Stoke post match 1-1

[The Guvnor]

Too pedestrian in the first half, would have liked Mahrez playing in the ten role and Gray playing wide. Too much time pumping the ball forwards in the air and Stoke just lapped it up. Charlie Adam should have walked but we were bang average for most of the match.

[ARTY_FOX]

Someone needs to get into the manager and players head very soon we need to try for more than the last 15 minutes and for **** sake tackle people running at the ****ing box. Absolutely rubbish for 75 minutes and utterly boring to watch. 

[lee7]

Awful for 80 minutes. 

The decision to move Albrighton to right back was baffling! He was having a stinker and on a yellow. 

 

Gray seems to be getting worse. James looks unfit, once a player gets round him he's done for. Ndidi put in one of his worst performances of the season. 

 

Puel wants us playing posession based football yet our two centre mids who are the most comfortable on the ball and most creative are sat on the bench! 

[moore_94]

I just can't get over how bad Puel's tactical decision making skills are, everyone could clearly see how poorly Matty James was playing, with Silva and Iborra both sat on the bench, I just don't understand how he couldn't see that making that change would have improved us

[bfox]

Just now, the fox said:

The game is on Puel! that was a really bad starting 11!

I agree, I was baffled when I seen that team sheet. 

[Dr The Singh]

Too many shit performances today.

 

Way to reliant on Mahrez for creativity.

 

Can t see us getting 7th or winning the cup.

 

 

[fleckneymike]

Playing Gray in a position he simply cannot play cost us dearly. 

[KansasFox]

3 minutes ago, UPinCarolina said:

Personally, I think we have seen the last of Matty James. 

I've thought that the past 3 times, but alas no.

[Fox 4 Life]

2 minutes ago, Jonezy said:

Wow. Overreaction is real around here...

 

We are a bit shot on confidence and both Swansea and Stoke lucked out for their points here. It is very frustrating, but thats football sometimes. Heads up guys, we do have a pretty decent team.

 

But I must wonder if we ever train or at least talk about set pieces, because we can't defend them in most games and we sure as hell aren't very dangerous when we have them.

We do have a decent team but lots of them are sat on the bench. Puel needs to sort it the **** out. We are 10 points off he bottom 3 (extra game played) which is by no means safety and the way we are playing we need to watch it. Stoke are possibly the worst team in the league outside of WBA

Edited 24 February 2018 by Fox 4 Life

[lgfualol]

Just now, SecretPro said:

Are you going to forgive Albrighton though? Because his were just as if not more terrible. 

Albrighton is a shocking player sometimes. Luckily him ****ing up a cross led to the goal. He'll get no stick on here though for wasting so many chances and trying to shoot when he has no shooting ability.

[ZeGuy]

Just now, HankMarvin said:

if youre gonna take all the set pieces in a game, then maybe make them count 

 

a lot of the time they wasnt making it past the near post 

 

13 corners is a hell of a lot not to trouble the GK

90% of them were two times set pieces with the result we all know. Set pieces are a big problem for this team and making one player responsible for these shambles is ridiculous. Find a better scapegoat.

[Kopfkino]

4 minutes ago, UPinCarolina said:

Personally, I think we have seen the last of Matty James. 

 

Don't be daft, he was bossed by Fleetwood but still gets in the team now. Puel doesn't seem to like Silva and Iborra.

[KansasFox]

Iborra, O O O

Iborra, O O O

He came from sunny spain

To back up Matty James!

[peach0000]

1 minute ago, SecretPro said:

Are you going to forgive Albrighton though? Because his were just as if not more terrible. 

Mahrez took the majority of them and from previous games I reckon albrighton is a better set piece taker than mahrez. Mahrez is a very talented player but hitting a dead ball is not part of that talent and he has to accept that. He takes pretty much all the free kicks in scoring positions but I struggle to remember him scoring a single one. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

7 minutes ago, 49er said:

Why did James play ahead of Iborra and Silva?

I mentioned in another thread (and recall getting a sarcastic response from @Colourmy) that I'm privy to very little ITK knowledge, but the coaching staff rate James very very highly. Silva and Iborra have alot of work to do to displace him. As in, they think James is better.

