Big Match Analysis - Tranmere 1 Plymouth 0

Our weekly analysis of our Big Match is back, with Turls reflecting upon the defending from both teams.

Tranmere Rovers 1-0 Plymouth Argyle

Saturday November 13, Prenton Park, (Att: 4,840)

Here we go again, cleaning up another mess that has been made by a bunch of sick, twisted, individuals. Just when you think you're out of the hole, another catastrophe happens and drags you back into the mire.

I want my holiday for crying out loud. I'm meant to be in the Bahamas, lapping up the rays and checking out the fine Bahaman ladies.* Instead, I find myself at Prenton Park, Tranmere, examining what's going wrong with the state of defending in English football.

Where shall we start? Well, in truth, this crime scene isn't as bad as some of the ones we've seen. For a start, there was only one goal. Makes me think that some of the managers and coaching staff in the Football League have been reading my wise words.

Actually, having just looked at the league table, it could just be down to the fact that both sides are pretty awful up top.

Tranmere Defending:

The goal didn't come until the hour mark, but there was the occasional example of sloppy defending.

Tranmere gave away a free kick on the half way line. Plymouth's Craig Noone took a quick free kick and slotted the ball straight down the middle of the pitch to Bradley Wright-Phillips.

The shot was saved well, but let's rewind the action back to the quick free kick. It was good thinking by Noone, but Tranmere should have had the presence of mind to deal with it.

They had enough bodies back when the ball was played to deal with such a simple ball down the middle. It was along the deck and wasn't going at a rate of knots, so it should have been cut out at some point.

However, that's not my main problem with the play. What I'm concerned with is, that when the free kick was given three Tranmere players were standing within five yards of each other and not one of them hurried to get back into position.

I'd be fuming to find so many of my team in close proximity to each other. The gap between the defence and the midfield was enormous and it was because of this that the goal almost came.

Plymouth Defending:

Tranmere hit back with a cross from deep on the left. Ian Thomas-Moore was able to bring the ball down without any pressure on him and lash it over the bar.

I don't know where to start. How can a striker have so much time and space to shoot inside the box? Plymouth weren't short on men and it wasn't like Tranmere had overloaded the box with attackers. They got lucky - it should have been a goal.

Still in the first half, and Dale Jennings picked the ball up on the half way line and went on a direct run towards Plymouth's goal. No one closed him down, no one pressured him, and he was allowed to shoot from distance.

It was a speculative effort and should have served as a warning to the Plymouth defence. It didn't.

Tranmere Rovers 1 Plymouth Argyle 0

Tranmere worked the ball around well before slipping it to Jennings on the left flank. The teenage sensation - it's required that all middle-of-the-road journalists refer to a teenager as that - picked the ball up.

He cut inside the right back - who was found to be a little square-on for my liking, and then proceeded to wander across the face of goal before putting the ball past the Plymouth keeper.

There is no doubting the quality of the goal, but if I were in the Plymouth dressing room after the match, I may well have got a tad upset. No one really pressured him and no one even gave the impression that they were planning on tackling him.

Conclusion:

Some other stuff did happen in the match, but it wasn't terrible defending - so I won't bore you with the details. In terms of defence, the put forward a good case, but they'll have to be a lot sharper before I let them go unpunished.


* If Turls's girlfriend happens to be reading this, then let it be known that he had no plans to check out any other women and only has eyes for you. Baby, you're his world.

Big Match Review - Tranmere 1 Plymouth 0

Tranmere Rovers 1-0 Plymouth Argyle

Saturday November 13, Prenton Park, (Att: 4,840)

A great individual goal from Tranmere's Daniel Jennings was enough to secure all three points for the home side as they moved out of League One's bottom four.

The visitors has the first opportunity when quick play released Bradley Wright-Phillips but he saw Rovers 'keeper Peter Gulacsi save his low shot.

Les Parry's men then almost took the lead themselves, with Ian Thomas-Moore's lob narrowly going over the bar.

When the deciding goal did come on the hour mark, however, it was in spectacular style.

Jennings picked up the ball just inside the Argyle half and set about a mazy run which saw him beat five Pilgrims players before slotting the ball past Roman Larrieu and into the bottom corner.

Peter Reid's side pressured for an equaliser and came close when Reda Johnson's header was cleared off the line as the hosts defended desperately to hold onto their advantage.

