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Kelechi Iheanacho

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Vardinio'sCat

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13 hours ago, Collymore said:

The second was a bit tricky as he might have been unsighted but how can you say the first wasn't easy? An absolute gift and you'd expect a Premier League striker to put that away 99/100 from that position. 

 

It was a gift for sure, but Kel's first touch was good, and it was simple from there. A bad touch and he is missing, at least in my opinion.

 

Of course you would expect quality strikers to finish that, but what you expect and what you get are two different things. Anyway, no sweat, I think your point is reasonable, even if I disagree.

 

Maybe it is just the excitement of seeing a man reborn! :thumbup:

 

 

 

 

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By no means a slight at the GOAT, but Seniorman Keli has not just been in sensational goal scoring form but had Vardy had his shooting boots on he probably should have had several assists, as well, in the last few games.
 

Vardys shot headed of the line vs Sheff Utd, the missed chance yesterday when he went to the near post and when he slid it wide of the near post vs Sheff Utd as well. Might be other as well but those were golden chances you’d normally expect Vardy to bag, and created by Kelechi.
 

Proving that he’s not just a goal scorer but can also be a creator, this system and the form he’s in is just incredible at the minute. Long may it continue 

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3 hours ago, mad biker said:

100% mate, worry not :-)

Going off topic slightly but genuine question - have many clubs in the past activated this buy back clause option?  I’m not clued up on the ins and outs intricacies of a lot of other clubs other than our own. Just wondering if it’s a thing that gets written into a lot of contracts but never really turns out to be a ‘thing’

 

I’ve tee’d that up nicely for someone to hit me with a huge list of well known bought back transfers 😂 

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Can anyone explain where senior man came from ? This has gone right over my head... I feel old now

 

i hadn’t heard it before yesterday and now even news outlets are writing seniorman iheanacho lol

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5 hours ago, TJB-fox said:

Has he ever had a run like this though? Pretty much guaranteed sequence of starts without the knowledge that no matter how well he does Vardy will replace him the next game? He’s been given a level of security/confidence and to a confidence player like himself that’s huge. His goal threat has always been there, as shown in his impressive goal stats. 

There are other players that come in and out of the team though and perform at a consistent level such as Albrighton or Mendy for example.  

 

Kelechi's City career is a bit of an enigma,  There's no doubt that he has looked pretty hapless at times but it's brilliant to see him blossoming and seemingly loving life now.  I don't know what it is that has changed for him but I think it's more than a run in the team.  He looks a different player.

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11 minutes ago, Kasey Keller said:

I really hope he’s fired up for Pep and co.....🔥🔥💥💥

Big time!  Every **** on bluemoon is convinced he missed this one on purpose and it’s past time he set them straight.

 

 

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8 hours ago, Vardinio'sCat said:

 

It was a gift for sure, but Kel's first touch was good, and it was simple from there. A bad touch and he is missing, at least in my opinion.

 

Of course you would expect quality strikers to finish that, but what you expect and what you get are two different things. Anyway, no sweat, I think your point is reasonable, even if I disagree.

 

Maybe it is just the excitement of seeing a man reborn! :thumbup:

 

 

 

 

How refreshing to have a reply that is balanced and fair. Well put.

 

To us mere mortals there are so many chances to mess that up but as I said, that would be bread and butter for a player of Nacho's quality. 

 

Actually I retract my previous statement of 99/100 for Premier League strikers as I've just imagined Joelinton in that position and I'd imagine maybe 20/100. 

 

I think the thing is with Nacho, I don't think anyone has ever doubted his finishing ability, it's just in the past I couldn't imagine him switched on enough to be intercepting that back pass. 

 

Absolutely no doubt that he's going score time and time again from that position though...

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1 hour ago, SheppyFox said:

He used to score like this for Man City. Maybe we’re just good enough to get better from him now, rather than where we were with mainly counter attacking? 

Iheanacho needs 2 of 3 things, confidence which makes him a completely different player, the right service and playing in a front 2.

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https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/leicester-city-how-kelechi-iheanacho-found-himself-in-golden-form

 

Leicester City: How Kelechi Iheanacho found himself in golden form
By Richard Jolly 2 hours ago

It seemed like Kelechi Iheanacho would forever play Jamie Vardy's back-up - but now Iheanacho is stepping out himself to start scoring

  
Two of Leicester City’s greatest goalscorers were at the King Power Stadium on Sunday. Jamie Vardy was leading the line, but taking his recent record to just one goal in 16 games. Gary Lineker was in the temporary, oversized, outside studios that are a product of strange times, occasionally eschewing impartiality to enjoy Leicester’s progress to a first FA Cup semi-final since 1982, when he was the second-division side’s top scorer.

Fast-forward the best part of four decades and each could savour the exploits of one who, a few weeks ago, felt a reason why City’s reliance on Vardy was so great. Kelechi Iheanacho appeared a £25 million misfit, a rare misstep as Leicester’s prowess in the transfer market has brought them James Maddison, Ricardo Pereira, James Justin, Wesley Fofana, Caglar Soyuncu, Jonny Evans, Youri Tielemans and Wilfred Ndidi. Evidence of astute recruitment is everywhere to be found; except, some might have said, among Vardy’s deputies.

