Leicester (H) Post-Match Thread

chesterbells said:
Thanks for that, brilliant to watch :-)
A totally disconsolate Jimmy Greaves there, getting no change out of our back line.
Never mind Bell, what strikes me watching that is just how good Summerbee and Lee were. Didn’t quite realise Lee played as deep as that. His close control was incredible.
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Lee played his first season with us as more or less a winger. A fantastic player and hard as nails.
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
He struggles when up against 2 defenders as one can block him from cutting inside and the other can block him from going down the line. We frequently play teams that have everyone behind the ball and that reduces space. Leicester didn't play that way and Mahrez was able to exploit that space very well. If he could start doing it against bus parking teams, he'd be a regular starter.
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In the post match press conference Pep made a point of Mahrez's aggression yesterday, he was well up for it, but he must show that far more.
 
alexmcity said:
Agree with most points but Leicester weren't bad. We made them look bad. No other team can attack like us, even Klopp had admitted it. The scary thing is this team can peform even better when Laporte and Sane return and when Sterling returns to his very best. Plus Rodri and Foden can get only better.
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I like the cut of your jib, too many times is it described that the opponents are crap when we beat them.
 
Marvin said:
Vardy and Schmeichel (distribution apart) were outstanding. Vardy single-handedly terrified me, but today all Leciester had was Vardy going forward. LCFC were too negative. I refuse to believe that a team who are 2nd are that poor. I think Rodgers set them up too negatively. They must have had a bad game whilst we were very very good.

Mahrez's best game for City. Perhaps he just knew that Chilwell couldn't hold him, or perhaps the MOTD coverage was spot on with KDB and Mahrez managing to get 2 on 1. I just knew when I was watching that City time and time again were getting through on the right.

A strong feature of the last month has been the return to form of Ben Mendy. Another feature has been Gabriel Jesus. All he needed was games. He has produced. All doubts as to his playing quality should now have been dispelled. We're blessed to have Kun and Jesus, and you could say the same about so many City players.

All we need is Laporte to return. Player-wise there is one question remaining...who is his long term partner? Garcia, HB, Stones? There have been three major deficiencies in this side this season:

1) Centre-back crisis provoked by injury to Laporte.
2) Left-back exacerbated by injuries to Zinchenko and Mendy. Great to see Mendy improving. He's had a sustained spell of good games.
3) Lack of pace in midfield. Rodri is an exceptional player, but quick he isn't. Yesterday the balance was good and KDB has gone up a level.

So over the last month (with the exception of one bad game) I think our game has gone up a level.

Yesterday, Mahrez well and truly arrived as a player that all Man City players can trust. Please more of the same. And I believe City fans are back believing in Mendy again. I had big doubts. They are settling.

This was the best City have played in a long time.
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Our game the last few weeks has gone up many levels. We look a different team in midfield. Horrible thing to have to say but we have not missed Spanish Dave. Bernardo more central yesterday was the player of last season, full of energy and a quality footballer. Kdb is looking like the world beater of 2 seasons ago in the free role, doing what he does best, looking for the spaces and terrorising the opposition defences.
 
Not read the thread but I have to say Mendy looked great yesterday, having Bernardo playing so close helped but he was less profligate with the ball and was determined in his challenges. I hope the big man is back to his Monaco level, he’s a cracking lad and it saddened me to see the criticism he received, two major injuries are never going to be easy to get over. Will be a major plus for us if he maintains yesterday’s form.
 
hammocity said:
Not read the thread but I have to say Mendy looked great yesterday, having Bernardo playing so close helped but he was less profligate with the ball and was determined in his challenges. I hope the big man is back to his Monaco level, he’s a cracking lad and it saddened me to see the criticism he received, two major injuries are never going to be easy to get over. Will be a major plus for us if he maintains yesterday’s form.
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Hopefully his confidence is improving with the more game time hes getting. It was good to see.
 
Apologies if already asked but what happened prior to De Bruyne’s booking? The ref blew for an infringement I couldn’t see anything and even the commentators were unsure what he blew for?
 
Keeper! said:
Yesterday he was outstanding, that apart he has been very disappointing, for such a classy footballer.

As a City signing the jury is very much still out.
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I said at the start of the season it would be Marez’s time. I still believe that.
 
TueartsOHK said:
Apologies if already asked but what happened prior to De Bruyne’s booking? The ref blew for an infringement I couldn’t see anything and even the commentators were unsure what he blew for?
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Nothing happened. Obviously Kev, being the only person to ever show some dissent, was booked.
 
eastmanc said:
They played a lot better at the Etihad last season.
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Not sure they did tbh. I thought their performance at The Etihad last season was all about stopping City winning and helping Liverpool rather than about winning and helping Leicester. Last season they set up simply to frustrate, which they did brilliantly until a certain Vincent Kompany stepped up to the plate.
They're 'one trick ponies', everyone knows their trick and deals with it in the best way they can. Yesterday Pep appeared to take the view that, due to the injuries we have, we had to allow them their one trick and trust that our great big, fuck off bag of tricks would prevail, and it did, spectacularly. The gulf in class between the two teams was enormous and surprising given that they are second in the league.
 
What a performance that was when we move the ball that quick nobody can live with us. After the last few performances im hoping we have our bernardo and mendy back to there best kevin is on another planet but i feel he still has another level to go if he wants otamendi is benefitting from a run in the team as is walker tho he needs to sort his distribution out. Oh and yet another fantastic performance from the fans boo boy ilkay.
 
Sorry, but I'm having difficulty seeing that Ben Mendy was all that great yesterday. He was, to my eyes, o.k. No more, no less. He was o.k. Certainly an improvement on what he's been. I know about the injuries, and the difficulty of coming back from them. All I feel, though, is that if he can't get back to those superb overlapping runs and low fizzing crosses in — perhaps he can, I'm not calling it either way — then I don't really see that he's a better option than Zin, and a year or two up the road, when he's less raw, even Angeliño might be a better option. One thing that does my nut in is that he'll be hugging the touchline, he'll get the ball passed out to him, and instead of going for it, he'll stop the ball, hold it for a couple of seconds, and then pass it straight back, diagonally and backwards to whoever's inside, completely breaking the momentum of our forward movement as a team. Perhaps he's been told to do this by Pep, for all I know, because he can no longer get back if he loses the ball. Or in any case, not at present. I still expect great things of Ben, but I think the jury's out.
 
Very proud of the performance yesterday, we made a very good team look very ordinary and the 3-1 score flatters them big time...
Hopefully they will run the dippers ragged over Christmas and we will kick on....
 
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