Merging Cultures Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 We should have won that but I'm pleased with a point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanfox Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Felt like if there was any game to give Inler a shout, this in the second half would have been the one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandFox Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 I'll take a draw. Okazaki... Oh man. How many times does he have to lose the ball?! Can't say he offered much to the game at all He lost the ball 4 times off 26 touches. There were a couple of passes to nowhere as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchsntf Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 To many having a dig at Ulloa for wrong reasons. Yes he skyed one, but then again so did Vardy this week and last week. Now is the time to be hard, Oky to sit the next games out ,Ulloa to have a run Kramy at least on the bench, some games from the bench. We need to see both now, before the Jan transfer market opens. One could try Schlupp also, in that role next to Vardy. I was looking forward to seeing DD and Kante to prove themselves today, they didnt..... Kante didnt have a poor game, but the 2 midfielders needed help today. I like Albrighton, cant see why I would drop him, but maybe against the top teams, it might be prudent to play Inler in a Carrick type of role. It wasnt giving away possesion that bothers me, but playing on the back foot too often, that was worrying....Not trying to be too negative, but its these type of games that give us a sighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Entirely comfortable during open play, shame to concede via a set play yet again but you could argue a foul on Shinji. Delighted for Vards, tifo looked brilliant and still joint top of the league. Happy days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vardinhio Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Sorry but I'm not having all this "Okazaki is key to the team" due to him working hard. I can honestly struggle to recall him hitting a well struck shot at the club so far and he more often lets himself down with his technical play too, today making an awful effort to control the ball when he could have span through on goal. He is also weak and not particularly fast so I'm struggling to see how he fits in to our premier league ambitions. If there is one role we could look at replacing it is Okazakis. There are players that do what he does that offer a genuine goal threat too, aka Long and Walters. Don't be blinded just because we are winning, he has been a poor aquisition. Thank god Mahrez has steppped up because Okazaki is no second striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwell Pablo Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 somewhat doubt he's getting the credit deserved due to vardys outstanding achievement but what a ball from Fuchs, I didn't even see it was on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanlegend Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Okazaki was poor. Ulloa should have started. Highlighted once again our weakness from set pieces. As other have said would have been a game to see Inler play. Can't understand the De Laet sub? I think ultimately we gave United far too much respect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Okazaki was not poor. He bridged the gap between the midfield and forward line superbly, something Ulloa isn't/wasn't able to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseBreath Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 He did better than Okazaki purely because he wasn't responsible for us conceding a goal. Ulloa was the greater handful for United, marginally, but neither of them produced anything. I've generally been impressed with Okazaki when he's come off the bench, especially when we're in good positions, so perhaps that's the road to go down. It turned out not to be a great choice to do things the other way round, but never mind. It's hard to criticise the manager - or the team - too much after such a good result. I don't know how much blame you can put on Okazaki for the goal really. Wrestling or no wrestling he was always going to struggle to win a header against a player half a foot taller than him. I agree that starting Ulloa and bringing on Okazaki might have been better. The truth is that both players have their strong points and their weak points but neither are good enough for a sustained title push, which is a problem we could never have envisaged in the summer. It'll be interesting to see if claudio addresses this in January. Kramaric is surely on his way out, so we'll need a new forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanlegend Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Okazaki was not poor. He bridged the gap between the midfield and forward line superbly, something Ulloa isn't/wasn't able to do. Everytime he plays he looks like a kamakazi move from him, Jackie Chan karate move... unsure what to do then gives away the ball. I can't see the benefit of playing him alongside vardy... They are too similar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Okazaki was not poor. He bridged the gap between the midfield and forward line superbly, something Ulloa isn't/wasn't able to do. Yeah, felt a lot more open in the middle of the pitch when Okazaki went off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGBFitness Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Everytime he plays he looks like a kamakazi move from him, Jackie Chan karate move... unsure what to do then gives away the ball. I can't see the benefit of playing him alongside vardy... They are too similar They have similarities in energy, pace and never giving up by they