Bournemouth 1 - 0 Leicester Post match thread

[norwichfox]

16 hours ago, Parafox said:

we are rightly a laughing stock. When Chelski faltered last year at least they had some credibility to deflect the criticism, we have nothing

We have a faltering manager....they got rid of theirs and recovered quite well.

[adejo92]

I think what is just as frustrating as loosing every week is the post match b0110cks afterwards.

 

CR always saying we were unlucky and fought well etc etc and each week a different player is selected to spout out the generic 'We need to stick together' nonsense.

 

If CR can't see how woeful we are and the fact that we have deserved to loose every game that we have then i don't see how things will get better.

[Fox92]

53 minutes ago, Mark_w said:

No it's not.

1 point from 24 away from home is relegation form.

[NotTheMarketLeader]

5 hours ago, Col city fan said:

How much space near the edge of the area? Not for one, but for two players! Tells it's own story.

Yes noticeable that King and Amartey were jogging back while their attackers sprinted, Bournemouth players in marked ready to pounce.

[Realist Guy In The Room]

It feels like there literally is no way we'll ever be any good ever again.

[Matt]

At the time I didn't appreciate it but on a whole during the great escape season atleast we were playing well, it didn't help much at the time and ultimately it wasn't winning us matches but atleast we were playing well, it was something positive.

 

Can't even say that this season...

[Guy]

Although I think on our second half performance alone we deserved a draw last night, I'm just hoping this doesn't turn into a run similar to that from the earlier part of the great escape season after we went on that horrible run up to Christmas after beating Man Utd 5-3 in the September- this time after beating Man City 4-2 of course.....which could mean that if we match that statistically this season then we may not win a league match again now until March!!- as I said though I'm hoping we don't replicate that following the weekend win over Man City!!

[Realist Guy In The Room]

3 hours ago, Matt said:

At the time I didn't appreciate it but on a whole during the great escape season atleast we were playing well, it didn't help much at the time and ultimately it wasn't winning us matches but atleast we were playing well, it was something positive.

 

Can't even say that this season...

Not sure thats true.  We didnt lose by many goals, just 2-1's and 1-0's rately by more but we certainly weren't playing well during that awful run after the 5-3 Utd game.

[Nalis]

10 minutes ago, Realist Guy In The Room said:

Not sure thats true.  We didnt lose by many goals, just 2-1's and 1-0's rately by more but we certainly weren't playing well during that awful run after the 5-3 Utd game.

 

There were a few awful performances sure but they was an underlying feeling that we were almost there prior to the West Ham game. Case in point being the narrow defeats to Spurs.

[Realist Guy In The Room]

26 minutes ago, Nalis said:

 

There were a few awful performances sure but they was an underlying feeling that we were almost there prior to the West Ham game. Case in point being the narrow defeats to Spurs.

Hmm.  Home to Hull was after that and there certainly weren't any feelings of optimism then!

[The Doctor]

5 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Well at the minute it's looking like we will.

No it's not.

 

4 hours ago, Fox92 said:

1 point from 24 away from home is relegation form.

And 15 points from 24 at home is Europa league form, and over the course of a season gives us 36 points. Add in our one away point so far and you're looking at needing three more away points to hit the fourty. We're in dire straits away, but people are massively underestimating our home form when they talk about relegation.

[Fox92]

5 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

No it's not.

 

And 15 points from 24 at home is Europa league form, and over the course of a season gives us 36 points. Add in our one away point so far and you're looking at needing three more away points to hit the fourty. We're in dire straits away, but people are massively underestimating our home form when they talk about relegation.

I don't know if you actually watch us play but we are poor. Like bad.

 

I don't know how people can defend not our results but our performances. Performances are key here. When we were bottom under Pearson we were "unlucky" in games but this season we've just been woeful and deserved to lose the games we have.

 

Our home form, we've beaten poor sides (apart from Manchester City). Southampton deserved to beat us, Middlesbrough deserved to beat us and West Brom did beat us.

 

We must have played 5.5 good halves this season... But, please, keep telling me it's suddenly go to turn around.

[The Doctor]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I don't know if you actually watch us play but we are poor. Like bad.

 

I don't know how people can defend not our results but our performances. Performances are key here. When we were bottom under Pearson we were "unlucky" in games but this season we've just been woeful and deserved to lose the games we have.

 

Our home form, we've beaten poor sides (apart from Manchester City). Southampton deserved to beat us, Middlesbrough deserved to beat us and West Brom did beat us.

 

We must have played 5.5 good halves this season. 