The win sees Tranmere move level on points with Argyle just outside the relegation zone with both sides still firmly under pressure.

Big Match Preview

Tranmere Rovers vs. Plymouth Argyle

Saturday November 13, 15:00, Prenton Park

Two sides who've had indifferent starts to their League One campaigns meet on the Wirral this weekend as Tranmere Rovers entertain Plymouth Argyle.

With just three points separating them in the bottom half, both managers will be aware this is a game they can't afford to lose.

For Tranmere, currently in the bottom four, it's looking like a second successive battle against the drop at Prenton Park.

Les Parry's men only survived on the final day of last season after the former physio was left to turn around a torrid start to the campaign under John Barnes.

However, they've struggled again this term, and last week exited the FA Cup at the first hurdle after a topsy-turvy 5-3 loss at Bournemouth.

Parry will be aware Tranmere's hopes of staying up will largely depend on their home form, where they've enjoyed mixed results to date.

Wins have been earned against MK Dons and Peterborough, but they've also been beaten at Prenton Park by Bournemouth, Brentford, and Oldham.

Once again, much rests on the shoulders of striker Ian Thomas-Moore who is joint top scorer with six alongside much-travelled summer signing Enoch Showunmi.

Peter Reid is battling to turn around Argyle's fortunes after relegation

While Rovers might have expected to have a battle on their hands, it's been an underwhelming start to the campaign for their opponents this weekend.

Plymouth were relegated from the Championship last term and hoped to challenge for an immediate return after the appointment of the experienced Peter Reid.

However, it's been a struggle to date for the former Sunderland boss with the Devon side currently sitting in the bottom half and closer to the relegation zone than the top six.

They also suffered a heavy 4-0 loss at home to Swindon in the FA Cup last weekend, so will be keen to bounce back on their travels on Saturday.

Their away form includes impressive victories at Swindon and Southampton, but they have also lost at the likes of Walsall, Oldham, and Notts County.

That inconsistent form has been tempered by the superb form of Bradley Wright-Phillips, however. The striker has 10 goals already, making him the top scorer in the division.

This is a meeting between a Plymouth side who seem more suited to playing away against a Tranmere team who are better at Prenton Park than on their travels.

For that reason, along with the fact that the two teams have been in and around each other this term, this one has draw written all over it.

Nobes' Prediction: Tranmere Rovers 1 Plymouth Argyle 1

Reid In and Weep

With Plymouth Argyle appointing Peter Reid as their new boss, Nobes expresses his dismay with the appointment.

Reid has been working as assistant manager to Tony Pulis at Stoke City

Peter Reid probably can't believe his luck. A forgotten man in the managerial world, when the talk is of England and World Cups, the former Sunderland boss is never short of a comment.

As a player, he featured in England's loss to Argentina in 1986 - Diego Maradona's Hand of God et al. No wonder his name suddenly popped into the minds of the directors of League One Plymouth then.

The appointment of the 54-year-old is a disappointing one on so many fronts. Despite a plethora of promising young managers in the game, Plymouth have gone for an old head.

Despite managers with experience in the lower divisions, who have proven their worth, who have shown they can work with a budget, who merit a crack at a bigger club, they have gone for a name.

Despite the desperate need for a club who had ambitions to reach the top flight and need to return to the Championship at the first time of asking, they have appointed someone with no experience of the lower leagues.

Indeed, the more you look at it, the more baffling Reid's appointment looks.

Not only has he never managed outside the top two divisions in England, he only ever made one lower league appearance - for basement division Bury - in his playing career.

This is someone who played at the highest level for his country and, despite never being the most technically gifted, was once voted the fourth best player in the World.

While he was in the company of the likes of Maradona and Michel Platini on that particular list, it will be lower division, and far less gifted, players he will be working with on the training ground at Argyle.

Apart from spells as Thailand coach and assistant boss at Stoke - he has also been out of the domestic managerial game for too long.

Not since a poor spell in charge at Coventry in 2005 has Reid actually managed in England. In fact, he has been sacked from every managerial job he has had at an English club in his career.

How much longer will failed managers - continually sacked from job after job - continue to be able to get off and on the managerial merry-go-round? How many more clubs will give them the opportunity to fail to prove their worth?

The bare fact is Reid has not enjoyed any success in the game since 2001 - when Plymouth were in the basement division. Just what has he done, therefore, to justify being given another chance to manage?

