Leicester (a) pre-match thread

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PEP: Yaya is part of the team because he’s training good & he’s fit. I love midfielders - if I could play with 11 midfielders I would!

PEP: (On youth) It’s not always easy to get in First Team. When they are able, we will let them show their talent
 
Gray said:
Since beating Bournemouth at home 4-0 on the 17th September our goals against read as:

1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1

That is 16 games with one clean sheet, absolutely utterly pathetic - I don't know how anybody could argue with that.

It is of cause not just down to one individual player but a collective failure of the whole team, do I think it will improve - not seen anything on the pitch to think it will.

Face facts either the players are not good enough or Pep is hopeless at coaching defensive tactics.

Leicester will score of that I have no doubt, we will have to put our chances away or a defeat is on the cards however bad Leicester have been.
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I will argue that we simply need to score more than the oppponents. And if our players had put away half of the chances created, we would have won most of them. Simple: When we have more of the ball you limit the opponents'' goalscoring opportunities and we upgrade our chances to score. The main problem so far is not putting the chances away. Brings up the question if you have ever been interested in Pep as a coach and the way he wants his teams to play football and learn players to see football differently. Btw, that is a retorical question.
 
Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel is close to a return after a hand injury, although he is unlikely to play against his former club on Saturday.

Nampalys Mendy only returned from injury in midweek and will not start, while Danny Drinkwater is still banned.

Manchester City trio Sergio Aguero, Fernandinho and Nicolas Otamendi are all serving suspensions.

Raheem Sterling is expected to be involved after missing the last two matches with a knee injury.
 
Not confident even though Leicester are playing shit. We set up perfectly for them to exploit, only good thing is that Drinkwater is out as he is adept at the early ball over the top so they should miss him. 1-1
 
Wanker Marriner 4th Official.

I've a feeling we'll win this match well.
 
I am more confident that we will get a result away from home at the moment rather than at home. They will score because we have shit tactics when it comes to defending plus a pub standard player in the nets. But I'm confident that we'll score at least two at the other end, 1-2 City!!
 
Sterling and Nacho play well together.

I reckon we'll be thinking about them as a long term attacking partnership option by end of play tommorow.
 
mat said:
Wanker Marriner 4th Official.

I've a feeling we'll win this match well.
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Can I have some of that feeling. Where do you get it? Will do as part of my Christmas present.
I so hope you are right. But I worry about our defence and keeper.
 
SWP's back said:
I don't get why people post someone else's prediction and then a sad face.

Are you a teenager?
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Well the answers to your questions are :- I did not want to put a happy face after a prediction of defeat, and no I am not a teenager, but, I have teenage grandchildren, they also possess something called wit, which seems sadly lacking in you :-)
 
Adlab123 said:
Can I have some of that feeling. Where do you get it? Will do as part of my Christmas present.
I so hope you are right. But I worry about our defence and keeper.
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It's weird I know. I can see Steptoe scoring first then we step it up and hit at least 4 in return.
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
I am more confident that we will get a result away from home at the moment rather than at home. They will score because we have shit tactics when it comes to defending plus a pub standard player in the nets. But I'm confident that we'll score at least two at the other end, 1-2 City!!
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Was this pub called The Barcelona by any chance?
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
I am more confident that we will get a result away from home at the moment rather than at home. They will score because we have shit tactics when it comes to defending plus a pub standard player in the nets. But I'm confident that we'll score at least two at the other end, 1-2 City!!
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Yeah me too 2 for Aguer.... oh!! maybe not!! We are doooomed I said!
 
Pep is a big fan of rotation but i do believe a settled back 4 or back 3 would benefit Bravo , Sagna , Stones , Otto , Kolarov are probably our best back four at the moment but they are all capable of having nightmare games . Would love to get vinny back for xmas and get a run of games , but thats clutching at straws , we need to go all out to get VanDijk from Saints , he's the best central defender in the premiership and with Stones would be a strong central partnership, or maybe a back three with Otto. Obviously we will concede on Saturday , and i can see us coming unstuck and only scraping a draw , but you never know we might actually convert more than the one in ten chances we are taking at the moment with Kelechi up top.
 
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