Wymsey Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 15 minutes ago, Bert said: That would be because of his broken leg. Didn't know he had a bad injury, but it was actually his ankle. https://www.lcfc.com/news/895688/puel-provides-amartey-injury-update
Captain... Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 14 minutes ago, Babylon said: Depends what you're comparing against really. We were abject this time two years ago with 4 wins in 24 games, compared, we've improved on that. Against the less teams we were pretty diabolical under CS as well. Have we seen enough improvement over the course of him being here. Perhaps not. We saw a significant improvement over his first 10 games from CS but since then and the odd game I am seeing a steady decline. We aren’t building on the work done last season (when we regularly dominated possession) and preseason and are stagnating. The fact that our best recent performance was against Watford where we had low possession and hit them successfully on the counter was more of an old school Leicester performance than a Puel style game says a lot. I know there are a lot of reasons why this season has been tough and we’re still in a transitional phase, but the only way to complete the transition is to spend a fortune in January buying players that suit this style.
Guest Col city fan Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 On 16/12/2018 at 09:46, StriderHiryu said: Chilwell is the poster boy, he’s come on leaps and bounds. Gray IMO has improved but nowhere near as much. Mendy was the forgotten man so I’d count that as improvement. Vardy also improved despite not scoring as many as last season. His all round game is much better now. But overall as a team as the league table shows we have not improved. Have to disagree over Vardy mate. Not the player he was under Pearson and Ranners Imo
AlloverthefloorYesNdidi Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 1 minute ago, Col city fan said: Have to disagree over Vardy mate. Not the player he was under Pearson and Ranners Imo I do think last season his touch seemed to have improved and he had more to his game Seems the WC and this groin injury have stalled him a bit, which is a shame, dont know if the groin thing is why he cant seem to finish as well as he did And you have to admit he's definitely improved his penalty taking under Puel thats a fact
Bert Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 1 hour ago, Wymeswold fox said: Didn't know he had a bad injury, but it was actually his ankle. https://www.lcfc.com/news/895688/puel-provides-amartey-injury-update Ankle, Leg. Meh. But HOW could you not have known about this? His ankle was literally dangling by a thread. Against West Ham.
AlloverthefloorYesNdidi Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 1 minute ago, Bert said: Ankle, Leg. Meh. But HOW could you not have known about this? His ankle was literally dangling by a thread. Against West Ham. He's been quietly fuming all these weeks about Amartey being dropped despite his improving form "Puel! Be more consistent in your selections!!''
lgfualol Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 51 minutes ago, Col city fan said: Have to disagree over Vardy mate. Not the player he was under Pearson and Ranners Imo I think this has more to do with Vardy than Puel. Nobody is scared to play against Vardy anymore as he has lost his edge. He was better when he still had the non-league mentality and didnt give a shit.
OhYesNdidi Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 22 minutes ago, lgfualol said: I think this has more to do with Vardy than Puel. Nobody is scared to play against Vardy anymore as he has lost his edge. He was better when he still had the non-league mentality and didnt give a shit. His groin injury seems to have caught up with him. He’s had that problem since 15/16
Captain... Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 38 minutes ago, lgfualol said: I think this has more to do with Vardy than Puel. Nobody is scared to play against Vardy anymore as he has lost his edge. He was better when he still had the non-league mentality and didnt give a shit. I don’t think he’s lost his edge, there is an argument his edge has been blunted by the style of football we now play. Every sideways and backwards pass we play allows the defence to get set and Vardy loses that window to get in behind. I would like to see Vardy come deeper, as soon as that window to get in behind has been closed. He can’t just play on the shoulder waiting for the ball to come forwards, because it doesn’t get pinged over the top now. As soon as we win the ball he should be looking for that run in behind, but when we start passing it around he needs to drop deeper drag a defender with him giving space for Gray/Albrighton/Maddison to attack and get beyond Vardy. If Vardy or whoever just stays up front the defence doesn’t need to move the midfield can drop and pick up Maddison the wide players come into a congested area and the ball normally ends up going wide or backwards. Think of Maddison’s goal vs Watford Vardy came deep picked up the ball beat his man, played it out to Albrighton who is now ahead of Vardy who then turns and he’s off. This has also allowed Maddison time to go past him so you then have Maddison and Vardy against a defence on the turn and Albrighton in space to pick them out. More of that please.
Guest Col city fan Posted 17 December 2018 Posted 17 December 2018 3 hours ago, Captain... said: I don’t think he’s lost his edge, there is an argument his edge has been blunted by the style of football we now play. Every sideways and backwards pass we play allows the defence to get set and Vardy loses that window to get in behind. I would like to see Vardy come deeper, as soon as that window to get in behind has been closed. He can’t just play on the shoulder waiting for the ball to come forwards, because it doesn’t get pinged over the top now. As soon as we win the ball he should be looking for that run in behind, but when we start passing it around he needs to drop deeper drag a defender with him giving space for Gray/Albrighton/Maddison to attack and get beyond Vardy. If Vardy or whoever just stays up front the defence doesn’t need to move the midfield can drop and pick up Maddison the wide players come into a congested area and the ball normally ends up going wide or backwards. Think of Maddison’s goal vs Watford Vardy came deep picked up the ball beat his man, played it out to Albrighton who is now ahead of Vardy who then turns and he’s off. This has also allowed Maddison time to go past him so you then have Maddison and Vardy against a defence on the turn and Albrighton in space to pick them out. More of that please. Nail....on......head
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