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Haaland himself said vardy was the best in the world at making runs behind the opponent's defence. Vardy is the only englishman to get a top 10 ballon d'or finish in the last 10 years. Pep Guardiola said he was one of the best strikers he has seen (although his word isnt always to be trusted). Aguero called Vardy a 'phenomenon'. Suarez, arguably the best striker of the 2010s, asked Vardy for his shirt after our friendly against Barcelona. I think the opinions of some of the best strikers in recent years might be worth something. You wont find similar quotes for strikers like Morata, Werner or Aubameyang.

A reminder that some fans were begging for us to sign Joel Piroe in the summer. He needs almost twice as many league minutes to score as Vardy and iheanacho who have been heavily berated on here (usually by those who wanted us to sign piroe)

I agree with everything you said except regarding Mavididi. For me he is our most underrated player, his footwork for his second goal was outstanding, the way he made space for himself with his touches was almost Mahrez-esque. Yes he is 25 but I don't think his ceiling as a player has been determined yet, I think there is a good chance he will be a much better player at the end of this season than he was at the start of it and even compared to how he is now.

Calvin Stengs seems to be doing well for Feyenoord. Albeit that's after 3 years of mediocrity.

There was some ridiculous stat that if Wednesday continue to gain points at the same rate they would have to play 60 games this season to not have the lowest championship points tally ever. Wednesday are on a completely different level to Rotherham.

I have a feeling he's going to be terrible all season then amazing for the last 3 games and go back to chelsea.

Brendan Rodgers football summed up in one photo below. Even if they had 'genuine quality' it doesnt matter if you play windscreen wiper football.

There was a stat after Celtic's last CL loss that Rodgers was the worst manager to have managed 20 or more games in the champions league. To be fair to him it's impressive that a manager of his 'caliber' has even gotten to manage 20 games in the champions league.

19/20 was one of the worst years to watch overall for me, alongside our relegation seasons. Yes the first half of the season was good but the second half was worse than watching us last year. We had champions league football to fight for but couldn't manage better than relegation form for almost half of a season. I just cant reconcile how a couple losses made us completely lose our heads that year.

I think most of us can accept the benefits of drawing the opposition in and exploiting the space. It's when we already have space to exploit but still default to recycling possession at the back that frustrates many fans. Thankfully Maresca gave them a bollocking at half time and we played some decent stuff in the second half. It's good to know that he apparently finds the risk averse approach unacceptable. That's the main difference between Maresca and Rodgers for me, you had Rodgers frothing at the mouth when we were 3-0 up at half time against West Brom because we lacked control whereas Maresca gave them a bollocking after Rodger's dream half the other day (a controlled snooze fest). The intent is hopefully to play some exciting football rather than grind opponents to death.

If Tom Cannon had come on instead of vardy he would probably have scored 10!

Vardy scrambled his brain back into goal scoring mode

banned for one game because of yellows i assume

Didnt realise we had oliver kahn playing for our women's team

All striker partnerships have one striker playing deeper than the other, it doesn't work when you have two poachers. It doesn't prevent the fact that the two top teams in the league are playing second strikers.

Why does this post have so many likes? Man City played against Chelsea with Julian alvarez playing behind Haaland. Athletico madrid play with Morata and Griezmann up top, Real Madrid play with two up top, Inter milan play with two up top, Juventus play with two up top, Liverpool play with Gakpo behind Darwin Nunez. Arguably all the best teams in the world apart from Barcelona and Bayern Munich are playing with two strikers currently.

Makes me think Mavididi was reading all the comments online about him shooting instead of passing to his teammates. At the start of the season he scores that easily (but he is also a lot less selfish than he was back then as well)

I thought he played well against Leeds. Mavididi does have his off games offensively but defensively he is always putting in the work tracking back which i think should give him more leeway with the fans than he is getting.

That was supposed to be Casadei but he hasnt shown he can perform at the same level as Wilf yet. Hopefully he can gain some form playing some of the weaker teams in this league.

There's always a bunch of idiots waiting in the wing to put down iheanacho. Iheanacho has a goal every 120 minutes this season and an assist on top of that. That's more than good enough. What happened to all the people crying saying we missed out on Joel Piroe? He is on a goal every 252 minutes currently and ghosted in our game against leeds. Maybe signing a player of Iheanacho's quality isnt as easy as everyone thinks it is.

Dewsbury hall made some runs into the box in the second half but the passes didnt find him. The movement was too predictable.

We desperately need Ndidi back. His movement off the ball and his linkup play was what we missed tonight. Casadei just hasnt shown he can offer that for us yet.

15/16 was better for me. Vardy in 2019 somehow always managed to find a way to score but went missing for much of the game because he was stuck in and around the box. In 15/16 he scored a lot and even when he didn't score he contributed due to being able to drift out onto the wing and take on players. He also won the ball back a lot more in 15/16 with his relentless pressing whereas in 2019 he would only press to put the pressure on defenders.

The game against Leeds is worth more as it directly affects the points total of our closest competition for automatic promotion. If we lose against leeds then they gain 3 points on us, if we lose against QPR leeds could still draw or lose and it wont have made much of a difference in terms of promotion.