Koke Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 We had 62% possesion. I don't think we've had that since under Pearson. Did anyone else notice Ranieri kept telling our players to keep the ball on the ground and less hoofing? Never seen him do that before. We're an absolute abomination of a team but we dominated them on their own patch in the second half and creates 4-5 clear cut chances and should have won. We'll beat them in the replay.
crazyleicester Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 We had 11 corners, 14 shots and hit the target 6 times and that doesnt include the one where Gray hit the post. We had 7 very good chances and 5 clear ones. How you can put all that together and say we were an abomination of a team is very strange. I understand at times we have played like crap and throw the odd decent performance in but its due to a lack of confidence. Mendy, Ndidi, Slimani, Ulloa, Amartey or Kapustka didnt even make the pitch today. I`ll say we will be OK, especially when we bring in a defender or two that we are obviously tracking.
Tuna Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 If he doesn't want us hoofing, he should stop selecting Albrighton!
NewEnglandFox Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 How many 40 yard diagonals did Drinkwater try that went out for throw ins?
Will1981 Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 we can not play possession football when Simpson, Morgan, Huth and King are scared of the ball and either always pass backwards or hoof the ball forward.
Koke Posted 28 January 2017 Author Posted 28 January 2017 2 minutes ago, crazyleicester said: We had 11 corners, 14 shots and hit the target 6 times and that doesnt include the one where Gray hit the post. We had 7 very good chances and 5 clear ones. How you can put all that together and say we were an abomination of a team is very strange. I understand at times we have played like crap and throw the odd decent performance in but its due to a lack of confidence. Mendy, Ndidi, Slimani, Ulloa, Amartey or Kapustka didnt even make the pitch today. I`ll say we will be OK, especially when we bring in a defender or two that we are obviously tracking. Let's be honest. Derby are a poor mid table Championship side. We should have won that game. We had 62% possesion and kept the ball better because the opposition are wank . Ranieri on the sideline appeared to give instructions to keep the ball on the ground and pass it but as @Tuna said with Huth and Albrighton it's hard.
BenTheFox Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 In the premier league you don't often get away with having a back four where only one of them is relatively comfortable on the ball. Fine having one that isn't, you can get away with two, but three just causes you problems.
lgfualol Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 23 minutes ago, Koke said: Did anyone else notice Ranieri kept telling our players to keep the ball on the ground and less hoofing? Never seen him do that before. Yup and 10 seconds later Albrighton launched it upfield to give possession away. We just have some very limited players.
STUHILL Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 17 minutes ago, NewEnglandFox said: How many 40 yard diagonals did Drinkwater try that went out for throw ins? Listening to Paul Scholes last week talking about Drinkwater and said having played with him many times at Man U, he was surprised how good his passing was last season... Not sure that is a compliment He does seem way off the quality he was last season, when often he was our best player and his passing was impecable.
Guest Lako42 Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 The passing ability of Simpson tonight was embarrassing, we would have had at least 87% if he could pass 5 bloody yards. I also enjoyed our excellent corners that never made it into play, they weren't embarrassing at all.
Koke Posted 28 January 2017 Author Posted 28 January 2017 The only reason Huth has positive pass accuracy is because he constantly passes the ball to Schmeichel.
Beechey Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 3 minutes ago, Lako42 said: The passing ability of Simpson tonight was embarrassing, we would have had at least 87% if he could pass 5 bloody yards. I also enjoyed our excellent corners that never made it into play, they weren't embarrassing at all. Except, y'know... the one we scored from.
Guest Lako42 Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 Just now, Beechey said: Except, y'know... the one we scored from. Which was taken by a different player, so yea except that one.
shiv Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 31 minutes ago, Koke said: Let's be honest. Derby are a poor mid table Championship side. We should have won that game. We had 62% possesion and kept the ball better because the opposition are wank . Ranieri on the sideline appeared to give instructions to keep the ball on the ground and pass it but as @Tuna said with Huth and Albrighton it's hard. It's the FA Cup. Derby could be a League 1 side, it counts for nothing in this competition as we've seen before. Bearing in mind we've also got a shocking away record. We deserved to win today. Step in the right direction for me.
