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weller54

Stoke.. Next up.. Thoughts..

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davieG

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Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri provided an update on the fitness of Jamie Vardy and Ritchie De Laet ahead of his side’s Barclays Premier League clash with Stoke City. 
 
The Foxes host Mark Hughes’ men at King Power Stadium on Saturday and will be without midfielder Matty James (knee) and defender Jeffrey Schlupp (hamstring) for the clash. 
 
Ranieri has often discussed Vardy’s fitness this campaign given that the England international has trained less frequently than other members of the squad. 
 
But Ranieri is not worried about his top scorer’s fitness and believes that he is getting better and better every day. 
 
Ranieri said: “I said Jamie is not fully fit now because he played so many matches when he was scoring goals without training because he always had a little problem and didn’t make a training session. 
 
“For the rest of the week he had one or two days soft [training] and played. Slowly you lose your stamina which is normal but now he’s getting better. After the little problem with the surgery, he’s getting better. 
 
“Every day I look at him only on the pitch. That is much better and he’s started to make training sessions. He’s getting better day after day. He’s rested a long time – two months. Now he can start to play and train.” 
 
Meanwhile, Ranieri confirmed defender De Laet has had a scan on his groin after pulling up in the pre-match warm-up ahead of City’s Emirates FA Cup clash with Tottenham Hotspur. 
 
The City boss added: “His scan was good. It’s just a little problem. When he’s ready we will say. Suddenly it happened and I’m sure it’ll disappear. 
 
“During the warm up he felt something in his groin. We preferred to stop him instead of after 10 minutes have to change a player.”

Read more at http://www.lcfc.com/news/article/ranieris-injury-update-vardy-de-laet-2913781.aspx#YWRilRI7kKPrqlhU.99

dibbdroid

dibbdroid

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It's not a crisis (yet)..

But come on, the performances since the Everton game have been poor!..

Take off the rose tinted specs.

The win at Spurs was incredibly fortunate and a home draw with Bournemouth somewhat lucky.. They could/ should have been 2 up at halftime and the controversial sending off went in our favour, and even then we didn't score and scrapped a 0-0!

Villa was awful!!.. They were there for the taking and we still couldn't put them away!

Then.. Last night.. Which quite frankly was embarrassing!

...hope this is a blip but somehow I'm not so sure.. The Stoke game will tell us everything we need to know.

 

if the missed penalties had gone in no one would be batting an eyelid.

 

44 points from 22 games and everyone's blowing a bloody fuse because they forget:

 

1. The opposition are allowed to turn up

2. They are likely to have tactics

3. That can involve stopping our main threats.

4. We've only lost two league games.

5. We're only second due to goal difference

6. We're playing against half decent teams

 

Bournemouth weren't that good. They had a couple of chances but so did we. The sending off is justified, replays proved (see Kammy on Goals on Sunday) contact with Jamie was made before the ball.

The Spurs away league fixture, I was there. It took Spurs over an hour to create a chance in our penalty box from open play, otherwise long shots. They had a spell (opposition are allowed spells) in the second half where Kasper pulled of an amazing save from Kane and a few near misses. They didn't score and we were never out of the game. Oh, we scored. Nothing can detract from it being anything other than a fantastic away performance.

Villa were awful, we didn't take our chances. Tough away fixture against a team scrapping for their lives, we've been there.

Guest Col city fan

Guest Col city fan

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Also, I think people have finally realised just how important Schlupp is for us.

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biggs

biggs

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Have to change the mindset a bit. Not much in it really.....Instead of worrying so much about clean sheets, think about counter attacking at speed as a team including the defence. Lately it appears only a couple of midfielders join the forwards.

st albans fox

st albans fox

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Last January, Stoke 'bullied' us out of the game. Not in an aggressive way but it was men against boys. nzonzi was a colossus in the midfield. Arnaoutovic took the pee out of konch, Walters stuck his arse into our central defenders and held it up brilliantly. And bojan drifted in and out between the lines, culminatiing in his goal. things have changed somewhat over the past twelve months and we should be able to return to winning ways. If we aren't 'at it' they will not leave empty handed. Hughes is a good tactical manager and motivator.

weller54

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Stoke will have one eye on the League Cup semi-final and will play a weakened side, 2-0 city Vardy and Mahrez

They WON'T play a weakened side against us.. What nonsense!

The Guvnor

The Guvnor

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Don't sit back and let them settle,straight at them and high tempo from the off. Kante, Mahrez and Okazaki to work their socks off and Vardy to smash in a few goals,not much to ask is it?

Foxxed

Foxxed

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I would like our team to concede as many if not fewer goals than our opponent, while simultaneously scoring as many if not more goals than our opponent, with our players achieving or exceeding our expectations.

CharlieCharles

CharlieCharles

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Play pre 40 points

 

3-1 Leicester

 

Play post 40 points

 

0-1 Stoke

 

Kasper

Simpson - Morgan - Huth - Fuchs

Mahrez - DD - Kante - Albrighton

Vardy - Okazaki

 

Please leave Ulloa as an unused substitute. I like him but he just is not good enough and does not fit in to our style. I believe if we played to his style he would hit 13-14 goals like last season, but we dont.

irishfoxkev

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First game I will be at this season so hoping we put on good display and get the 3 points...Watching Stoke over past couple of weeks I got feeling their star men have gone off the boil somewhat...namely Bojan and Arnoutavic....Let,s hope our two Vardy and Mahrez get their form back before these two.. Saturday would be good time to start ......

My first ever match at Filbert St in Dec 1966 was  4 -2 win against Stoke....My last match at the King Power was Newcastle last year 3 -0 to the foxes....A repeat of either wil suffice...

holyfox

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Albrighton suffers because he plays on the left to accommodate Mahrez on the right. Fine when Mahrez is playing well, but as soon as he's out of form we essentially end up with 2 ineffective wingers.

Regardless of what we do with Mahrez, we need to play a winger that is suited to the left side (Gray), instead of Albrighton.

Then either replace Mahrez with Albrighton, or just keep hoping Mahrez finds his form again.

holyfox

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Albrighton played on the right when he came on against Spurs... He still struggled to get any decent crosses in, unlike Chilwell on the left so I'm not convinced it's down to which wing he's on

hejammy

hejammy

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I really want us to win this one to prove all the "I told you the pressure will get to them" haters wrong, but I have a feeling that we will lose this one. Classic case of heart says 2-1 and head is saying 0-1.

With Vardy, Mahrez and Albrighton lacking form it's gonna be a tough game.

Reg Vardy

Reg Vardy

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Looking like Arnautovic has a hamstring tweak, and likely not to be risked with Liverpool on Tuesday......Shaquiri coming back from same injury, would be his first game back, can't see Hughes risking that, Cameron out.....can also see Bojan being rested.....we on the other hand should be rested.......

This is why the defeat on Wednesday will help us.

From Saturday our next opponents, Liverpool, have 4 games in 9 days....we have 2......, two home games......against teams with big distractions.....every chance of hitting 50 points with 14 games left.....

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We're going to beat them because we are Leicester. People are writing us off.

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