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Daka’s runs weren’t good today, his teammates all had excellent games around him and yet despite the chaos they were causing in the Norwich defence, he couldn’t find any position where he looked dangerous.Vardy showed him how to lead the line and how to press effectively despite only playing the last quarter of the game. Vardy got criticised rightly on Friday for missing lots of chances, Daka doesn’t get in a position to even have as many chances and when he does he tends to miss.

The worse thing about Dan James is his trademark and unique rag doll diving when he’s tackled or even when he tackles. He literally goes limp so it looks as if he’s been hit by a car. Such a cheat.

For me Doyle was the key change. His positive passing down the line and his attacking support gave KDH and Mavididi the help that Justin has been unable to offer on his wrong side. His long cross field switches were fast and accurate and gave Fatawu extra time and space to rip Norwich’s defence apart.

Two definite changes need to be Doyle at LB and Ricardo at inverted RB. Choudhury should be dropped for YET AGAIN not closing down his man at the edge of the box resulting in a goal (Obviously Ricardo offers more potential going forward anyway.) As for Justin he was way too negative, particularly with his passing which went mainly backwards slowly and were often miss hit. He showed some guts to come closest to the unhappy fans at the end of the match to applaud but he didn’t demonstrate that courage during the game. I’ve seen a lot of calls for Coady over Faes but I’m not convinced he’s going to fix the problem. From what we’ve seen he’s got less pace than Faes and isn’t an improvement with the ball at his feet. Coady excelled at Wolves as the specialist centrally placed defender in a permanent back 3. Playing in Enzo’s set up, we only work a 3 when we are on the ball and that seems to be the weakest part of his game. As well as that, because of the skillset of Vesty, Coady has to play on the right, not the central position he was expected to play when he signed. For Wolves he had central defender teammates permanently either side of him so could drop deeper, not exposing his pace or his ball skills. I’d bench Fatawu who has given up taking on his man in the last two games. Without his dribbling, he hasn’t offered enough and I would start either Yunus or Albrighton and maybe bring on Fatawu later as an impact sub, when he might have more confidence to take on a tired defence.

Nullify our wingers and we are basically fcuked. It’s that easy to play against us, particularly when choudhury is the inverted fullback on the right and with Justin playing on the left with absolutely no bottle.

He was awful today, needed to be swapped out for Yunus or Sharky. Got totally bullied. Gave up taking his man on, gave it away continually. He’s young and clearly has potential but being left on the pitch when he was having a shocker won’t do anything for his confidence.

Just doesn’t close down his man around the edge of the box. It’s such a simple task. He’ll absolutely dive in when further upfield but around his own box it’s passive blocking and it’s cost us multiple goals.

That would be great. Chelsea would forfeit the match for fielding an ineligible player!

Anyone know of any away friendly pubs near Stamford Bridge that let kids in?

Sometimes they use the demont uni pitches at Beaumont Leys if the Anstey pitch is waterlogged

The only contact by hamza was a hand on the shoulder, absolutely no clip

Except that was a dive and never a penalty.

Don’t forget this old friend too:

The Seri bottle job will surely ensure the ref has a week off next week. A clear bookable offence, the ref actually goes to book him, realises, he’s already booked him (for a bad deliberate foul) and actually stopped with his hand on his card in his pocket. His quick but obvious change of mind went against the laws of the game. He fell for the feel a touch and drop in on the ball tactic by Coyle EVERY time. Then KDH gets manhandled by the same Coyle, drops on the ball and the ref gives a freekick to Hull ffs. We all know what happened next. Totally out of his depth.

Hitting it 15 yards wide from 8 yards out take: some skill tbf - and of course his specialist boots 🥾

More likely Tired.

Got schooled by a slow but streetwise shithouse in Coyle. Didn’t try and take him down the outside once. Scuffed passes and corners. All in all a very poor game for Stephy and his mate behind him JJ wasn’t much better.

I’ve quite enjoyed it, awful pitch, both teams are up for it, lots of pressing by both teams, crap ref. It’s an old school Championship classic. Unfortunately Faes is having a nightmare and Mavididi who should be having Coyle on toast has once again allowed the old school fullback to get into his head.

Problem is Coady has absolutely no pace, slower than Vesty. In saying that Faes is guaranteed to get a red with this ref.

Vesty straight back in, Ndidi to start

Ndidi being back will help KDH as he’ll win the ball higher up the pitch where KDH thrives.

Hamza was one of our better players tonight. It was our two key midfielders that struggled. KDH and Winksy.

Tbf I reckon Sunderland are better than Sheffield United!

One of Winksy’s poorest games for us, he was continually targeted in the 2nd half. The instant he got the ball he was pressed by 3 Sunderland players and he gave away the ball multiple times in dangerous areas. It was a good tactic tbf.

You are so desperate to be unbiased you are actually being biased against Leicester. You call yourself a student of the game and yet you can’t spot a desperate dive to try and win a penalty.