Stuliasz Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 Season Low For Pearson But Majority Still Have Faith lcfcratings.wordpress.com Saturday 7 February 2015, 15:00Barclays Premier LeagueKing Power Stadium, Leicester Leicester City 0 Crystal Palace 1Ledley 55′ Leicester City going down at home to relegation rivals Crystal Palace proved to be final straw for many as far as the manager is concerned, as Nigel Pearson suffered his largest confidence drop in a single game (down 22%). Following the defeat inaccurate rumours circulated that Nigel Pearson had been sacked by the club, but the majority of the voting supporters still back the manager to see the season through albeit with a season-low majority of 60%. Pearson's weekend was not helped by a low match rating (3.94) following some interesting selections that once again didn't pay off in terms of the result. However with a 36% drop in confidence in just two games, he seems to have passed a turning point for some. As far as playing performances go, Riyad Mahrez was welcomed back with open arms following Algeria's exit from the African Cup of Nations. Mahrez was comfortably City's best player as his impressive performance (6.74) won him man of the match on his return. Yet again Marcin Wasilewski ranked highly (6.14) as he aims to avoid being the centre-back ousted by the arrival of Robert Huth. Esteban Cambiasso returned from injury with glimpses of his capabilities (6.08), but he certainly played to a higher standard that his recent stand-ins Drinkwater and King. There were some noticeably bad individual performances against Alan Pardew's Eagles. Leonardo Ulloa (3.68) put in one of his worst performances this season as his control badly let him down. Danny Simpson (3.86) may have been ranked lower had tricky winger Wilfried Zaha continued his first-half performance throughout the game, while Wes Morgan (4.00) also looked shaky and must be fearing for his place as loanee Huth completes his suspension. Consequently the team performance was lower than average (5.19) although with the home side creating so many chances it's difficult to be critical of the overall display. Crystal Palace were also ranked below average (5.07) with 17 out of the 27 performances being voted better than the Eagles at the King Power Stadium including their 6.96-ranked display at Selhurst Park. Lee Mason was ranked particularly poorly (3.98) following an extremely inconsistent display where the more physical side largely went unpunished throughout the game. It was Mason's fourth City game of the season and his lowest after scoring 7.31, 4.46 and 6.21 against Chelsea (A), Liverpool (H) and Newcastle (H) respectively. Full results below: Total Votes : 235 LCFC Ratings Man of the Match : Riyad Mahrez Riyad Mahrez : 6.74 Marcin Wasilewski : 6.14 Esteban Cambiasso : 6.08 Matty James : 5.68 Mark Schwarzer : 5.64 (SUB) Andrej Kramaric : 5.50 (SUB) Marc Albrighton : 5.40 David Nugent : 5.29 (SUB) Jamie Vardy : 5.23 Paul Konchesky : 4.93 Jeff Schlupp : 4.47 Wes Morgan : 4.00 Danny Simpson : 3.86 Leonardo Ulloa : 3.68 Team Performance : 5.19 (15/27) Manager Performance : 3.94 (18/23) Opposition Performance : 5.07 (18/27) Officials Performance (Ref: Lee Mason) : 3.98 (22/27) Overall Manager Confidence : 60.18% (-21.58%) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMBlcfc Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 Bit generous to Kramaric being number 6. Thought James was by far our best player personally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 Nearly 22%. Wow. Biggest drop we've seen yet (isn't it?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shailen Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 Nearly 22%. Wow. Biggest drop we've seen yet (isn't it?). Pearson out.....oh wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKCJ Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 60% is clearly a knee jerk reaction. There was a lot more than 60% on here expressing their disappointment at Nigel's supposed sacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseBreath Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 60% is clearly a knee jerk reaction. There was a lot more than 60% on here expressing their disappointment at Nigel's supposed sacking. 66% in the sacking poll yesterday and that, if anything, was knee jerk. Account for the fact that this is a mostly pro-pearson forum compared to Bentley's roof and I reckon it's probably quite close to 50/50 and I would imagine he will lose majority support at some point in the next three losses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 the only way that figure will get much lower is if we lose in the cup. and if we win in the cup it'll be about 80% again, no doubt. there's also no way it's 50/50 in real life either. like i said in the other thread one nigel pearson is often our loudest chant at away games, which i'd say is the best representation of our support, man for man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ousefox Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 66% in the sacking poll yesterday and that, if anything, was knee jerk. Account for the fact that this is a mostly pro-pearson forum compared to Bentley's roof and I reckon it's probably quite close to 50/50 and I would imagine he will lose majority support at some point in the next three losses. How many people post on BR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 Riyad much better than a 6.something on Saturday imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogadug Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 Looking on twitter (although not the most reliable) - I'd say the majority is something like 95% - 5% in Pearsons favour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinterdream Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 I thought Cambiasso was by far our best player, he was everywhere trying to orchestrate the play. Some of his touches and passes were class. He may have missed when Nugents pass went in to him but why was he there instead of Ulloa? make him captain I say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickov22 Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 Cambiasso was tghe best player for me. Was and Mahrez also very good. James good in patches. Nugent played well but missed his sitter as usual. Vardy looked sharp. Rest of the side were awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 9 February 2015 Share Posted 9 February 2015 Surprised Ulloa even got a three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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