Leicester 1 Copenhagen 0

[filbertway]

It's pretty obvious now that Kanté and Okazaki were massive for us last year, they gave us the extra bodies in midfield that allowed us to pass.

 

Right now our defenders (3 of whom are terrible footballers) look up, see no options, so just smash it straight back to the other team. If we're lucky it ends up in some space and gives us half a chance of getting on the end of it.

 

We are playing appalling football at the minute and better teams than Copenhagen are going to punish for it.

 

While I found it impossible to find fault with the club last season, every game we seem to keep making the same errors as if nobody can see the blatant issues.

 

It really highlights how poor our summer recruitment was, what a great chance we had to improve the team with a lot more quality (not just strikers and wingers) and we wasted it. On the plus side we have one more transfer window where we can offer European football. Hopefully we show some brains and thought this time in terms of recruitment/moving players on.

 

I'm so jealous of people that are loving this season, all I'm seeing is the possibility to cement ourselves as a top 8 team passing us by.

 

Still early doors and we've proved we can win games convincingly (Swansea, Burnley, maybe Bruges but that didn't feel like a convincing 3-0). A lot of other performances have been that of a team that's just come up via the play offs and is making up the numbers.

[FCK Fan]

No Tottenham fan here that' for sure. The point is, and that is something you need to understand. We have played in either Champions League or Europa League Group stage in 10 out 11 of the last seasons. We know that you have to grap your points at home if you want to advance and do something productive. So when you are sitting and watching the FCK team in Leicester yesterday then it is what we would consider as a proffesionel international away performance where the main goal is to get a Draw. That Means that the players instruction is to have as many bodies behind the ball, play the ball around safe and stick the knife in when we get the chance. We did that in Porto and we were very close yesterday. It was surely not impressing but I have seen this so many times before and I know that its the plan. What I am trying to say is that you have to except a much better FCK team when you will meet them in 14 days. They are much much better at home. They will most likely come flying out and attack you from the first moment, see if they can get a early goal and shake you even more after you have lost away to Tottenham a few days before.

[Corky]

I'd read the thread mate, plenty of people have criticised our performance.

[kingcarr21]

33 minutes ago, FCK Fan said:

Lets get some facts for you Leicester fans to think a Little about before buzzing about that your Victory yesterday was SO deserved

 

1. First of all it was not a deserved win. This game should have ended in a draw. You had two dangerous situation. The first one after two mistakes. Verbic should had cleared the ball and Zanka followed Mahrez instead of standing and thinking about his model girlfriend at home. The second one was correctly judged offside. Look at Slimani's arm/hand and you can see that he was just offside. Cornelius should have scored one, but great save by Kasper.

 

2. Copenhagen dominated possesion, shots on target, passes and passing accuracy and dangerous attacks. Copenhagen were only really under pressure for around 15 minutes in the Whole game. and that was in start of the second half.

 

3. The general opinion in Denmark about Leicester's performance yesterday and Leicester's lever in general is that Leicester is a VERY poor team. You didnt want or should we say CAN'T to do much with the ball which is a disappoiment to see from the so called English Champions.

 

4. FCK are a much different and better team when they are playing at home in Champions League. They have played 10 home matches in Champions League and have 6 wins (Man. United, Celtic, Rubin Kazan, Panathinaikos, Galatasaray and Brugge). 3 draws (Benfica, Barcelona and Juventus) and 1 defeat (Real Madrid). So the point is, you can except to be put under A LOT of pressure when you will meet them in two weeks time and the general opinion among FCK fans or the general football fan in Denmark is that Leicester City will lose. The respect for Leicester, especially when we see when FCK have beating at home before, is at a very low point. The difference will be bigger in Denmark than it was yesterday, no doubt.

Wah wah wah we had more possession bullshit. Your passes and passing accuracy were high due to your short passing rubbish. Just admit you were shite on the night. You also had 2 chances, both to a Cardiff reject who didn't take them. We took our chance, get over it.

 

You are going to feel pretty grim when you 'batter' us at your place yet we come away with a 1-0 win from a Huth header in the 90th minute . 

 

Copenhagen would struggle in the championship. The only thing that impressed me were your fans, before and during the game they were great. Your team, not so much.

[MC Prussian]

36 minutes ago, FCK Fan said:

Lets get some facts for you Leicester fans to think a Little about before buzzing about that your Victory yesterday was SO deserved

 

1. First of all it was not a deserved win. This game should have ended in a draw. You had two dangerous situation. The first one after two mistakes. Verbic should had cleared the ball and Zanka followed Mahrez instead of standing and thinking about his model girlfriend at home. The second one was correctly judged offside. Look at Slimani's arm/hand and you can see that he was just offside. Cornelius should have scored one, but great save by Kasper.