Now Iheanacho might have done a rare double: he is both the Premier League and the FA Cup’s player of March. If he has compensated brilliantly for the absences of Maddison and Harvey Barnes, he also feels an indication that strikers can score in spurts. Brendan Rodgers argued that he has lacked confidence at times; now seven goals in four games have provided plenty of it.

 

He has also lacked opportunity as the permanent Plan B. Iheanacho ranks among the purest of predators in the modern game, a relatively one-dimensional forward who specialises in the game’s most important task. It was no surprise that Pep Guardiola, that devotee of total football, sold him. 


Iheanacho may not be the furthest thing from a false nine among Premier League forwards – that mantle probably still rests with Andy Carroll – but he could figure on the shortlist. He has a certain appeal to the nostalgic.

The clinical finisher can compensate with goals for his deficiencies in other departments. Iheanacho has scored from 22% of his Premier League shots this season; he found the net with 28% of them in his breakthrough year of 2015-16. He averaged a goal every 94 minutes then, one every 121 now. In between, he finished 2018-19 without a goal in his last 29 games in all competitions, but he was a serial substitute, racking up appearances while confined to cameos.

It is a sign of the times. One-striker systems mean the second forward can be the squad player who is nevertheless charged with being the match-winner. When the first forward is the phenomenon that is Vardy, the situation is still tougher. Understudying the oldest Golden Boot winner in Premier League history may have felt football’s version of Waiting for Godot, planning for a tomorrow that never came as the question of the succession was put back by Vardy’s ageless antics.


Leicester’s excellence in acquiring Maddison and developing him and Barnes further counted against Iheanacho. Then recent injuries brought a rethink, a switch to 3-5-2 or 3-4-1-2 that brings that strangest of sights these days: a strike partnership. It has been a genuine alliance, too: Vardy set up the first two of Iheanacho’s hat-trick against Sheffield United. 

It is, though, a very different duo to Vardy’s most famous double act. Go back to their title-winning season and his sidekick was a non-scoring workhorse. Iheanacho feels the anti-Okazaki, scoring as many goals in his last three league games as the Japanese did in the 2015-16 campaign.

 

Successful as Rodgers’ systemic switch is, it still feels a temporary gambit, one that might be jettisoned when Barnes, in particular, is available again. Maybe March’s player of the month will be back on the bench in April.

But maybe Iheanacho’s flurry of goals will have shored up Leicester’s Champions League challenge or lead to FA Cup glory; perhaps there is something lasting to come from a golden spell. And as they face the biggest issue in remodelling the squad, Iheanacho has started to feel solution more than problem, a player who could partner Vardy but also alternate with him in a job-share, lending a different type of potency. 

If so, the least he has done is to buy Leicester time. If he was signed four years ago as the veteran’s eventual replacement, Vardy has resisted being pensioned off. But if his current drought is the first, belated evidence of decline, Iheanacho may be ensuring it does not cost Leicester this season. The poacher can feel a throwback to Lineker’s day but he could play a part in a very modern success story.

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11 hours ago, KingsX said:

Big time!  Every **** on bluemoon is convinced he missed this one on purpose and it’s past time he set them straight.

 

 

This is the Last min Company Thunderbolt game wasn’t it. I remember Choudhary being great in this game and look at how forward he is there and great slipped-in pass to Nacho.

 

Hamza has probably progressed the least since BR had taken over. Nacho on the other hand has done so well and now would bury that chance.

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2 hours ago, davieG said:

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/leicester-city-how-kelechi-iheanacho-found-himself-in-golden-form

 

Leicester City: How Kelechi Iheanacho found himself in golden form

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Nice sentiment but I can't agree with the author whatsoever that he is either "a relatively one-dimensional forward" nor that he is so far removed from the false nine role to warrant comparisons with Andy Carroll. We've seen ourselves that he's very capable of dropping deep, holding the ball up and threading passes through to other forwards. He's not the complete forward and can occasionally look a little clumsy but I feel the description of him as an old-fashioned goalhanging poacher is inaccurate and based on little more than him scoring a few instinctive goals from close range lately. He's scoring with his left foot, right foot, headers, tap-ins and long-rangers, dropping deep to link the play and creating chances and goals for his teammates - how that makes him one-dimensional I'm really not sure.

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If, like me, you wrote him off once and for all after Palace away, this run of mind-boggling brilliance by Kels is just that: mind-boggling. It's not run-of-the-mill brilliance either, like we're used to seeing from Jamie Vardy. It's on another, higher level. Kels has hardly put a foot wrong in the last two games, and scored five goals from, I think, five chances (or about the same number the GOAT had in the same games, without scoring).

 

In the still very unlikely event that we go on to win the FA Cup this season, it is presently more likely than not that the winner would be scored by Iheanacho, rather than Vardy or anyone else.

 

How crazy is that? What would the odds have been on 29th December last?!?  

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On 22/03/2021 at 13:04, TJB-fox said:

Iheanacho hasn’t been transformed massively like many are suggesting, he’s just being given a fair run of game time. It’s bloody hard to make an impact in 5min cameos and odd cup appearances. So glad he’s taking his opportunity, the guy seriously knows where the net is. 

I feel the biggest effect he is actually not been used as a sole striker anymore, I feel he was been used wrong.  But for sure his confidence has also gone up with the run of games as well.  Hopefully moving forward Nacho is used with at least one other player up front with him in any games he plays.

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