You're going completely overboard. We've been fine at home, beat man city, Swansea, Burnley and palace easily, deserved the win v Arsenal. Don't agree Southampton deserved the win, same as last night - scrappy 0-0, both sides had one great chance - only difference is schmeichel is a good shot stopper. 

 

Away performances are a worry but we're getting the results at home easily enough. We're not going down, our home form is too good.

[Mark_w]

11 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I don't know if you actually watch us play but we are poor. Like bad.

 

I don't know how people can defend not our results but our performances. Performances are key here. When we were bottom under Pearson we were "unlucky" in games but this season we've just been woeful and deserved to lose the games we have.

 

Our home form, we've beaten poor sides (apart from Manchester City). Southampton deserved to beat us, Middlesbrough deserved to beat us and West Brom did beat us.

 

We must have played 5.5 good halves this season... But, please, keep telling me it's suddenly go to turn around.

You get relegated based on having fewer points than at least 17 other sides. That's not true of our situation now, it won't be the case after tonight's games and we're currently on course for a final tally of 38 points which has been enough to survive for the last five seasons, indeed there have been very few Premier League seasons where it wasn't enough to stay up. Could we go down? Yes, obviously. But it's unlikely that's what will happen to us if we keep on as we have been so far for the entirety of the season.

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

Worrying how Claudio seems to continuously watch a different game to one we all did. 

 

We weren't unlucky or hard done by.... Just shite. 

 

Honestly the football at times I can't watch. Lumped forward and aimless. Just utter shit. 

 

Opposition keepers barely have any saves to make.

 

And if we concede first then we're usually buggered. 

[Struwwelpeter60]

7 minutes ago, peterborofox said:

Worrying how Claudio seems to continuously watch a different game to one we all did. 

 

We weren't unlucky or hard done by.... Just shite. 

 

Honestly the football at times I can't watch. Lumped forward and aimless. Just utter shit. 

 

Opposition keepers barely have any saves to make.

 

And if we concede first then we're usually buggered. 

Did you actually watch the game?

[Clever Fox]

I said in the pre game thread that the 1st Goal would be crucial and so it proved. While we continued to battle it's the hurried passes rash tackles and poor choices is costing us.

It's frustrating that our home form is so good while our away form is so bad. This leads one to believe that the gap between results home and away isn't too far. Pretty much the same between success and failure. So while things look bleak at the minute i'm confident that with a few additions in January we should be fine. For me it's about the balance of the team CR hasn't got that right which I find strange as we do have the players available.

The important thing is that everyone sticks together and have faith that CR and the Staff will get it right in the end.

[Livid]

The whole thing is getting me down.

 

I've watched 40 years of yo yoing, heartbreak and the occasional success. After last year I thought we would break the mound and move onwards, but apparently not. We've reverted to the old Leicester ways.

 

Yes I know we're in the last 16 of the Champions League but when that's over what then ??

 

I refuse to lay the blame on one particular person or area, it's a combination.

 

We lost Kante and Walsh 

 

The moneybags Champions of England have had their pants pulled down in the summer transfer window. Slimani appears a £1 million improvement on Ulloa not £21million. I can't comment on Mendy as he hasn't had a decent chance. Hernandez, Musa and Zeiler are ok at very best. We have improved the quantity but not the quality of the squad.

 

The passion, commitment and desire just seems to have disappeared.  Some of the body language you could see in them last night was shocking. Tactically we play 4-4-2 and we seem to have a plan A but nothing else. 

 

Against Arsenal we were decent, Burnley, Palace and Swansea were poor teams. Tactically Man City played into our hands. 

 

I know injuries haven't helped and Drinkwater being suspended hasn't done us any favours.

 

Saturdays feel good factor has disappeared and I'm livid.

[Struwwelpeter60]

38 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I don't know if you actually watch us play but we are poor. Like bad.

 

I don't know how people can defend not our results but our performances. Performances are key here. When we were bottom under Pearson we were "unlucky" in games but this season we've just been woeful and deserved to lose the games we have.

 

Our home form, we've beaten poor sides (apart from Manchester City). Southampton deserved to beat us, Middlesbrough deserved to beat us and West Brom did beat us.

 

We must have played 5.5 good halves this season... But, please, keep telling me it's suddenly go to turn around.

 

I don't know, if the Premier League is the best league in the world,

but I am quite sure, that it is the most contested one. Pace and intensity

are second to none. Even the "big teams" have to give 100% in every

match, if they want to win three points. 90%, even 95% are mostly not

good enough.

