Leics 0- Soton 0 post match thread.

[kyleolly]

14 minutes ago, Bert said:

I thought we actually started quite brightly and the team suggested we were going all out. But once Southampton figured out what we were trying to do (about 20 minutes in) it all went very flat and we huffed and puffed our way through the game. Struggled badly to break down their every man behind the ball. They came with he clear intention of soak it up and hit us on the break, they just weren't very good at hitting us on the break, and bar a very good save from Hamer that's all they've offered. Don't think anyone deserved to win. We created a lot of half chances but they were defended so deep in numbers it was going to be hard to pick up any second balls especially when we didn't really have many men in the box. 

 

Diabate looked bright when he came on although he's reminding me of Gray a little bit. Looks like the player we want him to be when he comes off of the bench but flops when he starts. 

 

Thought we looked so much more solid and assured at the back with Dragovic in and Albrighton did little wrong at right back. 

 

Frustating to watch for long periods but that's what happens when a team plays against you the way Southampton did. 

 

Players now off until the weekend so I'm guessing they'll all be jetting off for a weekend of sun. 

I think that’s the problem we showed attacking intent in the first 20 mins but didn’t really look like scoring. In our title winning season at home we’d go all out attack for 20 minutes and score 2 goals the game was just about won by then now we lamely attack don’t score and it’s abit of a lottery after that

[LestaAl]

Is Claude Puel any less boring when he speaks in his native tongue?

 

would be interested to hear if anyone knows.

 

[UpTheLeagueFox]

34 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

Remind me again how we ended up with Claude Puel as manager?

A safe ish option who probably won't rock the boat with the Director of Football, who has a nice, well-paid job.

[MC Prussian]

Just now, UpTheLeagueFox said:

A safe ish option who probably won't rock the boat with the Director of Football, who has a nice, well-paid job.

You're such a tease.

[jammie82uk]

Not sure if these have been posted but just in case they haven’t 

i think I must have been at a different game to the one which he was watching 

 

 

[NewEnglandFox]

We only had 0.52 XG which was less than Southampton. Lots of quality chances my ass.

 

https://understat.com/match/7464

[trabuch]

3 hours ago, Kopfkino said:

take your pile of shite miserable football back to France 

#brexit

Leicester fans we are not used to having nothing to play for. Tonight the team was changed.. Generally the side looked much better without the 15/16 dinosaurs (Fuchs can Fucjh off with his SM BS).

Leicester fans stop looking to Southampton fans for your opinions on a manager - or we will end up relegated next year under Mark Hughs.

 

Edited 20 April 2018 by trabuch

[JohnLennon]

You know, people say that we should be pleased to be 8th and acknowledge that we haven't been in this position since the O'Neill days (bar we all know when).

 

But the biggest gripe i have is how painfully average and lets face it, borderline shit, you can be to be mid table in this league. 

 

In the follow up season to winning the league we played so awful for the majority of it and were about 2 wins away from 8th in the end. That just highlighted how terrible this division is from 6th onwards.

 

So, no i wont hear that we should appreciate this position because with the team we have we SHOULD be performing better. Journalists and pundits will be happy that everyone now knows their place again after our title win, but i'm not happy to sit there week after week accepting that we should build a team of promising youngsters, only for them to pass the ball sideways into mid table until they are poached by the "top sides" and we start all over again until we eventually cant and get relegated. 

 

Our title win didn't give hope to opportunity, it killed opportunity for a lifetime.

[Dan]

Absolutely fed up of Iheanacho having a decent moment in an away game that gets him a start in the next home game where he plays like a competition winner. Absolutely woeful again.

 

Gray unfortunately disappoints once again. Why is he so scared to go in behind? Is it a manager instruction?

 

Diabate has to start at Palace. He just has to.

[Dan]

Quality chances?! I remember us having two chances all game and neither clear cut.

[Jattdogg]

More passion in this thread between @Dr The Singh and @Beechey than on the pitch or sidelines

 

 

 

 

[RoboFox]

I haven’t seen this forum as divided as it is now, since just before the Pearson great escape.

 

Let’s not beat about the Bush, here. We’re f**king garbage at the moment. In fact, it’s kinda worse than garbage... It’s just nothingness. Just totally dull nothingness.

 

If it wasn’t for the so-called “new manager bounce,” or the “ex-manager ‘f**k you’” or whatever it is, we’d be well within the relegation dogfight. It just so happens that 3/4 of the Premier League are considerably more doggo than us. 

 

If if I was Kuhn Vichai, my trigger finger would be seriously itching. 

 

But, we all know how it works... Sack, bounce, drop-off-cliff, repeat. 

 

We HAVE to give the guy the summer, he HAS to be given the time to shape the team as he wants, otherwise what’s the point? The season’s over. Let him rebuild the squad, because f**k knows we’ve got a load of deadwood to dispose of.

 

If we’re still having the same conversations come October, then **** him right off. Puel can get in the sea.

 

We’re spoiled brats, and rightly so. But until then, a bit of patience wouldn’t go amiss.

 

Oh, and I love Nige as much as the next City fan, but those calling for Pearson to return... Get a grip, please.

