Jayden Bogle knows what Plymouth Argyle will be thinking ahead of their visit to Sheffield United
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Bogle, who could make his seventh appearance for Chris Wilder’s side during tomorrow’s fourth round game, was a member of the County team which beat Crystal Palace of the Premier League in last season’s tournament.
Although Manchester United eventually ended his former club’s hopes of reaching the quarter-finals, Bogle revealed events before those meetings with top-flight opposition have provided him with an insight into how Ryan Lowe’s men will approach the visit to Bramall Lane.
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Hide Ad“I can relate to what they’ll be thinking,” Bogle said. “I know because I’ve been there before myself, not so long ago. I can relate to it, because I’ve been in a dressing room where you are about to face people from a higher division. So I know how they’ll be talking about going about things.”
Lowe’s insistence that Argyle, who are 11th in League One, will look to attack their top-flight opponents betrayed the fact the visitors can go about their work with a freedom of expression Bogle and his colleagues can only dream about after winning only twice since September. One of those victories came against Bristol Rovers in the previous round’ a performance which Bogle, who wrote his name on the scoresheet at the Memorial Stadium, believes should set the template for this encounter.
“They’ll feel as if they’ve got nothing to lose,” he said. “When you are the lower league team in these situations, you feel as if you’ve got the chance to make history and that, if you play well, there’s a chance you might get noticed and picked up. So that’s another incentive.”
“We’ve got to go out there and attack it, like we did in the last round,” Bogle continued. “We need to be physical, strong and really look to dominate.”
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Hide AdSpeaking during his pre-match media conference, Wilder told journalists United’s coaching staff have performed “exactly the same research” on Argyle as they did on Tottenham Hotspur before last weekend’s 3-1 defeat by the visitors from north London.
“It’s totally disrespectful to the opposition to say this is a great chance to get into the next round,” Wilder said, with the winners set to face either Millwall or Bristol City. “It’s completely disrespectful to our opponents, to think it’s opened up. It’s disrespectful to someone (Lowe) who has made an excellent start to his managerial career and some good players. People will talk nonsense about shape and systems. It’s simple - play well, as we did at Bristol Rovers - and bring your mate to the party alongside you. He plays well, another one plays well and oh, suddenly we’ve got 11 players playing well and a contribution from the bench too.”
Bogle, who joined United during the close season, echoed that sentiment; arguing that reaching the next phase could prove a turning point in a campaign most observers are convinced is destined to end in relegation.
“One win can change everything,” he said. “Confidence is massive and the quicker we get full confidence back, the quicker we can get the results we’ll need. I’m sure we’ve got the squad and the staff to pull through.”