Ryo

I didn’t see the Bolton game but I was keen to know more about how Ryo got on so I looked at the BBC reporting.

All Owen Coyle’s quotes about Miyaichi are glowing… but if you do a search on the text commentary it looks like apart from scoring, all he did was give away a foul, get fouled, hoof over, make a clearance and get subbed off.

I’d much rather an all-action display with no goal to show for it than a zero-action goal-scoring display but hopefully Coyle disagrees and will let Ryo start the next game.

Comparing to Bolton’s last league game, 7 players started both, suggesting a fairly strong Bolton side, i.e. Miyaichi didn’t just get a game in a B team. This bodes well for his prospects for game time.