Koke Posted 28 January 2017 Author Posted 28 January 2017 Also worth noting that Mahrez looked better today cos we bossed the possession. Most of the time he defends and receives the ball in his own half, and is expected to heat 3 men and put it on a plate for Vardy or Slimani.
jim5000 Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 If we could defend it would of been a comfortable 2-0. Wes and Huth have fallen off a cliff.
jim5000 Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 56 minutes ago, Tuna said: If he doesn't want us hoofing, he should stop selecting Albrighton! Hey man, go easy on him, he's going for the record of most pointless crosses in a match (all time), and we as Leicester fans, should be 100% behind him!!
Finnegan Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 We're in a shit place right now and a lot of our players are looking seriously short of confidence. Vardy more than anyone, I don't agree that he doesn't care or he's lazy, I don't think that's in his nature. I think his confidence is completely shot. But @Koke is right. As much as we should be beating championship teams, we're hardly the first premier league side to ever need a replay and nobody can say we weren't all over them on the balance of play. Okazaki, Vardy and Gray all hit point blank shots straight at Carson when it would have been easier to score. We can't say we didn't fashion chances, or we couldn't keep the ball or anything else. We just had a bad day in front of goal. It happens. We move on and get behind them for Burnley.
Barky Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 6 hours ago, Koke said: Let's be honest. Derby are a poor mid table Championship side. We should have won that game. We had 62% possesion and kept the ball better because the opposition are wank . Ranieri on the sideline appeared to give instructions to keep the ball on the ground and pass it but as @Tuna said with Huth and Albrighton it's hard. They're 7th, which isn't really mid-table and the only reason they're that far down is because Agent Pearson made such a terrible start. If you take it from when McLaren took over they'd be around 3rd and well in the hunt for automatic promotion. Only league leaders Brighton have better form than Derby over the last 12 games. They're not a bad side at all.
Guest ttfn Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 42 minutes ago, Finnegan said: We're in a shit place right now and a lot of our players are looking seriously short of confidence. Vardy more than anyone, I don't agree that he doesn't care or he's lazy, I don't think that's in his nature. I think his confidence is completely shot. But @Koke is right. As much as we should be beating championship teams, we're hardly the first premier league side to ever need a replay and nobody can say we weren't all over them on the balance of play. Okazaki, Vardy and Gray all hit point blank shots straight at Carson when it would have been easier to score. We can't say we didn't fashion chances, or we couldn't keep the ball or anything else. We just had a bad day in front of goal. It happens. We move on and get behind them for Burnley. I don't think that Vardy doesn't care, but he is certainly being lazy by the standards he sets himself and lethargic even by the miserable standard that the team has been setting recently. You can be low on confidence and that can stop you from shooting when you might do when you're on it or going past a man when space opens up. But it shouldn't be stopping you from the nuts and bolts of centre forward play - moving the defenders around, holding the ball for your team mates etc. The guy is offering us absolutely nothing at the moment. Agree with the rest of the point though, we played some nice stuff especially in the first 10 minutes of the second half and even in the first half I thought we were the better side. Then again we were playing a mid-table Championship outfit.
Matt Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 9 hours ago, Matt said: After last season we of all people should know stats mean **** all. Last season our stats would have been like Derby's but we'd have won the game. We can't pick and choose when to use them, we'd have took the piss out of opposing fans using the 'we won on stats' line last season.
Guest CityFan 06 Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 We started very well and the team looked more comfortable operating in the 4-4-1-1/4-4-2 formation. I was impressed by how we retained possession, although we did get more space than usual.
Sharpe's Fox Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 Think King makes a difference in possession he's our only midfielder who doesn't treat the ball like a bomb
irishmenfox Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 Derby aren't a midtable championship team at all. They are competing for the play offs and would have been competing for top 2 but for Mr Pearson. Leicester may be champions but there really isn't a lot between the teams and both teams had some players out. Are the likes of Drinkwater and King really much that better than the likes of Hughes and Bryson? Not for me. And you must have been watching a different game to me because we may have had a lot of possession but that was because Derby allowed the team to and when the players actually got pressed by derbys midfield, they lost it straight away and resulted in Morgan and Huth hoofing it. The whole tactic was to hoof it to Vardy and hope for the best by hoping he would get onto second balls, not possession based at all
foxinsocks Posted 28 January 2017 Posted 28 January 2017 10 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said: Think King makes a difference in possession he's our only midfielder who doesn't treat the ball like a bomb Is this andy k8ng we're talking about?
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.