Was that Jamie Vardy’s greatest Leicester performance ever?

[Crazy Kop Corner]

13 hours ago, Webbo said:

It's a bit pathetic for a man in his 50s I know, but I absolutely love him. without a doubt my favourite player ever.

There's nothing wrong with a bit of a man crush even when in middle age.  

 

I'm of a similar vintage and met Steve Walsh for the first time on Monday and it took me all of my time to not give him a man hug even though we're in lockdown. 

 

I'm also in awe of Vardy and that we have had the sheer joy of watching such a talented wonderful footballer for the last 7 years or so. 

 

When questions were asked on Thursday he answered them all with a fantastic performance.  

[surrifox]

9 minutes ago, Crazy Kop Corner said:

There's nothing wrong with a bit of a man crush even when in middle age.  

 

I'm of a similar vintage and met Steve Walsh for the first time on Monday and it took me all of my time to not give him a man hug even though we're in lockdown. 

 

I'm also in awe of Vardy and that we have had the sheer joy of watching such a talented wonderful footballer for the last 7 years or so. 

 

When questions were asked on Thursday he answered them all with a fantastic performance.  

Looking back Nige and Walsh (recruitment) could really spot the potential in players 

[Md9]

The Newcastle game 3-0 was he was so good I got to my seat just as ulloa scored and Vardy has them in all sort of trouble from the start. Williamson couldn’t cope at all with him. The guy is on another level and I am glad he never went to arsenal. Would love him to take on a coaching role of some sort when he finishes 

[Finnegan]

In a way its actually a pretty patronising article that ironically doesn't give Vardy enough credit. 

 

Because he's actually always played creator. One of Vardy's top five defining traits is his ability to get his head up and put the team first. 

 

Unlike Kane or Salah, he'll always play a pass ahead of taking a low percentage shot on himself, regardless of what's at stake. Remember when he gave up a chance at the all time English top flight pre Premier League record when he set up Mahrez for a hattrick at Swansea? 

 

Didn't he have a similar performance away at Brighton this year setting up what should have been several goals before and after he assisted Perez? 

 

When he first arrived here he played provider to Nugent all the time, he's just always had this in his locker. A lot of the time he's just not had people actually keep up with him. Okazaki was frustrating as hell, so was Slimani briefly, because Vards would bust a gut getting down the channel, be in a prime position to cut it across and they just wouldn't be keeping up with play. 

 

I think he's one of the smartest forwards in the league. Weighs up the situation insanely quickly, makes immensely creative decisions in an instant on either how he's going to finish (England goal vs Germany, West Brom over shoulder first time, flying Tottenham volley, Liverpool wonder goal) or who's in a better position to score than him. 

 

He's always, always been more than "run behind with pace, shoot across keeper. "

 

Edited 18 July 2020 by Finnegan

[Foxhateram]

22 hours ago, TeamRocket said:

Maybe weird but get the feeling BR is trying to make him a CAM but cos he's our top goal scoring machine having someone ahead  of him would be daft. Dunno maybe am wrong but if we had 2 of him yesterday we would have distorted them and everyone else. 

As he gets older I can imagine him doing what Okazaki did for us, just behind another striker. 

[ronnup]

Makes you feel like a kid. Proper fan boy. Thought I'd never love a player more than Muzzy but this lad is the one. If he doesn't get a statue it's a travesty. He's the greatest footballing story in premier League history. And that's not an exaggeration. 

 

As for which game ? Almost impossible. 

[HybridFox]

One of the reasons why I think he still has plenty in the tank at his age. Even if the goals began to dry up, he'd turn provider.

 

Don't forget in the first Prem season, he had 8 assists, one behind Eden Hazard. 

[coolhandfox]

Best two performance...........

 

Tottenham away 2020- Man U home 2020 

[TheStig]

Best performance: Signing his first Leicester contract!

[lcfc sheff]

Finally, I think we now know what we need to do to improve; find the perfect partner for Vardy, not a mahrez replacement, not a Kante or drinkwater replacement, this sheff Utd game was a reminder of how he used to play before becoming the lethal striker we now know. It was reminiscent of the great escape where we played nugent behind vardy and ulloa, instead of course we’re playing Perez behind barnes and vardy.

 

 

[honeybradger]

58 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

Finally, I think we now know what we need to do to improve; find the perfect partner for Vardy, not a mahrez replacement, not a Kante or drinkwater replacement, this sheff Utd game was a reminder of how he used to play before becoming the lethal striker we now know. It was reminiscent of the great escape where we played nugent behind vardy and ulloa, instead of course we’re playing Perez behind barnes and vardy.

 

 

Nugent wasnt a starter in the great escape mate.

[NotTheMarketLeader]

2 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

Best two performance...........

 

Tottenham away 2020- Man U home 2020 

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[Nick]

Greatest game ever - he’ll no.

 

He missed two chances which is so unlike him! He had a great game though.

[lcfc sheff]

44 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

Nugent wasnt a starter in the great escape mate.

It was rotated between him and mahrez “mate”. He started 3 of those games. 

[Corky]

The game also proved how misleading assist stats can be. Vardy set up four chances perfectly and had one assist, statistically he didn't have a major impact on the game but his performance was tremendous.

 

Key chances created should be always be ahead of assists, you can't criticise someone for somebody else fluffing opportunities.

[Clever Fox]

He was excellent the other night and it's clear that Brendan has been working with him to expand his options up front. In stead of waiting for an over the top Ball or into the channels. He was dropping back into space and picking up Balls where defenders didn't want to go after him.

If he can keep that up then he'll get even better and develop into a more rounded player and contribute even more into the future.

[Hollyfox]

21 hours ago, Spudulike said:

I remember sitting in the car before that match with the rain hammering down, splashing on the bonnet, wondering whether I should just stay in the car and listen to Stringer. Got to my seat about a minute before kick-off and we were 3 nil up in 20 mins (2 in first 5 mins) with Vardy getting the first two of his hat trick. 

 

Don't think that Pep had ever seen Vardy play before. Or that's how it seemed. 

It took a lot of persuading for me to get my kids out of the car before that game. 

 

'It's raining like mad' and 'we'll get hammered, so what's the point'? 

Were 2 of the pre match comments 😄