Leicester City Vs Sunderland Post Match Thread 4 - 2

[Master Fox]

Will we be forever ridiculed for being top of league? What happens if we win our next 4 games? Everyone seems to be wanting to take us down. There really isn't much difference between us and Man City and their rise to the top 4. I don't remember everyone acting the same way they are to us?

[The Horse's Mouth]

 

 

 

There he goes....

I can't be the only one who put that picture to this song

[foxes_rule1978]

Mahrez made them all look like mugs... Cattermole especially

[Foxymcoxy]

Could it be that we played a somewhat very adventurous 2-5-3 for most parts of the game?

Huth and Morgan were the only two proper defenders, with De Laet (right) and the duo Schlupp/Albrighton (left) supporting our attacks and occasionally having to track back?

Haven't seen our full backs (not counting wing backs)pushed that far up since the Championship. Made me uncomfortable at times if I'm honest but I like the intent.

[st albans fox]

Richie didn't go into the final third much. I can't recall him overlapping on more than a couple of occasions. Jeff did but then I would expect one of them to have been told to hang back. Jeff is always going to be more adventurous.

[Foxymcoxy]

Richie didn't go into the final third much. I can't recall him overlapping on more than a couple of occasions. Jeff did but then I would expect one of them to have been told to hang back. Jeff is always going to be more adventurous.

Definitely not as much as Jeff but he did push up pretty high. He overlapped quite a few times but it's not as easy or as obvious to overlap on Mahrez's side because of the way Riyad plays cutting inside and getting forward as soon as possible.

[Thracian]

Also to add we looked extremely fit.

 

 

For the 60-odd minutes after the first 10 I was almost exhausted watching the speed we were playing and, in particular the swift tenaciousness in trying to retrieve possession and our full-throttle counter-attacks.

But last 10-15 minutes I thought several of our players looked absolutely all-in. Vardy and Schlupp had run themselves into the ground a while before their brains informed their legs but, somehow,  the effort and determination survived.

Those closing minutes bothered me because, for the only time in the game, we allowed them onto us and our central defence - including Schmeichel, seemed shdort of both sharpness and awareness which perhaps isn't surprising given the limitations of opponents in the pre-season friendlies.

Not that any of it seriously detracted from what I thought was a five-star performance and some of the best one-touch and counter-attacking football I've ever seen from a City side, and that's in close-on 60 years now.  

[Kitchandro]

Carragher laying into Van Aanholt. No surprise to see him being a lazy good for nothing.

[The Horse's Mouth]

I think he's regressed since we saw him here