Leicester Post Match thread.

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I'd love to hear from those who laughed off Leciester, of which there were plenty on here.
 
Again the tactical limitations of Pellegrini were there to be seen. He is a gentleman and so on, but if I am honest with myself simply not good enough. We always get dicked by any half decent team these days. Looking forward to next season where we hopefully will be much more solid and tactically well tuned.
 
The blue phantom said:
Spurs and liverpool next up. I dont care what anyone says but if we take fuckall from those two we are in a fight for fourth.
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We will soon find out if we are up for the fight to make it 5 Chumps League qualifications on the spin.

We have gone downhill from last season by some degree.

Poor management , transfers that haven't worked out nearly as well as we are required for this league and the inability to keep an ageing squad relatively injury free have seen to that.
 
david whites spike said:
What a load of absolute bullshit I'm reading.....are people expecting us to win every fucking game?
We got beat by the better team today....end of story....believe it or not we are not invincible.
Looking at the positives today I've realised toure is no longer good enough unfortunately,but fuck me,if we beat spurs next week (will be favourites) and arsenal beat Leicester (favourites) then it's a four horse race!!!!!! Enjoy!!!!!!
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IWasHere said:
Happy clapper alert I repeat happy clapper alert
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VOOMER said:
Unless the mother of all riot acts is read to all the playing staff then we won't be in the top 4. Today is what happens when you're only plan is "Get Pep!". We have wasted a small fortune on players in the interim period waiting for Pep. We jettisoned a good manager in Mancini, because if we had backed him he would have won trophies and been very difficult to replace without looking dubious. We allowed player power to rise and now they know it will end with Pep's arrival. No real blooding, not even an attempt to bring any of the youth team into plug the physical gap when player's have slowed, or simply got knackered. Today should really spark an emergency meeting, it was that bad.
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Bang on the money. This whole pep obsession has fucked us up bad.
 
FanchesterCity said:
Sterling's number one asset is pace - the same for Navas (yes I know he didn't play today!). In theory we should be able to break in the manner that Leicester do and add that capability to our game, but we don't.

We play one dimensional football that relies on us having (and keeping) possession, and eventually breaking down a team. The moment we face a team who are willing to win the ball back, or hold possession in their own right we struggle. Leicester are clinical on the break and in their finishing and we paid the price for that like most teams have this season.

Leicester were better than us. They thoroughly deserved the win.

The team should be watching Leicester videos as an example of how we need to have that option in our own game - to sit deeper and counter teams. Sterling and Navas should be two immediate outlets on the break - either left or right sided, with KDB or Silva plus Aguero through the middle. There's enough speed there to frighten anybody. Sadly we frighten nobody now.
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Our problem isn't Sterling, who put a shift in. It's a defence, which aside from Mangala and Clichy isn't quick. I can't see any of today's back 5 being at the club in 2017-18.
 
I don't think there is one Leicester player that would get in our team, and yet they so fully deserved to beat us. Says a lot about our current crop's attitude.
 
i didnt think were better than us today.
we were very sloppy and shit at the back....didnt take our chances.
they pressed and worked hard off the ball but i thought we played the better football , but as we know that gets you nowhere.
they did a job on us and defended well
 
VOOMER said:
Our problem isn't Sterling, who put a shift in. It's a defence, which aside from Mangala and Clichy isn't quick. I can't see any of today's back 5 being at the club in 2017-18.
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Sterling is a problem though, the kid looks devoid of any confidence and his lack of technical ability is really starting to show against packed defences.
 
Gabriel said:
Agree with that, though it's not going to be easy making such a transition in one season.
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I think the fact we need a brand new midfield will actually help us.

Get technically good players in like Pogba and Thiago in the centre and the rest will come naturally.
 
Ajm1985 said:
Anyone saying bad day at the office, league isn't won in February etc seem to forget the standard of football we are playing now and have been playing all season
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Agree 100%. I always like to stay positive about City, but today I can't pretend that it wasn't shameful. Plus the way we've been playing the last months we ain't looking anything like a title winning team. Not even close. If rags, Chavs, Arse had all been playing like they should be doing, we'd have given up on title talk months ago.

Spuds are winning 1-0 so we're down to 3rd and playing them next week, and we'll almost certainly be down to 4th tomorrow afternoon. So, Spuds next weekend and then after the cup game and CL, the next league game is Dippers away which we also never win. Not looking rosy short term. We could be up against the rags fighting for 4th and 5th spot in early-mid March.
 
The manager's blind obsession with Toure is one thing, his inability to recognise his fundamental fault line as the game takes place, is unforgivable.

Can't play deep, can't play number ten.

A team without any leaders, coupled with fatigue and players who just aren't up to it any more, has arrived at the perfect storm, just as we enter our busiest period.

As I stated in midweek, we will be doing well to end the season with one trophy.

As for Kolarov, there are no words...

The hilarious thing, Leicester just did their jobs and everything else was presented on a platter.
 
well, that was pretty shit result, let's hope Leicester will win it now.
 
GeekinGav said:
is there still time to get our Chinese partners to buy Yaya for £70m and we can put the money in the kitty for Pogba in the summer?
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haha the way we do business they'll take him of our hands for a slice of battenburg.
 
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