murphy

8 minutes ago, LCFCnotKPFC said:

 

Wout Faes and Jannik Vestergaard were our centre half partnership in 23-24, when we won this league and had the best defence.

Their midfield screen was the diminutive Harry Winks. With Hamza Choudhury routinely being asked to play at full back, and the inexperienced Callum Doyle also often featuring at left back.

 

But apparently it's a good idea to play Ben Nelson over them, because he's young, local and helped Oxford to finish 17th last Season. A Season in which he ONLY played 17 games for them by the way.

 

In a 46 game Championship Season, even with a 6 point deficit, we don't get relegated with a Faes-Vestergard-Winks trio starting every game. 

Vestergaard has played 24 times this season and Faes 15 times.  Often together.  Nelson 18 times.  Faes has been in and out of the team due to poor form and dumb mistakes.  

You have seen us.  We have been terrible with Faes and vestergaard.  We don't have the second worst defensive record by accident.  Any combination we have tried has been poor. 

Can you explain why Mavididi was effective under Enzo and hopeless now?  Winks and Ricardo too.  Even Daka got the odd goal under Enzo.  One this season. 

I think that we have lacked organisation and leadership in defence plus we have no protection from midfield and there is a chronic lack of pace. 

Also, we have been tactically naive trying to see out a full half of football from a winning position by retreating into our own half, inviting attack.  Or paying such a high line that we are exposed by a hoof over the top. 

Heads drop when we concede and we have no full hacks. Other teams have worked out that they should target our left side and that we can't deal with crosses. 

Also, we ha e a terrible record for bring caught cold out of the blocks.  The number of times we concede early is ridiculous. 

Apart from that, the defence is fine. 

A win would have been massive, but I wonder if just breaking the losing streak will help get the players mentally get up off the floor. 

3 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

Nah, I wouldn’t be dropping citeh.

 

Leicester City Fosse

1 minute ago, Foxin_Mad said:

If Rudkin is involved anything is possible see Caranza, See Edouard

Terrible strikers is a speciality

1 minute ago, DAS Boot said:

Heskey

He was 17.

Shilton was 16 I think.

2 minutes ago, Dan said:

Pound for pound it's the worst team in the world - absolutely confident of that.

I think we are privileged to be witnessing something quite special.  Legendary even.

Just now, adamkhalifa said:

Fundamental problem with the team is trying to play this rancid system. It’s not working chaps. Maybe try playing another way. 

 

It's okay to just try something else. Who cares about the dopey owner and his side kicks. 

That's a problem, but not the fundamental one.

The fundamental problem with team is psychological.  They don't care and they are trapped in a spiral.

1 minute ago, Headcase said:

Appeal the FA desperatly adk them to give us 6 points back, because at this moment in time thry are the only points we can get

Is it possible that we appeal and they deduct us 9?

I have heard that our 6 points was actually quite lenient. 

3 minutes ago, LeeTheFox said:

Worst Leicester side of all time 

Pound for pound, its not even close.

On the plus side, we're only one down.  We might have one of our good (less bad) halves next.

1 minute ago, adejo92 said:

Ever thought they're just as bad?

 

You his dad or something? Haha weirdo.

No, because they have proven to play at a higher level previously.

Weird and proud, dickhead.

We liquidate next year

1 minute ago, adejo92 said:

Careful,  future England captain according to some on here..

 

Although they have gone very quiet about it as the weeks have gone on...

You sound delighted.

Nelson, like Jakub and like anybody you could put into it, has been dragged down to the level of this team.

1 minute ago, lgfualol said:

This team is not saveable 

If it was a horse, it would be shot

I make it that this team, even with loanees and academy graduates cost £115m, give or take.  Scarcely believable that they could be this bad even if they were doing it on purpose.

1 minute ago, Lionator said:

The psychology of our team from 2020 onwards is something that needs a thesis written on. There cannot be a mentally weaker team than this in the world. Every single manager has had to suffer the most incredible levels of capitulations that it’s evidently a much bigger issue than the managers themselves.

Even prior to that, when we were good, we were still mentally weak, surrendering Champions League football when we were nailed on for it.  TWICE!

1 minute ago, PingCower said:

Two minutes in. Have we conceded yet?

yes

1 minute ago, Aleksz said:

There wasn't for the majority of that team no?

I suppose. 

And I know that it borders on blasphemy to be critical of shinji, I just never 'got it' with him.   

51 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I don’t think he was technically very good personally. He was fantastic for us in 15/16 and he did have a great 17/18(?) too but his passing was incredibly limited and his goals barely hit the back of the net - genuinely.

 

His strengths were his tenacity, stamina, selflessness and tactical understanding.

 

14 goals and 4 assists in 58 nineties was a sub par return all things considered, you can caveat that by saying he wasn’t a natural second striker or even attacking mid in fairness but he wasn’t a player that made up for his limitations with an incredible engine.

Still amazes me that we won the league with okazaki as a regular starter.   Yes, he worked hard, but there was nothing about his game that suggested a top six level player. 

He was a forward though and has said that it was a major gripe that he had to play in a more withdrawn role and that he was never really happy here. 

3 hours ago, Rubbersoul said:

Nelson has had games where he looks so composed and dominant then others where he looks lost and has a howler. 
 

Honestly think he’s just been a victim of how much of a shambles we’ve been. Put him in a proper system and I think he’d do well… that’s just my opinion anyway

 

Young players can be inconsistent.  It's part of developing.  I would say that a good prospect can easily have bad games, but a bad prospect is less likely to be able to have good games   if that makes sense. 

Getting off the tube at Wembley for the derby play off, mass brawl all around me that lasted about ten seconds. As the dust cleared there were bodies laid out everywhere.  Don't know if they were Leicester or Derby. 

It felt like that scene in pulp fiction where Samuel L Jackson gets shot at, looks himself up and down and can't believe that he hasn't been hit. It seemed a miracle to walk through it unscathed. 

8 minutes ago, fkas said:

That was decent when fit and who we sold for a profit.

We'll have to agree to differ on that one.  

18 minutes ago, CL Fox said:

He wasn't......managers thought he was soft as shit and he used to say he was injured the whole time 

Just a nothing player as I remember and a crock at that.  Another one of Taylors duds