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It's a good stat as a general indicator, but nothing more than that. Their xG was massively inflated by the goal and that scrappy bit where there were a few blocks, I'd guess. Didn't exactly creates loads of great chances

Did they really create that many good chances? They had a lot of pressure but aside from that one scrappy bit and the goal, don't remember JS having to make many saves or them fluffing glorious chances. Their goal was fortunate and I think if you're a team down there, away from home, you deserve the luck.

Had an absolutely honking start but did very well when he settled down

Did some really good little bits but also some very poor things, particularly in the first half. Kind of decision making that wouldn't come into the equation when he's at his best

All round performance was rubbish today where it's actually been decent at times this season, but fantastic finish. Sums Daka up

Even for him, a bad start

It is the one bit of modern tactics that I just cannot understand in almost any context. If your team is so good in the air you may think that having every in there means you win the first ball and anything else that comes in, but equally, you could so that with 1 extra man out. Invites more pressure, creates less counter attacking opportunities and causes more confusion/mayhem from a defensive point of view. Stupid tactic.

Soz. Wasn't near my KP shrine so forgot my place for a minute. Won't happen again.

Works well in the National League because the FL is so well guarded and opportunities to get in are ridiculously limited but that's not the case in this league. Should be adopted across all 3 leagues, not just 1. And how is this going to help with the supposed gap between the top 2 leagues if 8th place do go up?

Definitely not a standard FT reaction because almost everyone is aligned with the same, correct view. Let's say he's on £45k a week, being burdened with that for a player with no long term future, nor can he be bothered, is absolutely bad news. Bizarre to try and spin it any other way. £45k a week at this level should be for an absolute statement player, not for somebody who's performances have been relegation fodder.

That's totally fair. But as you said, beggars can't be choosers

It's a fair point, but it can't get much worse than it is now. If we had a Chansiri then I think even the KP fan type would realise that we need a change because it would be so overtly bad. At the moment there is enough subtlety (it's not actually subtle) to the way Top is ruining the club, it allows their naiveté/ignorance to not see the signs for what they are. Sadly, the Newcastle takeover was the absolute final nail on the coffin and I suspect that football clubs as we know them will all be gone in 20 years or so, so I'd rather chance it with a dodgy oil owner

He'll never have my hate the way some of the other ****s do, but head and shoulders above anyone else for how crap he's been. The fact Monga's almost got the same goal involvements in the league, from less than half the minutes says it all. I don't think Monga's performances mean he should be an automatic pick, but he certainly should be when Mavididi is his competition. And that's just pure stats. Watch Mavididi in a game and the amount of great positions and opportunities he wastes, is beyond any player I've ever seen in a Leicester shirt. Should be excellent at this level but is pitiful

Problem is that at the time, it was a fair view, certainly without any context about them staying but replacing Rudkin etc.

An interesting graph but problem is that actually makes it look much better than it is (purely from a positional sense) for 2 big reasons: - As it's basically a condensed game by game, it makes it look as though we were relegation fodder when they came, when it reality we just had a crap start to the season (having finished in the playoffs the year before). Then it doesn't really show the massive drop off from 5th twice, then 8th, then to relegation as it makes it look like a steady drop. - More importantly, it does not show the context of our whole history, where we're basically in danger of matching our lowest ever position. That would also highlight how sharp the drop off is.

They won't see the irony in how disrespectful this is. Basically forcing some people to protest against Top and by extension, that means you do not respect what Vichai did for us? Callous really. Too thick to separate the different individuals.

JJ did play alongside him a few times and nothing to suggest it works. Somebody posted the stat of wins with and without Winks and if makes sobering reading if you're wanting Winks as the certain starter. JJ can grab a game by the scruff of the neck, Mukasa has the magic, so who's the best foil for that? Clearly Skipp. Not saying Winks shouldn't be utilised if he's got that fire back, but I think JJ and Skipp the certain starters. Maybe a case for Mukasa being a false 9, or given a license to roam from the wide areas, putting JJ, Winks and Skipp in a 3.

Was honking against Stoke but excellent (bar a couple of min blips) last night. Probably still been the best of a bad bunch but got plenty more to give. He desperately needs to work on his heading as his judgement of the flight is awful and he gets bullied out of top many aerial duels.

Fair enough you don't rate him, but this whole he doesn't have any pace thing is absolute bollocks. No, he's not Micky Van de Ven, but he's plenty quick enough.

He's not an issue though. As crap as we've still been, the best performances in that midfield have come from JJ and Skipp, collectively and individually. It's a totally fair observation to say that he doesn't dictate games or dominate the middle of the park but equally, that's not his game. He brings a lot more stability and graft to the team that any of the others do. Generally speaking, when he hasn't played we've looked a lot more exposed/overrun. Acknowledging he was a hideous signing on the context and awful value for money, whilst crediting a huge upturn in performance is hardly the display of bias? Slagging him off for a poor performance last night when it was quite the opposite, and if nothing else, those blocks/headers at the end should be overriding that feeling; that is clearly bias.

If you ever wanted evidence of bias clouding people's judgement, this thread is it tonight. Fantastic performance. Yes, he was a crap signing in terms of the value and the type of player we needed last year, but if you take that out of it, he's been very good this year. Generally the decent performances we've had have been when he's been paired up with James, but tonight the first time him and Winks looked good together.

Don't think he was; Skipp? Nelson (especially after his awful performance at the weekend)?, but he was excellent. I said it before, but the only person motivating him to try was Harry Winks. That goal at the weekend seems to have reminded him that he actually enjoys playing football and he's looked up for it since then.

Been said enough but how often will it be said again, if we'd appointed him when we should have done, we'd definitely stay up

How lucky was that chance. Just kept deflecting back to them

Get Mavididi off. He's done