Knowing this, do you really think, that 6 additional CL games before Christmas

do not matter? To compare this season with the last one, or the 2014/15 one,

is like comparing apples and oranges. It doesn't make sense.

Do you, or anybody else in this forum, really think, that the " Great Escape"

would have been possible, if we, back then, had played the same amount of games

as this season?

Those additional 6 CL games are responsible for the fact, that many of our

players are not able to give the necessary 100% in every PL match.

Our team is not used to cope with that double burden.

Ranieri did warn us all at the beginning of the season, that it would be so.

You should have believed him.

[WigstonWanderer]

8 hours ago, Matt said:

At the time I didn't appreciate it but on a whole during the great escape season atleast we were playing well, it didn't help much at the time and ultimately it wasn't winning us matches but atleast we were playing well, it was something positive.

 

Can't even say that this season...

Order of merit:

 

Best.      Winning       Attractive football

              Winning       Ugly football

              Losing         Attractive football

Worst.    Losing         Ugly football          <= Us

[AmyLGK]

17 hours ago, adejo92 said:

I think what is just as frustrating as loosing every week is the post match b0110cks afterwards.

 

CR always saying we were unlucky and fought well etc etc and each week a different player is selected to spout out the generic 'We need to stick together' nonsense.

 

If CR can't see how woeful we are and the fact that we have deserved to loose every game that we have then i don't see how things will get better.

This!

 

At least in the great escape season we were genuinely playing well - this is just dross! 

 

I've tried to not post on here or have a melt down - but I'm so depressed with football right now! 

 

*goes off to watch videos on youtube of when Leicester won the league*

 

[shen]

18 hours ago, adejo92 said:

I think what is just as frustrating as loosing every week is the post match b0110cks afterwards.

 

CR always saying we were unlucky and fought well etc etc and each week a different player is selected to spout out the generic 'We need to stick together' nonsense.

 

If CR can't see how woeful we are and the fact that we have deserved to loose every game that we have then i don't see how things will get better.

We're all craving answers as fans as well as some insight into the workings behind the scenes.

But CR is doing little else than what he did last season when we were flying high.

Not letting himself get too affected (publicly at least) by our performances, whether they be great or poor.

He and other managers are getting asked the same questions each and every week, they can't keep coming up with new and interesting answers or change their personality just to please the baying fans.

[shen]

26 minutes ago, AmyLGK said:

This!

 

At least in the great escape season we were genuinely playing well - this is just dross! 

 

I've tried to not post on here or have a melt down - but I'm so depressed with football right now! 

 

*goes off to watch videos on youtube of when Leicester won the league*

 

Everyone is frustrated right now, but depressed is a bit strong. We're defending champions and through to the knockout stages in our maiden CL campaign.
If that is depressing then we have suddenly raised the bar to Man Utd fan levels.

[Chester Dontlie]

Just watched the full game. A sad spectacle, especially the first half. We started to look remotely competitive as late as 60th minute I think and seriously threatened their goal only in last 10, first half they were bossing it. Slim, King, Albrighton. Fuchs, Hernandez were especially shocking. To waste Man City victory losing with Bournemouth like this  

The players should be ashamed, in contrast to them travelling support was brilliant, the fans sang their hearts out, and the team should repay them by leaving theirs on the pitch. I can't understand how they can play yet another game in the economy mode, only switching to 100% towards the end. Are they so low on batteries or what. Why can't they start out with a bang, have a go at it, and then try to hold on. I wonder what CR does to motivate them these days, if anything. He's playing it safe, maybe hoping that things will finally click but for how long can we put our hopes on 4-4-2 with only King and Amartey in the middle? 

 

Perhaps the owners should have a word with the team after all. Even with the Don himself. Claudio seems to be containing his frustration in the interviews. Maybe he should express it openly for once in public, so the message would really get through to everyone and the team would start each game with 100% effort. He can't maintain this status quo forever, pretend things are rosy while we're flirting with relegation zone. Maybe things should get officially a little unpleasant before they'll look up again?

 

I'm glad I'm not the gaffer if I was half of the squad would be re-learning their lost skills in reserves Hopefully Claudio still has  some magic left for the second part of the season and the owners will splash the cash on some quality signings in January  There's so many question marks right now.

 

 

 

 

[dannythefox]

We will beat teams this season but this 4-4-2 away from home is getting boring and will end in tears, what's wrong with changing formations away then then going all out for the last 10mins if we're losing. Hope this new kid is the answer we can't cope with getting another that doesn't make an impact straight away.