Yasin Ayari

That's been helped by battering Villa on the opening day, battering Coventry in this game.

I love Ayari in midfield.

I, I think he's, he's such a top player.

Wilku, yeah, is-

Do you know what's amazing as well? You could probably take the top three No BS goal of the weeks from that game.

Yeah.

I mean, Ayari, what a finish that is.

Yeah.

Five-nil over Coventry City at the Amex.

Charalampos Kostoulas, Malik Oyarizabala, Pascal Gross, Lewis Dunk, and Yasin Ayari all on the score sheet.

The Guardian notes Coventry are only the second team in Premier League history to lose their opening four games of a season without scoring a single goal.

Frank Lampard's side are promoted, and they are hurting.

The first 20 minutes, it was all them.

Ayari I thought looked really good for them in the middle of the park.

He was controlling it.

Uh, Gross looked very good for them.

Listen, boy, don't get me wrong.

It's not gonna go as bad as it did today normally playing that way.

You gotta think about it was three individual errors, a strike out of the absolute top draw, and then the Ayari goal.

I'm like, that little gremlin, mate.

We know they've got a good academy, good youth players.

We see that with Ayari and Jokeres.

Don't talk to me about Ayari.

Ayari wasn't good for us.

Of course, Rushworth, yeah.

But yeah, he's... they're not going to be no game in this league is easy we're going to have games that are easier than others but every single game we've got to look at and go right well obviously we're conceding a lot so we need to have a good defense obviously like you said we need to also attack from the fullbacks as well we can't just have them all sitting back all game because we're not we're just going to be too deep But, yeah, we need to just win it in midfield, basically, because they've got a good midfield.

Rich T, we just need a win.

Same attitude as the Middlesbrough home game last season.

Not the quickest defense but, um, yeah, we'll see.

A lot of energy in their midfield with Ayari and, and, and, and Gross.

Um, and then the, uh, talented, um, youngster Malik, um, who's been [laughs] getting grief for his hairline which is s- such ridiculous really but he's a good player.

I, I thought, um, we...

I'd probably like to see Urenchi start.

I think he just gives that a little bit more presence, um, and I kind of don't mind who, uh, I'm assuming he'll-- Frank will go with Grimes but I don't mind if it was Urenchi and Tank, um, just for the legs in there and the energy.

Um, and they you'd think physically might get the better of Gross and Ayari.

Um, so yeah be, be, be, be interesting to see what, what, what Frank decides to go with in this one.

And then by, as you say, 60 minutes, we were starting to win them again.

And I think for me, I don't know about what anyone else thinks, I think it was actually Yasin Ayari who picked up the midfield by the scruff of the neck.

Once he started really, I mean, he was the only half-decent one in the first half.

And I think he really shone in the second half.