Leicester City (H) - Pre-Match Thread

[vin]

I think they’ll do us unfortunately. Their pace will kill us

 

[balotellishaircut]

We will meet em in league cup final also....

He's a Leicester fan mate.

 

[cityboy1]

Very worried about this game these can replicate the rags game plan against us but their actually good.

 

[ScottSinclair]

Would like us to go old-school with a 4-2-3-1 tomorrow, protecting the defence while unleashing KdB.

----------------Ederson
Walker----Otamendi-----Stones----Mendy
--------------Rodri---------Fernandinho
Sterling------------KdB-----------Bernardo
-----------------------Jesus

Wouldnt mind this for the rest of the season actually, think its what suits our current squad the most atm. Sterling as a wide forward making runs in the box, Bernie drifting inside into space, KdB pure licence to dominate, 2 fullbacks bombing forward, Fernandinho and Rodri locking down midfield with steel and and ball retention

 

[tommo74]

I’m normally a half-full supporter, and rarely a prophet of doom.

However, if tomorrow follows the pattern of recent ETIHAD defeats, with City’s lack of pace exposed by rapid counter attacks, then I really will be asking questions of our esteemed Manager, and his obsession with Plan A

Let’s be clear about this.

We can’t win the Premier League every year, and a clearly focussed Liverpool have enjoyed a tangible advantage with injuries, refereeing decisions, VAR technology, and media support. They’re even patronised for struggling with a fixture backlog despite City facing an equal amount of games against arguably superior opponents (I’d rather face the Champions of Mexico than United in a Semi final)


However, it’s not Liverpool’s fault that we signed Cancelo when the priority was surely a replacement for Kompany.

We can’t blame Liverpool for Bernardo Silva’s dramatic loss of form coinciding with Sterling going off the boil.

For all of David Silva’s undoubted achievements, he’s been a peripheral passenger for the last 12 months, occasionally reminding us of former glories, but sadly no longer the conductor on the pitch.

Even Ederson has made more mistakes this season

Plan A is fine when we’re firing on all cylinders, but otherwise our midfield is one paced and the defence too cumbersome to compete with the pace of Mane, Rashford or Vardy.

3-0 for City!

Doubt we will keep a.clean sheet and really doubt we will win, Oxford.got 18 shots against us, and really should have scored 2 or 3 of them, I doubt Leicester will miss that many if they get the chance

 

[cityboy1]

Would like us to go old-school with a 4-2-3-1 tomorrow, protecting the defence while unleashing KdB.

----------------Ederson
Walker----Otamendi-----Stones----Mendy
--------------Rodri---------Fernandinho
Sterling------------KdB-----------Bernardo
-----------------------Jesus

Wouldnt mind this for the rest of the season actually, think its what suits our current squad the most atm. Sterling as a wide forward making runs in the box, Bernie drifting inside into space, KdB pure licence to dominate, 2 fullbacks bombing forward, Fernandinho and Rodri locking down midfield with steel and and ball retention

We could also try out a 3-5-2 and actually use our attacking fullbacks the way they should be used

 

[ScottSinclair]

We could also try out a 4-5-2 and actually use our attacking fullbacks the way they should be used

Yeah we could, hopefully no one notices that we play with 12 men;)

 

[TFC]

Scouse ****s are going to love us as we are going to beat Leicester.

 

[cityboy1]

Yeah we could, hopefully no one notices that we play with 12 men;)

Changed it haha if we play gundy as an 8 we might get away with it ;)

 

[the_tevez_wiggle]

Ederson
Walker ferna nico
Cancelo rodri mendy
Bernado Kdb
Sterling
Jesus

Need to be solid through the middle, cutting off passing lanes. Walker sweeping long balls up behind nico and ferna. Kdb and raz free roles.