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Stoke post match 2-0.

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Kendal Fox

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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?

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ajthefox

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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. 

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Thracian

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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.  

 

 

 

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Webbo

Webbo

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#
Team
GP
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
PTS
 
1
29
22
3
4
60
23
37
69
 
2
29
18
8
3
57
21
36
62
 
3
30
17
8
5
64
37
27
59
 
4
28
17
6
5
54
30
24
57
 
5
28
14
11
3
42
23
19
53
 
6
27
15
5
7
56
34
22
50
 
7
30
14
8
8
52
33
19
50
 
8
30
12
8
10
39
38
1
44
 
9
30
9
9
12
33
44
-11
36
 
10
29
9
7
13
34
48
-14
34
 
11
27
9
6
12
33
36
-3
33
 
12
29
9
6
14
42
54
-12
33
 
13
29
9
6
14
35
47
-12
33
 
14
30
9
6
15
41
54
-13
33
 
15
30
9
5
16
31
44
-13
32
 
16
29
9
4
16
38
47
-9
31
 
17
29
8
3
18
36
63
-27
27
 
18
30
7
6
17
28
59
-31
27
 
19
28
4
10
14
20
33
-13
22
 
20
29
5
5
19
24
51
-27
20
Moved above West Ham and Burnley, level on points with Bournemouth and Soton. The run we're on, 9th is not impossible.
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foxes_rule1978

foxes_rule1978

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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 

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Guest ttfn

Guest ttfn

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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". 

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Donut

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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. 

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the fox

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Just now, Swarles Barkley said:

If albrightons fit on Tuesday who do you play?!

 

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.

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