Leicester City (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Ajm1985]

If that's the case, why post stuff like "pass the ball, FFS" in the match thread? As you said, none of the players will be reading it.

What do you mean, if that's the case? They aren't reading it. It's a thread where people vent during a game or offer their thoughts with other fans. As long as it's not abusive there shouldn't be any problem with what people post. The idea that people shouldn't be critical (particularly during this run & with some of the OOP dross we see) in favour of just being happy clappy is surreal.

 

[M Gaudino]

we could get 88 points if we win every game. just saying

 

[bluemullet]

So loud Andy Townsend commented how amazing the Leicester fans were the whole game singing and chanting and sticking with their team. Gaslighting Shirley?

They were silent. Maybe I’m a bit one eyed, but I don’t think I happy clap. The home support were very poor today IMO. We were fucking magnificent given the run we’ve been on. Not a pundit anywhere will mention that though. Not a click to be had anywhere for praising City fans.

 

[citeh94]

One of the best away days this season. Fans were class. 2-0 win, McAtee brilliant proving Pep wrong. This title race is not over, all it takes is Salah to get injured.

 

[kaz7]

It was nice to see joe , pundit on premier sports , not shying away from our poor run but was pro us , much more than he could be on sky or tnt

 

[MMA]

Or perhaps get behind the team for the 90 minutes? Radical, I know.

You been reading a dictionary?

Radical the word of the day mate..
;-)

 

[bennyboy]

Great win.Clean sheet and 3 points.
That bit of skill from McAtee was brilliant.
Brilliant to see KDB play the full match.It will do him the world of good.Okay the final ball us sometimes not there yet but you could see Haaland was more involved with Kev there.
Hope Ake is okay.My motm again.
One of the great away days fan wise.

 

[Dribble]

A win's a win!​

Not the most stunning of displays, but the relief of this win is incalculable. We started on fire as we have for most of our recent losing streak. We kept possession well & pulled Leicester all over the place, with sharp incisive passing & movement, which the Foxes couldn't live with.

The early warning signs were there for the home side, when a brilliant City-esque move culminated with KDB breaking into the box & cutting the ball from the byline back to the Viking, who struck the ball low & hard, but straight at their keeper for a regulation save.



A few minutes later, there was another incisive City-esque move, where the ball found Foden on the edge of the box. He moved to his left & unleashed a left footed shot to the bottom left corner which was well saved. However the ball fell to the onrushing Savinho who lifted his shot over the recovering keeper to smash home his first City goal! 1-0.

Around the 25 minute mark, we looked like we'd begun to run out of steam. Our forward pressing was becoming less & less & we were being pressured backward by an increasingly confident Leicester. This was beginning to look like another rerun of the last 2 months!



No changes were made after half-time, & Leicester continued their growing domination of the match. We just didn't have our famed physicality to match & better the Foxes, as we succumbed to their pressure.

We desperately needed another goal or two, & cometh the 70th minutes, up stepped the Viking Meat Shield. McAtee was trapped on the right wing & surrounded by 3 Leicester players, but he brilliantly managed to wrong foot & out-skill them to clip the ball to KDB.

A through-ball to Haaland was on, but King Kev opted to play the ball out wide left to Savinho, who strode forward & powered in a cross toward Erling who slammed home the deciding header.

We held on for the crucial win, but the performance typified our growing issues. Manchester City seem to have turned old overnight. Our aggressive pressing from minute one to minute 90 is gone.

It wasn't just our better skill level & organisation that was behind our recent successes, it was our ability to out match the opposition in the physical stakes for a whole game, which made us virtually unbeatable.

As they say, there's no stopping the hand of ole Father Time, & as Rat Boy said when we played the Dippers at Klanfield, having 30 year olds in your team isn't an issue. It's when half your team are 30 year olds, it becomes a problem.

This situation is all on City. We've allowed our small squad to age, & not adequately legislated for major injuries & fatigue. Now that injuries have ravaged us, we don't have the required squad quality below our first 16 to make up for the missing players, with Rodri being the biggest loss of all.

My hope for 2025? That City will address our ageing squad not by tinkering around the edges, but by going in big & hard to start the succession planning for Walker, KDB, Gundog, Rodri, Stones, Kovacic, Aké, Grealish & all the other players approaching 30 or who're in their 30s.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Take the 3 points however it's offered at this point. A win was crucial to stop the rot. That was the only objective and we achieved it so happy days.

There was some better, even good performances in there today that got us that win but overall it wasn't any different to the last few weeks in all honesty, it was a really poor attacking display from Leicester that got us the clean sheet and the points more than anything we did. A midtable side probably beats us today as we were just as open and vulnerable as we have been of late.

Gladly take the 3 points though and hope that at least lights a fire under the belly of a few and we can rely on individual performances to drag us up the table until we get much needed January reinforcements.

So how does ot work with squad numbers, I take it we have a smaller squad so any additions won’t make a difference in who we name, but say we get three do have to drop 3 or is there space?

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Not at our best still, but I'll take a clean sheet and 3 points all day!