Leicester City (H) Post Match Thread

[chickaroon]

Just my thoughts here. I think we need a class midfielder and a class striker. Just just make do ones. I think left back is fine, cancelo and aka, can both do that job. I also think that Pep will work on making aka into a defensive midfielder. He has played there. I think the defence is well covered now we have Dias, with stones aka and laporte.
I would have liked to have seen us sit back ourselves for 10 mins or so after we scored. Leicester were not set up to attack us on, just to hit us on the break. This would have given us the chance to break on them. We need to ne more savvy in certain times in the game.

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Also by replacing Sane with Mahrez, we now are forced to play Sterling down the left, he's more effective down the right. Also it was terrific to watch Sane and Sterling interchange positions during the course of the game and terrified teams no end. We've lost that now.

For a few months it was magic to watch how David Silva and Leroy interacted.

 

[thesting]

my point is Sane is more of a team player and better suited to city's ethos of team before self. Even when he has a bad day, by switching positions, he allows jesus, sterling, aguero and others to rotate and the team is more fluid as a result.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Is it coincidence since Arteta has gone we defend like school children and Arsenal look tight at the back including the disaster that is David Luiz

 

[SidJames]

Step toe played as a dm the entire game right in front of their back 4 but suddenly he sprints 100 m dash in blink of an eye and still haven’t lost any pace after all these years. Defying laws of physics and human evolution at the same time . Must be juice bar or asthma inhaler working it’s magic.

Erica couldn't deal with a player in his early thirties who smokes.

Wtf Barcelona see in him is beyond me.

He makes Rodri look like Linford Christie.

Also pisses me off the double standards,Leroy was benched and treated like shit for not extending.Yet this Guy sits at the heart of our defense.And we wonder why the desire has gone.

 

[Cheeky Txiki]

Also by replacing Sane with Mahrez, we now are forced to play Sterling down the left, he's more effective down the right. Also it was terrific to watch Sane and Sterling interchange positions during the course of the game and terrified teams no end. We've lost that now.

I just want the pace back. Those goals of 17/18 man, that dominance, that tenacity, that aggression. Where has it gone?

I really don't understand our approach of going for slightly more technical players and/or preferring them in the XI (Gundogan,Rodri,Mahrez) over our sheer dominance over pace and cutting open the wings.

 

[manimanc]

yes all he can do is trap a long ball, cut inside and take a shot. Occasionally, as it did yesterday, it might go in. Doesn't track back, cannot tackle and cannot make an obvious pass

Fuck me sideways.
I think I'm going to ban myself from the forum if guff like this gets put on.
You are talking about the mahrez that plays for us are you?
Here are some stats to back my opinion up.


Where are your stats to back your statement up?

 

[Nellies left peg]

Just my thoughts here. I think we need a class midfielder and a class striker. Just just make do ones. I think left back is fine, cancelo and aka, can both do that job. I also think that Pep will work on making aka into a defensive midfielder. He has played there. I think the defence is well covered now we have Dias, with stones aka and laporte.
I would have liked to have seen us sit back ourselves for 10 mins or so after we scored. Leicester were not set up to attack us on, just to hit us on the break. This would have given us the chance to break on them. We need to ne more savvy in certain times in the game.

We could pass the ball to death once we are in front and negate any threat on the counter by keeping the ball and sitting deeper. Teams like Leicester would not prosper against us and Albert Steptoe and Tom Daly Maddison would not get a sniff

 

[Tb1981]

Is it coincidence since Arteta has gone we defend like school children and Arsenal look tight at the back including the disaster that is David Luiz

Might have something to do with losing kompany as well
Was arteta not around in first half of last season?
If arteta didn’t work WITH pep he would have no reputation
Don’t mAke out he is the key
Pep is the key and he needs to sort it

 

[chickaroon]

Also by replacing Sane with Mahrez, we now are forced to play Sterling down the left, he's more effective down the right. Also it was terrific to watch Sane and Sterling interchange positions during the course of the game and terrified teams no end. We've lost that now.

Agree with this. We played our best and most exciting football with Sterling on the right and Sane on the left.