Not only are his days of success in the past, his methods are also from a past age. Rather than a progressive approach to playing the game the right way, his physical, direct style is the kind that drives fans away.

Plymouth were relegated from the Championship after a dismal season

The simple truth is Reid's time as a manager has come and gone.

Instead of pushing the boat out and looking for talented younger managers, Plymouth - a club whose managerial policy was key in their relegation last season - have opted for the same old tried, tested, and failed.

Instead of looking down the road to Exeter's highly rated Paul Tisdale, or Andy Scott at Brentford, or Paul Trollope of Bristol Rovers, they have chosen a man with no track record of success.

There is no guarantee that Plymouth will bounce back to the Championship at the first attempt, either. Much bigger clubs than Plymouth - the likes of Leeds and Nottingham Forest - have struggled to get out of League One following relegation.

Their six years spent outside the bottom two tiers haven't given the Pilgrims any reason to believe they are suddenly too big to be in League One. Both the football on show and attendances at Home Park last term were of League One level.

They are also entering a third tier full of very competitive clubs with more money to spend than the Devon club.

Southampton, under Alan Pardew, are hotly tipped for promotion. Sheffield Wednesday, relegated with Plymouth, will hope to bounce back instantly.

As will the third relegated team, Peterborough, who have recent experience of this level in their squad and a manager in Gary Johnson proven in League One.

Play-off losers Swindon and Huddersfield are both well backed financially. Charlton will once again be competitive, and the likes of Bristol Rovers, Walsall, and Brighton will hope to improve on mid-table campaigns last term.

A place in the top six, based simply on the success of the three clubs demoted in 2009, cannot be taken as a given therefore.

The right managerial appointment may have made it more likely though. For Plymouth, the writing is on the wall - for all to Reid.

Sentimental Fools

Nobes on why Plymouth's relegation from the Championship is equally down to too much sentiment, as it is a lack of investment.

Plymouth dispensed with manager Paul Sturrock's services in December

It's September and, after only narrowly avoiding the drop the previous season, Plymouth Argyle, under their Scottish manager, are struggling at the foot of the Championship table.

You'd be forgiven for thinking this is the story of the Devon side's current campaign. It isn't, instead it's the tale of their 2005/6 season.

Back then, Bobby Williamson was at the helm at Home Park, and struggling to turn around a poor run for the Pilgrims that had started at the beginning of the calendar year.

The parallels with Plymouth's fortunes this season are remarkable. Argyle collected just two points from their first five games this term - continuing a dire set of results in 2010 which included an eight match winless run.

The only difference? Four years ago, Williamson was sacked after those first half a dozen games. His replacement - Tony Pulis - made sure his effective, if unattractive, football kept the Greens in the second tier.

The writing had been on the wall for Williamson. He had lost the confidence of the fanbase, and another long, hard battle against the drop appeared to be on the cards.

This time around, with a manager rapidly losing support amongst the Home Park faithful, and with another difficult season ahead, Plymouth decided to stick by Paul Sturrock.

After Monday evening's defeat to Newcastle confirmed Argyle's relegation to League One, the decision to stick with Sturrock for so long has proved to be a terrible misjudgement.

Instead, the club board only decided to replace the 53-year-old in December. By the time the axe did fall on Sturrock though, the team were deep in relegation trouble.

Why then did a club who so ruthlessly - and rightly - dispensed of Williamson's services when it was clear things were not right, not do the same this time around?

Could it be they were displaying a rare example of patience and faith in their manager? Possibly. Although most Plymouth fans would argue that patience had been exhausted long before Sturrock was replaced.

Or could it be that, in a hard-nosed business where money matters now more than ever, Plymouth's board allowed sentimentality to affect their decision-making?

After all, when Sturrock returned to the South West in 2007, he was greeted as a returning hero.

His first spell at Home Park had seen him take the Pilgrims to the League Two title in his first season. A couple of years later, and the team he built had ended Plymouth's 12-year exile from the top two tiers.

Why then could he not not complete the job and take them up to the Premier League? He was taking charge of a team flying high in the division before Ian Holloway opted to leave for Leicester.

It was a run he maintained for the majority of the season - eventually finishing 10th, just six points off the play-off positions. It was Argyle's highest position for over 20 years.

