Kendal Fox Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Well done the boys in blue! Realise beggars can't be choosers but really want to see us keep the win/unbeaten streak going for as long as possible. If we beat Sunderland on Tuesday night, survival almost looks like a foregone conclusion, then we can focus on the CL and finishing as respectfully as possible in the league. Especially since we are the defending champs. I'm lazy but where would 60 points see us finish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Fox Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Also this all conquering Chelsea side, which is amazing and already won the league, have now already lost more games this season than we did all last season.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes21 Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 can't wait for okazaki to somehow get ratings of 7 or below in the player ratings thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxfanazer Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Brilliant win. Never looked in doubt. Two beautiful goals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue ROI Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 5 wins in 6 months and now 1 win from 5 in 5 weeks.  Missed the game but another very good performance. Results around us not perfect but did what we had to.  Very pleased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mease Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 What I like about this win is at no point did it ever look like we were going to lose this, not at any point, we always looked like this was our game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Gone up to 13th level with 11th, top half finish is on now! be good if we can do that just to not have the record has lowest finish by champions in the PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUltimateWinner Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Should be happy with results around us now, playing so well why look down? 3 points off 9th! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajthefox Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Looked like real champions for 60 minutes. Took Stoke apart time and again and it really should've been game over by the hour, it could quite easily have been 4.  Last 30 thought we looked quite poor though. We were dropping before Amartey came on and after we just stopped pushing forward and invited Stoke onto us. We never looked like losing because Stoke were shite but they had a few decent chances and it could easily have been a very nervous last 10/15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Two terrific goals and should have more if we'd been ruthless and hadn't started playing nowhere football in the last 15 minutes. How Crouch failed to find the net astounds me. He's hard to mark when fed the right crosses but we allowed them as we allowed Adam the freedom of the park for some reason. They also had what looked a perfectly good goal disallowed.  But, overall, a good performance, goals to drool over, notable contributions from the likes of N'didi including his super strike, Vardy for a superb volley and run for what would have been a tap-in had Mahrez not chosen the wrong option.  Also from Gray for his best virtual 90 minutes to date and two or three excellent shots, from Shinji who demonstrated some close control,for once to go with his industry.  Five wins in five for Shaky including becoming the first Englishman to win his first four games as manager in The Premiership - which earned him MoM for me  and, once again, evidence of a team growing in confidence and clearly able to play exhilarating football when we choose to maintain some momentum.  Up to 13th with 33 points ... who would have believed it when the world was carping about Ranieri's dismissal and hinting that Shaky wasn't the so-called "big name" we need.  Well, his name seems to be growing apace and so too his team. A clean sheet hasn't happened that often this season which must have been another confidence booster for Morgan replacement Benny although we sure played with fire at the death and that needs to be attended to.  We got sloppy and areas of sloppiness became contagious so the whole outfield team started to join in because, basically, we lost all ambition and just wanted to play out time. And, because we weren't intent on going anywhere started going through the old Allen Wade guide to passing in pointless triangles, and didn't even do it well. Simple passes missed their mark, what was once delightful passing and moving with an end product became simply passing for it's own sake with no movement and no intent.  And it wasn't due to Stoke pressure - at least to begin with - it was almost entirely self-imposed. Mahrez could and should have sealed the game with a simple five yard pass for Vardy to tap into an open goal but he didn't make the pass and we went from a position of certain victory to a team just trying to hang in there.  Suddenly from creating next to nothing, Stoke had a goal disallowed, two point blank headers for Crouch that should have been freebies and a couple more scares because all that made us mean disappeared - and more so with the substitutions cos they added nothing but fresh legs that weren't really needed because Stoke had hardly run us to exhaustion.  