BHA 1 - 1 Leicester City Post Match Thread

[rachhere]

6 minutes ago, Tom12345 said:

Also, Albrington and Ricardo both played excellent direct football. Remember that Albrington didn’t play much until recent games, which coincided with improved form from Vardy.

It's clicking more with those two working together. Long may it continue. 

[Mike Oxlong]

I’d imagine a lot of “fans” in the match thread will be gutted

 

Brighton’s home form coming into the game was W3 D1 L1

 

Great point with 10 men

 

Well done lads 

[norwichfox]

Delighted we ended up with a point after such a poor first half showing and yet another red card. Well done City in the second half.

[AjcW]

He probably won’t get credit for it but switching to a midfield three and remaining positive with the two front players got us that point. 

 

Switching to a 4-4-1 after the sending off would have been the norm but would have probably lead to losing by 1 or 2 easily 

[kingfox]

A well fought and a well deserved point, much better in the second half despite 10 men, we could've even won.

 

First half was unsurprisingly crap, Okazaki up front on his own was never going to work, we struggled to keep the ball and Maddison was an absolute idiot to get himself sent off.

 

Second half we responded extremely well, we were the better team for the majority of it, last few mins though was extremely nervy stuff. 

 

Proud of the fighting spirit, few things still need addressing but we'll take that result all day long.

[murphy]

I think that after the trauma of the last few weeks, the players were wounded against Cardiff and Burnley. 

 

When the dust settles, then comes the hangover when everything catches up with you and I think we saw that today.  Not helped by Maddison and the selction of Shinji.

 

The team deserve great credit for dragging up a performance in the second half which showed guts and character.

Edited 24 November 2018 by murphy

[Chester Dontlie]

5 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I sacked watching the second half off after they started olé-ing us, by the the looks of it we played well after that  

And you call me touchy! We were a different team since Vards came on for Gray

[Larry_LCFC]

7 minutes ago, davelcfc100 said:

Credit to Puel.

Yeah credit for starting another lone striker. Credit for not enforcing discipline on this team. Credit for another mediocre performance.

 

Same shit, different day.

[Iran]

8 minutes ago, LesterHall said:

City outplayed Brighton for 45 minutes 10 vs. 11. The players AND the manager deserve credit for that.

This.

 

I also want to add there should be a level of carefulness for the players not get caught into actions that warrant a 2nd yellow/Red Card, especially in the 1st half. But other than that good game and point with 10 men. 

[Stadt]

1 minute ago, Chester Dontlie said:

And you call me touchy! We were a different team since Vards came on for Gray

It’s surprising that we’re a better team with strikers that can score play isn’t it  

Edited 24 November 2018 by Stadt

[Max Wall]

Posted 1-1 in the prediction thread. Shame we started so poorly but anyone saying the players don't play for Puel after that 2nd half are in denial.

[Dr The Singh]

I'm sorry to say but the team only came to light when Vardy came on the pitch.  The managers half time etc had no effect.

 

It's not clear to me, but i dont believe the players are playing for the coach, they look lost today and a lucky penalty saved us, but only until Vardy came on did the players believe..

 

I'm really concerned Puel is garbage

[Deeg67]

Ricardo was superb,  not just going forward but in his own third - as indeed he has been in the past few matches. His defending has already improved dramatically.

 

Vardy as an impact sub may indeed be a glimpse of the future. Would he have showed that kind of intent if he’d started? It’s a fair question, based on his performances the this season. And Nacho, while great today, needs to do this consistently. It’s not a matter of needing game time - he’s had plenty of game time this year and done little with most of it.

[Sunbury Fox]

Hands up,  I didn't see that coming in the second half. This team has so much potential, even if at times we can be so frustrating to watch. Really deserved at least a point. 

Edited 24 November 2018 by Sunbury Fox

[Pete from the USA]

I'm really starting to like the Albrighton/Periera pairing on the right. 