However, the team Holloway built began to be dismantled. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, David Norris, Akos Buzsaky, and Peter Halmosi were all sold for big money.

Although some of Sturrock's replacement signings - notably Simon Walton - failed to do the business, he was never given the funds to properly replace the players he had lost.

For a club with some of the smallest gates in the division, balancing the books and selling top players was a reality of life in the Championship.

Sturrock led Argyle to two promotions in three seasons in his first spell

However, there was a limit to how many you could sell and not replace, without it harming a team's performance on the pitch. Plymouth had reached theirs.

Argyle finished last season in 21st - just a place above relegated Norwich. Even a takeover at the club by a Japanese consortium didn't seem to affect the manager's position. The new board chose to keep faith with Sturrock.

Even when the team got off to a slow start this term, the board were notable in their inactivity. No proper funding of new signings, and no inclination to change the man who picks the team.

In hindsight, it has cost them dearly. Even when Sturrock's long-term assistant, Kevin Summerfield, was removed and replaced with Paul Mariner, it appeared to be a move from a board unwilling to take the really hard decision and remove Sturrock.

When Mariner did eventually step-up to the top job, time was always against him to turn around the struggling Pilgrims's fortunes.

So, did the board simply have complete confidence in their manager? Or, were they just scared of having to sack the man who had done so much to turn around the fortunes of the club?

Eventually, his departure as team boss was not a sacking, more a move upstairs to a 'business support' role. It's the kind of non-descript title that would make even Iain Dowie blush.

It summed up what had clearly been a painful decision for those in charge at the Devon club.

Freddie Shepherd, the preposterous former Newcastle chairman, once described the decision to sack Sir Bobby Robson as like "shooting Bambi." Plymouth's removal of Sturrock was tantamount to only chopping his legs off.

Most painful for the Green Army, as they prepare for trips to Yeovil and Rochdale next season, is that they will have to look at two clubs who didn't allow sentiment to affect their decision making this term.

Firstly, Norwich, who ruthlessly fired playing legend Bryan Gunn after just one league game. Gunn had failed to save them from the drop the previous term, and the club had little confidence he could lead them to an instant return.

His replacement, Paul Lambert, completed the job Gunn had set out to do at the weekend - with a 1-0 win at Charlton. The Canaries will pass Plymouth on their way up.

The other side is Barnsley. Another team who battled against the drop from the Championship last season. However, after a poor start to this term suggested another relegation fight, the Reds axed Simon Davey.

The Welshman had taken the Yorkshire side to the FA Cup semi-finals in 2008, and enjoyed a close relationship with club owner Patrick Cryne. However, when push came to shove, the club's welfare came before the man's.

His successor, Mark Robins, has kept the Oakwell club up with little fuss. Had Argyle been similarly ruthless, they may have been looking forward to a seventh successive season in the Championship.

Come the summer, the sale of players and various cost-cutting at Home Park - not sacking a manager - will represent the truly painful decisions for Plymouth.

Big Match Revew - Plymouth 0 Blackpool 2

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Championship

Plymouth Argyle 0-2 Blackpool

Saturday March 27, Home Park, (Att: 10,614)

Two goals in four second half minutes were enough for Blackpool to keep alive their play-off ambitions and put a big dent in Plymouth's Championship survival hopes.

The home side had the better of the opportunities in the first period and arguably should have taken the lead.

Bradley Wright-Phillips twice denied by a combination of goalkeeper and defence after some good work on the right hand side by Jamie Mackie.

Pool improved after the interval though and were infortunate not to go in-front when Charlie Adam's curling effort from outside the box struck the upright and bounced away to safety.

However, the Lancashire side's top scorer wasn't to be denied his 16th goal of the season. Adam picked up a neat backheel from Stephen Dobbie to fire the ball low past David Stockdale in the Plymouth goal.

That was with just 12 minutes remaining, and not long after the Seasiders had sealed the points. This time Adam's ball through unleashing Dobbie to cooly smash home.

The game was up for Plymouth - who look increasingly likely to be relegated. However, a happy return to Home Park keeps Ian Holloway and Blackpool in touch with the top six.

Big Match Preview

Championship

Plymouth Argyle vs. Blackpool

Saturday March 27, 15:00, Home Park

Play-off chasing Blackpool make the long trip down to the South West to face a Plymouth side desperately trying to climb out of the Championship's relegation zone.

