Inconsistency

[smr]

I don't understand why we are rotating our players so much, it's no wonder we're playing awful football at the moment. 

 

When Drag came in to cover for Morgan he was excellent and merited his stay and place in the team, to only get the boot when Morgan got fit again. Why drop a defender when he's playing well and helping the team? I get the fact that Morgan is our defacto leader but we were churning out good football and decent results without him. Just because he may have an air of leadership about him doesn't mean he should walk straight back into the team, or does it ? Maybe I'm missing the point. But yesterday, again, he didn't do anything to make me think "wow this guys got to be the first name on the teamsheet before every match" and he gave away the ball on a few occasions....

 

Speaking of which, how many times did we pass the ball to their players yesterday? It was flabbergasting, we made it look more difficult than it should have been. I lost count of how many times one of our players had the ball and gave it away to a Bournemouth player, most times even making it look like it was meant to be passed to them. Did anyone else notice yesterday how much we were trying to hoof the ball over to Vardy as well? Where has this "pass on the floor" mentality Puel's repeatedly saying in his post match interviews gone, there was hardly any of that yesterday. He alluded to the point that he doesn't like long balls yet for the first half especially and towards the second half end that's all we were doing, lobbing balls over Vardy's head for him to run on to. When we were passing the ball around when Puel first took over we were zipping it along the pitch with pace and accuracy, giving the other team no time to think. It was fast, frenetic, exciting and accurate. WTF has happened to that?

 

Which probably gets answered by another thing annoying me - team rotation - as mentioned Drag imo should still be in the team, ahead of Morgan, and I thought he and Maguire were gelling well together. Then there's Amartey, he, like Drag was also playing very well and then as soon as Simpson recovered he was displaced out of the team - what good is that doing for a footballer's mentality and confidence? Play well? Good. Get dropped. He must be wondering what he has to do - if that's not good enough then what else is it? Does the manager even like me?

 

Drag, Amartey, both playing well : keep them in the fecking team then, you don't need to be a genius to work that out. Then there's the engine of the team, Iborra, James, Silva, Ndidi - why is James in the team? What did he do yesterday that was better than what Iborra offers? Iborra is a player who has that ability to create 2-3 seconds space around him, almost like some sort of force-field the opposition players can't cross. It gives him time and the rest of the players time to exploit defensive lines and make runs wherever - forward, out wide, in behind etc. He brings calm and a collectiveness which James has no ability to do so.

 

Why not just keep Iborra in the team and play him every game, Wilf's a starter every week and rightly so - why not make Silva a regular starter - We've then got Iborra who can instill a bit of calm in the midfield and create space, play make and distribute, we've got Wilf who can read the opposition attacks, defend, intercept, tackle, knock the ball around, and Silva who needs the game time and confidence but has the creativity to make cutting balls through the middle,  and outwide to our wingers.

 

Vardy needs someone playing up front with him too - there's been too many chances and crosses where we've had no one in the box on the end of them.

 

I'd like to see Diabete playing up front with Vardy, he can score, he's quick and reads the game well. Why not try that? Above all though I think the inconsistency and rotation of the team is a massive factor as to why we're playing without any identity at the moment - the players don't know who they're playing with from one game week to the next so how can they get used to playing as a cohesive unit?

[Beechey]

If we play Ndidi, Silva, Iborra, two wingers and someone with Vardy, which player are we going to drop and how would the formation then work?

[foxes_rule1978]

I’m annoyed iborra isn’t starting, we were winning more with him there that is for sure 

Edited 4 March 2018 by foxes_rule1978

[Trav Le Bleu]

13 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

I’m abjoyed iborra isn’t starting, we were winning more with him there that is for sure 

Yes, it's very abjoying.

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, Trav Le Bleu said:

Yes, it's very abjoying.

 you know what I meant 

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

 you know what I meant 

Obviously 

 

[Alf Bentley]

35 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Obviously 

 

 

Abjiously.