Post Match Thread - Man City (A)

[Bob666]

[tom27111]

5 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

 

Here's the full team goal. We get to see James Justin's incredible tenacity to win the ball back. Goes from LB to inside right to put the pressure on, which ultimately leads to the goal.

 

@Finnegan

 

 

 

That ball from Youri...just as good as the inch perfect one last week against Burnley. 

[Bob666]

[Sunbury Fox]

3 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

He is absolutely incredible. He literally has no weaknesses to his overall game. Attacking, Defending, energy levels, decision making, passing, crossing, everything.

 

Someone needs to get him hooked up with a Leicester lass who does not want to leave the city as soon as possible.

I absolutely love Ricardo but I'll be honest I'm not even missing him since Timmy arrived. What a player. Expected him to be a solid player but he is way more then that - absolute bargain for £21m.

[Fulham]

I see you guys don't like Amartey

We are ready to take him off your hands.....

I just watched a man back from a 2-year habitus who could help us a lot

[KFS]

Pep is just sour because he got played tactically. I said it in the match thread, you could see what we were doing after that first break where Justin couldn’t make the pass. Riyad’s wonder strike aside we clearly had an intent to soak up pressure and counter. Frustrating as it was at the time, we didn’t panic and stuck to the plan early on.

[Fightforever]

Need to get praet on a new contract hit a new level in this new season.

[tom27111]

Watching the highlights back on MOTD, it looks like the team spirit is back again.

 

The celebrations really showed togetherness.

 

Man City are an amazing side, but 11 players working together are way more powerful than 11 individuals, even if most of them are technically better, or at least perceived to be.

[ScrumpyJack]

Similar vibe innit

 

[StriderHiryu]

Just now, Sunbury Fox said:

I absolutely love Ricardo but I'll be honest I'm not even missing him since Timmy arrived. What a player. Expected him to be a solid player but he is way more then that - absolute bargain for £21m.

Which is a brilliant position to be in as now we have squad depth. Not only did we beat Man City scoring 5 goals, we did it without 2 of our best players in Ricardo and Ndidi.

 

Leicester City have gone up a level in recent years. We were able to beat big teams sometimes. Generally speaking we beat the smaller teams, but struggled against them at home. We had poor squad depth. Now we have a much better squad, have beaten a genuine title contender away from home and have smashed a relegation candidate. We signed a new attacking player who is yet to play, had Perez and Nacho on the bench and had others in the injury room. We still need more depth, but these are exciting times to be in. We are probably the equivalent of Sevilla in La Liga now... play good stuff, develop good players, you never really want to play us and hopefully also consistently in Europe too.

[Vlad the Fox]

I’ve recently got engaged. Stood on the front after the match talking to a neighbour when another neighbour came out and offered me ‘congratulations’

 

’thanks’ I replied ‘we played really well, deserved it’ 

 

the first neighbour replied ‘he means your engagement’  

[tom27111]

Top story on BBC Sport. I think the Beeb are mocking them 

[Hales]

Salty Pep 🧂

[Sunbury Fox]

4 hours ago, PrecociousFox93 said:

The best thing about tonight is the amount of Chelsea fans that are rattled on twitter because Leicester fans are saying Vardy is better than Drogba. Love to see it.

Not even a competition. Vardy 108 in 214 games, Drogba 104 in 254, including several years where he was clearly playing for the best team in the league. 

[Vardinio'sCat]

So, what was our shape in the 2nd half?

 

The second coming of Daniel Amartey appeared to be in a sort of right half position when we had goal kicks, and just in general play really, with some success. Was he the CB that pushed into midfield when we had the ball, or what?

 

I struggled to work it out. Not that it matters as much as the result.

[ARM1968]

6 minutes ago, Vardinio'sCat said:

So, what was our shape in the 2nd half?

 

The second coming of Daniel Amartey appeared to be in a sort of right half position when we had goal kicks, and just in general play really, with some success. Was he the CB that pushed into midfield when we had the ball, or what?

