Anish

Any opposition manager would be telling their players that we are dog shite so there's no point doing anything silly or making hard tackles because as long as they have 11 men on the pitch they will score against us through our calamity defending or non-existent midfield protection

Sad day for Leicester City and us older fans who grew up in the 90s listening to Neville on Radio Leicester. He was outstanding at his job and made it exciting to listen to football commentary on the radio. I will always fondly remember listening to him and John Sinclair when that was the only way we could access Leicester City matches (other than attending matches). RIP Neville

Can't really criticise him because of his numbers of goals and assists. He creates so much from his own skill and pace. That said there were a couple of opportunities today where he beat his man a few times in the second half and held on to the ball for too long instead of releasing it. If he had perfect decision making every time then I guess he wouldn't be plying his trade in the Championship.

I don't think he would have come on so early had Ndidi not got himself booked. He was walking a tightrope after that yellow card and Enzo couldn't have risked him staying on the pitch in case he got another yellow. I would have preferred Praet to have been on the bench and for him to be ahead of Casadei in the pecking order but for some reason Praet keeps disappearing from the matchday squad now and again and we could have done with him today.

I blame Radio Leicester and Ian Stringer for this nonsense. He and his sidekick (mini Ian) Owyn were getting carried away with the form at the start of the season. This team is looking more and more like the sides we had at the end of the Shakespeare and Puel regimes than the title winning team! Clueless going forward, sloppy at the back, and no direction or leadership on or off the pitch.

Sadly you are right. Tielemans has been dropped for Praet and that's made no difference. Gray has been in and out of the team (although he's been noticeably cast aside since the Villa game) but he can't be trusted on a regular basis. Fuchs is solid enough but will be caught out by pacey wingers. Albrighton is sadly past it and there is no competition for Maddison's position. We needed to strengthen in January but it's too late.

Couldn't agree more. Nobody wanted to run beyond the Norwich defence or into the channels. Watching Barnes and Chilwell in the second half passing it 'to me, to you' when all they needed to do was pass and run past the defender for an easy 1-2 summed it up. Iheanacho kept dropping short, Perez is clearly not right for this sytem, Barnes is unreliable and then we have the static midfielders who simply want to play sideways and backwards and nobody is running into space. Even if Vardy was playing it would have made no difference.

Spot on. He offers nothing to the defenders, and he's been like this since the moment he broke into the first team a few seasons ago. Although his passing has improved since Rodgers took over, he still plays too safe in possession and doesn't look forward and never demands the ball from other players. Wilf made a big difference when he came on but we need more from Hamza.

I'd still take him over Hamza and Tielemans, the way both of them are playing. We've got far deeper problems than Praet.

If this was a Puel performance we would be calling for the manager's head. This was another woeful performance. Nobody wants to run in behind or take a chance. We simply pass sideways and backwards but don't ever look like threatening their goal. Barnes and Chilwell have probably never played a one-two and tonight it was glaringly obvious that we have no attacking threat from any of our midfielders or attackers

There's been absolutely nothing good about this performance.

Yes he's a legend, yes he's out best striker when on form. The fact is he's been off-form for quite a while. Just because he's still the top scorer in the Premier League (due to the inadequacies of the other strikers) it doesn't mean he's beyond criticism. Yesterday I would say he was our worst player by a distance. Iheanacho made more runs into the channels and looked more likely to create and link up play than Vardy. There were so many times when Chilwell, Fuchs or Ricardo got the ball and they were crying out for a striker to run into the channels, and yet Vardy was simply holding his position and not moving. When Vardy did get the ball, more often than not he didn't have the pace to beat his man (Walker and Fernandinho both beat him on runs) and he was so sloppy in possession. That attempted pass to Barnes in the second half was woeful. I'd give him another game at Norwich but if he doesn't deliver then I'd seriously consider dropping him. I'll be taking him out of my fantasy football team as well!!

Agreed with this. He's good at pressing and closing down and making tackles, but he needs to improve his game on the ball. We were struggling to get the ball forward quickly from defence because our midfield were being too static and Hamza was not offering himself enough in my opinion. He needs to work on that part of his game otherwise it stifles our game if the defenders are just passing side to side and haven't got a midfielder able to take it off them and pass forward.