 

Nice to see Iborra get some game time. They need to work him into the lineup more often so he doesn't leave. Rotating Ndidi, Mendy, Iborra through the midfield duo seems sensible. 

[Chester Dontlie]

Just now, Stadt said:

It’s surprising that we’re a better team with strikers that can score play isn’t it  

it's much more surprising that we're a better team with two strikers upfront instead of one lone striker

[orangecity23]

Great comeback with 10 men. Need to sort out set piece defending again, gave Brighton a cheap goal. Not got a problem with Maddison diving, everybody does it (see good old honest Glen Murray lobbing himself to the ground claiming to have been shoved over by the enormous figure of err Ricardo Peirera). Maddison's problem was he was way too quick to go down. Saw the defender stick his leg out and immediately went down, but the defender was able to withdraw his leg in time. Needed to be more cunning, and wait a split second until there was definitely contact before going down and he might have got the decision. Just too naive and too eager to try to get us back into the game, and nearly ended up costing us. Hopefully he will learn a lesson from it, one of these things that young players need to learn to turn into seasoned professionals with the right "game management" skills.

[weller54]

13 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Well, who saw such a good 2nd half performance coming? Not me.

Yeah.. I did! ?

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Dr The Singh said:

I'm sorry to say but the team only came to light when Vardy came on the pitch.  The managers half time etc had no effect.

 

It's not clear to me, but i dont believe the players are playing for the coach, they look lost today and a lucky penalty saved us, but only until Vardy came on did the players believe..

 

I'm really concerned Puel is garbage

Did u really think so dr? I thought we were in some control before vards came on to push us on further ..........

[sishades]

It was Richie Wellens fault for the appalling first half, much better second half. Maddison should be made to sit on the naughty step for possiblyy costing us three points with CP on the step at the top for playing Okazaki on his own. On the plus side a Cp decision to make the change with Darth Vardy changed the game and in the end City could have won, but has as already been said, a point was a good result today.

[David Hankey]

Need to sort out the stupid sending offs. Just analyse them this season, not brilliant.

Edited 24 November 2018 by David Hankey

[TeaMen Tom]

Have to be impressed with the grit they showed.  Once Albrighton/Richard/Chilwell find their rhythm and start pushing forward this becomes a different team.  Would like to see a goal or two vs the run of play at some point, but will gladly take a point today after the start.

[LCCFox96]

That was a very good point - down to 10 men for over an hour, from behind and on the road to side with very good home form. Think when all is said and done we have to pleased with the outcome and give credit to the response at HT from Puel and the players. Vardy was outstanding. Iheanacho also looked far more positive coming off the bench today.

 

Discipline is massive issue. I like the fact we play with our hearts on our sleeves and fight for every point and think it's a huge part of our identity but we rack up far too many red cards. We've been playing with 10 men in almost 25% of our games this season. That can only be detrimental to our overall league position. Maddison can count his lucky stars his teammates rescued something today, idiotic dive straight after a yellow.

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Pete from the USA said:

 

Nice to see Iborra get some game time. They need to work him into the lineup more often so he doesn't leave. Rotating Ndidi, Mendy, Iborra through the midfield duo seems sensible. 

That might be one of the last times he plays for us ...... will miss a couple weeks at least and unless he gets a run out over the festive period ...............

[StriderHiryu]

In the end a good day’s entertainment! Awful first half and Maddison needs to have a long hard look at himself. But Vardy coming on changed the game and if anything, we deserved to win it! Great heart and Puel deserves some credit for changing it because in the end taking Gray off before Shinji turned out to be a good move as Albrighton who I personally would have taken off had a stormer and was one of our most dangerous players. 

 

Agree with those saying the starting lineup was weak but with the fixtures coming up rotation is going to be needed. If anything it just shows our known lack of attacking options. Both Maddison and Iborra who are considered more of our creative players had poor games before they came off. You’d have to say that with our current performances that Harvey Barnes would really be worth considering.

 

Overall I’m relatively satisfied.