Leicester City (H) Post Match Thread

markstephenhickey said:
Football evolves quickly, the better sides who have good counter attacking players are becoming more resistant to Peps football. The method of strangling a team to death through possession is becoming less effective in its consistency.

Until Pep devises a new strategy against the better teams at home where we concede the ball to lure them out we are going to see the same
type of defeats over and over this season.
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nail on the head.

football now is about fast powerful players getting the transition to shot as quickly as possible and If you can’t shoot run at full speed in the box and tangle your legs with the defenders and fall over.

we have not learnt to adapt to this in our attack , or more worryingly in our defence.
 
Pep shouldn't be allowed to linger on his decision when we are in a 'transitional' (code word for piss-poor transfer decisions) season. This will lead to more anxiety, recklessness and shitshows. How the fuck are the board okay with him deciding whether or not he 'deserves' it 3 months from now when we may be out of contention for all 4 trophies? Nagelsmann would take the job in a heartbeat and clearly Pep's tactics are getting easier to beat day by day. We need stability, direction and a long term plan. We have a manager who's unsure of staying, a board who are ready to cop out a 100 mil for a 33 year old but won't get a RCB in time for the league. Things have to change or we are in for a disaster season.
 
i8rags said:
If there’s a defence, as a fan I’m not up for it, it’s not even close to the football game we all know, empty stadiums, Covid 19 sweeping the nation again. Players testing positive, pep losing his mum, injuries ripping us apart, playing Garcia who has no interest in us, no pre season, the ridiculous internationals we’ve just had.
nothing is right for us at the moment and I personally knew yesterday was a tough game at the wrong stage.
it’ll improve for sure, Laporte, Dias, Ake, will sort out the back, Sergio and Jesus will sort out the front, but frankly there’s a massive negative around football and some might say, there’s more to worry about.
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That's when the tough get going and show character.

It won't take long to see if we have any left because the season will be over very quickly if we don't.

9 points behind Everton most likely going into the Leeds game gives you some perspective on where we are at.
 
I think part of the problem is playing inverted wingers. This means our full backs have to push up high to provide width and leaves us more exposed to breaks. When we had the natural width of Sterling on the right and Sane on the left, our fullbacks could come infield into a midfield position and provide support to the DM in stopping breaks.

That and, of course, the main problem of a high line with no real pressing.

These two factors are costing us dearly IMO.
 
Matt the Giant said:
Can someone please explain to me, why the game changed as it did after around 30 minutes. Up until then we were fully dominant and in control, had a one goal lead. Leicester were defending with the entire team deep in their own half, Vardy was positioned like pretty much as a midfielder, and they looked like they were out classed... but then it changed.

Was it Brenda who made some tactical changes, which,if so?
And had Pep no counter change to make?
Was it our squad who got tired after only half an hour?


It amazes me how a game can change so drastically. Sure, it's a huge part of what makes it such a great sport to watch, but this is a bit too much. With their first goal we looked defeated, almost like we gave up.
Not pretty to watch.
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First of all, our veteran player missed a sitter and then he got skinned by a pirouette. Walker decided to give away one of the stupidest penalties I have seen. Why on earth did he decide to foul him rather than let him shoot from that position? Pep alluded to it, fucking trust your keeper in those situations. Walker made an impossible shot to score into an impossible one to miss. These things give confidence to opponents. It happens too often and our response is the problem. For some reason there is a massive problem with our mentality. Once we have the lead we tend to always lose if someone turns it around. That is a problem with mental strength. This has nothing to do with tactics. We need a psychiatrist or players that are not bottlers. For the record other two teams suffer from this as well (Spurs, Arsenal, United).
 
paulchapo said:
He was badly at fault for three of the Spurs goals over two legs in the champions keague. too. Iffy against the rags. That's just off the top of my head.
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I know it won’t be a popular opinion on here but he doesn’t make big saves. Not saying he should save penalties but I never expect him too. The Vardy goal at the near post was just great play bu Vardy in my view.
 
Matt the Giant said:
Cheers.
So did Brenda made the tactical decision to sit back during the start of the game, only to slowly love the team up the pitch and exploit our weak(er) players?

I'm asking cause I'm really interested and curious about how we somehow sometimes manage to switch from formidable to lost in just a few minutes. I don't really see such collapses from other top teams.
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Rodgers came out and said it in his on pitch post match interview. He stated they knew that they would forfeit possession but had to sit back, stay compact and the press in their own half and counter quick

Pep has to now evolve, this tactic worked wonders when he arrived as it was not seen at a level he inputted. However this league is unlike any other, the teams and managers will adapt to another teams dominant formation.

We are at the point.

The same style nay work against some of the fodder in the league still but if we are honest ecen those teams can still carve out chances against us. It is only down to a lack of qyality they fail to convert chances or build a fluid counter-attack
 
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