Leicester v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

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Any belief I had drained with that Reina abomination. It was so colossally idiotic. I still can't quite believe he did it.

[alanclare]

Hasn't he gone yet?

With a 4-year contract? They couldn’t afford the severance pay, not with their present balance sheet.

[Footy-Vill]

Guilbert was alarmingly too slow to respond to stopping Vardy goal when  on the rebound. By the time Guilbert got his bearings, Vardy was off celebrating.

[PeterWithe]

The penalty one was far worse, chasing the ball up the field like an excited puppy. A horrific performance.

[robbo1874]

I didn’t see the whole game through getting ready for work and piss poor 4G on the train. But the bits I did see, we looked alright at times.
But then I saw the 3rd and 4th go in and we looked abject by that stage. No real ideas and the players looked like they’d thrown the towel in for themselves. Grealish looked like he has left the club mentally already. Played it out professionally, but must have been thinking: WTF is this shit?

[aj2k77]

Well they're going to have some nice cold wet nights at the likes of Wigan. This team doesn't have the requisites to deal with the Championship, whatever we try and kid ourselves. They're made out of papier mache and have the combined speed of Uncle Albert.

[Stu]

Switched off at 2-0 to play The Outer Worlds (fellow nerdlingers, this is an RPG FPS, which is essentially Bioshock crossed with Mass Effect 2 with a bit of Fallout thrown in. Unlike Fallout however, it isn't shit).

4-0! Lmao, we're dead and buried. Smith has to go. Watching the team back off and let top players run into dangerous positions isn't a great plan, Deano. Time for your P45.

[CT]

What happened to the "we make sure any players we sign have the right character".

What happened to pressing the opposition, setting "traps"??

All we do now is play OK for five minutes and spend the rest of the game watching the opposition run rings around us.

I hate the 2015/16 mob because they gave up and didn't even try. This lot are giving us more performances along those lines. It's not acceptable, and someone needs to made accountable.

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It wasn't a lack of effort, it was a lack of an idea.

[langleylions]

that performance was horrendous ,our coaching staff comprises  ...dean smith - league 1 player at best , richard okelly - league 2 at best , and john terry - zero coaching  qualifications ,,,, and we wonder why we are shit !! as a manager you aint got to have even played but you have 2 decent coaches that have played the game at highest level .

[Mister E]

Leicester exploited Guilbert's positioning weakness and Engels' lack of pace brilliantly down our right, whilst at the same time isolating JG over on the left; a simple tactic borne of knowing the opposition.
We, meanwhile, have clearlylearned nothing from the last dozen games: still playing zonal marking after having conceded so many set-piece goals seems bizarre.
For me, the worst, though, is the lack of energy in midfield. We know that Hourihane is slow and not very good when out of possession; we know that Luiz thinks he's better with the ball than he actually is; we know that isolating JG on the left is a waste of talent; we know that Nakamba ain't marvelous - in fact, he's very unpredictable (sometimes very good; sometimes hopeless - Lesicester's first goal was partially down to 2 missed tackles by him).
If we know all this, why has the 'coaching' staff not done something about it all?!

The least that we should expect is effort and cohesion - we're not seeing it.

That's why we're done for.

[Ads]

It doesn't matter what level you played a conclusion you draw from your point that Smith was a lower league player and Terry won everything, yet we still look an uncoached shambles.

[langleylions]

also once again we have a group of players that i hate !! there aint one team in the last 10 years that the fans can be proud of and players to ' like ' and sing there names etc .. and so the circle begins again until in 3 years we have another set of players to be ashamed of , totally depressing and not even when i watched us in the 3rd division was i ashamed of us , in fact the opposite cuz no matter how shit we was we was in it together and the players cared !!!

[langleylions]

It doesn't matter what level you played a conclusion you draw from your point that Smith was a lower league player and Terry won everything, yet we still look an uncoached shambles.

my point is we have two blokes that were shit players and are lets say not good coaches and we have terry who has no coaching experience at all !!!!!!

[RamboandBruno]

It doesn't matter what level you played a conclusion you draw from your point that Smith was a lower league player and Terry won everything, yet we still look an uncoached shambles.

my point is we have two blokes that were shit players and are lets say not good coaches and we have terry who has no coaching experience at all !!!!!!

By the law of averages across past and recent history most successful managers weren’t top players. It doesn’t matter what level our coaches played at, it matters whether they can coach successfully at this level, look to exploit opponents weaknesses etc, unfortunately at the moment that looks a big no