Ben Chilwell

[Dr The Singh]

1 minute ago, Anish said:

He had no support whatsoever from Barnes but he got skinned far too many times by Mahrez today. I agree he needs to impose himself a bit more on players like Mahrez. 

He had to give Mahrez too much space, because KDB was pushing upfront.  This was a tactical thing that he could not deal with.  However he still was poor

[Blue-fox]

I couldn’t call chilwell today as he was doubled up on. However you could see today that his defending is of average quality. He’s not as good at defending than Fuchs is however he’s better going forward now as he is more mobile than Fuchs. And the system we play we need that attacking threat. 

[Blanchflower78]

Real shame today, embarrassed. 

[Walshie is God]

Got tore a new one. Happy birthday 

[st albans fox]

11 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

He had to give Mahrez too much space, because KDB was pushing upfront.  This was a tactical thing that he could not deal with.  However he still was poor

Correct

 

10 minutes ago, Blue-fox said:

I couldn’t call chilwell today as he was doubled up on. However you could see today that his defending is of average quality. He’s not as good at defending than Fuchs is however he’s better going forward now as he is more mobile than Fuchs. And the system we play we need that attacking threat. 

Fuchs would have struggled big tIme today - happened first fifteen at Chelsea to him and he was schooled for that first quarter until we changed tactics a bit 

[H.a.r.r.y]

turned his back to the ball to many times and got absolutely ripped apart

[Gerard]

22 minutes ago, Anish said:

He had no support whatsoever from Barnes but he got skinned far too many times by Mahrez today. I agree he needs to impose himself a bit more on players like Mahrez. 

 

TBF Mahrez can make any full back in the world look clueless.

 

Chilwell was isolated far too often against Mahrez without any back up and just had to try and hold him off. That first goal when Mahrez had a run at him and there was no player in a ten yard radius was asking for trouble. Ndidi was preoccupied and it should have been Barnes or Tielemans running into that space.  

[shailen]

Give the guy a break. He is one of the best full backs in the league and has great energy to go forward and get back all game. 

 

He had no support from his winger defensively and whether that was intentional to limit the threat of de bruyne or not, Leicester fans out of any fans should understand how dangerous Mahrez is in those situations, one on one. 

[coolhandfox]

He's still learning, give the guy a break! 

[January47]

It looked like he was told to defend the penalty area to stop de Bruyne but this then gave Mahrez all the space he needed. Pepe outthought Rodgers on this one who then didn’t adjust the formation although it was obvious what was happening after ten minutes.

[Al-aLondon-Foxile]

He was exposed badly today, but exposed by Mahrez on top form and a world class KDB. When Mahrez played for us he was often doubled up on, we couldn’t/didn’t do that as we had others to watch, what was Chilly supposed to do? He was always on a hiding to nothing the way we set up, just one of those games. Move on. 

[jammie82uk]

Harsh to call him out on that performance really, often found himself alone against KDB and Mahrez and we all know just how devastating Mahrez can be 1 on 1, Barnes gave no support as he was marking thin air most of the game, N’didi was just running around aimlessly looking for someone to tackle and often found no one as Man City players just stayed away from him,

we was just outplayed today by a quality team there is no shame in that 

[splinterdream]

Chilly had no support today, I'm sure it was a tactic for Barnes to hang out waiting for the ball to break but it didnt work, kdb and Mahrez ruled the day. 

[Fourfoxsake]

On 06/10/2019 at 09:34, jonthefox said:

Mate of mine said we had scouts at the Forest game yesterday. Could be routine, but they do have that Joe Worrall. Is he a left back 

Worrall is a centre back. Not even championship standard 

[Fourfoxsake]

On 06/10/2019 at 10:14, dayday said:

Young left back learning his trade gets hammered by Leicester fans, have you not learnt?

Had a bad day at the office. As did most.

[hejammy]

To be honest yes Chilly got ripped a new one. But some of the senior players should have told chilly to go in hard on Mahrez early, we know from his days here that once a player does that to him, he shys away. My bigger concern with Chilwell is actually his crossing ability, or the serious lack of it! 

[Fox92]

He has no support. 

 

But why oh why did we keep allowing Mahrez to come inside. We saw it week after week ourselves.

[Bayfox]

Don't show him inside.

 

Oh wait too late.

[NewquayFox]

No support whatsoever from Barnes or Maddison against 2 world class players in DeBruyne & Mahrez, but we need a scapegoat ffs.... 

[Milo]

Meh - we’ve all seen Riyad to this sort of thing to much better defenders than Chilwell. 

 

Support him and move on. 

[LCCFox96]

We kept our full backs too narrow today, presumably in an attempt to better deal with De Bruyne and Bernardo (which didn't go amazingly). Thought Ricardo did okay on the right with Sterling (it was never a penalty) although Mendy got forward well to support. Chilwell didn't have his greatest game but he was essentially left in 2 on 1's with Mahrez and De Bruyne which is asking for a spanking. Having Albrighton ahead of him would have massively helped today. 

Edited 21 December 2019 by LCCFox96

[Guest An Sionnach]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

He has no support. 

 

But why oh why did we keep allowing Mahrez to come inside. We saw it week after week ourselves.

His weak right foot means a left footed player is always going to go inside on him, Salah will do the same. To be honest a professional footballer should never be completely one footed , Fuchs certainly isn't. Also with Mahrez , Fuchs would have clattered him straight away , he doesn't like the physical stuff.

Edited 21 December 2019 by An Sionnach

[worthosoriginals]

2 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

He's still learning, give the guy a break! 

From these lot, no chance, they want his blood

[Guest An Sionnach]

3 minutes ago, worthosoriginals said:

From these lot, no chance, they want his blood

We don't want his blood at all but he is 23 now not a kid , just work really hard on his weak areas and he will be fine.

[The boy Linacre]

On his day a good player, it was tough today Man C were well up for it.  KDB on fire at moment, Mahrez pretty good too.

 

Would be good if his end product going forward was better, take a leaf out of Ricci's book.

Not often he has days like today, lets hope he bounces back on Boxing Day.