Whatever his qualities are on the ball, there is something seriously wrong that he or the coaching staff are doing in training/the gym. His lack of pace is alarming, especially given his age and the fact that he didn't look this slow last season. Yes he may have mis-controlled the ball in the first half, but he was still painfully slow trying to run through. It was actually pretty comical to see a professional footballer run so slowly. Ok he played well on the ball and made some decent passes (including the assists), but there is still work for him to do to improve his speed.

He was dawdling on the ball for too long, he kept giving the ball away cheaply, he didn't offer anything defensively or offensively. He was too slow in all aspects tonight. He had a poor game, it's as simple as that. It's not about making him a scapegoat - it's just saying it as it is, after this performance and numerous other performances. When was the last time he created a chance for any of our forwards? I felt sorry for Praet. He was neat and tidy and quick to release the ball, unlike Tielemans, and yet he gets dragged at HT. I wonder what Praet must be thinking when he seess Youri playing like that and yet he is the first to be dragged?

Spot on. The problem is that the Barnes fans are blinkered by the one or 2 good things he does and cannot accept his failings when he runs around like a headless chicken, or misses simple chances, or doesn't protect his defenders. He's got potential going forward but he has a lot of weaknesses in his game that have been exposed badly. I've been a big critic of Barnes for weeks but finally people are now seeing it. His assist stats mask a lot of his overall game. Remember a few years ago when Ozil had all those assists and yet Arsenal fans were still unhappy with his game? It's a similar situation here.

Imagine if that was Gray who gave that performance today?! He would have been slaughtered on here, and rightly so. But because it's Barnes too many people want to overlook his (lack of) effort and the fact that he never makes a tackle, closes players down quickly, or covers his full back. When a player is hiding away from the ball like Barnes did too often, he needs to be taken out of the team until he gets his confidence up again. The sad thing is that all of our other wingers are also not the solution either

He's been crap for weeks but people still have to back him because he's a Leicestershire lad He was hiding towards the end of the first half. He didn't make himself available for any angles. His confidence is shot and he needs to be taken out of the team

Agreed. There was the moment when Vardy made a run down the right wing in the first half and Barnes was actually running towards Vardy rather than towards the centre of the penalty area. Naturally Vardy crossed the ball in with a bit of pace only for Barnes to be 2 yards away from where Vardy was crossing from. Anybody with half a brain would know that he should be running into the 6 yard box where the ball would come.

He's too lightweight and not offering enough. But you have to say that he's never been a winger in the way we expect so it's unfair to criticise him when he's being played out of position. He also works harder defensively than the other wingers in our squad barring Albrighton so deserves a bit of credit for that

And he also does nothing defensively. How many times do you see him track runs from the full back and make interceptions or tackles? Or get close enough to a winger to put them off their stride? Barely any. He's usually ambling around expecting somebody else to win the ball and then he can just attack.

He had no support whatsoever from Barnes but he got skinned far too many times by Mahrez today. I agree he needs to impose himself a bit more on players like Mahrez.

Yes he was great for our goal but he's also been sh it defensively and hasn't been offering any help to Chilwell. The reason Mahrez is killing us is because he has acres of space and time, which is why Chilwell needs help from Barnes but Barnes is playing centre midfield!

He is not being a scapegoat. He was garbage today, there's no two ways about it. He shirked responsibility too many times and made wrong decision after wrong decision for the whole 45 minutes he was on the pitch. Even when he went to shoot towards the end of the match he miss kicked it completely, which summed up his performance. He's not got any confidence and at the end he didn't make any angles or create any space when Chilwell or Soyuncu were looking for a release ball. He's got potential but his confidence is shot and he is offering nothing either going forward or defensively.

Completely agree. He has such poor decision making and defensive awareness. So many times over the last few weeks he's been leaving Chilwell exposed and he just doesn't realise that runners are going straight past him. Attacking wise he makes far too many bad decisions