First Team
All news, opinion and analysis on Plymouth Argyle FC men’s first team
Player Ratings: MK Dons (A)
It would be safe to say I’m thoroughly running out of superlatives to describe this side; every-single-man has stepped up, as a side we look un-stoppable right now. My last game on the Argyle Life ratings saw us crumble to a 5-1 defeat at the hands of Charlton...
Preview: Milton Keynes v Plymouth Argyle
MK are not the same team they were last season. Not by a long shot. The losses over the summer of Scott Twine and Harry Darling have been crippling
Player Ratings: Accrington Stanley (H)
Argyle continued their impressive start to the 2022/23 league season racking up yet another home victory in the process - this time a 3-0 win against Accrington Stanley, here’s how the players are rated: Michael Cooper – 8 Cooper’s list of admirers is only growing due...
Preview: Plymouth Argyle v Accrington
Just because the games against the “big” sides may have passed, Argyle cannot afford to take their collective feet off the gas.
Player Ratings: Plymouth Argyle 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Quite frankly, I don’t know what more I can say about Cooper that doesn’t descend into cliche. I could say he goes beyond superlatives but that itself is a cliche.
Preview: Sheffield Wednesday (H)
We’ll have some fairly similar formations on show on Tuesday night. Wednesday’s preferred formation this season is more or less a mirror image of Argyle’s shape from last year: 3-4-1-2. T
Player Ratings: Wycombe (A)
Cool as a cucumber on the ball and fierce as a terrier off it, this was the prototype performance from Argyle’s number 20 on birthday number 22.
The Opposition View: Wycombe
It makes for more fiery encounters, and means that Plymouth home and away are always among the first fixtures I look for in the summer.
Preview: Wycombe (A)
The meaning of a team’s “bogey team”: it’s defined as “a team that either always beats them or against which they habitually enjoy bad luck.”
Player Ratings: Ipswich (H)
Lonwijk proved to have a capable weaker foot when needed, and used his cultured right one to good use throughout.
Preview: Ipswich (H)
Plymouth Argyle have strung plenty of wins together, conceded a stoppage time equaliser in a 2-2 draw at Portsmouth, and have the chance to go top of the league as Ipswich Town come to Home Park
Player Ratings: Portsmouth (A)
It’s as clear an example as I can remember of a sub changing the game for the better. It would be a disappointment not to see him in the starting line-up against Ipswich.