Ric Flair

I think fans would be much more chipper if we can take a few teams apart. It's actually very unusual for a team to be this dominant but to have been quite low scoring at home. Away from home we've been much more prolific but if we truly are far too good for this league then the goals and big victories need and surely will come.

Not going to disagree with any of that but more clarify that although it makes me cringe a little, if Enzo is in the same mould as Pep and we are the Manchester City of the Championship, then Pep tweaks and progresses Man City despite very little challenge from below. He does it in order to prevent them from ever being caught. I hope that's how Maresca views the evolution and progression of his sides. As I've said, my perfect football sits somewhere between being able to control possession but take risks and set patterns of play that opens up teams for fast and exciting football. That can at times lead to being open yourselves but then death by football can lead to over playing and making mistakes in your own half and being punished, so to me there's always risks you have to be willing to take.

He'd be a weapon at this level in various positions.

I think it's hard to play 4-1-4-1 vs the likes of Leeds, Sunderland etc especially is the 6 isn't a destroyer but there are certain games we can play two proper attacking 8's and just blow teams apart.

Posts like this are hardly an advocate for which opinion is more superior than another. Some fans find the attempts to control football games from start to finish as boring. It's only boring if things don't go our way (in my opinion) but that's no different to if you have a different style and that doesn't go our way. There's a trade off in being a death by football team in using the ball in such a way that teams will find it very difficult to create anything meaningful against us but at the same time we can find ourselves unable to open up enough to create space ourselves to attack. Yesterday wasn't one of those days, we just struggled to score but the tempo increased and it was seemingly only a matter of time. I'm trying to be fully behind this style, it's not the ideology I'd necessarily have, it would be somewhere in between but all I ask for is Maresca is dynamic and humble enough to tweak things at certain times if and when we struggle. Variety is indeed the spice of life.

Coady barely got a chance when he returned and to be honest still barely gets a chance. Then again our defence is very good and our strikers have struggled on and off, so Cannon must be in with a chance soon. It would be baffling for Maresca to completely ignore Daka and Cannon when Iheanacho has really underwhelmed this season and Vardy has shown he's now a player who'll have streaks of input but plenty of games being a passenger.

Yeah that needs to improve but I wasn't massively impressed with the amount we've created vs QPR, Leeds and Middlesborough so glad we at least created a load today.

That's got to be the most shots we've had in a game this season?

Likely futile considering the bloke is one of the most injury players I've ever seen. He'd be the first player to be injured from using an air fryer.

The irony is, our goals have dried up and them pair scored in both games they've played in the international break 😂

They've some interesting midfielders - especially Asprilla, and that striker they got from the scandinavian leagues has started very well, got a hattrick last game.

That's exactly the attitude Caden Voice had with Will Alves.

I presume you've not liked watching us since Shakespeare was sacked then best part of 6 years ago?

Just sent this Caden Voice's Dad

He does speak very well, seems at ease at such a young age and has an aura he knows he's going to be the bollocks. Let's hope it maps out as planned, ridiculous talent.

I agree, in the short term Ndidi is very important to this team in wearing teams down and then the likes of Akgün or McAteer come on for him with 25 to go and we capitalise.

He was happier 2nd half because we controlled the game, despite creating a significantly less amount of chances than the 1st half where we supposedly were wasteful and showboated. That was often the case with Brendan, he was happier to attack less if it meant we might concede less chances, even though the longer he was here the worse our defence got and that mantra massively ran in to trouble.

There's always that trade off between games being open because of the way you play and take risks vs taking less risks and keeping hold of the ball. The latter can often lead to over playing it anyway and the same mistakes of loose passes or poor execution of finishes. Its the mindset that's key and the way Rodgers reacted to this was very telling.

West Brom at home at the back end of 2020/21. That negativity seemed to stunt us for a while after that in the league and ultimately dropped out of the top 4.

It would be great to see him make an impact at Leuven for 18 months and then he comes to us.

He didn't score that often for them when he was scoring frequently for Salzburg or doing half decent for us. This calendar year, he seems to have scored a lot for them.

They seem to be moaning now that what has tipped them over the edge to this breach is because the PL have changed the rules on infrastructure being excluded from FFP. That the interest payments on loans borrowed on building their new stadium accounts for the breach. Pure whiff

We were poor going forwards vs QPR. I'm talking about committing players in to the box anyway, I still felt we attacked ok vs Middlesborough but there was a noticeable lack of support at times when we did create, which wasn't the case earlier in the season, nor vs Swansea and Sunderland.

Has a better goals to games ratio than Heung-Min Son who often play similar calibre of teams as Australia do. Just saying. #TheNextJanKoller

Personally think he's shit it since the Sunderland game. He did not like the lack of control we had in that game and has issued stifling methods since. I hope I'm wrong, or he's realised the error and is busy correcting it.