Man City Pre Match

[st albans fox]

17 minutes ago, FIF said:

 

 

Interesting sighting of Amartey in this thread.

Last seen at private hospital in Oadby wearing a cast on his ankle .... but no mention that he isn’t fit ...... I’m confused ........

[gerrytaggart]

Chop down that c*nt sweet Prince Mahrez early doors, he don't like a physical battle, and we nullify their ONLY threat.  😁🙄

[Foxhateram]

@FIF no idea why you have put a laughing emoji but a discussion board is for discussing points. What part of my post is funny? How do you justify that opinion with evidence?

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Foxhateram said:

@FIF no idea why you have put a laughing emoji but a discussion board is for discussing points. What part of my post is funny? How do you justify that opinion with evidence?

Laughing emojis are for when you think something is funny, like thumbs up are for when you agree. It saves making a pointless post saying I agree or that's funny. I found two parts of your post funny and if they weren't intentional they say more about your "love" for sharky than needs to be discussed.

 

Albrighton hasn't been fantastic during 2020 (in my opinion) so that was quite funny. And he certainly made no difference at all in the Wolves game. Ran around like a headless chicken and made a few mistakes. 

 

Love the guy but he's past it at the level we need which is clearly shown by his lack of playing time.

 

 

[leuven]

5 of us are coming to support LCFC in this match, let's hope for a strong performance.

 

[foxfan92]

More I think about this game, and the game where we saw Chillwell having a continuous headache with Mahrez and De Bruyne running the show, the more I remember how we created this issue by being unable to get the ball out of our own half (save the Vardy goal break away and a few other infrequent instances). 

 

I think if we set up to defend we set up to invite the same pressure again.

 

Rather than 5 at the back I'd be asking a midfield 3 and when needed some of those in forward positions to help out at times, but also try to offer a route forward.

 

Man City will play a high line and there will be opportunity to exploit that if we can hit them on a counter attack.

 

I'd be tempted to try this out:- a 4-3-3 formation - possibly even swapping Tielmans and Maddison roles around for this one -if you watch Maddison he's getting good at getting dug in defensively and getting into those spaces in the middle when we have the ball, while Tielemans, given that extra half a second has that killer through ball in him.

 

Kasper

 

Chilwell

Soyuncu 

Evans 

Richardo

 

Maddison 

Ndidi

Tielemans 

 

Barnes 

Vardy

Inheachio 

 

A big part of me thinks Praet could be useful in this type of game but I cant fit him in to this formation, perhaps if we score early again, but otherwise this isn't working it allows us to take a front man off and still have 2 men as a focal point to stop the one way traffic.

 

Just a different way of looking at things other than the defensive formations most seem to be suggesting.

[Dahnsouff]

Formation v Man City

 

             Wilf

 

 

2-0 to the Foxes 

 

[Foxhateram]

3 hours ago, FIF said:

Laughing emojis are for when you think something is funny, like thumbs up are for when you agree. It saves making a pointless post saying I agree or that's funny. I found two parts of your post funny and if they weren't intentional they say more about your "love" for sharky than needs to be discussed.

 

Albrighton hasn't been fantastic during 2020 (in my opinion) so that was quite funny. And he certainly made no difference at all in the Wolves game. Ran around like a headless chicken and made a few mistakes. 

 

Love the guy but he's past it at the level we need which is clearly shown by his lack of playing time.

 

 

Only slightly ignorant in your reply there pal. 

 

You clearly watched a different game. 👍🤔

[Plastik Man]

6 hours ago, FIF said:

 

Interesting sighting of Amartey in this thread.

 

5 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Last seen at private hospital in Oadby wearing a cast on his ankle .... but no mention that he isn’t fit ...... I’m confused ........

Aha, ive not read the whole thread but came on here to suggest Amartey as an option, if fit! 

 

He’s adequate as a DM and adds some height/physicality. But where is he?! 

[Lesta2014]

Matty James to be in the squad??

[Royston.]

I feel a win coming

 

man city may put a brave face on tonight but they arent going to be interested against a rampant foxes at a king power cauldron of hell

[HybridFox]

Let's goad them with impending relegation 

[Deeg67]

Most likely result is they scorch us again. They're simply much better - it really comes down to whether they're motivated or not, and if there's any PL match they should be motivated for it's us.  But if they don't turn up you have to take advantage, and the best way to do that is with a lineup suited to the quick counterattacks MC is vulnerable against.

