Leicester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Smirker]

Unbelievable.

Fuck off Villa.

[dicedlam]

Guzan looks like Scott Carson to me.

Enckelman more like.

[villadelph]

Nathan Dyer HEADED the winner between two defenders and a goalie.

Only Villa.

[Proposition Joe]

And this wankfest in the media over Lesta is also really rubbing it in. 

[in exile]

What a sickening kick in the bollocks

[pauliewalnuts]

Someone said we did nothing to combat their changes. We actually changed things to help them.

At 2-0 up, we take a midfielder off for a forward. Okay, Gil not great defensively, but why not bring Veretout on? Change the balance of the team to slightly more solid instead of slightly more attacking? Again at 2-0 up Hutton for Bacuna is the obvious one.

Exactly.

Sherwood is his own worst enemy. He has just cost us the game, and not for the first time.

What on earth was he thinking? Was he actually watching the match?

[Dave]

I don't blame Sherwood, I blame the players. Doesn't matter what tactics or formation you use, to bottle it from 0-2 and cruising is 100% down to them

The players clearly aren't faultless in this scenario, but when you have a manager who appears to make decisions to actively make their jobs harder it's easy to see why they react badly to it.

[Axl Rose]

Just massively disappointing, but I can't get so angry anymore. It just feels all too familiar.

[ozzjim]

I don't know if it's too soon for Sherwood out, but I do think he's crap.

He is clearly not though, as in most games this season we have been much the better side. So he can set a team up, even build one, that is clearly good enough. What he can't do, which is killing him, is react when the opposition impose themselves on the game. It is not rocket science, but to Tim it clearly fucking is.

[paul_e]

terrible management, if you take Gil off it has to be to bring on Veretout and strengthen the middle of the park, we just looked so open after the change which gave them the chance to get back into it.

[PeterWithe]

I'd rather drop than go through many more seasons of being humiliated every weekend and stinking up the lower reaches of the league. Genuinely.

Yep starting to agree with that mentality

That was far better than last years performance at Leicester.

Let's not be silly

[Dave]

Nathan Dyer HEADED the winner between two defenders and a goalie.

5 ft 5. An inch taller than Alan Wright.

[Brend'Watkins]

Why did we look so knackered as a team after an hour compared to Leicester? 

[paulcomben]

Utterly depressing.

[citizenDJ]

I'm struggling to think of poorer substitutions in a match. Sherwood has really, really fucked up here. How he couldn't see that our midfield was desperately struggling is beyond me.

To bring on Ayew when we went 2-0 up is at best naive, at worst it is unbelievably cocky.

To have Veretout on the bench, a defensive midfielder no less and one of some renown, and to leave him unused is baffling.


*Deep breath*

Alright, there was loads to be positive about in the first half, and we are clearly capable of playing good stuff.