 

2. Copenhagen dominated possesion, shots on target, passes and passing accuracy and dangerous attacks. Copenhagen were only really under pressure for around 15 minutes in the Whole game. and that was in start of the second half.

 

3. The general opinion in Denmark about Leicester's performance yesterday and Leicester's lever in general is that Leicester is a VERY poor team. You didnt want or should we say CAN'T to do much with the ball which is a disappoiment to see from the so called English Champions.

 

4. FCK are a much different and better team when they are playing at home in Champions League. They have played 10 home matches in Champions League and have 6 wins (Man. United, Celtic, Rubin Kazan, Panathinaikos, Galatasaray and Brugge). 3 draws (Benfica, Barcelona and Juventus) and 1 defeat (Real Madrid). So the point is, you can except to be put under A LOT of pressure when you will meet them in two weeks time and the general opinion among FCK fans or the general football fan in Denmark is that Leicester City will lose. The respect for Leicester, especially when we see when FCK have beating at home before, is at a very low point. The difference will be bigger in Denmark than it was yesterday, no doubt.

Dear Købnhavn supporter, we're actually thriving on less possession than the opposition - the stats from last season will tell you that. Stats mean nothing when you can't produce nothing tangible out of it. You may have had more time with the ball, but also only two or three chances. That's it.

I think your perception of your team is also skewed by your results in the Danish Superliga and your unbeaten run - no comparison to your appearance in the Champions League, where you're also faced with some proper opposition for once. That's why you have four points from three matches.

 

But no excuse for our piss-poor attempts at passing and crossing (bar the Mahrez goal which was a byproduct of Vardy's long ball into the box). I'm also disappointed with how we've played yesterday - and I know we can do better. The difference is we made the most out of our few chances, you didn't.

 

Intriguing to see whether you can put your heart where your mouth is at the Parken next month.

[fuchsntf]

39 minutes ago, FCK Fan said:

Lets get some facts for you Leicester fans to think a Little about before buzzing about that your Victory yesterday was SO deserved

 

1. First of all it was not a deserved win. This game should have ended in a draw. You had two dangerous situation. The first one after two mistakes. Verbic should had cleared the ball and Zanka followed Mahrez instead of standing and thinking about his model girlfriend at home. The second one was correctly judged offside. Look at Slimani's arm/hand and you can see that he was just offside. Cornelius should have scored one, but great save by Kasper.

 

2. Copenhagen dominated possesion, shots on target, passes and passing accuracy and dangerous attacks. Copenhagen were only really under pressure for around 15 minutes in the Whole game. and that was in start of the second half.

 

3. The general opinion in Denmark about Leicester's performance yesterday and Leicester's lever in general is that Leicester is a VERY poor team. You didnt want or should we say CAN'T to do much with the ball which is a disappoiment to see from the so called English Champions.

 

4. FCK are a much different and better team when they are playing at home in Champions League. They have played 10 home matches in Champions League and have 6 wins (Man. United, Celtic, Rubin Kazan, Panathinaikos, Galatasaray and Brugge). 3 draws (Benfica, Barcelona and Juventus) and 1 defeat (Real Madrid). So the point is, you can except to be put under A LOT of pressure when you will meet them in two weeks time and the general opinion among FCK fans or the general football fan in Denmark is that Leicester City will lose. The respect for Leicester, especially when we see when FCK have beating at home before, is at a very low point. The difference will be bigger in Denmark than it was yesterday, no doubt.

You obviously havent read our forum after the game...

That said start crowing when you confirm a top 2 spot...Cos though we are happy in our Cynicism of our own efforts,

We dont take things for granted,  cos "we know what we are". Besides we are business partners, we eat your bacon..

[Babylon]

47 minutes ago, FCK Fan said:

Look at Slimani's arm/hand and you can see that he was just offside.

Dude, you can't score with your arms and hands, they can be 12 foot offside if you're Mr Tickle and you're still onside. The rule is only parts of the body you can score with.

 

As for not playing well, we know... read the thread. We were utter gubbins, but you can't judge a team on a few performances when for the previous year and a half we played pretty well most of the time.

 

Even though we're out of form, sold out best player.... we still scored two good goals to your none. I thought you knocked it around quite well but were totally lacking creativity in the final third. For all your passes and posession you created no more than us.

 

[AKCJ]

That 'Copenhagen' supporter is clearly a Spurs WUM.

 

 

Waaah possession waaah shots on target waaaah passes between centre halves waaah.

