Staffs Fox Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 I haven't read past the first page because I was disgusted, We are joint top at the end of January, did anybody really think we'd carry on smashing teams 3-0 and end up on 90 points?? We have a limited squad, and had 2 players in the form of their life, a dip was inevitable. At the start of the season I'd have settled for 44 points and we have it with 4 months to go!! So we drew to Bournemouth? They've beaten good teams this year, they are not a Conference side. We drew to Villa in a shite performance. This is football. Even the best teams have an off day. The other games are losing at Anfield, a draw to the billionaire boys Man City where one player cost and earns more than our squad and a very good Spurs team three times. One of which we won away and another we were robbed. I rarely say things like this because everyone is entitled to their opinion but if you demand to win every game, I suggest you move to Catalonia and support Barca because other than that football isn't so consistent
Bayfox Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Can you imagine how fans of other clubs felt when we had been dog shit for about 7 months, then started turning them all over, I bet most had themselves down for a shoe in 3 points. We have drawn a few games and lost a cup tie, littered with squad players. It's hardly like our world is caving in. We have still taken a point of man city and won at WHL, let's just get behind the manager and the team again on saturday, Kante, Vardy etc will all be back. Let's get back to having a go.
Leicesterfan Cambiasso Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 It's because this is a once-in-a-life-time opportunity. If I'm honest, I don't think we'll ever have another chance to finish in the champions league again. I know we have no right to be there, and should be happy to even stay in the league, but given how well we've done, I would be absolutely gutted if we failed to get there now. Why do you, and others, think this will never happen again. With the rate of progression, the way we are building the team and the infrastructure of the club, we are building to become a top 4 side. Usually this takes many years but we're doing it in 2 and I have full faith in the club that after this season we will not completely fall off in to mid-table.
Gerard Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 we won't be for long! it's all well and good being joint top for now but other teams are starting to catch us up Take your tampon out FFS. No one has accrued more points than us for all the hundreds of millions they've spent. We've lost to Arsenal at home and Liverpool away all season. With the next four games coming up it will probably get worse before it gets better so you should probably assume the foetal position now.
Dickov22 Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Have sales of razor blades gone up in Leicester? Calm down. Have the faith. 4 league points from Spurs or a cup replay win by our B team? You decide. Could easily have had both if we hadn't played the B team and stuck a donkey up front on his own. I don't understand this 'league or cup' philosophy. When we were in the championship we played mostly the same side sat and Tuesday every week. Ranieri's clearly not bothered about the FA cup.
EnglishOxide Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 People are missing the point when talking about our form. Having a dip and losing games is fine. Having a dip because of quite clear faults in selection, squad management and obvious formation errors is shit. Totally avoidable.
Babylon Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 People are missing the point when talking about our form. Having a dip and losing games is fine. Having a dip because of quite clear faults in selection, squad management and obvious formation errors is shit. Totally avoidable. And in the league they were what?
Captain... Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Some absolute drivel in this thread. This is our *BEST SEASON EVER* (well in a long long time) Even in our League one winning season we had lost 2 games in our first 22 and drawn 6 Championship winning side we lost 5 games in our first 22 We also exited the FA Cup in the third round in both those seasons. You go back and look at the last 12 months, it has been phenomenal, how anyone can't see that and can get all pissy because we lost in the cup replay (which never should have been anyway we were cheated out of winning the first leg), and have drawn a few games because of missed penalties and a dodgy deflected goal. Anyone getting in a flap because we drew with Man City and lost away to Liverpool and went out of the cup to Spurs should seriously have a word.
Max Power Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Teams are giving us more respect now, there aren't vast spaces in behind for us to counter into. Mahrez and Vardy are out of form/unfit. WE ARE JOINT TOP. But yeah, Ranieri Out, get Sir Big Nige back.
goose2010 Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 People are missing the point when talking about our form. Having a dip and losing games is fine. Having a dip because of quite clear faults in selection, squad management and obvious formation errors is shit. Totally avoidable. Care to elaborate?
Fox92 Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Care to elaborate? Last night? Awful selection, awful formation.
ARM1968 Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 The tide has turned completely. Some here will see that as negativity rather than reality. After the next couple of games they too will realise. Tightening the defence and reigning in our early season attacking philosophy has hobbled us. As a result the only way now is down.
suffolk fox Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Stop talking league position and start talking performances. We all know we've had a season so far to exceed expectation massively. That's not the point. I think we are on a knife-edge at the moment personally. There are so many people I think, still itching to tell us that Pearson shouldn't have been sacked. The media are waiting to pounce and Saturday's game suddenly becomes a real biggie in terms of win it and the confidence returns (in all), lose it and the opposite may well happen. Pearson deserved to be sacked. It was our bloody reserve side, what do you and the like expect? I don't give a frigg what the media think. The second half of the season was and is going to be harder than the first part because good teams suss out how you play. Mahrez will be tightly marked he may have two or three men on him. Vardy will be kicked especially by the likes of Shawcross on Saturday. It is going to be tough, we have to get through it. If that means tightening up the defence playing narrower then so be it. We will be harder to beat playing that way and we won't ship goals. This, is what Ranieri is trying to do. People are moaning for nowt. Our aim this season was to establish ourselves in the premier league we have achieved that with acres to spare. In the words of Claudio we are building slowly, slowly. We are nowhere near the level or have the squad depth to compete in European competitions yet. Maybe, in a couple of seasons time we will have a big enough squad to compete realistically at European level. As I have said, let's enjoy the ride see where we end up. In Claudios words, "slowly, slowly."
filbertway Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 And in the league they were what? Conceding the initiative to Bournemouth first half and giving ourselves too much to do second half. Conceding the initiative to Villa and not getting at them. By the time they equalised our team was too defensive to do much. By all means I don't mind this defensive style against teams with obviously better players. Playing like that against teams similar or worse to us is riduclous.