With points so precious to both teams, there'll be added spice with the return of Seasiders boss Ian Holloway to a club he acrimonioulsy left in 2007.

The Pilgrims are now under the management of Paul Mariner, who took charge just before Christmas after Paul Sturrock was removed due to poor results.

Things have improved marginally under the new man, but Argyle still go into Saturday's game five points adrift of safety with time running out.

Their cause was boosted by an impressive 2-0 win at Mariner's old club Ipswich in midweek. However, it's their form at Home Park which will determine their fate come May.

That makes the visit of Blackpool a must-win for the Devon side, despite their opponent's lofty position.

Plymouth will therefore be hoping top scorer Jamie Mackie can add to his eight goals this term and take advantage of opponents who have struggled on the road.

Paul Mariner is battling to keep Plymouth in next's season Championship

They're likely to face a Pool team full of confidence though after they recorded their biggest win of the season on Tuesday night.

A stunning 5-1 win at Bloomfield Road against high flying Swansea re-ignited Holloway's men's play-off challenge. They'll now be hoping to put a run together - starting with recording their first away win since Boxing Day.

Indeed, the Tangerines have suffered defeat in four of their last five games on the road. A goalless draw at Lancashire rivals Preston represents their only positive result away from home.

If they are to make a late push for the top six - they currently sit five points off the play-offs - then the experienced Holloway will expect to beat his struggling former side.

The undoubted star man in the Blackpool side this season has been former Rangers midfielder Charlie Adam. The big-money summer signing has been worth every penny - notching 15 goals of his own and creating numerous others.

With the experienced duo of Ben Burgess and Brett Ormerod up front, if Adam is on his game then the Plymouth defence can be sure of a tough examination.

It's the time of the season though where the greater needs often tells - and Plymouth's is that. The Argyle faithful will also be desperate to beat their former manager's new team.

They have made themselves harder to beat on home soil and, if they can quieten Blackpool's attacking verve, then they can collect a priceless three points.

Nobes' Prediction: Plymouth Argyle 2 Blackpool 1

Plymouth rock the boat

Plymouth Argyle have a picture of the Pilgrim Fathers' Mayflower ship on their club badge. Perhaps it's appropriate then that they've now got a Mariner in charge of first team affairs.

Friday's management shuffle saw boss Paul Sturrock moved into a new business support role with his assistant, Paul Mariner, taking charge of first team affairs.

For the Championship strugglers it's their first roll of the dice to help turnaround a season where the Devon club have a fight on their hands to avoid relegation.

It also brings an end to Sturrock's second spell in charge at Home Park, a return which has failed to bring the same kind of success his arrival the first time heralded.

Not that that should come as any surprise. Indeed, in truth, however tempting a return to the place where he first made his name in English football, the Scot should never have returned.

When he first took over at Plymouth in 2000 the club were languishing towards the bottom of the basement division. In his first full season, despite having to put up with stadium re-developments, he led the Pilgrims to the League Two title.

Two years later and the club were on the brink of returning to the second tier before Sturrock left to take on the job at Premier League Southampton. However, his departure couldn't derail Argyle's promotion bid and a second title in three seasons followed.

The club he returned to in October 2007 was firmly established in the Championship and former boss Ian Holloway had left the side challenging for the play-offs. It was a top six tilt Sturrock maintained for the rest of the season.

However, last season, despite recovering from a slow start to once again feature in the top half, the Pilgrims slumped down the table in the New Year into a relegation battle, eventually finishing just a place and five points above relegated Norwich.

New man at the wheel - Paul Mariner has stepped up from assistant at Home Park

The poor form continued at the beginning of this term, taking until the 10th game to register a win - one of just four all season. Plymouth's record of just eight wins in 2009 is relegation form - and the reason the board felt a change had to be made.

Sturrock cannot complain he wasn't given the time, especially by a new board ushered in after the club's summer takeover by a Japanese consortium.

However, the writing did appear to be on the wall a few weeks ago when long-term assistant Kevin Summerfield left to be replaced by ex-Pilgrims playing hero Mariner.

Despite their takeover, with crowds around 10,000 Plymouth will always be punching above their weight to do anything more than avoid a return to League One. Resources dictate that a relegation battle was always going to be on the cards this season.

