was quite as magnificent than the magnificent Erik pieters
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Post by AlbertTatlock on Nov 29, 2018 0:05:15 GMT
Agreed I thought Eric Pieters was close to being MOTM he was superb, one of the best performances I've seen him have in a Stoke shirt. Gouranga.
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Post by Fred Merger on Nov 29, 2018 0:07:19 GMT
I think that its fair to say that there were a number of very good performances tonight and that the only person you would think about replacing was Shawcross. Although after a shaky first 10 mins he improved!
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Post by wuzza on Nov 29, 2018 0:18:38 GMT
Have to agree - the old quality he had at Swansea shone through tonight.
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Post by scfcrmagic on Nov 29, 2018 2:57:14 GMT
Agreed ...he keeps improving game on game ..
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Post by stokesupporter on Nov 29, 2018 7:18:56 GMT
Didn't like him at the beginning and thought he was a spent force. But like others have already said he has improved lately game by game and somehow it seems he has found a bit more pace as well!
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Post by nott1 on Nov 29, 2018 7:27:04 GMT
Agreed I thought Eric Pieters was close to being MOTM he was superb, one of the best performances I've seen him have in a Stoke shirt. Gouranga. He's a bloody good LB, I never understand the shit he gets!
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Post by Linx on Nov 29, 2018 8:26:40 GMT
Eric needed the competition for his place that Bruno has given him. He could be inconsistent but was always on the team sheet due to a perennial shortage of Left Backs (Bauer notwithstanding).
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Post by AlliG on Nov 29, 2018 12:18:40 GMT
I thought that the way the game panned out played to Ashley's strengths and he rose brilliantly to the occasion.
His greatest weakness is his lack of pace and vulnerability to the long ball over the top where he has to get into a footrace and the way Derby tried to play meant they didn't play on that weakness.
With Derby trying to play short passes around the edge of the box his ability to read the game and anticipate the pass came to the fore.
The big difference over earlier in the season was that his concentration level remained high for the full 90+ minutes and there were none of those late brain fades (from ant of the defenders) that result in us conceding so many goals at the end of each half.
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Post by Cast no shadow on Nov 29, 2018 12:21:02 GMT
Been a lot better last few games, his first half dozen did not fill me with confidence, maybe he needed some game time, more of the same please our Staffordshire rock
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