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Did he change his boots at h/t??!!
Fantastic distribution in the first half......
f***ing awful 2nd half.....
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Why wasn't Jensen taking those late free kicks today....throw Raya forward instead of him floating balls out of play when our players are waiting in the box !

#Hindsight
 

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I was surprised at his positioning for the second Leicester goal. Great strike as it was, he did almost invite Maddison to pick his spot.
Didn't help that the "Wall" was well positioned but failed to jump and let it sail over their heads, Very poor defending!!
 

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Didn't help that the "Wall" was well positioned but failed to jump and let it sail over their heads, Very poor defending!!
Yeh I did see Murphy's analysis on MOTD not altogether sure that even with jumping they would have been able to block the ball given it's trajectory despite what he said. I'm sure some techy whizz kid versed in physics could work it out ;)
 

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He only needed his boots and gloves…… ?
 

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Here's the text...

Reason for large suitcase answered in this article ..

Q. You have been in England for a decade. Food?

A. [ Laughs ] One of the things I missed the most when I left. I missed my house, my mother's! Everything was hard at first. As soon as my parents came, they brought me ham, loin, sausage... Everything they could put in the suitcase. At night I got hungry, because at the Academy we had dinner at half past five. At eight I made myself a ham sandwich or whatever they sent me.

... basically he's brought an empty suitcase with him for his family to fill it with food to bring back I reckon!! :LOL:
 
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The reporters get him to talk about a lot of stuff there, including his time at Southport. David mentions the 13 days holiday between seasons after the first playoff final (but no mentions of any specific moments in that final ?) and how great it would be to play his first international in Cornellá de Llobregat, home of Espanyol (where he played youth football). Asked about dealing with errors, he says you learn from them, move on and don't lose sleep (but no mentions of any specific errors ?). He makes it clear that he's Spanish first, Catalan second, but as his family are Real Madrid fans I think we knew that. The 4 tattoos on his right knuckle represent his brother, strength, football and love.

Most importantly, when asked if he sees himself returning to Spain, he says that the door's not closed but he's happy at Brentford.

Edit: Just seen the transcript, that would've made my job easier! But it's not complete, he said a lot more than that.
 
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Yeh I did see Murphy's analysis on MOTD not altogether sure that even with jumping they would have been able to block the ball given it's trajectory despite what he said. I'm sure some techy whizz kid versed in physics could work it out ;)
For me, it’s not whether they would have stopped the goal by jumping or not. Rather it is the fact that one jumped and the others didn’t. Surely the coaching team and players should have worked out a strategy for this, obviously if they had it was not followed. In my view an error of this kind at this level is not acceptable
 

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I've enjoyed watching Spain first half. Some good chat about the Bees. Spanish crowd really up for it. Not much for David to do.
 

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The BBC are calling it an error by Raya ?
 

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On 3rd January 2015, 19 year old David Raya played his last game of a loan spell at Conference side Southport. It was an FA Cup 3rd round match at Derby which the hosts won courtesy of a 93rd minute penalty.

Just over 7 years later, Raya makes his international debut for Spain, winners of a World Cup and 3 European Championships.
 

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Caught in no-man’s land. A bad error I’m afraid.

hang on, that’s how he plays, not rooted to his line. All the fault with that goal lies with the defender heading the ball across his box and into their only attacker, crazy decision that
 

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The centre back should never have headed it square but Raya‘s positioning is poor. Very unlucky goal to concede.
 

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How was that his fault, a howler by the defender
Simple: you come for a ball ONLY if you can reach it first. If you won’t get to the ball, or even if you’re not sure, stay home.

He got half way, realized he was going to get there second, and froze.

If you come, you have to know you’ll get there. Wish it wasn’t true, but a total error in judgement.
 

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“A keeper coming for a ball is to blame and not the centre back who tried to head a ball right across the face of goal when the striker was right there. Don’t be ridiculous.”

He can’t come halfway, and stop. Things like that happen when you’ve made that bad a decision.
 

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Caught in no-man’s land. A bad error I’m afraid.
His positioning was fine, but the defender got it all wrong. In the defender's defence, this was the first time they have played together, but you can't excuse him (a) playing the guy onside and (b) heading it tamely to him. Neither of those are Raya's fault and after that it's one-on-one.
 

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Simple: you come for a ball ONLY if you can reach it first. If you won’t get to the ball, or even if you’re not sure, stay home.

He got half way, realized he was going to get there second, and froze.

If you come, you have to know you’ll get there. Wish it wasn’t true, but a total error in judgement.
Defender completely got it wrong
 

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It was handball by the attacker. How that was given I have no idea.
 

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“A keeper coming for a ball is to blame and not the centre back who tried to head a ball right across the face of goal when the striker was right there. Don’t be ridiculous.”

He can’t come halfway, and stop. Things like that happen when you’ve made that bad a decision.
He stopped because the ball deflected past him because his defender for some reason chose to head it across goal into the attacker, didn’t even need to go back to Raya, anywhere other than to his left would’ve done. You seem very desperate to try and put our keeper down, trying to look for things to blame him for despite there being nothing of the sort. Extremely weird behaviour from a “Brentford fan”.
 

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He stopped because the ball deflected past him because his defender for some reason chose to head it across goal into the attacker, didn’t even need to go back to Raya, anywhere other than to his left would’ve done. You seem very desperate to try and put our keeper down, trying to look for things to blame him for despite there being nothing of the sort. Extremely weird behaviour from a “Brentford fan”.
I actually think he came for it but met defender half way, expecting a head back to him.
Instead the defender thought he'd try and head over the attacker and failed.
 
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