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Fleetwood FA Cup post match 2-0

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StriderHiryu

StriderHiryu

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12 minutes ago, Fridgechef said:

Nacho has a future here for sure, if we can get him service he will be ace! Slim out the door ideally I think.

IF we qualify for Europe I could see the value in keeping both because the Europa is a right slog. 

 

Credit to Puel, he’s somehow getting them all to improve though I agree that 4 strikers feels like too many right now. And that’s ignoring Ulloa!

leicesterseddon

leicesterseddon

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Decent result but a rather needless replay to be honest. 

 

Just shows that 'resting' players can backfire if you come up a side taking it more seriously than you. 

 

Hopefully Puel will have learned a lesson before the Peterborough game, which will be more difficult. 

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justfoxes

justfoxes

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12 minutes ago, trabuch said:

Radio 5 saying that the Iborra VAR penalty shout was clearly a foul... still work to be done on VAR perhaps.

Come on just remember who was monitoring the VAR Mike Jones that incompetent Chelsea loving ***** !!

EastAnglianFox

EastAnglianFox

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Absolutely need to keep Kelechi for the post match interviews alone ??

 

Looked like he was turned and ready to interrogate Vards when he was answering a question.  

Kitchandro

Kitchandro

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11 minutes ago, murphy said:

Match thread, esp. first half was embarrassing.  There is so much naivety thinking that these would just roll over for us. 

 

Remember, our awful display away at Fleetwood and then this one at home are sandwiched between two fine performances against Huddersfield and Chelsea.  The point is that these cup ties against lower league teams are always tricky.  West Ham failed to beat Shrewsbury tonight, Man U lost to Bristol, before Liverpool, Man City's toughest game had been against Wolves.  Invariably you are dragged down a level, especially when you pick a team that isn't used to playing together.  

 

I'm sure you will see a much more fluent performance against Watford but it just goes to show that there are a hell of a lot of FT-ers that could write everything they know about football on the back of a stamp in crayon.

We were terrible against Huddersfield for 50 odd minutes. It was far from fine and the way they rolled over after our first goal just serves to paper over the cracks.

 

I personally think poor performances have more to do with bad tactics and bad players. The tactics against Chelsea were correct, they were non-existent at Fleetwood, and tonight we had several duds on the pitch.

 

I don’t think a comfortable win against a lower league side should paper over the cracks further. We’re lacking quality in depth up front and at the back. Our tactics change dramatically from match to match, which is very strange.

 

Hopefully, we will see a repeat of the display at Chelsea regularly from now on, rather than the other crap we’ve been served up by two managers for most of this season, which has hardly quickened the pulse in terms of entertainment.

 

We got through the tie in the end but the fact it took us one and a half matches to register on a shot on target against a League One side shows we got away with it a bit and I think alarm and displeasure was rightly displayed on the match thread until we got the all important first goal.

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Dead fox

Dead fox

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Nacho took his goals well, looked good with service. Hypothetically speaking, If Benalouane played every week how many red cards could he get in a season? One every two games I'll wager. That's even with the three match bans ?

Nick

Nick

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11 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Tbh I was surprised at bringing off Slimani, I would have brought off Mahrez with an eye to Saturday.

I would have made him carry his own 'for sale' sign as he left the pitch, ideally.

Nick

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So, being ruthless, despite a dismal first half I think everybody just about redeemed themselves except perhaps Benny and Slim who should be sent to work with big Nige in Belgium.

Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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Just now, Kitchandro said:

We were terrible against Huddersfield for 50 odd minutes. It was far from fine and the way they rolled over after our first goal just serves to paper over the cracks.

 

I personally think poor performances have more to do with bad tactics and bad players. The tactics against Chelsea were correct, they were non-existent at Flwetwood, and tonight we had several duds on the pitch.

 

I don’t think a comfortable win against a lower league side should paper over the cracks further. We’re lacking quality in depth up front and at the back. Our tactics change dramatically from match to match, which is very strange.

 

Hopefully, we will see a repeat of the display at Chelsea regularly from now on, rather than the other crap we’ve been served up by two managers for most of this season, which has hardly quickened the pulse in terms of entertainment.

 

We got through the tie in the end but the fact it took us one and a half matches to register on a shot on target against a League One side shows we got away with it a bit and I think alarm and displeasure was rightly displayed on the match thread until we got the all important first goal.

We've started reverting to 4-4-1-1 again rather than the fluid 4-2-3-1 where our 3 attacking midfielders all alternated and really caused the opposition problems picking them up. This I think is down to Okazaki being used more than Gray of late and then also when Slimani starts we go more covential 4 across midfield. I agree on the Huddersfield game we we're muck until that Mahrez ripper and then Slimani ran the show and we buried them.

