Leicester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Olof's Beard]

Guzan, Westwood, Bacuna. Not good enough for a club trying to move forward. Very poor last 20 minutes from pretty much all of them.

Westwood was one of our best players.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

meet the new boss....

southampton shit
burnley shit
arsenal disgrace
bournemouth rode our luck
man ure tactically wrong
palace tactically wrong
sunderland tactically wrong
leicester tactically wrong

i think the bloke is a chancer and what the fuck is wilkins doing?

im a halfwit and even i know bacuna is shit and not a full back yet he persists

fuck me the bitters, the heathens then sturke he needs to fucking shape up

[Savospit]

Agree with everything, we were not good.

[Olof's Beard]

One final observation, the front 6 today were all here pre-Sherwood. You can see how well they can play together, which makes a mockery of Lambert. In fact, they were all here at the end of last season yet we have lost 3 of the regular front 6 since then (Benteke, Delph, Cleverley) and one other (N'Zogbia) has been ostracised. You can see how well we can attack, and that makes a mockery of Lambert as much as the second half collapse makes a mockery of Sherwood. We just can't put defence and attack together to make a cohesive team.

[Ads]

Agreed x2 SH. Guzan is a poor player.

There is a rush to put the knife into Sherwood and over analyse his tactics; players have an individual responsibility; Lescott and Guzan are as much to blame today, as Amavi and Guzan at Palace, as any substitution by Sherwood.

You cannot carry these errors with the regularity we do. Play the percentage ball and we win the game, Lescott doesn't and we give the ball away from which they score.

[Dave]

Special mention to Guzan, what a pathetic incident at the end which cost us a point. How he convinced so many he's a top keeper remains one of life's great mysteries. The sooner we're rid of him the better.

Agreed, he just doesn't inspire any confidence whatsoever. 

I love Brad but that attempt to punch the ball away was embarrassing. He didn't even get close to it.

Quite. I strongly disagreed (and still do) with the assertion that he cost us goals earlier in the season, but that one was fully down to him. Why he thought that Richards and Lescott needed him there as well to deal with 5 ft 5 Nathan Dyer is beyond me.

[curiousorange]

One thing's for sure - there are two huge games now to kickstart the season. You get Ayew or Gestede scoring in either and it could be the start of something impressive. But Sherwood has to get a ninety minute performance out of the team in one if not both, because our confidence at the moment must be heading quickly in the wrong direction.

[silhillvilla]

That last 30 mins after Gil went off is up there as the worst villa performance I've seen. And I'm not over dramatising matters it was totally abysmal .

[oswald funkletrumpet]

and what the fuck is going on with our fitness?

[KevinGage]

It's depressing to think that we spent £50 million+ this summer and Westwood and Gabby are still first team regulars.

Gabby was decent once, but he's too fat and comfortable now.

Players like Westwood should be nowhere near the Aston Villa starting XI. 

[pauliewalnuts]

Guzan has done a Carson. It's sad but we've seen plenty of evidence.

Bacuna is awful. Technically, he's our worst player. He's truly hopeless at right back.

The manager to me still looks like the chancer I thought he was when he came here. He can spot a player, can talk a good match, and seems to inspire players quite well.

He just hasn't got a clue tactically. He either does nothing when we are obviously getting our arses handed to us, or he does batshit mental stuff like today.

It is going to take time for the players to gel properly, yes, but Sherwood keeps making the same mistakes. I'd like to think we won't struggle this season, and I am not saying we will - the problem is, I haven't seen anything yet this season to suggest we won't.

[Percy McCarthy]

Maybe shows that, early as it is, how important our missing number 8 was. Not sure we'd have given up the midfield with him there.

He's our best midfielder by a mile. Sanchez is good for an hour, needs to be routinely subbed in games for now. You can see when he's 'gone' I think - he seems to stop seeing simple passes and starts dwelling on the ball and getting us into trouble. If we can get Veretout contributing and Gana fit we'll have a decent midfield with options.

For all his sins Gabby occupies centre-halves and brings a structure that Sinclair, Adama, Jack and Gil can work around, and thankfully there appears to be a goal threat emerging from those players.

Okore/Ilori/Crespo at right-back will hopefully be looked at. I still like Bacuna more than Hutton, I can just see him losing it in the derbies.

Fuck knows what we're gonna do about Guzan.

[Percy McCarthy]

Oh, and Tim needs to go through his sub options pre-game with the coaching staff, so they've got ideas and principles to go to given certain situations. Maybe they do this but it doesn't look like it.

[curiousorange]

If I was being rational about this, I would say that Leicester are just the latest team to benefit from the early silly-season momentum. We play this game in January and we probably win it. I mean, they won't finish in a European place and Chelsea won't finish bottom half.

But the way in which we rolled over from the get-go in the second half defies rationality. The subs made it worse and they scented blood. It was just an awful afternoon from five pm onwards. It's fair to say Sunday dinner was a bit of a washout in our house.

[CJ]

I quite like the idea of a third tit