aren't the type of player. Playing both today put a united back line under pressure to have to release with little time, something they wasn't happy to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowlattsFox Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Personally thought Okazaki did ok first half, apart from the goal but still think Kasper is at fault there. Right decision to swap him with Ulloa but they both offer different things without being great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 somewhat doubt he's getting the credit deserved due to vardys outstanding achievement but what a ball from Fuchs, I didn't even see it was on. agreed, magic play from him. not sure why he decided he was a right winger but fuch it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxes1 Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Happy with the first half performance 2nd half not so good. I think Ranieri and the players learnt the lesson from the Arsenal game that we cannot go gungho at every team that comes to the KP although Ulloa should have won it in the 2nd half with his chance. MOTM - Christian Fuchs but we all know that Jamie will get the headlines and rightly so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry - LCFC Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 agreed, magic play from him. not sure why he decided he was a right winger but fuch it Should start there in front of Mahrez imo, cuts inside better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My Nads Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 To many having a dig at Ulloa for wrong reasons. Yes he skyed one, but then again so did Vardy this week and last week. Now is the time to be hard, Oky to sit the next games out ,Ulloa to have a run Kramy at least on the bench, some games from the bench. We need to see both now, before the Jan transfer market opens. One could try Schlupp also, in that role next to Vardy. I was looking forward to seeing DD and Kante to prove themselves today, they didnt..... Kante didnt have a poor game, but the 2 midfielders needed help today. I like Albrighton, cant see why I would drop him, but maybe against the top teams, it might be prudent to play Inler in a Carrick type of role. It wasnt giving away possesion that bothers me, but playing on the back foot too often, that was worrying....Not trying to be too negative, but its these type of games that give us a sighter. It was just one game, but neither Ulloa or Okazaki played very well tonight. In midfield, well it was probably our formation that was to blame for that. Overall we didn't play as well as we have been doing, but Man U stopped us playing well, fair play to them. Boring as hell though. Inler isn't good enough to be on the bench from what I've seen of him. I would have liked to have seen Dyer come on when we were looking a bit flat in the 2nd half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertstreet Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 need to sign daniel lambert to have by the posts for set pieces and we're good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieakita Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 United came to little old Leicester and set up to nullify us and looked happy with a point, United had the bulk of the possession but we made the better chances, we have come a long way that Man Utd come to us and play for a point, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpe's Fox Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Tbh don't see Okazaki doing anything that Nuge did better atm. Hopefully at some point he starts banging them in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Finsbury Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 It says something when we're disappointed that we've got a point against Man Utd, doesn't it? Vardy was superb again. Excellent taken goal. Drinkwater and Kante did play to their usual high standards to day, not to say they were poor because they have set the bar high. Fuchs was fantastic again and his assist was superb, he fast becoming a favourite. The de Laet substitution was to try to win the game, I think. He's more attacking than Simpson but the tinkerman's plans just didn't pay off today. We certainly had some great chances to win, with Ulloa not making the most of two excellent chances. Shame we were slightly 'off' today of all days. I'll take a point though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston. Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 United came to little old Leicester and set up to nullify us and looked happy with a point, United had the bulk of the possession but we made the better chances, we have come a long way that Man Utd come to us and play for a point, dont associate "man utd" with that current team. they were ordinary but they dictated the second half which upset me because at 1-0 i hoped we'd go on to bury them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangecity23 Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Imagine spending hundreds of millions of pounds on creating a possession based version of a Pulis team. Should have got Tony as their manager, I'm sure he'd have found some two bit tall donkey to play up front and provide a target for their aimless crosses, probably wouldn't have spent 40 million doing it either. Disappointing not to win, we definitely had the better chances, whilst not necessarily playing the best. Still, we're still at the top, didn't lose and Vardy got the record, so it feels a bit churlish to complain about anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ealingfox Posted 28 November 2015 Share Posted 28 November 2015 Fuchsy is excellent, what a signing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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