funkyrobot

Scruffy football from Daka and at times Fatawu. We should be 4-1 up despite a ref apparently beguiled by Wayne Rooney’s Birmingham City FC™️

Ignore the FFP part because it doesn’t fit your narrative.👍🏻

It’s not just about the fee anyway, there was a FFP restriction and a limit to how many players a team can register. The fact is the club didn’t sign a keeper in that first window, just a one in one out defender so that would suggest you are less likely to be correct!

Not true back at you. You are talking about a different transfer window, in the summer transfer window when Kasper left we had no funds. By the winter window we would’ve had further funds from the Fofana deal and as Rodgers was a Ward fan, he would’ve had no intention to use funds to buy a replacement.

Iversen wasn’t adequate was he? He was better than Ward but that’s no endorsement. He’s now 4th choice keeper such is his lack of ability with his feet. He was also no replacement for Kasper in his authority and leadership.

We didn’t have an adequate replacement though (or the money to buy one.) The mistake definately was moving Kasper on.

Get over it Brendan. You need to focus on your Celtic boys now.

The silent majority think he’s doing great. It’s the one or two moaners that make all the noise at the game and on social media. There was one guy behind me who constantly moaned about Mahrez in 15/16 ffs & he’s now one of the lump it forward moaners.

I never get the whole leaving early thing. Stay til’ the end and accept you might be home a bit later or just don’t go and give your ticket away to someone who isn’t obsessed with leaving on 85minutes. The queues of early leavers down the steps block the view for what is still the majority that want to watch the full game and it does have a disrupting effect on the atmosphere that inevitably feeds down onto the pitch.

This will become a legendary comment joining the likes of ‘my friends the ref’, ‘Kermo was decent’, ‘we should sign Lee Cattermole’ and ‘when’s Musa back from AFCON’ infamy.

Tbf West Brom were targeting Ricardo. It was obviously part of their game plan. He seemed to be man marked every time he was central despite West Brom not fully utilising a man to man system.

I agree with this, the number 8’s in Enzo’s system are absolutely key. There’s a big drop off from KDH and Ndidi to Butch Casadei and Akgun (who might be better playing wide right anyway) and that needs to be solved during the Jan window as AFCON will remove Ndidi for weeks.

And yet Iheanacho played a key role in the winning goal. That’s the enigma of Nacho. Looked off the pace at times, missed a good chance…And yet that good chance came from an outstanding turn that I don’t think Vardy could’ve done and as I say, his movement and pass to KDH was inch perfect and was absolutely key to the winner.

You can just about make out his initials on his tracksuit top. I believe his name is Francis Baumgartner-Sanchez

He’s actually very good in the air. If we could take good corners he’d be a real asset alongside Vesty.

KDH

Coady looks stiff, creaky and one paced if I’m being honest. Doesn’t look that comfortable on the ball compared to Faes and Vestergaard - or even Souttar.

If we are playing risk averse football then I’d love to see risky football. We play massively risky football and we often get caught out doing it. The problem is that this risky style of play can’t cope with many/any passengers or players not at the top of the game. Tonight I’d say the majority of our players were well below par and way too casual against a good press. Trying to sow passes through the eye of a needle and receiving said pass under severe pressure when you’re off the pace results in the shambles tonight. Casadei & Akgun didn’t grasp their opportunity and Vardy showed us that as a starter he hasn’t got the ideal attributes needed for a system that really tests the ability of a striker to take, hold the ball or lay it off in very tight situations.

Maybe too much rotation though. Both number 8’s was a big ask. Akgun and Casadei didn’t step up if we’re being honest. Got out thought and out fought by wily old pros Bannan and Paterson.

The rotated players simply didn’t step up. Casadei was poor, Akgun neat and tidy but far too easily knocked off the ball and out paced. Faes looked very unsure on the left, Coady looked slow and creaky on the right. Alongside that we had two wingers intent on wasting opportunities and a centre forward way off the pace tonight. Then Choudhury coming on seemed to invite them on even more and conceding felt inevitable. I’m very much on the marescalator but that was poor tonight.

An absolute shambles tonight. No getting away from that. Too many players rocking a 4/10 performance and at times. Choudhury coming on had the opposite effect of shutting up shop as well.

Wednesday uniquely combine the multi-ball system with absolutely no ball boys to get the balls back into play.

This is my first experience of watching Leicester on Sky via the red button. Got to say the coverage is an absolute shambles. Shoddy camerawork. No commentary for the first 8 minutes and pretty basic commentary after that. Half time blank red screen with pitch announcer and stadium speaker music and absolutely no highlights.

Faes looks uncomfortable on the left, Casadei passing everything backwards and not in the game, Vardy can’t keep any kind of possession and both of our wingers are being scruffy with the ball. Even Winksy looks a bit off it, he’s struggling with their press. I don’t think Enzo can be happy with that 45 and I expect him to make a change or 2 at half time or not long after.

We have a better squad than Burnley already even before any potential promotion.