Leics 0- Soton 0 post match thread.

[jayfox26]

Just now, Webbo said:

I thought most of them were crap but Ihenacho I thought was particularly garbage.

 

We desperately want to win a match and he brings on 2 subs in injury time?

Iheancho was class 1st half and looked a real threat. He faded 2nd half as did Mahrez and Gray but he was our best player first half. 

[Vacamion]

 

You all all got what you wanted, initial selection wise, what’s the problem.

 

 

Riyad Mahrez played some sort of strolling defensive midfield.

 

Dimmy Gray played most of the second half BEHIND Ben Chilwell, who’s inept lack of end product killed attack after attack.

 

We remain, at my most charitable, a work in progress.

 

Puel in, though.

 

Doubtless there will be calls for the manager’s head this evening.

 

Sigh.

[HankMarvin]

Claude Puel is proving as useful as a fart in box

Easy kop out, that the team is evolving as excuse for shit performances, the truth is the team seems to revert to type anyway and look at long balls to vardy when passing doesn't work

Edited 19 April 2018 by HankMarvin

[Stevosevic]

Poor again

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Lacking individual quality and composure in key moments, especially from wide positions, specifically our crossing. Every single delivery bar a couple to Vardy was abysmal tonight, makes us so easy to defend against.

 

The only positives were Barnes making his bow in the league, and defensively we looked alright.

 

Part of me wishes we'd stop sacking ****ing managers and have the buck stop with the players for a change - but our form since January has been a bit alarming. I say alarming, I'm struggling to be arsed at the moment.

[lgfualol]

1 minute ago, lcfc sheff said:

Not that i'd look too much into this game as a whole, but not only is our crossing dreadful; but why do we keep resorting to it when we have no big men in the box to even cause 6"4 CBs an issue????

Our players are totally thick and our management are thick for loaning our two target men when we cross the ball 10000 ****ing times a game. 

 

Can't play Vardy up top without a big bloke at home. 

[shade]

with this style of play we’ll need to sign messi, hazard, coutinho and salah this summer to break down the 10 men we let get behind the ball on every attack.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

The simple choice is we either A) Get rid 

or B) Give Puel time to mould his own team

Edited 19 April 2018 by Bob Weasel Fox

[ZeGuy]

7 minutes ago, Beechey said:

Should really have won that, really disappointed in Mahrez, I think he was our worst player, slowed it down so much and just refused to cross

Dunno about mahrez, he was unusually deep. Suppose Puel told to stay abit back to suck some players out and free spaces for the others. Got a couple of good crosses but was nowhere near weighting on the game. 

 

Afraid this game could cost Puel his job.

 

He made a terrible mistake by selling the two target men. 

Edited 19 April 2018 by ZeGuy

[martyn]

Some promising ish interplay at times, but we move the ball so slowly that it's very easy for the opposition defence to set themselves.

 

Wish we'd try and get some overlaps on the flanks to vary our play. It's all too central and if it does find its way wide, invariably it's being crossed from too deep a position.

[Tielemans63]

5 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

Despite his good season, I'm convinced we can't play at home against crap sides with Vardy and no height going forward. It's too easy for teams to come and defend here as they just deal with the millions of crosses each game and we haven't got enough clever players to do anything else 

 

Oh well, Barnes got a Prem debut. That is good. 

Totally agree mate. The decision to loan out both Slimani and Ulloa and thus rob ourselves of even having that option was an absolutely ridiculous decision.

Edited 19 April 2018 by Paddy.

[desertfox2]

No energy. Flat, Dull, Boring (a first for us). This is just not us. 2 subs on 90 mins at home against a side in a relegation battle I mean wtf you do that to hold a result. Dullest game in the prem since we've been back? 

[adamlcfcbevo85]

The life the goals the excitement have all been sucked out of our leicester team. To be so dominant at home and then go to this is shocking.

 

4 wins since January has to be the luckiest manager in football history at top level 

Edited 19 April 2018 by adamlcfcbevo85
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[Monsell1976]

Booooooo ? ? ? 

[southfox66]

5 minutes ago, lozzyblue fox said:

to bring on two subs in the 91st minute is shocking. Sorry puel you haven't a clue you at least need to give the subs 20 mins at least.

had to recheck the score thought we were clinging onto a 1-0 lead so he did it to waste time!!!

I think he just bought them on to waste time to ensure the draw

[Nod.E]

3 minutes ago, Blue Ed said:

someone who can do the basics. Redmond if Southampton go down.

Mahrez wasn't at his best tonight but he is not the problem.

 

He'll be at Man City next season because that's his level.

 

'Basic' doesn't cut it.

 

I suppose Gray does the basics? 

 

Being a winger isn't about basics it's about making something from nothing.

 

Come to think of it there's absolutely nothing basic about it.

Edited 19 April 2018 by Nod.E

[sishades]

1 minute ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

but our form since January has been a bit alarming

No....its been very alarming. The warning bells are ringing loudly for next season.

[HankMarvin]

At least Southampton stopped the rot 

4 on the spin before today

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

2 minutes ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

The simple choice is we either A) Get rid 

or B) Give Puel time to mould his own team

A

[Mark_w]

Wish they'd put Burnley/Chelsea on the big screens. Could have watched that.

[adamlcfcbevo85]

3 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

 

My paint has started to watch Leicester dry!

Brilliant haha

[lcfc sheff]

Just now, lgfualol said:

Our players are totally thick and our management are thick for loaning our two target men when we cross the ball 10000 ****ing times a game. 

 

Can't play Vardy up top without a big bloke at home. 

I agree, they seem thick as shet

[TheUltimateWinner]

Walking back from the stadium and hearing Southampton fans saying how an earth they held on.

 

Promising signs from that game but I agree our form and lack of ability to finish and create clear cut chances is alarming.

 

Still somehow puel in as there’s still positive signs, BUT, can sympathise with those who think a change is needed. 

 

I think on that game alone I wouldn’t be worried as we played well, but with context and in the grand scheme of things, it’s another on a long list of games we should have won.

 

I trust the owners to make the right decision like they have done in the past.

[SecretPro]

Nacho over Shinji, Drago over Morgan and Diabate over Gray. That's all I can take from that game really. 

[ARTY_FOX]

2 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

Southampton hardly turned up to play any football.  They had 11 behind the ball the whole game.

 

I'd be more angry with the fact that Hughes has set them up like that knowing that really they need to go for the game rather than sit back and defend.

 

I think we tried to break them down but the way Puel has us set up we don't possess the players to break teams down the way we are attempting to as the opposition set up 11 behind the ball.  The counter doesn't work either as teams have sussed that out.

 

Mahrez for me, game by game, is looking like a one trick pony.  Poor from him.  World class players adjust their game but he on the other hand cannot or will not.

 

11 men behind the ball? For the last 15 maybe but they out possessed us up until that point and had more shots. Infact we only ended up level on chances....