Dave the OAP
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I have a huge man crush on jiri.
What a signing!
What a signing!
Jury's still out for me, which is a strange thing to say after last night's boom goal. But the jury's still out because that was pretty much the exception during open play. I can only really think of that stunning cross he put in at MK Dons as another example. His set-pieces are unarguable and divine, and I'm willing to view his selection mostly on that basis, particularly given the importance of goals from set-pieces and how, all of a sudden, we've started scoring from them in the past five or ten games. That's not a coincidence. I also love his work-rate but, then again, I love most of our players' work-rate -- note, for instance, how Murphy managed to nullify Phillips last night who was looking very dangerous at that point. We could also point to his tenacity.
What I remain to be convinced about with Skalak is his decision-making in open play. Even last night, he seemed to make a number of bad decisions when better ones were available to him.
Looking at the first page of this thread there's some very sneery comments from very sneery people who seem to be posting elsewhere now #KingJiri
Sent from Konnie Huq's lingerie drawer.
Love that we got him to SING for us
But shit hair. Shame.Having watched the highlights it would appear he was entirely instrumental in the first goal as well as banging in a great strike for the second. His goal involvement to games/minutes played stats must be something else.
He is absolutely ruddy BRILLIO.
Incredible crossing, incredible free kick taking, incredible work rate and he doesn't seem to have a problem shooting either.
I absolutely LOVE Jiri Skalak
<3 <3 <3
more from the Skalak & Partridge combination
Time played: 618 mins
Goals: 2
Assists: 6
Involved in a goal every 77.25 mins so far. Not bad.