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Your favourite thing about THAT goal? on 08:38 - Apr 2 by blueislander
Who officially gets the assist? All three deserve it.
Officially Burns of course but ……..
The trust they all showed with each other is superb
Everything was inch perfect , the throw , that pass , the knockdown and a tidy finish after running at full pelt making sure you stay up with play but onside
Your favourite thing about THAT goal? on 08:38 - Apr 2 by blueislander
Who officially gets the assist? All three deserve it.
For most of my years watching football, 'assists' were not a thing. But I was familiar with them from ice hockey, in which they've been used for a very long time. In ice hockey it is not uncommon for two players to be credited with an assist for the same goal. Given the speed at which the puck moves, and the smaller size of the playing area, the goalie (netminder) may of course get one. There was something of the ice hockey breakaway about that lovely goal yesterday (apart from the headed assist I guess). But yes, certainly more than one player deserves the assist for it. I guess Walton would have to be content with his clean sheet run (which in ice hockey would be a 'shut out').
Your favourite thing about THAT goal? on 08:36 - Apr 2 by Metal_Hacker
The pace , determination and belief from all players concerned
Upvoted for an almost perfect post...you left out skill! A lot of counter-attacking goals come from the attacking team getting numbers forward with more hunger than the defending team have with players getting back to block...if you run through to when Chaplin strikes the ball, we were effectively 3 (Broadhead, Burns, Chaps) vs 6...5 of their players around Burns and Chaps, and another player tracking Broadhead. To break those lines with just 2 touches (Broadhead cross, Burns header) is ridiculous.
As the celebrations were settling down, me and the bloke across the aisle happened to catch each other's glance and just mouthed "what a goal" at exactly the same time.
Your favourite thing about THAT goal? on 09:18 - Apr 2 by Mullet
As the celebrations were settling down, me and the bloke across the aisle happened to catch each other's glance and just mouthed "what a goal" at exactly the same time.
Your favourite thing about THAT goal? on 08:41 - Apr 2 by Metal_Hacker
Officially Burns of course but ……..
The trust they all showed with each other is superb
Everything was inch perfect , the throw , that pass , the knockdown and a tidy finish after running at full pelt making sure you stay up with play but onside
Class goal
I think a lot of us noted during our blip that Burns hadn’t quite hit the heights of last season. But what a turnaround. He’s been absolutely brilliant, and in my opinion our biggest threat- how many goals have come from him tearing away in the break, and he’s built up a great relationship with Hirst.
Worth noting also that he’s only one assist behind Davis now - that says it all!
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Your favourite thing about THAT goal? on 10:52 - Apr 2 with 1908 views
Additionally, as I said elsewhere, one of the extra "rewards" of that goal for us (very) long-suffering fans was that it was the total antithesis of, & antidote to, the months of us spending 5 minutes passing the ball around 138 times in wee triangles in the final third, trying to tease out a 12 inch gap to shoot through!
Another thing that the goal revealed was that Conner Chaplin is perfectly able to finish with his right foot so hopefully he'll get more confident about using it. It was a beautiful thing to behold!
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Your favourite thing about THAT goal? on 17:38 - Apr 2 with 1415 views
Your favourite thing about THAT goal? on 09:18 - Apr 2 by Mullet
As the celebrations were settling down, me and the bloke across the aisle happened to catch each other's glance and just mouthed "what a goal" at exactly the same time.
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