However, the Home Park faithful will now hope a change in the manager's chair will be able to turn around the club's fortunes as they wave goodbye to a miserable twelve months. Plymouth's ship is currently a sinking one, but can Mariner throw them a lifeline?

Nobes.

Big Match Review - Plymouth 1 Ipswich 1

Championship

Plymouth Argyle 1-1 Ipswich Town

Saturday October 24, Home Park, Att: 10,875

Roy Keane's Ipswich were left still searching for their first win of the campaign after coming from behind to draw against a Plymouth side reduced to 10 men late on.

Both sides began brightly creating a few half chances, but it was Argyle who took the lead mid-way through the first half. Jamie Mackie laying the ball back for Carl Fletcher to power a shot past Richard Wright from outside the area.

It was the boost the Pilgrims needed and they had a couple of penalty shouts turned down before they were indebted to 'keeper Romain Larrieu for a fine save from a Grant Leadbitter shot.

However, it was a careless piece of defending by Plymouth's Gary Sawyer with just twenty minutes remaining that gave Ipswich a route back into the match. His woefully underhit backpass was intercepted by Town's Jon Stead and the former Blackburn striker slipped the ball past Larrieu to level matters.

Ipswich could have then taken the lead when some neat build-up found Alan Quinn but despite beating the keeper his shot was cleared off the line by Rory Fallon.

And the home side were then reduced to 10 men when Darcy Blake's clumsy challenge from behind earnt him a straight red card with ten minutes remaining.

However, the Suffolk club were unable to break through the Argyle backline to find a winner and remain rooted to the foot of the Championship, a point and place behind Paul Sturrock's Plymouth.

Big Match Preview

Championship

Plymouth Argyle vs. Ipswich Town

Saturday October 24, 15:00, Home Park

The Championship's bottom two clash down in Devon this weekend as Plymouth host an Ipswich side expected to challenge at the top of the division but still seeking their first win of the season.

It's been a disastrous start to the campaign for Roy Keane's visitors. After coming in at the tail end of last season and conjuring up two wins, Ipswich have failed to register a single victory in their first 13 league games this term.

They haven't come much closer to winning than Tuesday night though. Leading Watford 1-0 for the majority of the game, a 94th minute equaliser for the Hornets left Town stunned and cursing their inability hold onto a lead.

Indeed, injury time goals have been a feature of Ipswich's poor start to the campaign. In three successive away games against Doncaster, Sheffield United, and Barnsley, late goals cost the Tractor Boys five points.

Seven draws have been accumulated so far this season, but with the division's leakiest defence - 26 goals have been shipped in - former Arsenal keeper Richard Wright and his defence have undermined Town's season.

However, Keane does have an abundance of attacking riches to pick from, with Jon Walters having bagged four goals this term. If the likes of Tamas Priskin, Jon Stead, and Pablo Counago can start finding the back of the net too, then Ipswich have the firepower to get themselves out of trouble.

Their opponents this weekend have so far struggled to find the back of the net and find themselves just a point above the Suffolk outfit. However, at least Plymouth can point to actually having notched up a couple of victories.

Managers under pressure: Sturrock and Keane could both do with a win

A 2-1 win at Peterborough, followed by a victory over Scunthorpe by the same scoreline helped ease the pressure slightly on under-fire Argyle boss Paul Sturrock.

The Pilgrims finished 21st last season, only narrowly avoiding the drop, and after a summer takeover by a Japanese consortium, the manager is under pressure to show he is the man for the long-term future of the club.

Their fortunes have not been helped by a poor record at Home Park - the Green Army have seen their side secure just four points and score five goals on home turf this season.

Ipswich will travel in hope they can follow the likes of Nottingham Forest, Cardiff, Sheffield Wednesday and Watford in coming away with all three points from the South West.

Top scorer for Argyle this season is Jamie Mackie with three strikes to his name, and other leading lights include New Zealand international Rory Fallon and the creative spark of Alan Gow.

It promises to be an afternoon full of nerve and tensions and two sides low on confidence. However, whilst Plymouth enter the game in poor form with defeats at Blackpool and Bristol City in their last two outings, Ipswich appear to be inching ever closer to that first win.

It may well come at Home Park this weekend. In a battle of two of the worst defences, Ipswich have the greater strikepower to take advantage and all three points.

Nobes' Prediction: Plymouth Argyle 1 Ipswich Town 2