Leicester City (H) Post Match Thread

[chickaroon]

Just my thoughts here. I think we need a class midfielder and a class striker. Just just make do ones. I think left back is fine, cancelo and aka, can both do that job. I also think that Pep will work on making aka into a defensive midfielder. He has played there. I think the defence is well covered now we have Dias, with stones aka and laporte.
I would have liked to have seen us sit back ourselves for 10 mins or so after we scored. Leicester were not set up to attack us on, just to hit us on the break. This would have given us the chance to break on them. We need to ne more savvy in certain times in the game.

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Also by replacing Sane with Mahrez, we now are forced to play Sterling down the left, he's more effective down the right. Also it was terrific to watch Sane and Sterling interchange positions during the course of the game and terrified teams no end. We've lost that now.

For a few months it was magic to watch how David Silva and Leroy interacted.

 

[thesting]

my point is Sane is more of a team player and better suited to city's ethos of team before self. Even when he has a bad day, by switching positions, he allows jesus, sterling, aguero and others to rotate and the team is more fluid as a result.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Is it coincidence since Arteta has gone we defend like school children and Arsenal look tight at the back including the disaster that is David Luiz

 

[SidJames]

Step toe played as a dm the entire game right in front of their back 4 but suddenly he sprints 100 m dash in blink of an eye and still haven’t lost any pace after all these years. Defying laws of physics and human evolution at the same time . Must be juice bar or asthma inhaler working it’s magic.

Erica couldn't deal with a player in his early thirties who smokes.

Wtf Barcelona see in him is beyond me.

He makes Rodri look like Linford Christie.

Also pisses me off the double standards,Leroy was benched and treated like shit for not extending.Yet this Guy sits at the heart of our defense.And we wonder why the desire has gone.

 

[Cheeky Txiki]

Also by replacing Sane with Mahrez, we now are forced to play Sterling down the left, he's more effective down the right. Also it was terrific to watch Sane and Sterling interchange positions during the course of the game and terrified teams no end. We've lost that now.

I just want the pace back. Those goals of 17/18 man, that dominance, that tenacity, that aggression. Where has it gone?

I really don't understand our approach of going for slightly more technical players and/or preferring them in the XI (Gundogan,Rodri,Mahrez) over our sheer dominance over pace and cutting open the wings.

 

[manimanc]

yes all he can do is trap a long ball, cut inside and take a shot. Occasionally, as it did yesterday, it might go in. Doesn't track back, cannot tackle and cannot make an obvious pass

Fuck me sideways.
I think I'm going to ban myself from the forum if guff like this gets put on.
You are talking about the mahrez that plays for us are you?
Here are some stats to back my opinion up.


Where are your stats to back your statement up?

 

[Nellies left peg]

Just my thoughts here. I think we need a class midfielder and a class striker. Just just make do ones. I think left back is fine, cancelo and aka, can both do that job. I also think that Pep will work on making aka into a defensive midfielder. He has played there. I think the defence is well covered now we have Dias, with stones aka and laporte.
I would have liked to have seen us sit back ourselves for 10 mins or so after we scored. Leicester were not set up to attack us on, just to hit us on the break. This would have given us the chance to break on them. We need to ne more savvy in certain times in the game.

We could pass the ball to death once we are in front and negate any threat on the counter by keeping the ball and sitting deeper. Teams like Leicester would not prosper against us and Albert Steptoe and Tom Daly Maddison would not get a sniff

 

[Tb1981]

Is it coincidence since Arteta has gone we defend like school children and Arsenal look tight at the back including the disaster that is David Luiz

Might have something to do with losing kompany as well
Was arteta not around in first half of last season?
If arteta didn’t work WITH pep he would have no reputation
Don’t mAke out he is the key
Pep is the key and he needs to sort it

 

[chickaroon]

Also by replacing Sane with Mahrez, we now are forced to play Sterling down the left, he's more effective down the right. Also it was terrific to watch Sane and Sterling interchange positions during the course of the game and terrified teams no end. We've lost that now.

Agree with this. We played our best and most exciting football with Sterling on the right and Sane on the left.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Peak years for male sprint speed, strength and power are the 30s. It’s simply repeated injuries that see people lose pace before then.

