TheMightySystem

VAR are always looking at the incident and will only talk to the ref if they are 99% sure an error has been made. I think it was explained in the Denmark game that the game will be stopped when the ball is in the central area of the pitch, it does need to be a bit better explained though. Because most peoples complaints where that VAR takes up too much time, allowing play to carry on means the VAR officials can check in the background and if the decision was wrong they pull it back, if not then play continues and there is no wasted time. Not too sure how they could make it better, doing either option has positives and negatives.

Thing is though we then still have Ndidi, Silva, Choudhury and Iborra. If we bring in Sturaro then one of those will get next to zero game time and I'd hope that Puel would keep Choudhury around the first team squad to develop him as he did a good job last season coming in for Ndidi. Would Silva or Iborra be happy with little match time?

Joe Dodoo is on loan at Blackpool. Doubt he would have made it here anyway but must regret moving surely?

Too many times this season we start well and concede a stupid goal which takes away our momentum. Morgan and Simpson can’t be starters next season.

Edit: Not going to complain too much as I hated the Arsenal lineup yet we won. Still hope Puel gives the youth more then 5 minutes off the bench today.

If Puel stays on next season I hope he doesn't continue to drop players who play well previously.

Im sorry Puel but we really aren't. Different players would be giving some U23s a go in defense and dropping Mahrez who has been terrible recently and playing Barnes. Show us something new and the game will be more interesting then playing the same old players and getting the same old results. At least the U23 players will put in maximum effort to impress whereas several of that starting squad won't be starting or even be here next season.

Now want him out based on today. Talks of experimenting then decides to persist with Morgan, ignore our U23 defenders who have been good this season, keep Mahrez in the team despite being god awful and wants to leave in the summer, brings off our 2 youngsters who were putting in effort when others wern't and replaces them with players that we already know about instead of giving Barnes and Thomas 30 minutes to see if they can play a part for next season. The only positive I can take from his stint in charge is that Choudhury has been steady when given chances and could be a solid backup next season, if he used the games remaining to test out other youth prospects then im sure some would be more forgiving as it would be visible he is trying new things. As it stands he is using players he already realises don't work in his tactic and isn't changing to acompany them which is fair enough if he had just came in 5 games ago but after this length of time he should know which areas need replacing in his system and should be trying other options to see if anyone else can do the job that he wants them to do.

Taken off 2 of the players who played well with effort.

Diabate, Choudhury and silva been our best players, funnily enough the only ones who have a point to prove. Get the U23s on in the second half, can’t be any worse then a 5-0 loss to Palace

The fact that defence is our strength in the U23s yet Puel refuses to give any of them a chance is confusing. dragovic doesn’t want to stay ok don’t play him, but don’t play both Morgan and benalouane when we could give a youth player a chance in a meaningless game.

We are too static, palace get players foward and give support to the man on the ball. We just don’t have any movement to help the player on the ball play quick short passes.

Benalouane starts for some reason with knight on the bench.

Mahrez been out worst player imo, slow with the ball and positioning is poor when out of possession. Why is it when Albrighton runs up to the corner flag Mahrez stands still only 10 yards into the opposition half? Despite that we are looking much better in possession and iheanacho is key, great touches on the ball and passing is accurate too.

If true its probably the best way for Albrighton to lock down a place in Puels system. He isn't direct enough to play on the wing but he is good at whipping in crosses and his workrate up and down the wing is second to none, work on his defensive positioning and he can make a good rb. Only slight concern is Dragovic starting, don't mind if he is going to stay in the summer but if he leaves then I would rather we give game time to one of the U23 products who really do deserve some first team football.

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Think its now obvious why he isn't in the squad

Gray best player of the half

Vardy should bury that

Our issue is no-one will go close to the player with the ball leaving no passing options and forcing the ball long.

Well done Morgan

Are you ITK about the whole situation? Anything you could shed some light on? Shame its come to this but it is odd that we have prioritised the U23 league over actual development this year. Wouldn't be supprised if the U23 managment asked Puel to play Maguire in midfield so they could keep Choudhury at U23 level.

Johnson should be in the first team, so confident going foward, can't be worse then Simpson at going foward, have nothing left to play for if we lose against Burnley so why not give him a chance.

Don't know what people are complaining about, they asked for more goals so instead of only seeing 2 goals a game Puel has now allowed us the pleasure of seeing 3 goals, we should be thanking him

1) While didn't impact at all in attack Choudhury did really well at the defensive side, tracked runs well and put in some great last ditch challenges. If Iborra isn't fit then start him against Burnley. 2) Morgan and Simpson need to be dropped just not good enough for how we want to play and are making game costing mistakes, imagine the outrage if Chilwell left the man and ball for the second goal. 3) Albrighton needs to be moved to Rb, in this system he can't play as a winger as he doesn't run at defenders and his crosses are quite poor recently.