Leicester (a) pre-match thread

[Akiva]

Why does Navas continue to play near every match?

Eh? Navas has been playing really well. His pace and defensive ability will be key IMO

 

[Tubes26]

It's been pretty consistent against us since 2012 so have to disagree with your last sentence. We get a higher card/foul ratio, a higher card/tackle ratio and a higher foul/tackle ratio than any other side in the league, believe we've got the most first half yellow cards as well which inhibits our ability to defend effectively.

I believe you but the only season I can see where clearly you are overbooked is 13/14 when you were the most penalised team... you had to win the league against Liverpool who were the least (or second least) penalised team. This season so far is by far the worst since then...

As well as the early yellows, you should also look at players serving suspension... For example last week's reffing has meant that you miss 3 players suspended to play Leicester.

 

[SebastianBlue]

A good objective for all of us would be using the correct nouns. Subjective wasn't the correct adjective. :)

Don't explain my joke, it ruins it! :-P

 

[BerkshireBlue]

it really is a tale of two halves with city. You look at the forward line and midfield and think christ how are gonna stop this lot and then look at the defense and think oh that's how. It's terrible how shit our backline hasn't been fixed for 3 years or so

 

[kaz7]

would have had sterling instead of navas

Not fit enough to start,hasn't trained much since the kick a couple of weeks ago

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Why does Navas continue to play near every match?

Because it's hard to play from afar ;-)

 

[Andouble]

Plenty of attacking options on the bench.

Scoring early and often has been the problem all season and why we've drawn so many games.

Would rather start with a player in an attacking spot that's scored a goal this decade and bring on Navas late with a lead and some counter attacking space, than sub off later when we're in need of a goal.

 

[superdoopercooper]

Eh? Navas has been playing really well. His pace and defensive ability will be key IMO

Plus his assists and goal scoring threat

 

[aguero93:20]

I believe you but the only season I can see where clearly you are overbooked is 13/14 when you were the most penalised team... you had to win the league against Liverpool who were the least (or second least) penalised team. This season so far is by far the worst since then...

As well as the early yellows, you should also look at players serving suspension... For example last week's reffing has meant that you miss 3 players suspended to play Leicester.

Look past 13/14, that was the penalty every game season for Liverpool, that was disgraceful and shocking. Look at the ratios as an aggregate across individual games. We have averaged something like 2.3 fouls a yellow in our matches while the opponents have averaged near 8.

 

[blue ranger]

On merit?

I'm not a navas fan but thought he played well v chelsea