davieG Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 Manchester United legend Gary Neville has saluted the performances of Nigerian midfielder Wilfred Ndidi despite the 0-3 loss suffered by Leicester City in the hands of Neville’s former club Manchester United. Neville who was in the studio as a pundit during the course of the game, praised the Nigerian for keeping the world most expensive player Paul Pogba silent for the entire duration of the game. Ndidi who was voted Leicester City man of the match by the BBC made a good impression on the former Valencia boss, who described his performance as near perfect. ” I can’t fault his (Ndidi) performance, he was very big in the game. He made Pogba a passenger in the middle. The boy is good in tackles and he is not afraid of running with the ball either”, Neville said. ” He got Pogba booked and was fouled severally, that said I can’t remember when he fouled any opponent. He did well despite how poor his team were on the day”
Innovindil Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 Easily the one positive from Sunday. He has MASSIVE shoes to fill but definitely has the ability to do the job. The rest of the team has to step up around him.
Ric Flair Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 He has shown that the defensive midfielder we thought was the missing link was just the tip of the iceberg. He is pretty much our only shining light.
MikeyT Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 Agreed, he was the best Leicester player by a country mile. Let's hope he continues.
lgfualol Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 He looked well up for it, compared to others. Not surprising, new in the country and playing one of the biggest teams in the world- you want to make an impression. Made his CM team-mate look like a slob.
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 Why is the new kid the only one who looks like he gives a shit? Hopefully we can sort ourselves out and he gets a proper crack at it next season.
foxy boxing Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 we've found another gem, and we really need to keep this one if we can. it's still early days but he looks very promising and will hopefully keep putting in decent shifts and great performances for the team
yorkie1999 Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 And if gray had gone down on the edge of the box, pogba would have been sent off.
crazyleicester Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 For 100m Pogba has been shocking. Physically he does resemble Ndidi and they play in the same position so its no surprise they were compared and i have to agree, Ndidi bossed the midfield and every time the ball came near him you had the feeling something positive could happen. Unfortunately it takes a new signing to show the way ahead of a team of champions who are in heavy sulk and feel sorry for each other mode at the moment.
Swarles Barkley Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 He'll boss it for us in the championship
evil jack Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 He was great on Sunday. Obviously I now fully expect him to be dropped v Swansea.
Babylon Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 The only one who really stood up to be counted.
weller54 Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 19 minutes ago, Swarles Barkley said: He'll boss it for us in the championship Ndidi /Barnes Combo.... Drinkwater will go. Amartey converted to a CB. Mendy...... Injured or offloaded! James back in the fold perhaps?
ZeGuy Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 34 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: He has shown that the defensive midfielder we thought was the missing link was just the tip of the iceberg. He is pretty much our only shining light. Always knew the kid has potential. Thought that with him, Drinkwater would be able to pull the strings freely. The problem (defense aside) is that the latter is refusing to step up for whatever reason.
STUHILL Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 Gives me hope that the scouting team still have an eye for a talent, although you wonder whether this was another one we have been tracking since before Walsh left. If Claudio does go, I really hope we find out whether signings such as Benny, Hernandez, Musa etc were all his own ideas or indeed they came from our established scouting team. Hoping Wague is going to be another N'didi, Kante type discovery, as on paper, he is very underwhelming!
psychonaut Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 Drinkwater needs to get his sh1t together stop self imploding on the pitch and start communicating with Ndidi.
dynamark Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 If they want to do a straight swop Id take Pogba in an instant. Pogba looks a bit ungainly but the guy is a monster of a player. Ndidid looks capable TBF
Basingstoke Fox Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 Pogba was bullying Drinkwater off the ball at times on Sunday, you could see how frustrated he was getting.
one F in Fox Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 He was certainly our best player by far. It was quite worrying however, to see him getting frustrated several times when he had the ball and our movement was so poor he didn't have a forward pass on.
Ricey Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 He was fantastic, but he was partially to blame for the third goal as he let Mkhitaryan drift away and instead decided to mark no one as an extra CB between Fuchs and Huth. He's young and we've seen with Amartey how much a young player can improve when playing regularly, but let's not hail him as the saviour quite just yet.
foxes21 Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 if we can get him running higher up the pitch off the ball to assist the press & win possession high up the pitch, I think that's when we can make 4-4-1-1 work. Like Kante, Ndidi surely has the stamina and intensity to help press high & also track back into his own half, in the space of a few seconds. Drinkwater wants to be the main man, the one that sits deep and sprays passes. Let Ndidi be the one to press high off the ball, like Kante did.
TJB-fox Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 43 minutes ago, dynamark said: If they want to do a straight swop Id take Pogba in an instant. Pogba looks a bit ungainly but the guy is a monster of a player. Ndidid looks capable TBF
Jonesy91 Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 47 minutes ago, STUHILL said: Gives me hope that the scouting team still have an eye for a talent, although you wonder whether this was another one we have been tracking since before Walsh left. If Claudio does go, I really hope we find out whether signings such as Benny, Hernandez, Musa etc were all his own ideas or indeed they came from our established scouting team. Hoping Wague is going to be another N'didi, Kante type discovery, as on paper, he is very underwhelming! Musa was scouted by Steve Walsh for some time. He even admitted to flying to Moscow to scout a player in an interview.
ealingfox Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 Spent the second half wondering who he'll be playing for next season. Already a good player at 20, plenty of mileage in the write-ups he was getting from the Genk fans on here.
STUHILL Posted 7 February 2017 Posted 7 February 2017 56 minutes ago, Jonesy91 said: Musa was scouted by Steve Walsh for some time. He even admitted to flying to Moscow to scout a player in an interview. I still have SOME hope for Musa. I think he unfortunately suffers from being a player that is neither a winger or a striker. His best position is wide left of a front 3, which of course we have not been playing. At the moment though, and only based on the very few times I have seen him, he doesn't really look good enough to be a top player for us. Players like Gray and N'didi seem to have much more impact on the game, and you can see glimpses of them making a real long-term impact for us. Too early to write him off, and hope we can find a system or position that suits him best or he can adapt and become a striker or winger. I would say it is unlikely, but not impossible.
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