Post Match: City 0 - 1 Cardiff

[That_Dude]

1 hour ago, Vacamion said:

 

With respect, we will have to disagree.

 

Many people commented before that we had to rotate, that the game would be different. We were forced into at least one change by illness.

 

Some of our players who played brilliantly in recent games, and who most of us would have selected, just were not at it today.

 

I don’t agree that the result today is Puel’s fault.

Of course it is. Just like when we win it's because of the players.

 

This forum is becoming too toxic to my tastes. We just brillantly won against the two former champions, back to back, and after one loss because of a missed pen, these mouth foaming outers are back in full force. Blaming the gaffer for managing a clearly knackered Vardy and not selecting Hamza although he's ill.

 

Screw that, I'm out for a while.

[Fosse93]

Ricardo was immense today.

[sishades]

1 hour ago, turtmcfly said:

It's so not the 'utter shit' it's being described as.

oh yes it is...

[Fosse93]

2 minutes ago, That_Dude said:

Of course it is. Just like when we win it's because of the players.

 

This forum is becoming too toxic to my tastes. We just brillantly won against the two former champions, back to back, and after one loss because of a missed pen, these mouth foaming outers are back in full force. Blaming the gaffer for managing a clearly knackered Vardy and not selecting Hamza although he's ill.

 

Screw that, I'm out for a while.

Oh, the irony 

Edited 29 December 2018 by Fosse93

[JB_Fox]

27 minutes ago, SheppyFox said:

This has been something I’ve wondered about since the World Cup, good point indeed sir! 

Maddison has to beat the first man to at least give him a chance.

[nettle]

26 minutes ago, fuchsntf said:

Mr messenger..If we are again are next season 7-9th,I for one will be very happy.. 

I want to see an uplift in our performances and how we present ourselves!!! But I won't go on a manager-out hunt!!

amazes that fans don't seem we have won " some player positions,"but still struggling for consistency.....and struggling for quality output from others...

Any critic on Soyu for today s game,a bit shallow....He gets the rest of the season before we can even start to judge him....

The players in front of him let the defence down today...

 

Yoda has spoken.

[Crispin LA]

OK I think Maddison and the guys around him should been abit intelligent enough to give the ball to Iheanacho to take the penalty, everyone knows he needs a goal, couldn't Puel made a sign to the team to tell them let Iheanacho take the penalty, it would have done the world of good for him if he'd scored. 

[Matt]

Anyway has anyone asked when @UpTheLeagueFox is yet?

 

Abit quiet ain't he?! Bet he's living it up, celebrating and partying or something! Well happy i'm sure!

 

*Jokes* Just abit jokey after all the comments by people hounding him after the Man City game.

Edited 29 December 2018 by Matt

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

1 minute ago, Crispin LA said:

OK I think Maddison and the guys around him should been abit intelligent enough to give the ball to Iheanacho to take the penalty, everyone knows he needs a goal, couldn't Puel made a sign to the team to tell them let Iheanacho take the penalty, it would have done the world of good for him if he'd scored. 

But if he didnt score it would be more fuel to the idiots. Maddison can get away with missing pens for some reason

[KrefelderFox666]

2 minutes ago, AlloverthefloorYesNdidi said:

But if he didnt score it would be more fuel to the idiots. Maddison can get away with missing pens for some reason

The biggest problem is that no one has confidence in this team, hence no one wants to take a penalty and those that do tend to miss (Maddison excluded, he's just a cr4p penalty taker). I would have liked Maguire to step up, just someone to put their foot through it like Vardy. Even Ricardo would be good I think.

 

Game in general was OK but I just think we have a serious lack of creativity. That final third is a killer for us, the likes of Gray, Maddison etc should be creating more. It also doesn't help when you only have defensive players in midfield, would really like a better offering. That aside I would prefer a system with two strikers (3-5-2 for example)

[DennisNedry]

The attacking options we have without Vardy are very poor. I'd consider bringing Barnes back in Jan. 

[mucfox]

1 hour ago, The Doctor said:

Iheanacho was on the spot waiting for the ball. Think he wanted it but Maddison insisted it was his.

Nacho would have stumbled before kicking the ball

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

Just now, KrefelderFox666 said:

The biggest problem is that no one has confidence in this team, hence no one wants to take a penalty and those that do tend to miss (Maddison excluded, he's just a cr4p penalty taker). I would have liked Maguire to step up, just someone to put their foot through it like Vardy. Even Ricardo would be good I think.

 

Game in general was OK but I just think we have a serious lack of creativity. That final third is a killer for us, the likes of Gray, Maddison etc should be creating more. It also doesn't help when you only have defensive players in midfield, would really like a better offering. That aside I would prefer a system with two strikers (3-5-2 for example)

Aye. Nobody looked too keen for it did they?

 

Yes, 2 DMFs really didnt look great today. Mendy in particular just didnt do anything with the ball

 

It might have worked if we'd used all our glitterglam attacking players. Nacho for Vardy and Ghezzal for Albrighton from the start - Nacho did a lot better than Vardy in his brief cameo (thats why all the usual haters of him on here arent mentioning him)

 

I think Puel went a sort of halfway house with the line up today. Vardy and Albrighton were not fit enough for it by a country mile

[shiv]

41 minutes ago, SixtiesFox said:

Big mistake, Shiv. The 'argument' you refer to was a hypothetical statement. You should take the time and read the whole post in order to establish some context  before you dis someone's considered arguments. By the way, if we are arguing hypotheticals, do you disagree with that statement?

