Southampton Home Match Thread

[Guest seanfox778]

3 points please Leicester! Looking forward to this.

[Lincolnshire Fox]

I have absolutely no complaints about that line up... I know I am being greedy, but I would love to see Harvey have a good 20 mins when we are 3-0 up 

[EnderbyFox]

Shane Long starts upfront for them, 2 goals in his last 50- that's Okazaki levels of goal scoring. Bound to bag at least 1 today 

[Tielemans63]

Just now, Ian Nacho said:

Still don't like the fact were playing 3 defensive midfielders at home against a team in the bottom 3. Not much else choice though in terms of options. 

I agree but if it means that essentially the 3 up front can focus solely on stretching Southampton and getting in behind then I'm fine about it. If those 3 are free to attack and not worry about tracking back etc then that could be a very effective tactic.

 

Depends how high up the pitch the midfield 3 can win the ball tbh.

[STUHILL]

Rather have no CM on the bench at all, than a fully fit Silva.

 

100% he will never play again for us, which I think is a shame when you see him persisting with underperforming players like Iheanacho and Gray. 

[roblcfc84]

3 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Still don't like the fact were playing 3 defensive midfielders at home against a team in the bottom 3. Not much else choice though in terms of options. 

I genuinely think he is trying to develop Wild to play a little further forward to get more involved in an attacking sense.

[Alex_LCFC]

3 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Still don't like the fact were playing 3 defensive midfielders at home against a team in the bottom 3. Not much else choice though in terms of options. 

Best Chelsea away, man city and Everton away with them 3 in the middle 

[whoareyaaa]

Just now, Paddy. said:

I agree but if it means that essentially the 3 up front can focus solely on stretching Southampton and getting in behind then I'm fine about it. If those 3 are free to attack and not worry about tracking back etc then that could be a very effective tactic.

 

Depends how high up the pitch the midfield 3 can win the ball tbh.

I'd have personally gone with Ghezzal over Albrighton but happy with the formation.

 

I imagine we will see Barnes and Ghezzal second half when its still 0-0

 

 

[walkerleeds]

Just now, Babylon said:

Three defensive midfielders is shit but the proof is in the pudding.

It also allows our full backs to basically play as wingers.

 

Bizarre the reasons for it need spelling out.

[Farrington fox]

Should be strong enough to win this. If we don’t, and fail to start on the front foot, surely questions need to asked. 

[KFS]

When one of the most exciting things about being a Leicester fan is checking if Sean got it right at 2pm...  

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

I'd have personally gone with Ghezzal over Albrighton but happy with the formation.

 

I imagine we will see Barnes and Ghezzal second half when its still 0-0

 

[Fox in the North]

Think aside from Evans being injured and Barnes currently being an unknown commodity in the first team (for us in the prem) it seems to be Puel’s first choice starting eleven. Fingers crossed Barnes gets on and kicks on from West Brom!

[daverollo]

Not unhappy with that starting 11, will be expecting the full backs to be bombing on and almost playing as wingers in support of the front 3 with cover provided by our midfield.

 

Wouldn't be surprised if at some stage Puel does what he did in the Man City game and Hamza moves out wide right and switch to 4231 with Maddison moving in more centrally and changes in 2nd half with Barnes/Gray coming on - ahead of Ghezzal please!

[Monsell1976]

10 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Still don't like the fact were playing 3 defensive midfielders at home against a team in the bottom 3. Not much else choice though in terms of options. 

 I don’t like 3 defensive mids, and he has got choices, but chooses to play it safe

[kingfox]

Happy with that, we can push Choudhury further forward as we've done before if we have to.

[Tanya]

Interesting formation against a team that will park the bus. Intrigued to see how this plays out. Strong looking bench too, Demari seems brighter coming into the game later and, of course, Harvey.

 

COYF

[lcfcsnow]

14 minutes ago, leicester4life said:

Does this mean he's binned the 4231?

Not for long once he realises his mistake 

[BeardyFox]

10 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

Shane Long starts upfront for them, 2 goals in his last 50- that's Okazaki levels of goal scoring. Bound to bag at least 1 today 

That’s a hat-trick for him today then! 

[Tielemans63]

I'm going to go mad and reserve judgment on the effectiveness of the starting line up until at least the game has kicked off.

[Babylon]

10 minutes ago, walkerleeds said:

It also allows our full backs to basically play as wingers.

 

Bizarre the reasons for it need spelling out.

They already do play like that. All the extra dcm does is take creativity out of the middle.

[UPinCarolina]

Can we all agree, at least tacitly, that Puel’s team selection is difficult to criticize - and that as a result, our hive mind should remember that if things go tits up?

[justfoxes]

19 minutes ago, Kasey Keller said:

Nacho ?

Maybe we’ve sold him back to Man City for £30m !! 

[ozleicester]

2 minutes ago, UPinCarolina said:

Can we all agree, at least tacitly, that Puel’s team selection is difficult to criticize - and that as a result, our hive mind should remember that if things go tits up?

 

so...no

[foxes_rule1978]

I would say this is our best setup and bench, lets do this