I think 18-30 max and 24-26 is peak plus step toe must’ve had few knocks over the years . Carl Lewis my fav of all time went down hill soon as he hit his peak year just like certain raggy jamaican.

 

[come-on-barney]

We could pass the ball to death once we are in front and negate any threat on the counter by keeping the ball and sitting deeper. Teams like Leicester would not prosper against us and Albert Steptoe and Tom Daly Maddison would not get a sniff

Agreed, if Pep and Rhodri are that upset about Leicester tactics, when we were 1-0, we should just passed it around on our own 12 yard area and played keep ball until they came out. Plus that would have frustrated them even more. The way we want forward leaving the back door open just played into their hands.

 

[Tb1981]

When we pass for the sake of it we lose intensity
Then we gift a goal away
After that we can’t find the intensity and the other team gets well up for it
On form we get two or three up and then the other team plays damage limitation
At the moment we look lost when anything doesn’t go our way

 

[peoffrey]

Agree with this. We played our best and most exciting football with Sterling on the right and Sane on the left.

Definitely. The SAS. Sterling, Aguero, Sane.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Agree with this. We played our best and most exciting football with Sterling on the right and Sane on the left.

Also switching them during games to great effect. Sane has a thunderous left foot too.

 

[kdbrise]

For such a ''small club'' , the entire social media is ablaze for 24 hours about net spend the moment we lose a game. Same tw*ts that pretend they wouldn't care about us when we win.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Erica couldn't deal with a player in his early thirties who smokes.

Wtf Barcelona see in him is beyond me.

He makes Rodri look like Linford Christie.

Also pisses me off the double standards,Leroy was benched and treated like shit for not extending.Yet this Guy sits at the heart of our defense.And we wonder why the desire has gone.

Gracia did make one or two vital tackle but fell apart miserably soon after. Depressing to see we had no choice but to play a teen with a fucking helmet.

 

[roy.or.r]

For such a ''small club'' , the entire social media is ablaze for 24 hours about net spend the moment we lose a game. Same tw*ts that pretend they wouldn't care about us when we win.

They can hate us but they cannot ignore us. That's when you know we are one of the biggest clubs in the world.

 

[alibenarbia83]

All the noises coming out are that we won’t be doing any more business If that is the case I don’t want to see Mendy or Rodri anywhere near the starting line up again at any time; after yesterday’s performance when everyone is back Walker needs time out as well, added to the fact that Cancelo has already played alongside Dias for Portugal many times so it will be a great partnership to build on; I hate to say it but Ederson has lost focus and it would do him good to also be dropped now we have a capable deputy in Steffen

In terms of defensive midfield, Fernandinho must always start when fit and Tommy Doyle now needs to get as many minutes as possible in there whenever Fernandinho needs a rest ahead of Gundogan and Rodri, Doyle was box to box and dominated midfield in the cup game against an experienced Bournemouth midfield so deserves a chance; when fit Bernardo has to come back into central midfield alongside Fernandinho and KDB and Sterling back to right wing where he does not have to constantly cut inside and is therefore twice as effective;

While Jesus and Kun are out, Pep has to start Liam Delap up front who is a recognised striker, and move away from this false 9 obsession

Most of Ake’s caps for Holland have been at left back so he is comfortable and used to playing there and can become our permanent left back, and when he’s unavailable it needs to be a youth team left back and not Mendy or an attacking midfielder in Zinchenko; the only other option is to play Ake as a defensive midfielder but I’m not keen on that, not while Fernandinho is still going and can bring on Doyle to the level required

I believe in this team but don’t think Pep will ever play it as it’s just too balanced!!

4-3-3:

Ederson;

Cancelo Dias Laporte Ake;

De Bruyne Fernandinho Bernardo;

Sterling Kun Foden

We have to move forward one way or another with or without Pep and he has to make these obvious changes as soon as everyone is available

 

[Chi-town blues]

I don’t remember the last time a team awarded 3 fucking pks in one match .
All soft but the **** didn’t hesitate to blow his mouthpiece so fast as cheap hooker .