Edited 20 April 2018 by RoboFox

[UPinCarolina]

3 hours ago, Hammo said:

Walking back to the car, everyone was saying how boring and predictable the team has become. I didn't overhear anything positive being said.

 

And it was pretty much the same after Swansea, Stoke, Bournemouth and Newcastle.

 

Lose the fans, Claude, and you lose your job. 

 

 

Our fans have become somewhat deluded, I fear.

[Beechey]

17 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

More passion in this thread between @Dr The Singh and @Beechey than on the pitch or sidelines

 

 

 

 

Yo @Dr The Singh wanna appeal to the owners to be co-managers? 

My expertise include watching some football games and also playing some football games. Feel like I'm as qualified for this as anyone.

Edited 20 April 2018 by Beechey

[chicagofox]

WTF is Puel talking about? “we need to keep building momentum”. We don’t have any momentum to build upon. For me, even more damning of him as a manger than that performance is the fact that he thought it was a good one.

[TheLittleBigMan]

4 hours ago, Dr The Singh said:

or put me on ignore.

This. Saves all the toing and froing (bit like our new style of play).

[TheLittleBigMan]

It's the final 3rd that's getting to me. I thought at times, especially early first half we played some quick passing football in the build up. But every time we get there it just seems to come to a grinding halt. It's frustrating. I wouldn't want to see Puel gone though. If it clicks up front I think we could be very dangerous. 

[Suzie the Fox]

On the plus side, we are 1 point closer to Burnley  

[chicagofox]

2 hours ago, trabuch said:

 

Leicester fans stop looking to Southampton fans for your opinions on a manager 

 

I think a lot of us can come to the conclusion that Puel is wasting whatever talent and good players we do have with his boring, and most importantly ineffective,, tactics and that he is not the man to take this club forward, without looking to Southampton fans for guidance.

[trabuch]

Having been watching football and supporting Leicester (but not as well as some of you)  for many years, there is nothing I hate more in the game than the self entitled fan. Newcastle had it once, Spurs have it constantly (as of course manu and arse) but it disappoints me that Leicester fans are suffering from it.

Edited 20 April 2018 by trabuch

[J.Lisemore]

2 hours ago, chicagofox said:

WTF is Puel talking about? “we need to keep building momentum”. We don’t have any momentum to build upon. For me, even more damning of him as a manger than that performance is the fact that he thought it was a good one.

He barely understands the language. Puel seems very limited on his English riddles, so i’d take what he says with a pinch of salt. As we all know, there’s no way he can be happy with that performance. 

[trabuch]

56 minutes ago, chicagofox said:

I think a lot of us can come to the conclusion that Puel is wasting whatever talent and good players we do have with his boring, and most importantly ineffective,, tactics and that he is not the man to take this club forward, without looking to Southampton fans for guidance.

We disagree. We could, I suppose, become a club that is known for sacking managers - like Watford. Not a good tactic in my opinion.

Edited 20 April 2018 by trabuch

[Foxxed]

We finally got rid of Morgan and Simpson and we did gain a clean sheet but it was hardly the launchpad for beautiful football. He has the players he wants but the football is horrically dull. Yet he'll very likely keep us up this season and next season too. 

 

Someone posted a few days ago that he used to use football to forget about the drudgery of life but now he's using work to forget the drudgery of football. If Puel's sucking the life out of football with absolutely zero hope of a turn around then perhaps being in Southampton's shoes - on the cusp of relegation - would be preferred.

 

Puel's biggest plus point so far is his youth development is excellent, one of the best we've had for ages, and perhaps he needs more than one game with the defense he wants but he seriously need to do some work to prove he can entertain.

 

I don't think wanting to be entertained makes an entitled fan. I think the game has to be entertaining else what's the point. But I don't think you can sack a manager until you're in the relegation zone. And until you're there you need to give the manager time. But I don't feel like attacking "entitled" fans: you're paying money to be part of something but entertainment is essential. 

 

You are at least entitled to entrainment for your loyalty and your money. Entertainment, attacking play may come. But this one performance didn't quite show any intent for attacking zeal. But in time it may come. Does Top have the patience to find out?

Edited 20 April 2018 by Foxxed

[ozleicester]

I didnt get up to watch, from the reviews and info ive read. They set up for a point and got it. We outplayed them and couldve justified a win even if it was boring.

 

Leicester is now a top 6-8 side.

 

We need to recognise that other teams see coming to Leicester as a chance to take a point, in the past they came here seeing it as a chance to sneak 3 points, therefore they set up differently.

 

Our home structure and style will need to change. I assume that is what Puel is looking to do, but he will need 1-2 transfer windows to really create a side capable of playing a winning game at home.

 

It is going to get ugly over the summer as we lose and move players on and our early games will undoubtedly upset many.

 

Change is needed and the manager seems to know that and what he wants to do about it.

 

 

[Foxxed]

5 hours ago, Blue Ed said:

this could be the start of a new era at Leicester and give him the chance to get in the payers that can carry out the game plan he wants it could really build an exciting team and style of play.

Does anyone want to write off at least 15 matches to find out?