Nice timing. Casual viewers might think it had an element of luck (sun shines on a dog's arse etc) but Mitoma does indeed have the best touch. He does it all the time.
Adringa (copyright Warren Asprinall) also has a great first touch.
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[Albion] Kaoru Mitoma
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Nice timing. Casual viewers might think it had an element of luck (sun shines on a dog's arse etc) but Mitoma does indeed have the best touch. He does it all the time.
Adringa (copyright Warren Asprinall) also has a great first touch.
Slum_Wolf
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The Andy Naylor Fan Club
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It's where the Simon Adingra one was. Bloody graffiti taggers ruined that one. The RDZ one is still there.
dolphins
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A couple of nights ago, I was doing an overnight in Hanoi, and flicking around Vietnamese TV they made a point of showing the goals (with a few angles of THAT goal) followed by a shot of a morose looking Maresca! Couldn't make out a word of what they were saying but clearly impressed. Keeping me going until home when I have both Chelsea games recorded to enjoy!
TWOCHOICEStom
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He treated that ball better than most people treat their children.
SweatyMexican
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You know when art enthusiasts cream themselves at someone throwing some noodles over a poorly made bed like it’s some incredible insight into humanity. Mitoma’s touch is like that for us.
Mitoma cam montage. Love the collective intake of breath 
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SkirlieWirlie
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I was thinking about this earlier watching MOTD2. In the stadium, I wasn't as awed by the take down in real time, as we see him do similar week in week out. I almost expected him to control it, albeit more central and difficult under pressure than when he's out on the wing. The fact he then buried it was the real buzz for me at the time.
It was only after seeing it replayed I realised just how special this was.
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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Fella in front of me shouted out "Why are you playing the ball backwards"or words to that effect when it reached Bart. Less that 10 seconds later it was in the back of the net at the opposite end!
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US Seagull
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Mitoma cam montage. Love the collective intake of breath
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Still unbelievable. How he manages to just stop the ball like that. It hardly be more incredible if he'd got the ball to apologize to him.
US Seagull
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Why does this look like it's AI generated?
Papa Lazarou
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The scrambled logo and sponsor's name look EXACTLY like an AI generated image.
Also, genius assisting hand control by Trevoh.
The Fits
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He’s such a lovey modest man. You can see when his touch is compared to Bergkamp he slightly reacts, you can see he’s flattered by that even though he shouldn’t be as his touch is equal to anyone who’s ever played.
Love him.
THIS, in spades
Papa Lazarou
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Lovely to see the Albion doing interviews in Japanese, not only for the Jananese fans, but also to see how much more relaxed he (understandably) is in his 1st language.
Love him.
Love him.
here is another matchday vlog, from one of our japanese visitors, so the focus is a little toward what Kaoru is up to. I liked a bit that I had not seen in any of the other matchday clips, where when our ray of sunshine, Georginio, does his fake faint at the third goal, Kaoru goes over, I assume to see if he is ok, when seeing he's fine joins him, which was lovely (probably just going over to celebrate with him, but I choose to interpret it my way). (clip saved at time stamp to save scrolling)
Nice. Thanks.
One of the comments, translated:
"It’s here! Thank you for your always valuable videos! Mitoma hugging Jorge! I couldn’t stop grinning when I saw it for the first time"
Also...
"This is the first time I've seen a video from the station. Brighton is a beautiful resort town."
Wait, this one (from 2 days ago) has 270k views!!!
Includes Mitoma slo-mo. Arguably as good as the pro shots. Lovely stuff!
"You can be proud for the rest of your life saying, “I saw that match on the spot! I captured that moment on film!”
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