[adamlcfcbevo85]

negative setup at home terrible performance.

 

I hate stoke by far the dirtiest team to ever play in the prem how the **** they had 11 players on the pitch today is beyond me.

 

start a game with shit players get a shit result.

 

overall poor performance players should give 50% of there wages to charity because they certainly didn't earn them this week.

 

[ealingfox]

All the stick King got makes me sick. Absolutely no chance he's worse than James.

[foxfanazer]

Rubbish.

 

Silva must start from now on! 

Mahrez greedy and poor deliveries into the box. More points down the drain

[m4DD0gg]

This website is a joke cant believe the puel out thread has been deleted.

[ZeGuy]

3 minutes ago, peach0000 said:

Albrighton had a decent game, simpson and morgan did nothing wrong neither did James. Players like Mahrez and gray were far worse but everyone just hates on the same people regardless of performance. 

Just fcking lol.

[Jaspa]

Cant let them off for that, absolute caca until we changed the formation and we nearly lost to a very poor team.

 

Main issue for me is Centre Mid, think we're using James there because we need some one to impose himself in there and its either James or Iborra for that and Matty is somehow ahead. I mean James does have patches where he does physically marshal the other team and isnt bad at spreading play and organising but he comes in and out of the game and offensively has never really offered anything at this level, that woddle around the six yard box when the ball was bouncing around just showed he hasnt got the instinct to be in that position. Gray was useless again, Albrighton looked bolloxed chasing back in the end and dont even get me started on Kasper's distribution ect. Anyways centre mid is where we need to fix up mainly in my opinion, we were lofting it up to a deep set defence with nothing but pace and technical players up there, couldnt play it through and when we did find space to play they'd foul us(which the ref let continue really, a clear tactic).

 

I don't want to see a performance like that first 70 again, should be better than that

[HankMarvin]

1 minute ago, ZeGuy said:

90% of them were two times set pieces with the result we all know. Set pieces are a big problem for this team and making one player responsible for these shambles is ridiculous. Find a better scapegoat.

No ill pick the person taking the corners thanks

just like how they would get credit if it was a good one

[Chester Dontlie]

4 minutes ago, UPinCarolina said:

Personally, I think we have seen the last of Matty James. 

Here's hoping!  Gonna spend the rest of the weekend wondering why we didn't start either of Silva and Iborra. It truly does my head in

[cc_star]

7 minutes ago, FIF said:

2 points given away.

 

Mehrez had more touches today than Vardy in a season. Every time he touched it I thought this is it. So disappointing.

 

James did okay and that header was unlucky.

 

Chilwell marked Shaqiri very well.

 

Ndidi had a poor game for once

 

Simpson - hope it's the last we see of him, would rather have Albrighton there

 

Morgan, showed why we should play dragovic, more skill and doesn't dither with the ball.

 

Maguire was okay

 

Albrighton had a lot of the ball but did little more than Mehrez with it.

 

Gray didn't see much of the ball but ran back on defence.

 

Vardy didn't see much of the ball

 

Really this game was all Mahrez and he wasn't on song.

Absolutely nothing on for him while Gray was on, while Albrighton was higher up, while Vardy was easily handled by Zouma

 

Until Butland's og after great Mahrez pass & Albrighton smash, Stoke had one of their easiest games of the season

 

Bizarre starting 11

Lethargic players lacking urgency, yet again.

Bad non-penetrative possession tactics

Gray, Simpson & others are absolute crap

 

Puel should have a lot to answer for and just what does he feed to the players pre-game & at HT, sleeping pills?

Edited 24 February 2018 by cc_star

[Blue ROI]

2 wins from 11.

 

A very bleak day. Up there with hull 3 years ago.

 

What was Claude thinking with that team?

 

James isn't the way forward. Morgan did OK but the dragon was worth starting.

 

Gray looks like he  isn't going to cut the mustard for us. 

 

We were unlucky not to get a 2nd goal but it wouldn't have been deserved overall.

 

A serious wake up call.a lot of soul searching to be done by the club.