Leicester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[GarTomas]

Just seen the 3rd again.  Guzan.  Just take everything out!

[ozzjim]

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?

I said in the game, when we were 2 up, that he must watch a different one to us. It is way more frustrating than under Lambert, because we are actually a decent team now, and should be able to change it for the better.

[themossman]

Guzan looks like Scott Carson to me.

Enckelman more like.

More inexperience from Tim. Undermine a good but not great keeper and fail to get a credible alternative in. Now we've got a busted flush in sticks. How many games did he keep us in last season?

[Nastylee]

Two super goals and f-all to show for it. Ridiculously open and invited them to attack down the wings. How many times did they bypass our midfield?

But tbh, when they scored the first we all knew what the outcome was going to be, it was inevitable.

[russon]

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. We need a proper captain because every time we find ourselves in a pickle and needing some leadership we just find 11 shrinking violets. Absolutely pathetic.

Nonsense. When they put Mahrez in the middle with two wide man, and the left back in particular bombing on - and you're 2-0 up - you put the players on the pitch who can cope with that.

Ayew, Gestede and Sinclair, with Grealish alongside a tiring Westwood and Sanchez. That's not what you do. That really isn't.

At what point does a professional footballer take responsibility and be accountable? Granted the formation may not assist, but hells bells our players need to grow a pair of sphericals, show some courage and concede only over their dead bodies. Leicester's first goal was because the scorer was hungrier to get to the ball, same with the third and the second they just danced around our shadows. Players need to stand up and be counted.

[ozzjim]

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.

I fear you are spot on with cocky. I thought it was bordering on arrogance. You do this and we can still do this kind of reaction.

[aj2k77]

He's trying to be too clever for his own good with these weird tactical substitutions. It's right pissing me off, 5 years of complete shite, 5 bastard years, week in week out stupid decisions, gormeless players, epic comebacks against us, late goals against us, lower league losses. It's getting to the point where there is zero enjoyment from this crap every week, even when we're 1 or 2 up I just expect us to spunk it up the wall.

[Stirchley Villain]

Now Tim. Here's your final question for the big prize.

You're winning 2-0 against a team who have so far dominated the 2nd half. Do you a) Bring on an extra midfielder to slow them down..?

Or b) bring on a lump of a centre forward who has no more chance of touching the ball than I have from the sofa in my living room..?

Think carefully now Tim. b) you say..? That's your final answer? Oh Tim... look at what you could have won..!

[Deano's Mullet]

Yorke and Niall Quinn confirming they thought Sherwood's subs were a bit naieve.

[jwarry]

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.

I totally agree, yes ok Tim had something in mind with the subs but quite honestly the players bottled it.  Pretty sure if Gana was playing that wouldn't have happened.  Midfield as too similar to last years losers

[villadelph]

Two super goals and f-all to show for it. Ridiculously open and invited them to attack down the wings. How many times did they bypass our midfield?

But tbh, when they scored the first we all knew what the outcome was going to be, it was inevitable.

Sad that I felt the same way. We did everything we could to lose that game. Can't even get out of our own way.

[Kevin_Brum12]

The substitutions were atrocious.  We've pissed 3 points up the wall.  Tim - why not just not make any substitutions at all unless a player is injured, as your ability to read the game appears to be abysmal.

If we do get into the same heap of mess as we did last year, we could very well come to rue today.

[curiousorange]

Sherwood seems to be playing to a mentality that a game lasts an hour, tops. It's all very well saying we were the better team etc, but we deserve nothing if we can't see out a game, whether we're winning or drawing. I despise those last fifteen minutes where it lasts hours if we're ahead and seconds if we're behind. Almost as much as I despise the whistle to kick off a second half.

[andyh]

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

This is exactly right.
New players, new coaching staff, same shit.

Palace and Leicester have both done a second half job job on us by upping the tempo, putting pressure on us in our own half and playing like they just KNOW they will score and win the game.
They both created an impetus that we were unable to cope with.

In reality, it seems that our game plan is knock it around across the back and then try and hit on the break.
Depressingly familiar.

[Toronto Villa]

As good as Sherwood was to have us play the way we did in the first half, he was equally awful for not being able to make adjustments in the second half as needed.