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He had one last week, skewed a header wide from 3 yards out - it was his hairdressers fault tbf, gave him a sharp 50p trim.

Can’t really blame Daka, have you seen his new Nike boots?

Cheer up Brendan, there’s always next year.

You’ve got to let it go Brendan, it wasn’t Vesty’s fault you got sacked.

I sense that you don’t rate him. It must’ve been difficult having to keep quiet for virtually the whole season whilst he’s been outstanding?

Thought he did alright today, just wish he didn’t turn his back when Gray miss-hit his shot. If he’d faced up he would’ve kicked it away, instead back turned it hits his foot, and deflects off him to Faes and we concede our 2nd double deflection in a matter of weeks.

Unbelievable how some fans turn on Vestergaard after his performances this season. We lost that game because we didn’t finish our easy chances. That swung the momentum in their favour and I’m not sure having seen their goal a few times quite what he was expected to do when the ball was played behind him. He’s been our best player this season, we’ll miss him in the next two games. We haven’t got an alternative that comes near to him as a CB playing out from the back.

Patson with his 50p boots this week, last week it was his 50p head.FFS

We were way better for the vast majority of the game. We missed ABSOLUTE sitters, not just good chances, goals that would be expected to be put away by a hungover 40 year old in a parks game on a Sunday. On top of that a perfectly good goal disallowed by an an overpaid underskilled official.

I’d agree and I’d certainly play him ahead of say McAteer on the left but I’d still say he’s a compromise selection as a LW based on what we are seeing now and through the vast majority of his career. He played as a LW as his main role under one manager in one season (admittedly a memorable one) in a long career. Albrighton has been used as a right sided player by our current manager and his previous managers (across clubs) except Ranieri.

Yeh I agree but before and after he’s been used virtually always as a RW.

Not sure about your historical information but for the majority of his career Albrighton has been a right winger. Akgun was signed as a right winger. Both are compromises playing on the left which was my point. We have no specialised LW other than Mavididi. We have lots of right wingers though!

I would’ve liked an alternative LW option to Mavididi above anything else. We’ve got alternatives on the right but no one really to rotate with him. When things aren’t going his way there’s only compromise options (e.g. Cannon yesterday) and we aren’t able to use him as the occasional impact sub.

I thought Praet was pretty good today tbh

Coburn being injured was a massive boost for Boro, have you seen him play? 😬

That is absolute bantz

We haven’t really got specialist LW replacement for Mavididi but he was so poor in the 1st half (following on after a poor second half against Sheff Wed) that he was always likely to be subbed off. Cannon always looks threatening when he plays and I thought he did ok but ultimately we aren’t spoilt for choice on that side.

Daka missed a sitter, Vesty missed 2 sitters, Vardy missed a sitter. 3 of those were somehow skewed off target when it was easier to hit the target. We were the better team over 90 minutes but couldn’t score. We weren’t as good as we can be and Boro did well, I thought their midfield in particular were good but ultimately it was a case of one team scoring almost every chance they had and the other team seemingly unable to hit a donkey’s arse with a banjo today.

I’ve not said that the crowd shouldn’t play a role in spurring the players on. They do and ideally they’d do it better but the reality is they are often experiencing the same anxiety that the players are experiencing on the pitch. The reality is that the atmosphere is better when a team is winning, that’s always been the case at Leicester and I’d wager at every club.

You can’t compare any match based sport to a race, totally different situation irrespective of betting and I’d suggest if your horse has fallen or is miles of the lead then you aren’t literally jumping around anyway. The crowd still do get behind as much as possible in football when things are going badly but inevitably it won’t always be in the same numbers as when a team is winning or defending like dogs in a giant killing act. Players make mistakes and get nervy as they are human, fans can get nervy, agitated and panicky watching the same situation as they are also human. At a home match you aren’t always going to get the perfect atmosphere when the team are losing or under the cosh because like on the pitch the situation can get fraught. Leeds have a reputation of having a fantastic atmosphere at their old fashioned ground that lends itself better to creating a cauldron of noise but they can go quiet, and start getting on at their players. Bamford has had dogs abuse from the side of the pitch when things are going badly.

Plenty of us in H1 join in with the songs we know. Some of the more complicated ones are difficult to pick up and so they are sang less. I don’t know why people get so stressed though. The atmosphere ebbs and flows depending on what’s going on on the pitch. When we are playing great and creating lots of opportunities the atmosphere is loud. When we started looking nervy, the crowd get nervy. When the team are playing for time then the atmosphere drops. Sheff Wed fans were loud at the point that they were in the ascendency, when they were getting outplayed they were quiet.

Doesn’t work with the athletic anymore tbf

He can do a job as a RW tbf and even tho he looked out of place on the left, he occupied his fullback and allowed Mavididi to have a bit of a rest before Wednesday on Tuesday

I think the rumours that a certain number of appearances results in an obligation to buy is perhaps why Yunus isn’t getting game time. With Enzo now aware of our FFP restrictions and having some reservations about his all round game, he’s benching him to maximise his budget at the end of the season? Shame really as he was starting to look very good. Praet didn’t do much wrong today but Yunus is more of a goal threat.

Referee having a big impact. He’s allowing Watford to be very physical with Daka. Some strange inconsistency with his decision making and his approach to giving the advantage seems to differ if it’s Watford. McAteer and Fatawu having scruffy games at the moment.