Caglar Soyuncu emerges as new cult hero at Leicester City

[Blue-fox]

Just now, Nod.E said:

It's not just the mistake though. Looked shaky all game. Has looked shaky for weeks in fact.

Doesn’t look comfortable in a 3 for me

[willie-bell-in-rothley]

His worst game in a city shirt

[martyn]

Tonight was the culmination of a bunch of frenetic performances in recent weeks. An absolute horror show. Can't think of too many worse individual performances I've seen at any level for us.

 

He's all action and at his best that works in his favour as he nicks in front of strikers and gets us on the front foot high up the pitch and he dominates his opponent. When he's off, he gets caught ahead of the ball, makes rash decisions, and generally looks like he has a mistake in him at any moment.

 

He never has looked comfortable in a 3. Neither does Fofana. They both get run off their shoulder far too often That's the main reason i'd abandon the back 3.

Edited 7 May 2021 by martyn

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Played like a poundshop David Luiz tonight.

[volpeazzurro]

I feel sorry for Soyuncu, he like others is out of position. He's a right footed player who gives mom performances for Turkey on the right. He can play the left of two centre halves really well but struggles on the extreme left covering left back as well, it's crystal clear he struggles there and pundits have picked up on it also. We scored 2 despite the manager when players did their own thing and attacked, it's not the first time.

[Daz93]

Completely lost without Evans

[Ross 'LCFC' Turner]

I honestly think a 1/10 would be too high to rate that performance. 
 

Absolute shambles when we needed him to step up the most

[Guest Fktf]

Nightmare performance. Whole back line is lost without evans in there, but cags especially.

[sheffield_fox]

2 minutes ago, volpeazzurro said:

I feel sorry for Soyuncu, he like others is out of position. He's a right footed player who gives mom performances for Turkey on the right. He can play the left of two centre halves really well but struggles on the extreme left covering left back as well, it's crystal clear he struggles there and pundits have picked up on it also. We scored 2 despite the manager when players did their own thing and attacked, it's not the first time.

Spot on.

[KFS]

This bloke’s mentality is really really poor. He can be really rash and put us in stupid situations. You expect it from Fofana based on age but he needs a head wobble. 

[sdb]

That was by far the worst individual performance I've seen in a city shirt this year.

[Ian Nacho]

He’s always has a game like that in him. If we ever get a decent offer for him I reckon he’ll be gone. 

[VictorFox]

They were all shocking tonight but this was probably worse than his Bournemouth performance 

[HybridFox]

I was begging for Amartey to come on. Absolute shocker tonight forgot the basics of being a footballer

[Kierzz]

It's performances like this which is why he will stay with Leicester and the 'big' teams won't come sniffing around

[WigstonWanderer]

Think we always knew that one of his Cruyff turns would go wrong eventually. Looks good when it works though. Evans makes everyone look better. Hope he’s back soon.

[Tielemans63]

Looks great in a two, all at sea in a 3, as does Fofana for that matter. So why are we persisting with it? 

[Fox92]

I've said since he come back from his injury he doesn't look right. The people asking for Soyuncu/Fofana as a two man centre back pairing don't realise how much Evans brings.

[Costock_Fox]

Just now, Fox92 said:

I've said since he come back from his injury he doesn't look right. The people asking for Soyuncu/Fofana as a two man centre back pairing don't realise how much Evans brings.

Agreed. Said months ago that a pairing of these two would be a disaster, wasn’t quite expecting that though.

[5waller5]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

I've said since he come back from his injury he doesn't look right. The people asking for Soyuncu/Fofana as a two man centre back pairing don't realise how much Evans brings.

Soyuncu / Fofana as a central 2 would be fantastic.

 

But Soyuncu / Fofana / Random pick is a disaster.

 

It’s clear neither like being in a 3, but Evan’s quality and leadership means that they are closely managed on the pitch and it works.

 

Without Evans they didn’t know when to attack and break forward, and when they did nobody covered.

 

As a pair they would simply concentrate on being defenders and not have to break forward to make up for the man short in midfield.

 

After 25 minutes yesterday it was clear that it wasn’t working - BR could have easily gone to a back 4 without making a sub. I suspect we’d have won the game if he had, and we’d have seen this pairing shine 

[enmac]

Defence wasn't helped by playing effectively 2 RBs. Alternating between a back 2 and a back 3. Maybe playing Ricardo at RB and pushing Castagne to RM might be better. 

[shen]

Not a fan of Rodgers praising Fofana yesterday and criticising Cags. Both were completely outmatched by lower half opposition. Rodgers only points out the corner, but Fofana was ball watching for Wilson's second.

[Jimmy]

Cags was poor but he wasn't helped but Albrighton completely abandoning him defensively, they targeted that channel constantly as Albrighton was in no mans land most of the game

[dynamark]

Watched the goals again 3 were errors the header was a decent goal.Evans is always the cover when the others go walkabout and that was missing

[Guest Bert Fill]

7 hours ago, Paddy. said:

Looks great in a two, all at sea in a 3, as does Fofana for that matter. So why are we persisting with it? 

So we can have attacking width from wing backs, I imagine.

I reckon they both usually look good if Evans is alongside them, whether in a two or a three.