 

Still work to do but we are a resiliant team and Silva will be sensational for us. I'm still not giving up on Iheanacho, any natural finishers are worth their weight in gold. Let's hope we can utilize it.

Hammo

Hammo

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Impressed with Jakupovic (solid keeper) and Silva (lively and clever) but not with Amartey (dangerously gave ball away through poor technique a couple of times) or Iborra (too ponderous).

 

Massive game for Iheanacho, who now deserves a regular spot on the bench ahead of Ulloa and Slimani. This man knows how to finish.

 

 

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Guest

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I don't understand the criticism of Iborra.

 

The guy pulled all the strings, he was continually given the ball under pressure and one touched it off to others or played great passes. First half I thought he was our best outfield player and he had a great second half. It took Silva a long time to find his cool but Iborra just sat in there feeding him and eventually Silva clicked and the two of them fed everyone else.

 

In summary I thought Iborra was one of our best, if not our best player.

jayfox26

jayfox26

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7 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

We were terrible against Huddersfield for 50 odd minutes. It was far from fine and the way they rolled over after our first goal just serves to paper over the cracks.

 

I personally think poor performances have more to do with bad tactics and bad players. The tactics against Chelsea were correct, they were non-existent at Fleetwood, and tonight we had several duds on the pitch.

 

I don’t think a comfortable win against a lower league side should paper over the cracks further. We’re lacking quality in depth up front and at the back. Our tactics change dramatically from match to match, which is very strange.

 

Hopefully, we will see a repeat of the display at Chelsea regularly from now on, rather than the other crap we’ve been served up by two managers for most of this season, which has hardly quickened the pulse in terms of entertainment.

 

We got through the tie in the end but the fact it took us one and a half matches to register on a shot on target against a League One side shows we got away with it a bit and I think alarm and displeasure was rightly displayed on the match thread until we got the all important first goal.

And yet we are still comfortably sitting in 8th, 3 points off 7th and in the 4th round of the FA cup. I get some of your points that some of our performances haven't been great but generally I'd say we've improved massively under Puel. To totally try and change the way we play from route 1 up to vardy to actually passing the ball around isn't an easy thing to do in a short time period and bearing in mind that he hasn't brought in any of his own players yet. We do have some dead wood in the squad but that's not Puels fault and January is a tough window so I don't expect him to make alot of signings or clear all the dead wood this month. Summer will be the test for him if he can bring in the right players to kick us on next season. 

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murphy

murphy

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5 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

We were terrible against Huddersfield for 50 odd minutes. It was far from fine and the way they rolled over after our first goal just serves to paper over the cracks.

 

I personally think poor performances have more to do with bad tactics and bad players. The tactics against Chelsea were correct, they were non-existent at Fleetwood, and tonight we had several duds on the pitch.

 

I don’t think a comfortable win against a lower league side should paper over the cracks further. We’re lacking quality in depth up front and at the back. Our tactics change dramatically from match to match, which is very strange.

 

Hopefully, we will see a repeat of the display at Chelsea regularly from now on, rather than the other crap we’ve been served up by two managers for most of this season, which has hardly quickened the pulse in terms of entertainment.

 

We got through the tie in the end but the fact it took us one and a half matches to register on a shot on target against a League One side shows we got away with it a bit and I think alarm and displeasure was rightly displayed on the match thread until we got the all important first goal.

 

I'm not saying we played well but from the comments that I have read pre match, so many posters were thinking we would walk it and it would be a question of how many followed by bewilderment in the match thread that we weren't having it all our own way.

 

Yes we were pretty poor in both games but it happens so often in football that teams are dragged down against lower league clubs it was always going to be difficult.  That's why they say the cup's a great leveller.  It is just the ignorance that I was reading that irritates me.  It happens every single year, nothing to do with tactics IMO.

Steve Earle

Steve Earle

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Poor first 45 but loads learned tonight.

 

-Dragovic is easily good enough to be 3rd/4th choice CB

-Benny is a madman, a red card waiting to happen (against League 1 opponents too!) and must go asap 

-Good 90 for Iborra

-Even better first 90 for Silva, reminded us of the quality he showed v Huddersfield 

-Iheanacho came alive after scoring & finally looked a player

-Puel has something about him too - Mahrez & Vardy wearing the armband

 

But what to make of Slim’s substitution? On his way?

Dr The Singh

Dr The Singh

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We played a Fleetwood side, and overall im not impressed by the performance

 

Second half we were better but they tired.  Our squad isn't great, and a few too many lack confidence.  Silva got better and better which was a massive plus

 

Glad we won, let's hope we improve.

M0901

M0901

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26 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

It must be tough for Kelechi.

He'll get two today and will know he won't start on Saturday, so can't build on this or keep up the momentum.

Slimani needs selling on imo.

 

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