Leicester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[The Edge]

Cos he's a nob an I'd get more stupid questions

[Clampy]

Cos he's a nob an I'd get more stupid questions

How's the drummer?

[pauliewalnuts]

Cos he's a nob an I'd get more stupid questions

How's the drummer?

Barry Mullet Sr isn't it?

[silhillvilla]

Cos he's a nob an I'd get more stupid questions

How's the drummer?

Da drummer is foine

[old man villa fan]

As somebody else commented, we were caught yesterday with not good options from the bench.  Having lost Gana, we had no defensive midfield cover for Sanchez and Westwood who would tire as the game progressed.  Sherwood should have had a plan for this eventuality as it would have been a high probability.  Rightly in my opinion, somebody commented that Veretout being thrown on in that position would have been the equivalent of throwing Ayew into the game.  We are still short in central midfield when we have injuries, so there has to be another plan. 

How is that then? If you're happy to accept that we were missing additional presence in central midfield, why would putting a highly-rated, energetic central midfielder on be the equivalent of putting a wide-forward on?

Clark (as you mention) and Richardson have both played that position for us in the past as well. Ayew didn't come on because there was no central midfield options on the bench, he came on because Sherwood didn't think that the central midfield needed strengthening.

And a minor point - we didn't necessarily need to replace either Sanchez or Westwood, we needed to give them additional help. Veretout running around or even Richardson just chasing Mahrez would have made things much easier for them. See West Ham last night. 2-0 up after an hour, take off Lanzini and stick another defensive midfielder on. See the game out at 2-0.

The comment was meant as a new player not yet up to speed as opposed to positional (midfield compared with forward).

Again, I didn't say replace Sanchez or Westwood, I said cover them as they tired i.e. strengthen the position.

I think where we struggle with the squad is that most of our players are one position players or if they can play other positions, they are quite a bit weaker.  This means that we tend to replace like for like.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Veretout/Richardson were the obvious choices to bring on to help the MFs already there but struggling with the increase in Leicester numbers.
Bringing Ayew on put more pressure on players who were already under pressure.

We didn't play well for 60/70 minutes as a few have said...we were under pressure from the 46th minute...our 2nd goal came very much against the run of play...what was it that Sherwood couldn't see?

[KRS]

Anyone watching MNF on Sky would just have seen Carragher give us a proper schooling on tactical naivety at 2-1 up... Westwood so recklessly attack-minded it's illogical, gap to Sanchez huge and meant our individual errors in giving balls away for 2nd and 3rd goals were compounded. That's where Wilkins on board should be our strength, recognising and preventing that

That made interested viewing particularly when Lescott seems to have a word with Westwood not to go bombing up the pitch. Sanchez was literally stranded as our only midfielder at times with both Westwood and Jack being closer to Ayew, Sinclair and Gestede. The question has to be asked whether that was an attempt by TS to grab a third rather than see the game out or the players being naive...if it was the latter then why didn't TS identify and rectify it; if it was the first then its naivety at its most extreme.

[KRS]

Just watched the first half of the game recorded on Sky...we pretty much dominated the game in terms of possession and chances, silenced their happy clappy fans and scored a fantastic goal...but any one would think that Leicester were Barcelona so much was the love in and bias commentary/punditry.

[The Edge]

Veretout/Richardson were the obvious choices to bring on to help the MFs already there but struggling with the increase in Leicester numbers.
Bringing Ayew on put more pressure on players who were already under pressure.

We didn't play well for 60/70 minutes as a few have said...we were under pressure from the 46th minute...our 2nd goal came very much against the run of play...what was it that Sherwood couldn't see?

the pitch obviously