[Matt]

Again, not sure why people respond, it's what they want, I'm all up for discussion and willing to argue points with anyone, but he's just pig headed.

 

People never learn with WUM's and keep going back for more.

[AKCJ]

What was that chant that the Copenhagen fans were singing yesterday all about?

 

Something about zouma zouma zouma ah ay

 

Some good chants knocking about last night.

 

Singing Chris Wood, Nugent and Lloyd Dyer's old chants in retaliation to their chants of the same tune was funny.

[Gerard]

1 hour ago, FCK Fan said:

Lets get some facts for you Leicester fans to think a Little about before buzzing about that your Victory yesterday was SO deserved

 

1. First of all it was not a deserved win. This game should have ended in a draw. You had two dangerous situation. The first one after two mistakes. Verbic should had cleared the ball and Zanka followed Mahrez instead of standing and thinking about his model girlfriend at home. The second one was correctly judged offside. Look at Slimani's arm/hand and you can see that he was just offside. Cornelius should have scored one, but great save by Kasper.

 

2. Copenhagen dominated possesion, shots on target, passes and passing accuracy and dangerous attacks. Copenhagen were only really under pressure for around 15 minutes in the Whole game. and that was in start of the second half.

 

3. The general opinion in Denmark about Leicester's performance yesterday and Leicester's lever in general is that Leicester is a VERY poor team. You didnt want or should we say CAN'T to do much with the ball which is a disappoiment to see from the so called English Champions.

 

4. FCK are a much different and better team when they are playing at home in Champions League. They have played 10 home matches in Champions League and have 6 wins (Man. United, Celtic, Rubin Kazan, Panathinaikos, Galatasaray and Brugge). 3 draws (Benfica, Barcelona and Juventus) and 1 defeat (Real Madrid). So the point is, you can except to be put under A LOT of pressure when you will meet them in two weeks time and the general opinion among FCK fans or the general football fan in Denmark is that Leicester City will lose. The respect for Leicester, especially when we see when FCK have beating at home before, is at a very low point. The difference will be bigger in Denmark than it was yesterday, no doubt.

Can't argue with too much of that unfortunately. 

 

Leicester should be beating teams like Copenhagen easily when you consider the spending power of the two clubs.

 

We huffed and puffed last night but I seen a game that had little quality on show from either side and a workmanlike performance from both teams in a game that neither side did enough to deserve to win.

 

We can pat ourselves on the back for getting maximum points from three games without a goal conceded but our performances don't inspire much confidence that we'll be going any further than R16. We have digressed a hell of a lot since winning the title and anyone who argues that point either is fooling themselves or knows nothing about the game.

 

 

[KFS]

Who's this cvnt

 

Who's top of group G? Put U in between your team's acronym and off you go pal x

[foxinsocks]

The positive is that last night we saw how we used to play and how we are playing.

This allows us to understand the small things that make a big difference

. Need okazaki... to break up their play and to give us an out ball rather than long ball

. Need movement from strikers and wingers

. Mahrez needs to do more back tracking

. Simpson... great last ditch stuff...but mustnt get caught out of position 

. Defending corners still a problem

. If okazaki plays between mids a striker we might be able to still play 4 in mf... otherwise he should be with wingers in a three infront of danny and either king or amarty

. King divides us... ranieri can chose 

. When okazaki goes off move mahrexz to centre and bring on winger

. One of vardy musa slimani to play up top

[ZeGuy]

FCK Fan could you pass me the salt please?

 

Joke aside, if you like you said you lost against a team that is actually out of form and had shown, in all honesty, a poor display yesterday, then it tells volumes about your team's real level.

 

With all due respect, the Danish Superliga ain't exactly one of toughest or the most spectacular leagues in Europe and you are regularily in the UCL rather because the lack of opposition than being particularly outstanding. You still never made it past the group stage as far as I know (correct me if  I'm wrong). LCFC winning the Premier League might be a one off, but I'm not sure you'd even have made it to the top 10.

 

Stay classy FCK Fan, I wish you luck for your next games and may the better team win next time.

[Koke]

Anyone got the pre match  picture where both teams mixed with the "say no to racism" banner?

[Guest Col city fan]

Not read this thread for hours but it was worth the wait! Izzy and Babs, pictures of Mr Tickle and arguments with opposition fans.

Comedy Gold!

[foxinsocks]

Slimani goal onside

 

[Charl91]

Was goal.

 

I'd be worried if I was an FCK fan. We played terribly, and we still scored 2 (!) goals against them. I'd say that speaks volumes about their own team.

[FuchingKante]

Thought we were very poor for the majority of yesterday, lost count of the amount of aimless balls we floated over to absolutely nobody.

