Leicester v City post match

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blueonblue said:
Maybe its you that needs to re watch games, V Leicester/Palace there were ALWAYS two and more often three on Sane, without an inside man to play one twos with, he is forced either back or try and wriggle through two/three players, he hardly had a ball played for him to run on to. your right his position does not change with Spanish Dave or KDB alongside him, but the goals/chances that come from the left do. ;0)
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well after now watching it back, I suggest you do the same, you'll see exactly what your missing.
 
OB1 said:
Interesting point. Leroy needs to get faced up to the opposition to be really dangerous and, too often, he isn't.
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The ball has to be released quicker for him to be in front foot but the lack of first time through ball has been missing since kdb and David been out .
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
Some other telling stats.
We have had 151 corners all season and scored 3. Apparently Pep had them in Christmas Eve to address this.
We had 13 v Palace and 6 v Leicester, that's 19 In 2 games yet still lost both games.
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Most of our players are not the tallest....
 
blueonblue said:
Maybe its you that needs to re watch games, V Leicester/Palace there were ALWAYS two and more often three on Sane, without an inside man to play one twos with, he is forced either back or try and wriggle through two/three players, he hardly had a ball played for him to run on to. your right his position does not change with Spanish Dave or KDB alongside him, but the goals/chances that come from the left do. ;0)
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As a neutral, I have to agree with the impact D Silva has, especially out on the wings. His ability to pass and move is second to none, and when opposition moves out to press Sanè/Sterling, Silva will use the half space to drag the central defender out of position (opening up for forwards) and he forces a DM to drop deep down to one half space. Even if there is no penetration, when the ball is moved to the other side, the opposition is out of position and has to move and make hard decisions. It is during these tricky transitions that KDB can use his skill and find openings.

But without D Silva, it seems that City sometimes get stuck playing the ball from side to side on the outside of a low 10 man block.
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
Some other telling stats.
We have had 151 corners all season and scored 3. Apparently Pep had them in Christmas Eve to address this.
We had 13 v Palace and 6 v Leicester, that's 19 In 2 games yet still lost both games.
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Data do prove that corners and shots on goal go hand in hand - a team that shoots more will have more corners. However teams that shoot more and get more corners do not score more goals The number of goals a team scores does not increase with the number of corners it wins. The correlation is essentially zero. You can have one corner or you cab have seventeen corners: it will have no significant impact on how many goals you score.

For starters, not every corner leads to a shot: the defense is packed tightly to ensure that they do not. According to the Numbers Game, only one in five corners leads to a shot on goal Or put in another way, four in five do not lead to a shot on goal.They go on further to say that just one of every nine shots produced from corners ends up in a goal. In other words, 89% of shots on goal produced from corners are wasted.

So when you combine the odds of corners generating a shot plus the odds that these shots will find the back of the net, the average corner is worth about 0.022 goals, or more simply, the average Premier League team scores a goal from a corner once every ten games.

So our 3 goals from 151 corners are, believe it or not, higher than the average.

Stats courtesy of The Numbers Game.
 
Bill said:
Buy a big man up front and see the difference.
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Only one answer. Ladies and gentleman, I give you Adebayo Akinfenwa. Just check out the pedigree. And, I hear, he once turned to Ibra for advice on how to improve his game. Surely worth a punt?
 
HarrytheBlue said:
I don't think the aimless balls into the box are anything to do with Pep. It's happening at the back as well - so many attempted sliced clearances. My guess is that, David and Kevin apart, there's a collective lack of confidence - hence we're going for the lazy option instead of the usual slick, sharp, fast, stabbing passes to feet. Pep will be more frustrated than we are.
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Much much better yesterday with David back. Every player looked braver wanting the ball. Same again Thursday.......
 
paulc said:
Much much better yesterday with David back. Every player looked braver wanting the ball. Same again Thursday.......
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David forces us to play better - all those passes on the half turn for Raheem to run onto at pace - demanding he runs hard. David is a genius. And then Fernandinho putting out fires all over the place and surging with the ball - quite majestic.
 
hammersmithlad said:
Good post & agree.

Sane has been getting some stick but it’s no coincidence in our recent poor results that our build up play from our midfield has been far too slow & pedestrian so when Sane does receive the ball the defense has regrouped & he faces 2-3 players to take on and then inevitably check back on.

Ball needs to get to him much sooner & overall we need our passing to be much slicker & faster with a snap to it which has been missing the past few games. Gundog has been guilty of this especially yesterday when he played the safer ball sideways or back instead of passing forward trying to split the Leicester defense-mind you most of our midfield had a shocker & was disappointed with Sterling’s performance.
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Like I've said in response to some other comments, when David doesn't play we play the ball accurately enough to Raheem and Leroy's feet when they're static and surrounded. When David plays he finds those two on the half turn and makes 'em run hard for the line - precision passes yards in front (not usually straight at 'em) to run onto through small gaps - as well as the way he plays the ball to Sergio in the box. We look so much more dangerous when he plays. Of course we have Fernandinho putting out fires and surging away from danger and the dynamic, majestic Kevin with his longer range passes to Leroy and Raheem.
 
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