[justfoxes]

                   Kasper 
 

James   Evans   Souyuncu     Chilwell 

       
                         

            Tielemans  Ndidi ( Preat if Ndidi inj )

 

Ricardo                                  Barnes 

                            

                     Maddison 

 

                           Vardy 

 

 

Hoping we turn up for this one give a ballsy display need to limit the likes of Mahrez and co time on the ball bully them hit them hard I can see us beating them   2-0  

Edited 20 February 2020 by justfoxes

[gw_leics772]

On 15/02/2020 at 16:35, SO1 said:

The magic word is faster. Moving the ball sideways and backwards creates space. We have to do it faster and with tighter triangles so we can get through their midfield.

Sometimes I long for Tika taka football to get us through the tough spots when our play is so slow. Less thinking and more instinct. Faster

Simply put, this = us at our best.

The downside is the slower version has resulted in draining confidence and they look incapable of picking a pass at their worst (which also simply put is the same tactics but slower = us at our "worst" )

[Pliskin]

They won’t be putting out their strongest 11, with Real Madrid on the horizon and the potential two seasons ban, they will want to win the CL this season, so don’t be surprised if the likes of Fernandinho, KDB, Mahrez, Aguaro and Stirling are all missing. 
 

A good opportunity for us to get back on track and lift the confidence with a win. 
 

I’m going 3-0 Leicester, all aboard the positive train. 

[Guest]

Surely very very few of the players who played against west ham will play against us - at least those who are going to be playing in the CL. 

 

So looks like we might not have to face De Bruyne or Aguerro. 

[les-tah]

no chance Man city players play 3 times in 7 days .. Leicester is the only chance of a break for them before Real Madrid.

 

 

[Kasey Keller]

0-3

[Deeg67]

53 minutes ago, FIF said:

Surely very very few of the players who played against west ham will play against us - at least those who are going to be playing in the CL. 

 

So looks like we might not have to face De Bruyne or Aguerro. 

I wouldn't bet on that.

[Haywood_6]

We beat them at home last season under Puel

 

Why can't we do it again?

 

Just need to show our qualiteeee and intensiteeee.

[Scotch]

It's difficult to see past 5 at the back for this game given what happened at the Etihad. 

 

                               Kasp

 

            Evan's     Bennett   Soyuncu

 

Ricardo                                           Chillwell

 

                 Tielemans      Ndidi

   

                           Maddison

 

                   Nacho            vardy

[Ric Flair]

Pep seldom rests huge amounts of players.

[Munshi]

Hopefully we take the game to them this time, we sat back against Liverpool and got turned over. Lets hope Brendan has learnt his lesson.

 

[StriderHiryu]

9 minutes ago, Haywood_6 said:

We beat them at home last season under Puel

 

Why can't we do it again?

 

Just need to show our qualiteeee and intensiteeee.

Puel set us up a very specific way against the top teams last season, with Ndidi, Mendy and Choudhury all starting and playing on the break. And it worked several times against top teams to get us some good results.

 

Rodgers won't do that though as he is the type of coach that has a specific philosophy, which is to be proactive and to try and stamp our identity and way of playing on the game. That's why thus far against Liverpool and Man City we've been way out of our depth because those teams are much better at doing that than we are. But the thing is that to be a top team, you have to learn how to do this and accept it will go wrong a few times. For example in 2016 Guardiola turned up to the KP to try and stamp his way of playing on us and we went 4-0 up on them with our counter attack. But the next season they won the league with 100 points after they took some knockbacks in his first season in England. 

 

The Spurs - Leipzig game last night was a good example of reactionary versus proactive tactics. Leipzig are newcomers to the Champions League, yet played Spurs off the park. But they have been beaten a number of times by teams like Bayern in trying to perfect their blend of football. 

 

I've gone for a Man City win because I think they are still too good for us. But at some point we will play our A-game against a top team and win doing it, and look convincing too. And that will be a landmark moment for the club and team, because that's when we can start dreaming of really becoming a top team IMO.