[Illusion35]

20 hours ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

If you're not genuinely happy, thrilled, proud and excited of what we've achieved so far in our FIRST EVER champions league campaign, then you never will be. I actually feel sorry for you.

Get off your fvckin entitled high horses, remember who we are and where we've come from, and realise we may NEVER experience this again. 

There's Derby, Forest and even Man U and Chelsea fans who'd give their right arm to be in the CL this season.

Well they're not. And we are. 

And you can pull apart our performances and criticise the opposition all you want, but you ain't gonna spoil my once in a lifetime enjoyment of al this.

 

This, definitely this!  

[foxes21]

@FCK Fan

 

You played right into our hands. You say you dominated possession, but only had 2 clear chances. Your build up was predictable, get it to the wingers and cross the ball in. It doesn't matter how good your strikers are in the air, that's bread and butter for Huth and Morgan.

 

We look forward to you doing the same at home and playing that high line for Vardy.

[MC Prussian]

7 hours ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

And here's the thing.

It seems some on this thread are more bothered about the performance than the result - just bizarre.

So many want their cake and eat it. Greedy, entitled and unrealistic.

Football is a results business whether we like it or not. If people want to see the beautiful game every week, possession football and sexy pass completion stats - go follow Arsenal.

Last season we massively over achieved and set the bar SO high that the expectations now are through the roof.

How many posts on here start "Good result last night...BUT...(insert moan about performance).

When we look back on this CL campaign in years to come, we won't be discussing performances. We'll be discussing goals, clean sheets, results and points won. I don't want to tell my grandkids we failed to qualify for the last 16 in our one and only attempt at the CL - but at least we played some nice stuff though..

I feel proud as fvck to be a Leicester fan today. As Kasper said, 'we're traditional slow starters and performances will improve', so why can't people just be happy we're top of the group and rewriting history?

Constant fvckin moaning and worrying on here is doing my nut in. Keep the faith. 

 

I believe you can appreciate the result whilst simultaneously criticizing the performance.

 

No doubt are three points three points and we all ought to be glad about that. However, it shouldn't gloss over the fact that in recent weeks, we've played rather poorly, with little to no urgency going forward and lacking precision in passing and build-up play in general. The hoofball is rather unheard of under Ranieri and smacks of old times past and desperation. I don't expect us to play Tiki Taka like Barcelona do, but at least put in some more effort when going forward. And I don't expect us to overly dominate the opposition like more well-known or experienced European teams do. Also, I have not that much criticism left for our defensive display against Copenhagen, because we were able to witness a very established back four with Simpson, Morgan, Huth and Fuchs.

 

I do hope we can go a long way in the Champions League and make this a campaign to remember. I do see that we have potential, but for several reasons, we've yet to fully exploit that reservoir. Here's to more rounded displays in the weeks to come.

[Foxhateram]

10 hours ago, Babylon said:

The negativity is coming from people who don't think we played like that last year and don't think we played very well. If you think that's how we played and you enjoyed watching the ball endlessly launched forward without much hope or idea then I'm pleased for you.

 

I thought it was utter dog turd and nothing like last year (barring one or two games). We've always been a team that mixed it up, one minute a direct ball, the next a speedy passing counter attack, or like in spells second half. Some nice passing and moving. Last night we looked like the long ball team Spurs labeled us wrongly. Funnily enough on the back of a similar performance at their place where we were god awful and resorted to pumping the ball forward aimlessly.

 

The first half was nothing more than a lump fest. We attacked with a plan and with pace and precision last year, that for me was not how we played. It was a lack of options that just forced us into hoofing it. I touched on it in my first post. The amount of times DD would get the ball in the middle, both wingers ran away to their wings, both strikers move forwards (none of them particularly into space or into an area it was easy to pass to) and he was left with either knocking it back to a defender who would launch it, or for him to launch another hopeful ball himself.

Come on mate. I agree the first half was hoofball but in the second half we harried for the ball and started to move the ball much quicker with some decent passages of play. There were some stand out performers last night as well. It certainly wasn't doggo, as you put it. 

 

I admit our form at the minute stinks. But there have been positives to take from all the games and time will see us improve again. Not as slow, but we did start last season slowly too, and I genuinly think our awful pre season has left us less fit than before. These things can only be rectified with time. The champions league is mentally draining, we have to push on now, as in some ways the pressure is off. 

[Wymsey]

2 hours ago, foxinsocks said:

Slimani goal onside

 

His hand wasn't, and I classify that as part of body unfortunately.

[AKCJ]

2 hours ago, foxinsocks said:

Slimani goal onside

 

 

 that line.