Slimani featured in one  half-decent move but mostly went gently through the motions while Amartey and Chilwell added nothing either.  To some extent I sympathise with the subs. We'd already stopped being ambitious and the only purpose of Amartey and Chilwell was as end-play spoilers.  But Charlie Adam wasn't neutralised, Stoke suddenly had all the movement up front and in midfield, and no-one looked remotely capable of negating Crouch's threat save Crouchy himself         So altogether I just give thanks for our performance over the 65 minutes or so - up to the point of Mahrez's ignored opportunity. In that hour we scored two breathtaking goals, peppered the Stoke goal with stinging shots and even threatened to tear them apart at times with the incisiveness of our quick counter-attacking.  But then we just turned off like a tap leaving Stoke to miss chances that could have saved them a game they should never have had a sniff at. .And much of our late demise was down to the absence of  Morgan, as explained in another thread. We just gave Crouch the Freedom of our penalty box like a civic honour.                    .          Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 # Team GP W D L GF GA GD PTS Â 1 Chelsea 29 22 3 4 60 23 37 69 Â 2 Tottenham 29 18 8 3 57 21 36 62 Â 3 Liverpool 30 17 8 5 64 37 27 59 Â 4 Man. City 28 17 6 5 54 30 24 57 Â 5 Man United 28 14 11 3 42 23 19 53 Â 6 Arsenal 27 15 5 7 56 34 22 50 Â 7 Everton 30 14 8 8 52 33 19 50 Â 8 West Brom 30 12 8 10 39 38 1 44 Â 9 Stoke City 30 9 9 12 33 44 -11 36 Â 10 Watford 29 9 7 13 34 48 -14 34 Â 11 Southampton 27 9 6 12 33 36 -3 33 Â 12 Bournemouth 29 9 6 14 42 54 -12 33 Â 13 Leicester City 29 9 6 14 35 47 -12 33 Â 14 West Ham 30 9 6 15 41 54 -13 33 Â 15 Burnley FC 30 9 5 16 31 44 -13 32 Â 16 Crystal Palace 29 9 4 16 38 47 -9 31 Â 17 Swansea City 29 8 3 18 36 63 -27 27 Â 18 Hull City 30 7 6 17 28 59 -31 27 Â 19 Middlesbrough 28 4 10 14 20 33 -13 22 Â 20 Sunderland 29 5 5 19 24 51 -27 20 Â Â Moved above West Ham and Burnley, level on points with Bournemouth and Soton. The run we're on, 9th is not impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justfoxes Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Pleased for another win only negative wish we could have put away more of our 23 Â chances !! Another 3 points to safety !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Great win  up the Foxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxinNotts Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 If Southampton beat Bournemouth, this evening, we'll go up another place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Take that result until the end of the season even if we create 50 chances a game. Looking like this season might not turn out too badly after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPinCarolina Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Never a dull moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Just now, ARM1968 said: Take that result until the end of the season even if we create 50 chances a game. Looking like this season might not turn out too badly after all. Agreed, funny enough we could end up in the top half and with a quarter final already achieved in the CL it could well be a good season in the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxyPalace.com Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 We look so much better without Ranieri. Â Benny did a great job also. Â Thunder strike x 2 today very happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarles Barkley Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 If albrightons fit on Tuesday who do you play?! Â Hes been outstanding for the last month but Gray was unplayable today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttfn Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Shawcross proving once again that he is an absolute thug.  Not sending off players for tackles like that is why you end up with leg breaks like Seamus Coleman's the other day.  The absolute definition of "excessive force". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie1999 Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 9 minutes ago, Sammy said: Should be happy with results around us now, playing so well why look down? 3 points off 9th! 8th if we win by 2 goals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 That's a good problem to have right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donut Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 28 minutes ago, NeilLCFC said: If only we got rid of Ranieri in the summer!  ahh well another great escape, so we'll win the league next season! FFS Give the Ranieri thing a rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the fox Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Just now, Swarles Barkley said: If albrightons fit on Tuesday who do you play?! Â Hes been outstanding for the last month but Gray was unplayable today play him, as good as gray was, albrighton starting makes the team more fluid, just like okazaki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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