Flappit

How do we consistently manage to fcuk up 3v2 chances.

'kinell, did we sign Pirlo?

Honestly. Praet is like a bloody competition winner. He's slow in thought and movement and has an uncanny knack of picking the wrong option every bloody time.

It is really. It's a malapropism that has gained traction due to the gradual dumbing down of language. It's only categorised as acceptable because there are too many people mistakenly using the wrong one without ever learning their mistake. And I *really* hope 'fare' was a deliberate fishing attempt.

*champing. You're welcome.

Are you one of those who used to say "we're top 4" as we haemorrhaged points and most people could see we were playing appallingly and dropping like a stone?

Well, as long as you 'feel' that, we're OK. Phew.

Because some of us have the critical faculties to determine when the team isn't playing well and call it out, rather than blindly spouting nonsensical and ill-warranted positive words about a performance that doesn't deserve them?

If we carry on like our recent form, we won't be.

The point is that it's NOT 3 or 4 nil. Try and keep up. We're bemoaning our ability to finish games off that we're dominating.

Praet isn't very good. Shocking take, I know...

Cow's arse, Biff.

Because it's the radio commentary stream and they need to describe the action for those not watching.

Gratifying to see we've not taken our foot off the gas for once and continue to press forward in an exciting and incisive manner. Oh, wait...

This is balls, sorry. Ipswich weren't awful and they had 11 attempts. That's not "very few". This revisionism and pointing at the gap we have is great, but if we'd carried on our points accumulation from earlier in the season, we'd be a lot further clear right now. Back in November after 16 games we were on 39 points when analysis based on chances showed we were outperforming the stats. We've had this before in our recent years and had no end of people on here and elsewhere try to claim we've got better strikers, etc. and stats are meaningless. Well, no, they're not. In isolation they don't tell you much, but over an extended period they do historically show a true reflection and even the article pointing at our (and Ipswich's) 39 points said: "However, both Leicester (eight points) and Ipswich (nine) have significantly outperformed their expected points totals from their 16 games, based on underlying performances in attack and defence. Has luck been on their side, and will that luck run out?". Maybe we're just going through a bad patch, but our PPG is gradually dropping off. We need to make sure it doesn't drop too much further or we will get caught.

Ipswich weren't poor in the first half, we genuinely shut them down. I checked their forum and they were talking about the strength and speed of our press completely stifling them. They were right, the press was brilliant first half. 2nd half it looked to me that they made their wingers get out to the touchline properly, and they stopped trying to play it through the middle where we were piling into them. This, combined with a drop off in our intensity (tm Claude) led to them gaining a foothold and then dominating possession for much of the second half where we were playing on the break more. They had several great opportunities to hurt us but fcuked up the last pass (sound familiar?) when a better ball would have given them a clear chance. We created the better goal chances, but it was (yet) another of those games where we just don't seem able to sustain pressure and get the goals that we need to kill teams off. Ricardo should have scored his chance, that was virtually a sitter and would have put us clear. At the end, Yunus's pass to Macateer was not great, but Macateer was a bit slow in anticipating as well and that should have been the end of the game. This lack of putting teams away and keeping on with our push is starting to introduce anxiety. You can see that there's frustration in the team and if we don't put together a few wins again soon, our gap we keep gloating about is going to look a lot smaller.

"created nothing" because they just kept mucking up a final ball. It's not like they weren't in positions where a decent ball would have put them in. There is a difference.

We didn't. We dominated about 50% of it. They've been a good pass away from good chances. They just keep fcuking it up. We've had isolated chances only, no real dominance for most of the second half.

The one in which Ipswich have dominated for about the last 20 minutes. And there we go.

On what basis? Ipswich could have had 2 or 3 goals. We've sat back. Again.

Hmm. May leave us light in midfield this change.

We're giving them way too much time and space to attack us. We could regret this.

Are we dropping back into passive mode now?

Don Goodman. Hates us.

Well that kind of statement is just asking for the football gods to smite us, isn't it!?