Best on target for Blackburn Rovers reserves (From Lancashire Telegraph)

It will be great to get him back after last weeks poor showing, should give the team a lift with all the injuries at the moment.

Good luck tomorrow night lads.

Leicester not won a game this month drawn 3 lost 1.....Let's take advantage of that....COYB

Could not come at a better time. Kaz's injury is a bitter blow as he is the only forward who can win a high ball and hold it up for the midfield (such as it is) to break forward. Best should be able to do this.
Kaz will still be missed for his burst of speed and we have nobody at the moment to make up for this until King returns. Olsson 2 has pace but nothing else. Injuries have really been a pain this season.

So did Luke score an own goal? I'm confused...

Hope they don't rush him back too soon and risk him breaking down again.MA said in Radio Interveiw today that it will take a long time before he is back to normal. MA has other options on the bench who would be better getting some match action now and again rather than being frozen out most of the time, but at the end of the day the Manager will stand or fall by his decisions. Let's hope he can build on the progress he has made so far. Good luck at Leicester.

"Could not come at a better time. Kaz's injury is a bitter blow as he is the only forward who can win a high ball and hold it up for the midfield (such as it is) to break forward. Best should be able to do this. "

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although ckr has his plus points, he also tends to be very wasteful, too many times he would be just outside the box and too eager to shoot at goal at all costs, the keeper straightaway reads his intent and have sufficient time to react, so hardly scores from there, like ruben he sometimes suffer from tunnel vision and dont see the wide player or a player who would free, ready to pass a dangerous ball behind the defence, giving him or rhodes a better shot at goal.

rovers attacking players should aim to increase their ball retenion, hold on to the ball long enough so players can run beyond the ball and create more options, pass it around, dont need to show the other team that you are getting desperate, and have run out of ideas, trying to hit the strikers not caring about making sure it reaches them in a way that they can do something with it, otherwise they end up playing the chasing game just to gain the ball back.

passingfootball wrote:
"Could not come at a better time. Kaz's injury is a bitter blow as he is the only forward who can win a high ball and hold it up for the midfield (such as it is) to break forward. Best should be able to do this. "

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although ckr has his plus points, he also tends to be very wasteful, too many times he would be just outside the box and too eager to shoot at goal at all costs, the keeper straightaway reads his intent and have sufficient time to react, so hardly scores from there, like ruben he sometimes suffer from tunnel vision and dont see the wide player or a player who would free, ready to pass a dangerous ball behind the defence, giving him or rhodes a better shot at goal.

rovers attacking players should aim to increase their ball retenion, hold on to the ball long enough so players can run beyond the ball and create more options, pass it around, dont need to show the other team that you are getting desperate, and have run out of ideas, trying to hit the strikers not caring about making sure it reaches them in a way that they can do something with it, otherwise they end up playing the chasing game just to gain the ball back.

Email Michael Appleton he might not have thought of that.

Venkytrash wrote:
So did Luke score an own goal? I'm confused...

3-1 Boro, Best 1 goal then a Luke Williams hatrick.. what's to be confused by?

Alan42 wrote:
Could not come at a better time. Kaz's injury is a bitter blow as he is the only forward who can win a high ball and hold it up for the midfield (such as it is) to break forward. Best should be able to do this.
Kaz will still be missed for his burst of speed and we have nobody at the moment to make up for this until King returns. Olsson 2 has pace but nothing else. Injuries have really been a pain this season.

HAHAHA Ah yes the notorious burst of speed from Kaz.... it's like watching concord.

passingfootball wrote:
"Could not come at a better time. Kaz's injury is a bitter blow as he is the only forward who can win a high ball and hold it up for the midfield (such as it is) to break forward. Best should be able to do this. "

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although ckr has his plus points, he also tends to be very wasteful, too many times he would be just outside the box and too eager to shoot at goal at all costs, the keeper straightaway reads his intent and have sufficient time to react, so hardly scores from there, like ruben he sometimes suffer from tunnel vision and dont see the wide player or a player who would free, ready to pass a dangerous ball behind the defence, giving him or rhodes a better shot at goal.

rovers attacking players should aim to increase their ball retenion, hold on to the ball long enough so players can run beyond the ball and create more options, pass it around, dont need to show the other team that you are getting desperate, and have run out of ideas, trying to hit the strikers not caring about making sure it reaches them in a way that they can do something with it, otherwise they end up playing the chasing game just to gain the ball back.

Finally someone talks sense about CKR. You missed the fact that if you gave him an open goal and 10 balls at 25 yards, he would miss them all. Kaz has his uses but theres a reason no other manager played him upfront, HE CAN'T SHOOT!

quite true, i cant remember him ever scoring outside the box, the nearest was against nottingham forest, when someone fizzed the ball from out wide and his instant strike into the bottom corner gave the keeper no time to react, i doubt he's one of those strikers that can get into double figures in a season, dont think he's scored that many for his previous clubs, he's not a natural goalscorer..