Leics 0- Soton 0 post match thread.

[foxinsox]

5 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Btw, I don’t see us guilty of just lumping crosses into the box. If anything we are guilty of going round the houses to create a better crossing opportunity. 

The problem is the slow build up. We had good pacey attacking players on the pitch, but they took the ball forward so slowly that once again it was battering against a completely organised defence. 

 

Sometimes an opportunistic good pass, while the defence is upfield beats a meticulously executed perfect pass a couple of minutes later. All to often we are doing neither. 

[weller54]

15 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

 

 

Were all the same, bud.  I'm just old

 

The thing is this forum has characters, and the best thing its easy going and not serious, when people take it seriously, it defeats the purpose.

You cannot be serious! 

[Jacnah]

9 minutes ago, HitchinFox said:

I'm probably in the minority here, but I still think we should give Puel the opportunity to decide over the next transfer window and to lay out his plans. 

I recognise all the worrying stats/signs – not won at home in five games (including four games we should've taken 8-12 points off), reported player discontent and confusion, apparent lack of urgency on the ball at times. 

But I still worry about our reputation for being trigger happy with managers. Who would we attract instead?

We're 8th in the Premier League with a manager who came to do one thing – make sure we avoid a relegation battle after a lacklustre/turgid start. He has delivered o that. 

Maybe, just maybe, he knows we are safe and is already planning for next season? There have been some tactical decisions (formation changes, dropping players, not having a consistent starting XI) which suggest that he is doing that? 

Don't get me wrong – I'm far from happy with tonight's performance (or most of the recent ones, bar Brighton), but maybe Claude is looking at this with completely different eyes? Could it be that he is experimenting, trialling things and telling players to do certain things to see how they react and perform? In preparation for next season? Maybe he's sorting out that opening XI in his mind? 

I don't know. Maybe I'm just desperately looking for positives and don't want another managerial change as I'm fed up with us missing an opportunity to establish and stabilise after that amazing, euphoric, never-to-be-repeated title season. Since then, the two seasons have been identically disappointing – awful start, followed by a managerial change and a false dawn of "wow, we're back". 

But still, we have to remind ourselves – we are 8th. In the Premier League. One of the toughest league's in Europe. That would've been an achievement even in the MoN years. 



 

Possibly in the minority but not alone. I'm really torn with Puel. I believe in giving managers a chance and time. Whilst stats can be produced to support either a 'sack em quick' or a 'stick with em' approach, the truth is we can afford to give Puel some time as we not going to get relegated. Yes I'm worried about form and momentum and to make it worse we are where we are because lots of teams around us are rubbish. The football is dreadfully dull, slow ponderous and non penetrating. There is little excitement or joy in watching this.

 

On the other hand, when he first turned up we played some scintillating attacking football. He is blooding our youth, he has a reputation for bringing youth on, he hasn't had a transfer window, some of the payers, I'm sorry to say, are past their sell by date.

 

I veer from "sack him now" to "he needs time and a chance to build the team."

 

I don't know what the answer is, but changing the manager isn't a guarantee of anything, so I'm leaning towards patience is required. Just my thoughts

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, Dr The Singh said:

Just to be open and honest, I like women and sometimes McPrussian

I thought you only had eyes for Webbo. He will be jealous 

[Dr The Singh]

Just now, weller54 said:

You cannot be serious! 

What have I said now?

[Dan]

I've been trying to defend Puel and have tried to make a case for giving him the summer and some time after that. Games like that make me look stupid.

 

Our home form is an absolute disgrace. It's not just that we've not won at home in three months, it's that in that time we have literally only played against sides below us. Not one good side has come here in that period and all bar none have taken something.

 

Appalling.

[jayfox26]

4 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

 

 

Sorry who said anything about becoming Barca overnight, surely that expectation would be from fans over the last 3 years???

 

The majority that have followed the club for a long time can see the club are on the best financial footing ever, and last season had the 14th largest revenue in world football.

Thus expectations are increased inline, no one is expecting Barca but this is a sqaud that has (on paper) a wealth of talent including the bench and being loaned out.

We should be competing better that 4 wins in 17 games.

 

If the football under Claude is evolving then surely there should be an upturn in results as opposed to the opposite under half a season of his stewardship.

Thank you for articulating my thoughts exactly. I'm sick to death of people saying we expect too much cos we won the league. That's just horse shit, like you say we are one of the richest clubs and we do have a very talented squad (although recently they haven't shown it) so it shouldn't be too much for us to expect them to beat the likes of Southampton, Stoke, Bournemouth,WBA, palace etc at home. We can accept the odd blip but our form since we beat Southampton away has been woeful. Also, we can accept drawing games against these teams if we play well and are unlucky, and to be fair we played ok today just lacked cutting edge as usual, but some of the performaces this season have been truly horrendous. With our money and our squad we should have been fighting for 6th this season and now we'll be lucky to make top 10. 

