We are a lazy team without the ball - far too open and leave acres of space. Vardy must have thought Christmas had come early.Smith needs to make us harder to play against. For all the demands for another striker it’s not scoring goals that’s our problem, it’s looking like we will concede every time the opposition go forward. A big 3 weeks coming up.
Don’t blame Wesley for being crap at the moment.Saying that, I’d drop him for Trez as a forward. All this big centre forward holding up balls stuff is so old.
This was a debacle. Leicester gave us the runaround and as been said already they could easily have had 8. However good can come from this if Dean Smith is willing to learn from what went wrong.Leicester were fabulous in possession and tigerish out of it. Too many of our players stood off and let the opposition play. Our intensity (look at Everton yesterday) is lacking and we just make it so easy for teams to play through us.Dean needs to set us up to be forceful and assertive. We are currently too passive. The difficulty is knowing how to change things with the personnel we have. John Mcginn looks completely shot at the minute, Douglas Luiz is playing at a pace more suited to the Italian or Spanish game and Wes is out of his depth. He is an easy target but his lack of mobility and touch makes it so much harder to build attacks. Yes, we have scored a decent number of goals but Wes hasn't be involved in many of them.We need a complete re-think. The next 4 games are huge and we have to take at least 6 points from them. Will Dean Smith be willing to change things? We'll see.
I don’t understand when he plays Luiz and Nakamba why it’s not 4-2-3-1. I don’t think either of them understand their role in the midfield at times. Neither of them played with much defensive discipline today.Leicester counter attacked numerous times and within a couple of passes were running at our back four.
Quote from: Keeno on December 08, 2019, 04:18:36 PMQuote from: Nii Lamptey on December 08, 2019, 03:57:07 PMQuote from: Keeno on December 08, 2019, 03:49:52 PMCan everyone take stock before conceding relegation in early December. We've been soundly beaten by one of the best sides in the country if not Europe at the moment. Had a really bad run of fixtures, and if anyone thinks we WEREN'T going to be in a relegation battle after coming up through the playoffs, you're having yourself on. We've looked good in all but one of the games against teams we are ACTUALLY competing with this season. That doesn't mean there haven't been poor mistakes from players and management today - but can we get a bit realisticSorry mate, but this is blind optimism. We’ve played almost all of the other sides in the league, spent the GDP of a small country, and are hovering around the bottom three.I’d be optimistic and a little more patience if I could see at least small improvements in performance, team selection and subs, but frankly, we’re not. If anything we’re going backwards.Being plucky underdogs will not keep us up. Smith and the players need a rocket. And fast.It is literally the opposite of blind optimism. And also the opposite of the sensationalism you see on here in comparison to this time last weekend when everyone was "Oh look how far we've come in a year". Our last six games. City-Liverpool-Newcastle-United-Chelsea-Leicester. In four of them, we have been beaten by teams, that in our current position, we cannot possibly define our season on. 4 points from 18 is about what anyone with even remote knowledge of the gap between top and bottom in this league would have confidently predicted us picking up !We have spent 100m in a few months - Leicester have been rebuilding this team over three years ever since they won the title. £100m and we're just about able to keep our heads above water this season. It doesn't excuse the mistakes of only having a 22 year-old with no PL experience as your only striker. Or Mings trying to "run off" a hamstring... But if we want to stay up, the players and management are going to have to be pragmatic and have perspective - and make sure we get the points we need in the next five games, which are all eminently winnable.Keano I agree with everything you’ve said above and these are literally some of the only sensible comments made on here. We got battered today by the only team capable of stopping Liverpool this season. They may only be Leicester but they won the league 3 years ago and whilst we have be in the championship they have got to the QFs of the champions league and been regulars in top ten or above in the league.Saying all that some poor selections today and performances, but some ‘fans’ on here who I’m not always convinced go to games, calling for Smiths head are just f**king stupid. How’s that helped Watford this season or Everton, Fulham and countless others in recent years. What our club needs is stability and for all fans to pull together. 10 months ago we were a bang average mid table championship side, the best run we’ve ever had got us up and we had to buy a new team. If anyone on here thinks ending the season 1 point above relegation isn’t a success this year, they seriously don’t know anything about football. The players need VP rocking over xmas
Quote from: Nii Lamptey on December 08, 2019, 03:57:07 PMQuote from: Keeno on December 08, 2019, 03:49:52 PMCan everyone take stock before conceding relegation in early December. We've been soundly beaten by one of the best sides in the country if not Europe at the moment. Had a really bad run of fixtures, and if anyone thinks we WEREN'T going to be in a relegation battle after coming up through the playoffs, you're having yourself on. We've looked good in all but one of the games against teams we are ACTUALLY competing with this season. That doesn't mean there haven't been poor mistakes from players and management today - but can we get a bit realisticSorry mate, but this is blind optimism. We’ve played almost all of the other sides in the league, spent the GDP of a small country, and are hovering around the bottom three.I’d be optimistic and a little more patience if I could see at least small improvements in performance, team selection and subs, but frankly, we’re not. If anything we’re going backwards.Being plucky underdogs will not keep us up. Smith and the players need a rocket. And fast.It is literally the opposite of blind optimism. And also the opposite of the sensationalism you see on here in comparison to this time last weekend when everyone was "Oh look how far we've come in a year". Our last six games. City-Liverpool-Newcastle-United-Chelsea-Leicester. In four of them, we have been beaten by teams, that in our current position, we cannot possibly define our season on. 4 points from 18 is about what anyone with even remote knowledge of the gap between top and bottom in this league would have confidently predicted us picking up !We have spent 100m in a few months - Leicester have been rebuilding this team over three years ever since they won the title. £100m and we're just about able to keep our heads above water this season. It doesn't excuse the mistakes of only having a 22 year-old with no PL experience as your only striker. Or Mings trying to "run off" a hamstring... But if we want to stay up, the players and management are going to have to be pragmatic and have perspective - and make sure we get the points we need in the next five games, which are all eminently winnable.
Quote from: Keeno on December 08, 2019, 03:49:52 PMCan everyone take stock before conceding relegation in early December. We've been soundly beaten by one of the best sides in the country if not Europe at the moment. Had a really bad run of fixtures, and if anyone thinks we WEREN'T going to be in a relegation battle after coming up through the playoffs, you're having yourself on. We've looked good in all but one of the games against teams we are ACTUALLY competing with this season. That doesn't mean there haven't been poor mistakes from players and management today - but can we get a bit realisticSorry mate, but this is blind optimism. We’ve played almost all of the other sides in the league, spent the GDP of a small country, and are hovering around the bottom three.I’d be optimistic and a little more patience if I could see at least small improvements in performance, team selection and subs, but frankly, we’re not. If anything we’re going backwards.Being plucky underdogs will not keep us up. Smith and the players need a rocket. And fast.
Can everyone take stock before conceding relegation in early December. We've been soundly beaten by one of the best sides in the country if not Europe at the moment. Had a really bad run of fixtures, and if anyone thinks we WEREN'T going to be in a relegation battle after coming up through the playoffs, you're having yourself on. We've looked good in all but one of the games against teams we are ACTUALLY competing with this season. That doesn't mean there haven't been poor mistakes from players and management today - but can we get a bit realistic