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The 25-year-old sat in front of the back four and enjoyed a lot of early touches of the football which would have no doubt calmed his nerves. He looks a really smooth operator, all left foot but ice-cool on the ball, often pivoting in the anchorman role while keeping it simple with his range of passing\u201d wrote Preece in today\u2019s edition of the Birmingham Live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looks \u2013 and is \u2013 more defensively-minded than Brazilian Douglas Luiz. The summer signing has a spring in his step as well and looks mobile. He faded in the second half which is understandable given his last outing came against Crewe Alexandra in the cup a month ago. Smith admitted he tired before he was replaced by Douglas but the early signs are good.\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Birmingham Live reporter, Ashley Preece, has showered Zimbabwe international Marvelous Nakamba with praise, describing him as a \u201csmooth operator who is ice cool on the ball.\u201d The 25-year-old made his eagerly awaited Premier League debut for Aston Villa against West Ham last night at Villa Park, starting for the Dean Smith-coached side and Preece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,560,810,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-13690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-football-in-zimbabwe","10":"tag-psl","11":"tag-sports-in-zimbabwe","12":"tag-zimbabwean-football-players"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - 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