 

I struggled to work it out. Not that it matters as much as the result.

Pep struggled to work it out. You’re not alone. 

[urban.spaceman]

 

[Vardinio'sCat]

10 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

Pep struggled to work it out. You’re not alone. 

 

good point

[Royston.]

1 hour ago, Bob666 said:

Pep is like the 10 year old on fifa who has a team full of the best players but cant understand why youre not letting him win.

[urban.spaceman]

1 hour ago, StriderHiryu said:

 

Here's the full team goal. We get to see James Justin's incredible tenacity to win the ball back. Goes from LB to inside right to put the pressure on, which ultimately leads to the goal.

 

@Finnegan

 

I noticed him all the way up there during the game but totally forgot about it until seeing the highlights. That is phenomenal attacking play from JJ. 
 

Garcia clears the ball to Mahrez but JJ is man marking him, puts him under pressure AND THEN chases down Riyad’s wayward pass to Ake and forces him into making a quick clearance which goes straight to Amartey. Amartey calmly heads to Tielemans who starts his interplay with Castagne. Meanwhile JJ has stayed up on the right wing, draws Ake out of position to create the space for Tielemans through ball to Castagne, and is still around in the box just in case. 
 

20 minutes later and he’s putting Torres under pressure who has to pass it to Rodri. Straight away he runs back to his position to cover De Bruyne (I think), cuts out Rodri’s pass and carries it over the halfway line, plays a 1-2 with Maddison, then passes to Mendy and darts the wing which pulls Walker out of position and creates space for Madders to shoot. 
 

Brilliant, underrated performance from him today. 

[TheLittleBigMan]

I told you they were dog sh*t  

[StriderHiryu]

49 minutes ago, Vardinio'sCat said:

So, what was our shape in the 2nd half?

 

The second coming of Daniel Amartey appeared to be in a sort of right half position when we had goal kicks, and just in general play really, with some success. Was he the CB that pushed into midfield when we had the ball, or what?

 

I struggled to work it out. Not that it matters as much as the result.

I’ll do a tactics post on the game this week because it deserved it. Generally speaking he dealt with either Sterling, KDB or Foden when they entered his zonal space. Man City in general try to control the game through the middle then get in in the inside on either wing, then low cross for a late arriving player who can be any of the front 5/6. This was the best thing we did defensively all game as Man City only did it twice through KDB and both times it was easily dealt with. 

The other big thing we did was put Vardy on Rodri to prevent the “recycle” pass they use to maintain control of the game. Teams have done similar to us against Ndidi but this was really interesting because we were happy for Man City’s back 4 to play it to each other in their half and simply kept a low deep block and watched them play it sideways for 90 minutes. We’ve had this done to us many times especially during the Puel era so we know how it feels!

 

The key to all of this is pace on the break to offer a threat. It wasn’t just Vardy that did this, Barnes, Castagne and Justin were all exceptional and in the case of the wingbacks they had the engines to do it for 90 minutes. 
 

There’s more to it than that, but that’s the gist of it. Wolves have done it to Man City several times, but in Barnes and Vardy we have two of the best counter attacking players in the league, which made Man City look even worse. 

[Guest SO1]

3 hours ago, mowmacrefox said:

Pep Guardiola has blamed his Manchester City side's shock 5-2 capitulation at the hands of Leicester City on the visitors' lack of desire to attack in the early stages of the game.

Is this guy a moron or what. Handed hundreds of millions of pounds and world class players. Practically any one he wants. And he complains about us. Maybe someday he'll actually have a tenth of his budget and have to try and build a team that competes in the most difficult league in the world. Week after week. Talk about having things handed to you on a Golden platter.

[Jattdogg]

3 hours ago, PrecociousFox93 said:

It’s only just hit me that we beat Man City 5-2 at the Etihad without Pereira, Ndidi or Maddison starting.

 

Mind blowing.

.But but man city were depleted..

 

Do one pep and man city. Loving it an absolute smashing!

 

[ozleicester]

7 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Jammie bugger 😉

jammy Rodgers