Leicester City (H) Post Match Thread

[RayCTID]

No idea.

Roberto was doing really well with our transfers.

Seem to remember him wanting Van Persie,and ending up with Jack Rodwell

I just think the state of our side right now is 100% down to him.

We are down to just 34 year old injured Aguero up front.That is criminal.We never even replaced Dzeko.

His job was supposed to be to prevent us ever needing a huge rebuild,and transitional season regardless off the manager.He should have been ahead of the game.That was his job.

Look at the state of us ?

Roberto didn't sign Kompany for starters. With van Persie we had both Dzeko and Balotelli already at the club. De Rossi didn't want to leave Roma. Yaya was partly down to his brother (who was signed by Hughes). Silva was identified by Hughes, Real Madrid passed on him for some reason and we took full advantage of that.

 

[Afterthefact]

Clearly City had a lot of selection problems going into the game. What is the point of generalising from that game. You have to wait a little to assess the team particularly when there are so many injuries.

What I’m talking about is not a recent development. Moreover, selection problems via injury have become a persistent reality for us for some reason...so we may want to develop a system that accommodates them.

 

[Mancityus]

This is on Pep - play Garcia when he knows he will probably score a self-goal before defending one. Well he let two through today to kill the game.
Again Pep either does not know about rule changes or did a lousy job of communicating to his defenders to not touch opposition in penalty box.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Worst post on this thread. Rodri was painfully slow today. Gundogun is even worse. Together, you'll have the tortoise and the snail

Still trying to work out which is the one that breaks up play .

 

[itisrising]

The only possible silver lining is if it wakes us up as a club.

I'm sorry but Mendy should never play for us again. You can't go into PL games against top opposition with essentially 10 men.

Rodri also needs to be dropped. It's not an effort thing but Rodri is a sad indictment of our poor recruitment in recent years. How can you have the prototype in Fernandinho and decide to go for a player that is the complete opposite in terms of profile. We consistently lose to counter attacking teams because, once they beat our first press, Rodri is so easily bypassed it's a joke.

The only way we can have a legitimate challenge to the league is if we're ruthless now until the end of the season. Buy a LB like Tagliofico or Grimaldo and please bring back Douglas Luiz. This team needs some new blood and players that will actually push this team forward because the mentality displayed over the past season has been disgraceful.

 

[UncleBerbs]

Zero ability to break down or get in behind a well organised defensive system. Key players like Sane would often break down opposition defence with individual brilliance - hope to see this from Torres in the future. Nobody looked a threat and the only threat looked to come from some De Bruyne magic. Lacked intensity and exposed defensively way too regularly. Mendy doesn’t deserve a place in league games. Ederson needs to step up too - can’t remember his last penalty save. One word to describe the game - diabolical.

 

[mancity1]

Who would you bring in to replace Txiki?

One of the main drivers of sustained success is continual improvement and that can come from within or by improving the quality of your key operators.

Its always good to have a good working relationship within all at a club but given human frailty that is not always possible.

if Txiki is past his used by date then you have to replace him with a person who has the will and ability to do better and that means achieving better outcomes.

Lets be honest we are now in a position where we really have to make every transfer count.

We need improvement in every line and if Txiki can't do that then we get someone who can.

Complacency is toxic of the worst kind.

 

[RayCTID]

One of the main drivers of sustained success is continual improvement and that can come from within or by improving the quality of your key operators.

Its always good to have a good working relationship within all at a club but given human frailty that is not always possible.

if Txiki is past his used by date then you have to replace him with a person who has the will and ability to do better and that means achieving better outcomes.

Lets be honest we are now in a position where we really have to make every transfer count.

We need improvement in every line and if Txiki can't do that then we get someone who can.

Complacency is toxic of the worst kind.

Txiki isn't the only person involved with the transfers and it doesn't help that the targets aren't willing to sign for City in the first place or is beyond the price the club is willing to pay for the player. If that is the case then blame Khaldoon as well. It didn't help with the whole FFP proceedings looming over the club.

 

[Damanino]

Pep mentioned multiple time how anxious and nervous the players got.

2nd league game, we play at home, vs Leicester City, and players get extremely anxious/nervous even after dominating possession for 30 minutes and Leicester not creating any kind of chance until the first pen.

Something is fucking wrong with the mentality if seasoned pros get so nervous in a game like this.

Imagine how nervous they might have been vs Lyon where stakes were so much higher than in latest game. How nervous
Pep must have been t change his tactics completely for Lyon and have it backfired...

They should be fearless lions or sharks not nervous dogs.

They dont know what to do on the pitch , how to break down defences that dont give us easy chances, they absolutely dont know how to defend counters from to front, not mentioning at the back while midfield is bypassed pretty much like hot knife through the butter, this makes them anxious and nervous.
Opponents get a feeling for our anxious play and that makes them even more determined to punish us and they do it a lot.

This is a mentality thing that stems from our tactics imo. Very risky high line defence with wrong personnel and shit pressing with players not working hard enough or with players not enough pace. Recipe for a disaster really. Players get nervous middle of game. This is not a one off...

Honestly if things wont change tactically I expect more of the same losses, not losing 5-2, but losing with very same pattern in terms of issues on midfield, creating/converting clear chances and conceding 2 goals from every 3 shots conceded (that are on target) on average.

Putting Ruben Dias in CB can change it a bit and help a bit (unless he needs a full first season to adapt to new tactics, new country, new league, which happens to many of our signings) but it wont solve midfield issues and other off the ball issues, defending from the front etc.

 

[RayCTID]

Pep mentioned multiple time how anxious and nervous the players got.

2nd league game, we play at home, vs Leicester City, and players get extremely anxious/nervous even after dominating possession for 30 minutes and Leicester not creating any kind of chance until the first pen.

Something is fucking wrong with the mentality if seasoned pros get so nervous in a game like this.

Imagine how nervous they might have been vs Lyon where stakes were so much higher than in latest game. How nervous
Pep must have been t change his tactics completely for Lyon and have it backfired...

They should fearless lions or sharks not nervous dogs.

They dont know what to do on the pitch , how to break down defences that dont give us easy chances, they absolutely dont know how to defend counters from to front, not mentioning at the back while midfield is bypassed pretty much like hot knife through the butter, this makes them anxious and nervous.
Opponents get a feeling for our anxious play and that makes them even more determined to punish us and they do it a lot.

This is a mentality thing that stems from our tactics imo. Very risky high line defence with wrong personnel and shit pressing with players not working hard enough or with players not enough pace. Recipe for a disaster really. Players get nervous middle of game. This is not a one off...

Honestly if things wont change tactically I expect more of the same losses, not losing 5-2, but losing with very same pattern in terms of issues on midfield, creating/converting clear chances and conceding 2 goals with from every 3 shots conceded (that are on target) on average.

Putting Ruben Dias in CB can change it a bit and help a bit (unless he needs a full first season to adapt to new tactics, new country, new league, which happens to many of our signings) but it wont solve midfield issues and other off the ball issues, defending from the front etc.

That is down to lack of on field leadership. A captain/team leader isn't just in charge of the coin toss