Leicester (N) - Community Shield | Post-Match Thread

[Jesus H Gabz]

Decent test that, which came at exactly the right time, nobody gets comfortable after a few tick over wins in pre season, minutes in the legs, young lads did well and excellent prep for Spurs, who’ll be equally up for it (in a similar way) due to the HK situation, expect pantomime boos everywhere we go this season, if we sign Harry….expect Adebayor levels of vitriol (go on then show the vid)
I’m not expecting us to pull up any trees early doors so a retreat to last season’s attritional winter performances will do

 

[ancoats]

for me itwas a no win game for city ? we win it and its well £100million player sat on the bench plus multi millions sat watching after euros. the money city spend you should be winning today will be the media cry . but i laughed my bollocks off at the ITV panel clueless fuckers ?

fitness wise we are miles away and players will have to come in cold ? its not a good thing with city and our style of play and like today one sloppy moment cost you the goal. its more mental sharpness than body fitness and today ake turns off and a stone wall pen

pep will back the players to the end. he will be saying all the right things and knows 5 players that was missing are the cream of this team

can we get kane in next week would be my question ? even if he has to miss out playing for city vs spurs
just getting a striker to take control of the front line is so clearly missing from this squad. its like having a best/biggest guns in the world but using rubber bullets

 

[stan bowles]

Leicester, Chelsea and the Dippers all away in Sept. Need to be in rhythm by then.

Well we won't be. Chelsea are the biggest threat. Hopefully they too will drop points early on too.

 

[yeseye]

This will cheer us up…

 

[Chris B]

Exactly the sort of thing a bitter Rag and Scouser would say after losing it.

It’s a lovely piece of silverware, every single club in Europe has it (or their equivalent) in their honours lists, and managers like Pep always say it’s a proper trophy.

I’ll be over it by 21:00 tonight, but I’m very disappointed in losing.

I sort of agree, but in places like Spain and Italy where they care more about it this game is played during the football season rather than in preseason when most of the better players have been away on international duty.

 

[ancoats]

can i just add that jack grealish will become the most cheating diving c*nt in the world at manchester city
from the most fouled player to a cheat in a week hahahahahaahha

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Feran is a winger

That I agree on

The team put out doesn’t represent what our team will be in meaningful matches

Never been to a charity shield game as it’s a glorified friendly

Fair play to you and others who spent their hard earned money going

But my point is that is not a team we will see regularly

By the way can’t stick antiques roadshow

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Well said. We take the piss out of Liverpool fans but this place is like a cult at times

You need to wind it in , comparing us to Dippers will do you no favours.....................**** :)

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

We used to have tevez dzeko balotelli and aguero as strikers now we have no real atriker

we need to start the season with at least one striker and Jesus and feran aren’t that

 

[blue61]

True but a game with
Mahrez
Gundog
Fernandinho
Dias
Cancelo
Torres
All starting with
Mendy
Ake

we hardly played our reserves, shows to me that the depth thats massively spoken of isn’t as great. Not just because of today but quite a few times last year the second we dropped a few players then the players coming in weren’t quite good enough. We won the league last year but I imagine ake and Torres actual win percentage when starting won’t be overly high. Gutted we lost as I always want to win, isn’t the end of the world though

It's not the depth that was the issue it was match sharpness and same players playing the few pre-seaon games, creating the obvious leginess.