[AS78UK]

Thought we played well against a team setup to stop us playing.

 

Defensively we generally played well, worryingly we had our most attacking team out and failed to break them down. 

[ARTY_FOX]

Just now, Izzy Muzzett said:

I thought you only had eyes for Webbo. He will be jealous 

The other day it was fuchsntf... what else isn't he telling us! 

[RumbleFox]

Didn't see the game tonight but sounds great judging by this thread? X

[Wymsey]

Surprised there were no goals.

Some players needlessly lost the ball a few times.

Could've done better or worse, they weren't too bad tbh.

[MC Prussian]

21 minutes ago, ZeGuy said:

I'm not on fire. Just fed up with some deluded people here and their toxic mindset, thinking we became Barca overnight. They seem to be happy every time we fall flat so they can rant to no end about a manager they never liked from the beginning, about whom they know shit, givng you some "told ya so" BS.

 

I strongly disagree with you about Puel but still respect your point of view. Your posts are balanced and worth a read. You're not the only one here thank god. But the "muh booooooooooring" crap I can't stand. I should simply ignore it but I just can't.

 

Again, I don't see how you can come to that conclusion. You're talking as if you're possessed with this notion that everyone out there is having an agenda against yours, trying to prove a point when you're battling windmills like Don Quixote.

No sane Leicester City FC fan would even go near thinking we'll turn into a sexy possession-based football team in a short amount of time.

But at least give it a go on a more regular basis, from the start (like today).

 

Personally, I think most fans were underwhelmed with his appointment, but willing to give him time.

Go back, browse the threads from the October period and see for yourself how many fans were really "hating" Puel back then. He came to this club with a certain reputation following his time at Southampton, and it appears it's found its natural continuation. It's a bit like Groundhog Day with Claude right now.

 

Fact is, our football on show has been mostly turgid in the past five months, results speak against Puel, players perform as if they couldn't care less (for about one half per match, usually when we go behind).

[Jacnah]

Just now, Dr The Singh said:

What have I said now?

I read this in the voice of Kenneth Williams! Made me smile

 

[alanf0x]

3 minutes ago, kingfox said:

Sarcasm right?

Not at all, he gets himself into so much open space and delivers pin point balls!! Will be a pleasure to watch him in 5 years time when he has developed into a top pro. 

[Dr The Singh]

Just now, Izzy Muzzett said:

I thought you only had eyes for Webbo. He will be jealous 

He's like a old vacuum cleaner... When u need something sucking, you just press a button.  Noam has feelings for there vacuum cleaner.

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, ARTY_FOX said:

The other day it was fuchsntf... what else isn't he telling us! 

Any holes a goal for Singhy I reckon 

[jayfox26]

8 minutes ago, Beechey said:

I don't know, Newcastle and Everton still play each other, and then Newcastle plays both Spurs and Chelsea (with WBA and Watford in the middle). Everton have a much nice line of games though. If we're not careful we could easily drop below them.

Newcastle are only 3 points behind us and they are on a great run While we are having a shocker. If Newcastle win 2 of their remaining games, they will finish above us

[MC Prussian]

5 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

Just to be open and honest, I like women and sometimes McPrussian

Ahh, the good old Open Doors Days.

[Beechey]

1 minute ago, jayfox26 said:

Newcastle are only 3 points behind us and they are on a great run While we are having a shocker. If Newcastle win 2 of their remaining games, they will finish above us

Form definitely isn't on our side, that's for sure.

[Dr The Singh]

Just now, alanf0x said:

Not at all, he gets himself into so much open space and delivers pin point balls!! Will be a pleasure to watch him in 5 years time when he has developed into a top pro. 

I was thinking the same, it will be lovely watching him and Lloyd dyer on the left for Burton

[Wymsey]

That was a game for Slimani in particular.

Failed set prices.

[Spicer]

We play so slowly with no creativity.

[Claridge]

3 minutes ago, AS78UK said:

Thought we played well against a team setup to stop us playing.

 

Defensively we generally played well, worryingly we had our most attacking team out and failed to break them down. 

So did we play well or not?

[jammie82uk]

9 minutes ago, mod hero said:

Our play is so slow and ponderous we have no choice but to go down the sides and put aimless crosses in to just one man in the box who is 5ft 9.

 

i don’t think we will win again this season. 

 

Good of news is that the owners will not keep him if that’s the case. IMO 

 

I seen a stat on Twitter that since the beginning of February we average more crosses into the box a game then we did from August to February 

[coolhandfox]

Lack of tempo, as normal no creativity in central area, resulting in the standard game plan of throwing crosses and corners in a box with generally only Vardy  in the box.

 

5 home game without a win, only scoring 4 goals in during that time and 4 wins in 17 overall.

 

 

No problem with us finishing anywhere in the top 10, but I expected to have some excitement!

 

Dull and boring ..........