Ricey

7 wins is probably the aim. Takes us to 99, but no doubt there will be a draw or two in there as well. Not sure if it'll be enough to win the league but it'll be enough for promotion you would have thought.

His biggest weakness is his lack of pace. He is so painfully slow that he can't really press and he can't defend against transitions. Against Watford in particular they had so much joy through the middle of the park and that was partly down to the fact that Praet just couldn't get back into position to defend the transition. We'll need more energy in there against Leeds, so hopefully it'll be Ricardo or even McAteer in that 8 role.

What concerns me is that after they've played us Leeds have a run in against teams with an average league position of 14th. After they've played us their next four games are against 20th, 19th, 23rd and 21st. The last time they dropped points against a team in the bottom half was Rotherham in November.

It was a really strange performance. Too eager to force things in the first half and then far too relaxed in the second half. Towards the end he looked like he was trying to see out a victory.

I still think there is a weakness that has carried over from the Rodgers era and that’s the panic that ensues once we don’t have the level of control that we are used to. We often have one uneasy spell per match but normally we come out the other side unscathed. Today Boro punished us. Onwards.

He was partially at fault for the first goal by being so deep and playing Boro onside and he also can’t direct a header accurately for shit, but his main issue today was Krusty the Clown playing alongside him.

True. Still, I’d be starting Vardy on Friday.

Sloppy, especially defensively when trying to guard against their counter, but it’s one of those where we’ve created five golden chances and scored one. On another day we win that comfortably, but that’s what happens when a bit of complacency and sloppiness kicks in. One thing I will say though, and not for the first time, is that I can’t work out the subs. Mavididi was poor, but he’s put Cannon out wide to get on the end of Fatuwu’s far post crosses and then taken Fatuwu off early in the second half. We are then left with no one who can beat a man and a striker out wide. KDH, Mavididi and Fatawu being totally off it today was probably our biggest problem.

He was a liability every time he played, thus eventually being frozen out. Rodgers had no choice, especially once Vestergaard started spouting off in the press.

I'm not sure about this, which is crazy when you consider how important he's been for us this season. His biggest strengths are his passing ability and two footedness, which considering how often he has the ball means that he's become absolutely essential to how we play. In the Premier League very few matches, if any, are going to be like the majority of matches we face in the Championship. He won't have the ball anywhere near as much and he'll be tested a lot more as a defender, which remains his weakness. He's on a big wage and he absolutely bombed for us in the Premier League previously. It's a risk.

Hamza or Yunus for Praet please.

Midfield is all over the place. KDH sloppy, Praet too slow to do his defence work.

I can’t see any reason why both ratings can’t match. It could be a big. OVR stands for Overall, as in Overall Rating.

It’s pretty obvious that we’ve been stringing this out in the hope we can sell someone.

I do think the style of play is a bit boring and I can get frustrated with it at times, but ultimately it's more than doing the trick and I'm totally behind it. Yes there are weaknesses and yes I wish we were more ruthless when a goal up, but points are all that matter. The job this season is to get out of this league. Our squad, on the whole, is too good for this league, so adopting a slower, controlled style of play is a really sensible way of maximising that quality and ensuring that we keep ticking over during a long season. I've come to the conclusion though that managers like Puel, Rodgers and Maresca are just never going to be that popular with a large portion of our fanbase. As a club, and as a city, I think a fast paced, aggressive, never-say-die style of play is what fits best. We love being the underdog who never know when they are beaten. That's what really resonates with the majority of Leicester fans, not a slower, methodical style of play that also tend to come with a lack of resilience when we are put under pressure.

I’m not saying it was quiet tonight but I could hear Harry Winks having a go at the Lino and I sit in row BB.

Very worrying signs if we sell him, especially for under £30M. Losing him, having already lost Ndidi until April, could risk us not going up automatically. That’s a bigger hit than £30M. Wildly speculating here, but I noticed on Monday that he was moaning and whinging to other players a lot more, often when it was his mistake.

Transfers don’t take longer, we just find out about them a lot earlier due to people like Fabrizio Romano.

They can’t just dock points from Man City and Chelsea to keep Everton and Forest happy. They have to go through the proper process and prove the charges. Chelsea haven’t even been charged yet. Everton and Forest’s tears over Man City is just pure and utter bitterness.

Another one that’s on Maresca unfortunately. A decent performance ruined by more very strange game management. You could see us tiring at 60 mins, but yet again no subs. You could see us losing control, but we just go deeper and deeper and deeper. I want us to write our own narrative and try and win the game. Push for the second rather than trying to bore the opposition into submission. It all it takes is one misplaced pass and the opposition all of sudden smell blood.

JJ hasn’t played the inverted role like Maresca plays. He’s too uncomfortable in possession to play there. I imagine it’ll be KDH and either Praet or Akgun in the 8 roles.

The Forest argument is crazy. No one can prove they ended up with more money by selling later in the window, that is just their word. Who knows, Tottenham may have bid earlier if it looked like he was off to Brentford. Also, it's a self-inflicted mess. They knew the rules and they knew the numbers required to not break those rules. They risked it and lost. Everything else is excuses.

Football Manager don’t work like that either.

I’m not sure it’s a red, but then again I’m judging that on the slow mo replay. At full speed it looks bad. Red or not, it’s an idiotic thing to do just before half time when we’ve had a ‘contentious’ decision given for us. You just don’t do it. He’ll learn, but it’s cost us and will carry on costing us for the next 3 matches.