The Saddlers won our opening League 1 game 2-1 against Plymouth in front of a crowd of 5,755.
Goals from Andy Cook and a superb free kick from Luke Leahy were enough as the Saddlers came back from a goal down.
Five talking points
- New boys impress. Andy Cook, Morgan Ferrier and Josh Ginnelly impressed on their Saddlers debut.
- Liam Kinsella – should the Irishman be given chance to impress? following his impressive display when he replaced club stalwart Adam Chambers.
- Defence – despite conceding the first goal the defence which conceded so many last season looked more composed and organised.
- Luke Leahy – quite often targeted by some supporters but his defensive display got better as the game went on and his superb 25 yard free kick was worth the admission fee alone.
- Amadou Bakayoko – the striker was missing from the matchday squad ahead of a rumoured move to Bristol Rovers or Coventry City. Will he come back to haunt the club?
Walsall
2 – 1
Plymouth
Banks's Stadium
League 1
4/08/2018 4:00 pm
Attendance: 5755
Referee: Mr A Haines
| Walsall | Plymouth | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Cook 45')(Leahy 64') | (Edwards 40') | ||||||
| Roberts | Macey | ||||||
| Devlin | Riley | ||||||
| Guthrie | Edwards | ||||||
| Fitzwater | Wootton | ||||||
| Leahy | Smith-Brown | 88 | |||||
| Ismail | Grant | 74 | |||||
| Dobson | Fox | ||||||
| Chambers | 45 | Ness | |||||
| Ginnelly | 84 | Carey | |||||
| Cook | Taylor | ||||||
| Ferrier | 57 | Lameiras | 45 | ||||
Substitutes |
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| Dunn | Sawyer | ||||||
| Kinsella | 45 | Songo'o | |||||
| Wilson | 84 | Canavan | |||||
| Kouhyar | Grant | 74 | |||||
| Morris | 57 | Ladapo | 45 | ||||
| Candlin | Wylde | 88 | |||||
| Parker | Letheren | ||||||
Game Statistics |
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| 13 | Goal attempts | 15 |
| 4 | On Target | 3 |
| 9 | Corners | 7 |
| 8 | Fouls | 11 |
| 1 | Yellow Cards | 3 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 48 | % | 52 |