Leicester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Des Little]

Just in and very pissed off. All I say is this. We have changed the manager, the coaching staff and practically the whole team yet that was classic Aston Villa. It's in our DNA. Unbelievable.

[four fornicholl]

15M on ayew and gestede makes me shiver

[Matt Collins]

The Westwood criticism remains ridiculous.

What are people basing it on today? He has a great first half (like most of them) and the gets completely overrun second half because his manager doesn't respond to the opposition's changes and his partner (also excellent first half) dies on his arse.

League two my arse, at least 7 or 8 players are more culpable than him today. Easy target.

He was our joint worst player 1st half . Far from "great"

No he bloody wasn't.

No way. We dominated possession. He was prominent in that. It's just nonsense

[rougegorge]

Ranieri clearly recognised the weakness at right back so flung on Dyer and then had Schlupp doubling up but why no response? There was little appearance of stopping the ball to Mahrez either when we'd done well against him in the first half.

I was hoping Albrighton would stay on as he was so ineffective but again Ranieri spotted it whereas our substitutions just made things worse.

I've seen some abject surrenders,  but coming away afterwards that seemed like one of the worst after such a promising hour.

[andyh]

So, we have previously accepted that as a club we have slipped behind the likes of Swansea and Southampton.
Are we now slipping behind the likes of Palace and Leicester?

And I don't mean just because of the recents defeats, but because of the way they have beaten us.
Aggressive, pacy, high tempo football, with the ability to build up an impetus which creates a belief that they CAN and WILL score.
We haven't played like that since I don't know when, and I honestly think that at times we have found ourselves scoring or in the lead more by luck than judgement.

I don't want to get too downhearted just yet but fuck me, we have been shit for what is it, 10 games now ?

[silhillvilla]

The Westwood criticism remains ridiculous.

What are people basing it on today? He has a great first half (like most of them) and the gets completely overrun second half because his manager doesn't respond to the opposition's changes and his partner (also excellent first half) dies on his arse.

League two my arse, at least 7 or 8 players are more culpable than him today. Easy target.

He was our joint worst player 1st half . Far from "great"

No he bloody wasn't.

No way. We dominated possession. He was prominent in that. It's just nonsense

Stay in denial then. He's crap and has been part and parcel of 3 years of crapness with him (and plenty of others ) around

[hipkiss92]

Didn't even realise Albrighton was on the pitch until it was mentioned above.

[Risso]

I don't want to get too downhearted just yet but fuck me, we have been shit for what is it, 10 games now ?

I'd say it's more like 110.

[Matt Collins]

An attempt at objective ratings

Guzan - 6 but a massive mistake
Bacuna - 5 very poor
Richards - 8 I think he looks great. Fantastic
Lescott - 6 good to begin with but fucked up for the goal
Amavi - 6 decent first half but struggles a bit
Westwood 6 - good first but then over ran
Sanchez 6 - as above but more so. Erratic passing later on
Gil 7 - in and out but classy
Sinclair - 5 didn't think he did much
Grealish 6 - classy moments but not his best game
Gabby 5 - two good moments but poor overall

You can add 1 to our attacking players for their first half performance

Tim - 5 the right team and the wrong subs

Overall a massive frustration. Plenty of positives but some real concerns

[UK Redsox]

Didn't even realise Albrighton was on the pitch until it was mentioned above.

the only time that I noticed him was when he was booked.

I was worried that he'd rip Bacuna apart but it never happened

[Matt Collins]

Yeah albrighton did nowt

[pauliewalnuts]

Ranieri clearly recognised the weakness at right back so flung on Dyer and then had Schlupp doubling up but why no response?

That's what worries me.

It's not like this is a new thing with Sherwood, how often have we seen him change nothing when an opponent changes stuff and the match starts to move against us? If it isn't that, then it is making the wrong changes.

I've just seen on twitter that he's standing by his changes.

That scares the shit out of me.

[OzVilla]

One of our main issues is the amount of players that still don't look match fit. It's mid September FFS!

[UK Redsox]

What the second half needed was some James Collins hoofs upfield.

[silhillvilla]

Spurs fans biggest gripe about sherwood was his limited tactical awareness.
Very worrying.