Sorry - not intending to dis your considered arguments but using hypotheticals to meet an agenda is something that’s happened a lot on here recently. But understand you were making valid points.

 

I would disagree with that statement though. I think Puel will be given until the end of the season unless we suddenly get dragged into a relegation battle.

[Sunbury Fox]

43 minutes ago, LestaAl said:

How many goals have we scored from corners this season?  

Pretty sure it's one - at Newcastle. Out of probably 120 corners, assuming we average around 6 per game. We had 10 today and never looked remotely dangerous from any of them. Our corners and free kicks are generally very poor - we try nothing very imaginative and we don't mix up who takes them. It's Maddison over and over. Whilst I don't think Maddison is brilliant at whipping balls in, to be fair to him, other than Maguire we have nobody who is good at attacking corners and free kicks anyway. So not surprising that we so rarely score off one. 

Edited 29 December 2018 by Sunbury Fox

[Gazza M]

I think today highlights how poor we are in reserve. Not a lot to try and change a game from the bench to choose from.

 

[Nickfosse]

People can moan about Puel as much as they like, but one of the reasons we lost is because two people who seem beyond criticism messed up key moments. Vardy with his one on one with the keeper, inexplicable pass to Ghezzal when Maddison was wide upon on his left, and his poor touch all game frequently losing the ball when we got into and around the final third. And Maddison’s second pathetic penalty in two weeks. 

When the lunatics finally take over the asylum and get their way with the dismissal of Puel, I wonder who will be the scapegoat when we lose a game of football our entitled fan base deems we should win comfortably? Oh wait a minute, I think I know, it will be the fault of Rudkin, Gray, Iheanacho or N’Didi won’t it. 

[DerbyshireFox]

1 minute ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Pretty sure it's one - at Newcastle. Out of probably 120 corners, assuming we average around 6 per game. We had 10 today and never looked remotely dangerous from any of them. Our corners and free kicks are generally very poor - we try nothing very imaginative and we don't mix up who takes them. It's Maddison over and over. To be fair to him, other than Maguire we have nobody who is good at attacking corners and free kicks. So not surprising that we so rarely score off one. 

Can we class Ricardo’s the other day as from a corner, all be it a poor corner from Albrighton ?

[StriderHiryu]

Massively disappointing result, especially given the missed penalty. This game felt like a massive opportunity to turn the corner and get everyone pulling in the same direction so it's a big shame to have played so poorly and lose. But hey ho that's Football and we are not the only team to have had a disappointing result over Christmas.

 

Leicester City as a team are a great counter attacking side but can't break down a well drilled defensive team. Burnley, Crystal Palace and now Cardiff have shown this among many other sides over the last 12 months. What is especially galling is that we don't seem to be making any progress in our efforts to improve the possession based game we are trying to introduce. Given our young team and transitional period, inconsistency in results is to be expected, but I can't really recall a game in a long time (if ever) where we dominated and assuredly put away another team when playing the 4231 possession game. Even in the Huddersfield home game our goals were from breakaways. Really it comes down to either not having players good enough to play it, not having a coach good enough to implement the ideas or a combination of the two.

 

Realistically this is going to be the story of the rest of our season. We will pick up enough points to be safe and will probably be fighting right down to the final day for league position ranging anywhere from 7-12th. But I still can't really see how we are going to suddenly reach the next level in terms of performances and thus results with the current setup. We've either got to invest in more players at the Ricardo level of all-round game or change our tactics. Otherwise this type of game will continue to happen, which it has done for over a year now. Hence why everyone is so frustrated even when we are still in a decent position.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

18 minutes ago, Matt said:

Anyway has anyone asked when @UpTheLeagueFox is yet?

Abit quiet ain't he?! Bet he's living it up, celebrating and partying or something! Well happy i'm sure!

*Jokes* Just abit jokey after all the comments by people hounding him after the Man City game.

Haha.  I haven't been trolled as much today. 

[lanefox]

R-E-L-A-X

[Nickfosse]

34 minutes ago, Nickfosse said:

I stood up and applauded the substitution. Vardy had an absolute shocker of a game I’m afraid and deserved to be taken off.

Could mucfox who gave a negative emoji to to my comment here please explain in which way Vardy had a good game please?

[sishades]

48 minutes ago, DerbyshireFox said:

some of the downright miserable prat’s who think we have a god given right to win every game

Nobody expects this, however we do expect professional footballers to be able to pass a ball to someone a few yards away, we do expect someone to be able to put a penalty away, we do expect our team to at least show those who paid  to attend this dross some effort, a bit of guile and not put in appaling performances like today.

[David Hankey]

Poor, lack lustre display today and I don't buy all this tosh about players being tired etc. They are top athletes, fit and should be raring to go. We will never get anywhere apart from mid-table mediocrity if we can't beat the likes of Cardiff.

[David Hankey]

2 minutes ago, Nickfosse said:

Could mucfox who gave a negative emoji to to my comment here please explain in which way Vardy had a good game please?

Vardy is only as good as the service he gets and today he didn't get that. All top strikers are the same.