Hamza

[CrispinLA in Texas]

This guy is useless , he's got no football brain, i kind of knew we would concede a goal when he came on!

[sm1]

Looked really good when Puel used him against Man City and Liverpool,  and when Brendan first came in. Since then his form has collapsed and he looks a liability. Unfortunately it seems like his future is elsewhere. 

[Lesta2014]

Just watched motd, awful play from

him for their goal!! 

[HybridFox]

I don't know if it's a change in training but he seems to have lost the tenacity which set him apart. The crunching tackles, high energy, winning the ball at all costs...has all gone.

 

I wonder if the public criticism from Klopp, Bruce etc has got in his head when making challenges. Doesn't close people down.

[sm1]

4 minutes ago, TK95 said:

I don't know if it's a change in training but he seems to have lost the tenacity which set him apart. The crunching tackles, high energy, winning the ball at all costs...has all gone.

 

I wonder if the public criticism from Klopp, Bruce etc has got in his head when making challenges. Doesn't close people down.

And the sending off for England. He definitely looks a different player after all the criticism. 

[Dan]

He's not good enough is he.

 

I'm struggling with him to be honest. I'm just not convinced he's at the level we're aiming for.

Edited 19 October 2020 by Dan LCFC

[Leicester_Loyal]

His passing has always been suspect, but he always looked decent sitting back, purely defending and allowing others to pass the ball around. 
 

It feels like his last few appearances for us have all resulted in conceding due to a mistake from him. 
 

Only a young lad so has time on his side, but I think he needs regular game time and certain areas of his game need to be worked on. 

[psychonaut]

He clearly couldn't be arsed when he came on, you could see that from his body language a mile off. The dopey bugger was defending from behind the play, I couldn't understand why he wasn't getting goal side.

Completely switched off for their goal, head in the clouds and he knew he'd fvcked up. 

The loss is on Rodgers though. Gave up and played for the draw bringing sideshow on for Mendy. Pointless. Why not bring Under on go hell for leather and try and win the game for a change. Over thinking sh1t as per usual.

[dayday]

5 hours ago, TK95 said:

I don't know if it's a change in training but he seems to have lost the tenacity which set him apart. The crunching tackles, high energy, winning the ball at all costs...has all gone.

 

I wonder if the public criticism from Klopp, Bruce etc has got in his head when making challenges. Doesn't close people down.

Have to agree he hasn’t looked the same player since especially the Klopp outburst.

[Ceirboy]

4 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

His passing has always been suspect, but he always looked decent sitting back, purely defending and allowing others to pass the ball around. 
 

It feels like his last few appearances for us have all resulted in conceding due to a mistake from him. 
 

Only a young lad so has time on his side, but I think he needs regular game time and certain areas of his game need to be worked on. 

Nah. Not happening. 
See all other young hopes for Leicester. 

[Pliskin]

He's kak. Bin him off back to Burton. 

[Haywood_6]

He's at fault for their goal. 

 

3 passes have been played forward by Villa and he's not even started to jog back into position.

[City1884]

We all loved him at first due to the fact he came through the academy, and he ran around flying into tackles......

 

The facts are, that tenacity was all he had, and it soon became apparent that he was a walking red card.

 

He got called out on it by managers, and other players, got a couple of reds, and therefore we reined him in, which then highlighted his lack of footballing brain, and technical ability. Without that tenacity and hard tackling, there isn’t much left in him.

 

He just isn’t good enough for Premier League football.

 

It’s a shame, because everyone wanted him to succeed, which is why it’s still hard for some to accept that he won’t at this level.

[Jimmy]

he's simply not someone that should sit as a DM, you need to let him play like Robbie Savage, charge around all over the place making tackles

[jeffschlupp]

I've said for ages he's not a DM, it was obvious stood behind the goal at Stoke in pre-season last year he hadn't got a f***ing clue how to just sit in front of a defensive pair and mark a player.

 

His strength is charging about in one of the no.8 roles like Kante does for Chelsea. But he's not as talented on the ball, nor can he ping the 40 yard ball that Kante can. He needs to go somewhere, play that role for someone and then come back, because that's what he did to perfection in the Chelsea and Man City games when he first broke onto the scene for us.

 

He wasn't helped last night by us throwing players forward and being wide open on the counter-attack, but if you've been brought on for energy and to stop those shots on the edge of the box, it's unforgivable to give Barkley so much room there.

[Foxxed]

He's regressed under Rodgers. I think a loan might do him well.

[Foxy-Lady]

One of the big problems with Choudhury from an early age is that he's always looking to get noticed by making a spectacular interventions and big tackles....which some of the time are actually the result of him being out of position in the first place and using his athleticism to make recovery tackles!

Doesn't actually get highlighted very often as his pace usually gets him out of trouble and people just notice the spectacular tackle....but it certainly cost us yesterday.

 

Moment i saw their goal i was wondering why Barkley had so much space to run into and why Hamza was sprinting back from so far behind him?

Watched it back in slow-mo and Hamza was way too far up the pitch. He seemed to be gambling on the ball being played inside to Luiz....so he was preparing to make one of his spectacular tackles high up the pitch that would put us on the front foot.

Problem was.....it wasn't played to Luiz and 3 passes later it was into Barkely who was 30 yards ahead of Hamza and had 20 yards of space ahead of them....the space where Hamza should have been protecting his CBs....and the rest is history!

This is exactly what Danny Murphy highlighted on MoTD last night and im sure BR and his team will have seen the same.

If you trying to chase the game, bring on attacking options but if you're bringing on a CDM to secure the point, at least make sure he has the discipline to stay there...! 

 

[Farrington fox]

Going backwards, good championship player. 

[dannythefox]

Since he got sent off for us then England he’s never been the same his tackling was good before that. Looks like he thinks about it too much, even if he takes him out for the goal it’s only a yellow though. Bad from him really.

Edited 19 October 2020 by dannythefox

[Hollyfox]

Stick him up front instead of Slimani. 

[Dan]

He's no holding midfielder at all. I think of him as a very poor man's Kante.

[Tielemans63]

I still think there's a player in there but the sad fact is, everytime he comes on, I'm just waiting for that **** up that costs us. I love him, I want to see him become a really good player for us but he's a liability right now. 

[deep blue]

I think it's harsh to exclusively blame Hamza for the Villa goal.  If our back line had squeezed up closer to the forward play then there wouldn't have been such a gap for Villa to exploit and their attack could have been snuffed out earlier by our back line pushing up and winning the ball that broke. Hamza may have been sent on to inject more energy in the midfield and to contribute to the attack, in which case he was perfectly justified in being up there. If we had gone all out for a win in the last 10 minutes then we would naturally been squeezing up and denying them space to get possession and break out.

[fox_up_north]

I've got a soft spot for the lad BUT he's at that age where he does need to be ki kicking on. He needs to be sat down and reminded of what the CDM role is. It's not always about amazing tackles but helping defence. He should be shielding, cutting off options for opposing players or marking their threat.

[lcfc sheff]

He’s been mismanaged horribly