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Nathan Collins

Isleworth_Bee said:
Very good. Glad to see him score against that lot.
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And have an “assist”.
One of the positives of having four tall center backs in defence - plus Christian and Kevin is that we should always be able to find a spare man at corner as few teams will be able to match us height wise . And that can have a psychological impact on opposition …and that’s before Thiago starts!!!
 

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GOAL - Joel Pohjanpalo

20:03 BST
Finland 1-0 Republic of Ireland
Oh my, it's a disastrous mistake from Irish captain Nathan Collins as he woefully underhits a backpass, allowing Joel Pohjanpalo to stride forward and whip a fine shot into Caoimhin Kelleher's bottom corner.
A complete gift for the hosts.
 

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brentfordfc4ever said:
Unfortunately that's an inexcusable error whilst playing at the very top. He has to remove these errors from his game sharpish

Having said that, his performances for us this season have been phenomenal and thats the important part.
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Hopefully this is his only major error of the season. Sorry any Irish fans but as long as it doesn’t happen in a Bees shirt or next Saturday I don’t care :)
 

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tkezza said:
For such a good player, strange he can't seem to shake these real bad blunders.

Technical rather than mental I think. Hopefully he can work hard and really rid himself of them.
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Even the players at the top have the occasional blunder. Just look at some of the goals conceded by Liverpool or Arsenal the last couple of seasons.

Collins has battled through his confidence issues and looks so much better this season. Hopefully we can get behind him rather than turn on him like we've done in the past.
 

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tkezza said:
For such a good player, strange he can't seem to shake these real bad blunders.

Technical rather than mental I think. Hopefully he can work hard and really rid himself of them.
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It's 100% mental lapse of concentration
 

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Reflex said:
Even the players at the top have the occasional blunder. Just look at some of the goals conceded by Liverpool or Arsenal the last couple of seasons.

Collins has battled through his confidence issues and looks so much better this season. Hopefully we can get behind him rather than turn on him like we've done in the past.
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Even Pontus was prone to the occasional ricket..
 

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GABS said:
They make the point Ireland's midfield isn't great and doesn't offer him many good pass options. Goes without saying Brentford > Ireland, so Nathan should do better for us.
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Well you'd think so.

Anyway let's hope Collins plays well for both sides eh.
 

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GABS said:
They make the point Ireland's midfield isn't great and doesn't offer him many good pass options. Goes without saying Brentford > Ireland, so Nathan should do better for us.
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I can’t imagine there are any players who play better in internationals for their country than as a settled players for their clubs.
 

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JosephG764 said:
I think as a team we would prefer that statistic to be lower though.
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Definitely an indicator that we’re facing too many shots from outside the box, especially as Sepp vdB is also high on the list, but also the nature of our opposition in away games so far this season must’ve played a part.

It’s always seemed to me tactical that we allow shots from outside the box centrally because our defenders seem to form a line just inside it at every opportunity. Maybe it’s the corollary to our own attacking obsession of POMO, forcing the opposition to shoot from the position of minimum opportunity?
 

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jlove said:
Definitely an indicator that we’re facing too many shots from outside the box, especially as Sepp vdB is also high on the list, but also the nature of our opposition in away games so far this season must’ve played a part.

It’s always seemed to me tactical that we allow shots from outside the box centrally because our defenders seem to form a line just inside it at every opportunity. Maybe it’s the corollary to our own attacking obsession of POMO, forcing the opposition to shoot from the position of minimum opportunity?
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Yes we do want teams to shoot from outside the box. We have done ever since we have been in the Premier, hence why Raya and now Flekken make a lot of saves.

Unfortunately we are also conceding more shots than we would like closer to the goal. Shots from long range are not particularly likely to be blocked by a centre back. You only have to look at the teams of the other higher players on that list to know it is not really a statistic we went our players to be high in.
 

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Indian Bee said:
Thought he did ok yesterday but superb quick thinking and perfect ball for KLP to win that penalty ?
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He's really creative isn't he.

Whether it was the first long ball forward to KLP for the penalty, the knock backs in the box from corners or the random sprints through midfield and through balls. CB's are rarely entertaining but this boy is.
 

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Fantastic tonight. As was Pinnock. Basically it was about 6 Brentford players v Fulham tonight. Well played Nathan. ?
 

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Deserved the clean sheet along with Pinnock, those two almost single-handedly carried us to the victory.

Just so hard for the defence when the ball comes back at you again and again.

Has been excellent so far this season.
 

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shaun said:
Fantastic tonight. As was Pinnock. Basically it was about 6 Brentford players v Fulham tonight. Well played Nathan. ?
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As much as I love Ethan, they tried and often succeeded at little slip balls in behind between Iwobi, Smith Rowe and Jimenez. I’m a big EP fan, but at the mo I do think NC is the one keeping that back line going
 

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He was an absolute colossus last night, along with SVDB, Pinnock and Flekken. I've seen around 1000 games in my life but rarely have there been games when four players were standout and the rest completely useless, this being one of them. He really cares as well , you can see that and whilst still young he will become a great leader in this team. Anyone who sees otherwise really doesn't understand the game
 

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Do you know what i dont understand about him?
That last year he was "sh*t" and a "waste of money" according to some.
Its almost as though players we sign seem to need some time to become the player we knew we signed......
 
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