Leicester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Toronto Villa]

Really very noticeable again today that Lambert barely got off his arse for the 90 minutes, just sat there, impassively wedged in his faux car seat.

I also wonder, how come he hasn't appointed an assistant yet.

I find it astonishing that this situation has been allowed to exist at a PL football club.

[UK Redsox]

According to the Beeb we had 1 shot on target against the side bottom of the league.

For a shot to be "on target", how close does it have to be to the goal. There as a shot blocked and one saved within a minute at one point.

[silhillvilla]

Only Hutton and another player went over to the fans, the rest fucked off straight down the tunnel.

In fairness to the players who didn't go over to the fans, plenty of us had already fecked off ourselves.

True , they were flooding out on 85 when I left . Missed the red cards

[Hookeysmith]

Really very noticeable again today that Lambert barely got off his arse for the 90 minutes, just sat there, impassively wedged in his faux car seat.

I also wonder, how come he hasn't appointed an assistant yet.

Because he doesn't want anyone querying the obvious mistakes he makes and doesn't have to justify himself to anyone right now, it's easy street at its easiest. If he does get an assistant it will be a nobody that is glad of the opportunity or a mate.

I think what was alluded to in a previous post. He can't be sacked as there is no number 2 to step up. Clever move by the useless git

[Tuscans]

Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea next...who thinks he will see them through?

If he doesn't I don't have any faith in Lerner appointing anyone better with his track record...catch 22.

[paul_e]

According to the Beeb we had 1 shot on target against the side bottom of the league.

For a shot to be "on target", how close does it have to be to the goal. There as a shot blocked and one saved within a minute at one point.

Generally blocked outside the 6yard box isn't counted as on target by most stats sites.

[UK Redsox]

Did anyone else think the policing was a bit OTT today ?

I didn't see anything OTT, inside or out of the ground. Are you referring to anything specific?

[Brian Taylor]

My nephew in Hong Kong thinks the Foxes are wonderful cos they came to his school to do training sessions 2-3 years ago..What can I say to him? My brother is in bits tonight! Where did we go wrong?

[Percy McCarthy]

Any ideas on what Lambert was writing in his notebook? I think it was a satirical cartoon of a certain religious icon.

That's what I've told Al Jazeera anyway.

What a crass , inopportune comment that is

Apologies.

[pauliewalnuts]

Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea next...who thinks he will see them through?

If he doesn't I don't have any faith in Lerner appointing anyone better with his track record...catch 22.

I think we'll score one goal in those three games, which will take us to 2 goals scored in 9 matches, and lose all of them.

[SO Villa]

Really very noticeable again today that Lambert barely got off his arse for the 90 minutes, just sat there, impassively wedged in his faux car seat.

I also wonder, how come he hasn't appointed an assistant yet.

Another unfathomable decision. He was at pains to point out what a great job Roy Keane did. So great, that he hasn't even bothered replacing him.

[andyh]

According to the Beeb we had 1 shot on target against the side bottom of the league.

For a shot to be "on target", how close does it have to be to the goal. There as a shot blocked and one saved within a minute at one point.

Generally blocked outside the 6yard box isn't counted as on target by most stats sites.

I don't recall their goalie making a single save.
Guzan, on the other hand made a number of fine ones, he needed to.

[Ian.]

According to the Beeb we had 1 shot on target against the side bottom of the league.

For a shot to be "on target", how close does it have to be to the goal. There as a shot blocked and one saved within a minute at one point.

A shot to be on target: (In Lambert's eyes) a forward pass with an outfield player moving in the general direction of the goal, preferably entering the 18yard box.

[old man villa fan]

I was going to post straight after the game but thought better of it as I was so p***** off with the performance.  I went shopping instead to cool down a bit.

The club is just going through the motions and that is clearly reflected in the performance of the players.  They are like a bunch of lads playing for a Sunday league side who turn up every week for a game so that they can go to the pub after (in our players case, pick up their wages).  There was not one spark of enthusiasm from a player today.  They look to be the least motivated team in the PL and that has to be down to the management of the club and the management of the team.

The owner has lost interest and that has spread downwards.  Why else do we not have an assistant manager and a group of coaches that a PL club should have.

Finally, the manager.  Somebody beat me to the comment I was going to make.  He looks like a rabbit caught in the headlights.  He looks as though he doesn't know which way to turn.  From TV you cannot see what he is doing all of the time but he didn't seem to move from his seat all game and has been like that for some time ........ since our new way of playing.  Somebody else said it earlier, it appears as though the method of playing could be a big 2 fingers to the supporters but surely not.  Perhaps Lambert has lost his motivation for the job, seeing as though Lerner has lost interest.

Again, I agree with somebody earlier who said that our players are not technically good enough to play this type of football.  Our fullbacks are not good enough going forward to play this type of football.  The midfield and forwards do not help them out either by making runs off the ball or come short for the ball.

Lambert's comment about not being good enough in the final third is rubbish.  They were not good enough in Leicester's half, full stop.  We rarely got into the final third to be not good enough there.  I am all for not laying into your players every week in interviews so as not to knock confidence but to constantly come out with what he does when it is clearly not the case, is an insult to the intelligence of the majority of the supporters.

I am sorry for Clark as I thought he had a good game.  Okore improved after a very nervous 1st half, Guzan made some very good saves but his playing/throwing the ball out is suicidal at times (too many times), Westwood was tidy but nothing more and as for the rest, very poor.

Lambert has to go, not because I do not think he is good enough (he showed that before he came here) but because he has totally lost the plot and that is dangerous for the club.  No doubt he is very proud and wants to try his best but for his own good and the good of the club, he should resign.  I would be very surprised if Lerner will sack him because he is afraid that he will have to try and encourage another manager to come in and will have to use an adviser to search for a manager as he does not have an understanding of the game to make his own choice.

We are a rudderless ship, taking on water an with an engine that has cut out.

[UK Redsox]

According to the Beeb we had 1 shot on target against the side bottom of the league.

For a shot to be "on target", how close does it have to be to the goal. There as a shot blocked and one saved within a minute at one point.

Generally blocked outside the 6yard box isn't counted as on target by most stats sites.

So, a shot that's on target but blocked by a defender outside the 6 yard box is not on target but a shot that's saved by the keeper outside the 6 yard box (eg when closing down an attacker during a one-on-one) would be a shot on target ?