Staffs Fox Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Manager's cannot get it right every time and who's to say if we'd played Kante, Vardy, Mahrez the score would have been any different, It must be wonderful that power of hindsight you have to know exactly what would have changed, The fact is almost that exact side was a dodgy penalty away from knocking Spurs out at WHL, Claudio is forgiven for thinking they could turn out and perform at home but alas they got beaten by a good side Leicester City are joint top, what do you want from our team that has given us 10 of the best months in this clubs history? Are all those memories erradicated by an Away Draw and a getting knocked out of a cup by a good side? I remember getting stuffed at home by Sheffield Wednesday and Wolves, trust me last night was like watching Bayern compared to our side 7 or 8 years ago. Lets move on, look forward to Stoke at home when we can go back to the TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE Come on the City
Captain... Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 To be honest it is probably going to get worse before it gets any better, so some of you might want to get the Samaritans on speed dial, we have a tough game on Saturday when we could ideally do with a rest, then we have Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City... ...Then we have 2 weeks off, and if we are still in and around the top 4 we have a run of fixtures that we can take some points from, that will define our season not the next 4 games. We need to just hang in these next few weeks, get to the end of Feb and if we have dropped off a little that will suit us, other teams will not be so scared of us, and while the big boys compete in the cups and Europe we will sneak back up there.
goose2010 Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Last night? Awful selection, awful formation. It was basically the same team that would of beat spurs if it wasn't for a dodgy penalty.
EnglishOxide Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Conceding the initiative to Bournemouth first half and giving ourselves too much to do second half. Conceding the initiative to Villa and not getting at them. By the time they equalised our team was too defensive to do much. By all means I don't mind this defensive style against teams with obviously better players. Playing like that against teams similar or worse to us is riduclous. Exactly. Ranieri set up wrong for those matches and the Spurs matches (the 2-2 was just about right despite peoples issues with the late peno). The 1-0 win was a robbery. Imagine if we set up how we have been setting up since Liverpool away from the start of the season? We would be about 10th. And whilst at the start of the season we would have taken that, in 2015 we have shown we are worth being in the top 4 on talent rather than luck. The honeymoon period is over. I wish people would stop using our current position as an excuse for a months underperformance. I've just seen Ranieri said we put in a fantastic performance last night and talked about Spurs in the early 2000s and their build up to this point and we are aspiring to be like them in 10 years. That sort of talk really, really annoys me in the context of 2015. And before anyone starts, I'm not calling for Ranieris head. I'm just calling a spade a spade. You can't go into games with a clean sheet as first priority and a goal as second priority.
David Hankey Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 The statistics don't lie and we are still joint top, however, we should be beating teams like Bournemouth & Villa given where we are. Missing penalties have not helped, just think where we would be if they had been taken. No need to panic, just get 3 points from the Potters on Saturday.
Wasyls Pec Deck Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 I see no one has mentioned that Villa's equaliser was basically basketball... I don't know people can be critical, yes we are having a dodgy patch - but so has every team in the league, even teams with much more muscle and resources than we have. What would people taken at the start of the season? Staying up/mid table...? In that context, wherever we end up this season - and there's no reason why we can't finish top 4 or certainly top 6 - will be remarkable. Just because our recent iffy patch means we're showing signs that we might not win the league, although we could actually still win it, people need to get a grip.
Fox92 Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 It was basically the same team that would of beat spurs if it wasn't for a dodgy penalty. Yeah which is fine because we're away from home but setting up a defensive 451 at home is awful.
Marky mark Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 One win in 7 one defeat since September Misplaced penalty v Bournemouth and hand ball again villa and we're looking at a different story Nothing to worry about
David Hankey Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 1 win in 7 - we'd have taken that this time last season!!
Captain... Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Yeah which is fine because we're away from home but setting up a defensive 451 at home is awful. He played that formation to use the players we had that weren't knackered. The same way we are adopting a more conservative approach to manage fatigue and fitness issues, we can't sustain an all out approach in all games with the squad we have, look at Liverpool they are dropping like flies as Klopp is pushing them beyond their physical capabilities in a league that is way more intense than the German league. Call it negative, call it pragmatic, but we can't run our players into the ground in every game and not expect long term consequences.
NotTheMarketLeader Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Last night? Awful selection, awful formation.Yes. That's because they could not care less about the FA cup and have prioritised the league. With our squad - that's cost 10% of all the 'big' clubs - has to be managed, as it cannot possibly compete using our best 11 on all fronts. You have to be realistic. Recently with two of our top 3 players their form level has dropped (Mahrez and Kante have been playing as if they were in the top ten players in Europe) while our star striker has been injured and is recovering from an operation. Take them out of the team and we are struggling. That nobody's fault but just what we have. We need better players - particularly a striker, and we can give the top 4 a real go. If it doesn't pan out tough shit. Neither the players as a whole, nor the manager should be getting any stick whatsoever given the circumstances.
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