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And when you can't admit your mistakes then you're doomed to never learn from them. Funny how the same article he says we started playing more progressive in the last 20-25 minutes... Which is when he finally made the substitutions and had Kele and Riccy P doing some runs. I wonder if there's a correlation...🤔

https://www.lcfc.com/news/2149576/we-needed-to-play-forward-more-says-rodgers This is what's getting my goat! Brendan saying that we needed to play forward more... YOU HAD NOONE TO PLAY FORWARD TO!!!

Difference is that the title winning team was designed to be defensive. We were known for counter attacking which meant we defended like dogs in our low block and we were amazing at it and usually depended on some Mahrez or Vardy magic to nick a goal. But that comes back to my initial point in this thread that I rank Pearson higher than Rodgers for being able to instill a stronger mentality than what we currently have. I have no issue with having a strong defensive base to build off of, being able to play from the back. But to have a zero mistakes game plan to just neutralise Chelsea without an attacking outlet for 70 minutes is in itself a mistake. In this forum there's probably only me and @StriderHiryu that actually look at things tactically and strategically compared to 99% of this forum, and I can see that tonight's problems were all our own doing. Not having Evans organising the defence and holding the defensive line means that Fofana and Soyuncu couldn't push up with the ball. And without Evans do we really need a 3 at the back? And we only played a 3 to fit Soy, Jonny and Lil Wes in the side anyways. Every part of our play goes through Tielemans, literally every single thing in our team seems to be just going through him which means the rest of our players aren't doing enough to facilitate it. Also the idea of Youri playing in a deeper role this season is essentially to be able to dictate but also be a quarterback and break lines but that's practically impossible if there aren't willing runners to take the passes further up field. I have literally wrote in the tactics thread about how Rodgers this season has kinda found a tactical fluidity with our squad to try and get the best out of the available players. But tonight we were anything but fluid. Starting both Perez and Maddison in theory was probably meant for us to try and keep the ball but that failed miserably because neither of them could keep the ball and we didn't have anyone up top that could stretch Chelsea until Iheanacho and Pereira came on. It is what it is. Tonight is done. Just like Saturday is done. But it doesn't change the fact that for me, looking at tonight tactically, Brendan screwed the pooch hard.

I take it from the lack of replies or responses to that question means everyone's in agreement that we played shit tonight. And guess ultimately who's responsible for that? The manager. Who kept Perez on, started Maddison, dropped Iheanacho, didn't put on Praet, not rotating enough of his squad options, continuously starting an out of form Vardy and everything else that's been spotted and spoken about on this forum tonight.

Yeah my phone didn't correct the typo. And why don't you go jog on in your happy happy land of rainbows and unicorns where everything is all perfect and sunshine. Tonight Leicester City played shit! Can anyone really find anything to disagree with that accessment apart from "We won the cup"

Because I don't need to come and talk about the FA cup win to enjoy it... As I was busy just enjoying it. What's there to say about it that 100s of people haven't already mentioned over and over again? It's fantastic! History making. But the season isn't over yet. So if some people want to just win the FA cup and just forgo the final games. Fair enough. But there's still loads of us that want Top 4 and Champions League. But fuch us right?

Fuch. Me. Sideways. It isn't that I expect us to be battering teams like Man City or Liverpool of last year. And Man City they lost tonight. But if anyone can't see that until Rodgers subbed off Maddison and put on Iheanacho we were utterly shite. Plenty of posters on this forum can recognise that for 70 minutes we were off the boil and toothless. Maddison and Perez have been abject and the ultimate responsibility of that is on Brendan's head as the manager for his choices. Like not starting the players that's been on form for us for the past 3-4 months. Even after the FA cup win, the talk from players and Rodgers was all about forgetting it and getting back to training and working for tonight's match etc... That didn't happen. The standard thing in football is even if you lose, make sure you give it your all and at least show there was desire. No shame in losing to the better team on the night if they out faught us. But we barely faught tonight and that's what's bringing up people's ire.

1 loss? But notice I also mentioned the Southampton and Newcastle results too. Your claims are Void.

Check my account date. I was here 10 years before you were mate. In case you hadn't realised, last season we were in top 4 and ****ed it on the last day. This season it looks to be the same. Look I'm happy with an FA cup win. But I and a ton of others, if you're reading the posts properly, are angry and pissed off about tonight's lack of character and fight and rightly so. So check your emotional definitions if you can understand them. We're not depressed. We're angry. Difference.

How have I? Yeah we've wins cup but potentially ****ed the league. 2 different competitions if you didn't know. Grow up!

1 swallow doesn't make a fuching summer. Yeah we won a the cup. Fantastic. And then played this game like donkeys. It's not me that uses the word 'Consistency' That's what Brendan is trying to instill in us and yet... Show me where that consistency is during today's game? You can be speechless but don't even deny tonight's showing was anything less than a shambles, like it was against Southampton or Newcastle. If you're happy to rest on laurels, then you rest on laurels. Plenty of fans are pissed off that for about 70 minutes of tonight, we were dire.

Still Pearson above Rodgers for me. He galvanized players to become fighters and leaders on the pitch. The way players said they'd run through brick walls for him. As much as Brendan can improve the techniques and tactics... Getting the players to grow a pair doesn't seem to be in his locker. Not sure these players would run through paper mache half the time.

Notting Hill

Trebles and Quadruples every year, fam! Ya did it in Scotland, Bren. 😂

It's great as they keep clinging to history, while we're here now trying to make it. And succeeding! I understand the local rivalry being in the Midlands area with all 3 of Notts, Derby and Cov back in the day. But tbh maybe it was different in the older generations, but none of it ever really seemed bad. It was almost like banter rivalry in the 90s/00s compared derbys like Celtic-Rangers; Utd-Liverpool; Real-Barca; Arsenal-Spurs. Then Derby and Notts decided to close shop and Cov went and just decided to be shit. We as it always has been, our our own worst enemies really and had to go down to rise up. Even now Leicester City is Leicester City's own worst enemy. So we don't really need a rival tbf, it seems. Maybe one day if one of those clubs get their act together and gain promotion back to the Premier League a rivalry might begin again locally but the longer it takes for that to happen for any of those clubs, the more Leicester City will pull away from them in terms of Global profile and identity. We've done a 5000-1 Fairytale League win and just finished another amazing story in our history by putting to bed a ghost that has haunted us for decades and generations by winning the FA cup. Which was even more of a holy grail than the League Title, because tbf again just being lil ol'Leicester and capitulating 4 times, we were satisfied enough to settle for the 1 FA cup over anything as ambitious and audacious as becoming Champions of England. And yet it ended up not being the holy grail to most (though for a lot of you older lot, it still was), it was somehow the missing piece of doing a Domestic GrandSlam. Also we're continuously aiming for European Football. And for some reason now, we're the darlings, saviours and poster boys of the Premier League against the greed and tyranny of silent, uncaring owners. Against the backdrop furore of the ESL, playing one of the members, the first big game with a crowd back after a year of isolation, on free to air television, we as Leicester City as a whole club and fans together completed, as one backpage put it, Fairytale 2. With an all time top goal and legendary saves as well as stoppage time drama. Our club from literally Top, as is his name, to bottom is one big family. The owners, players and fans showing others how it can and should be. The fact that we can elicit such jealousy and envy of other clubs supporters is still mind boggling to some extent. This fuching club, I tell thee. As someone once said "Football. Bloody hell."