Leicester City v Aston Villa(H) pre-match thread

[FoyleFox]

8 minutes ago, Jobyfox said:

Wouldn’t it be an irony if Matty James was the only one fit 

I know things are strange in the world right now but it's unlikely they'll ever be that strange

[LCFC hub]

Schmeichel

Justin Fofana Fuchs

Albrighton Tielemans Mendy Castagne

Under Iheanacho Barnes

 

If those reported are out, I'd go with this

[les-tah]

has maddison been mentioned? i couldnt see him mentioned so im guessing hes fit? 

[Guest SO1]

Whatever team gets put on the field I support 100%. Grow up.

[NaijaFox]

22 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Peaet had a knock, and went away with Belgium and has come back potentially worse.

 

Soyuncu, Evans, Praet, Vardy, Maddison and Amartey are the fresh injuries. So that's 3 of the 6 that have happened or a minor niggle made worse on international duty.

 

Ndidi, Ricardo, Morgan, and Benkovic we've been coping without for a while so I wouldn't really include them in this latest panic. Morgan is old, Benkovic is permanently injured anyway, Ricardos was caused by an in game tackle and Ndidi is the only one I think we've made worse, by rushing him back with previous injuries.

 

Anyway my point was there's **** all we can do right now, so let's not get upset, let's not rush players back. It is what it is, and others teams have similar levels of injury, like Newcastle, Liverpool, Man Utd etc, so just put the best out we can against Villa and hope we pull off a result. I honestly think the reason ots become so apparent here is because we've lost a large number of defenders, had it not been practically the who of our defence I don't think people would be so upset.

Doubtful Praet came back actually “worse”. His condition was always game-by-game and seemingly hadn’t gotten much better (nor, it seems, much worse). He was dressed for 2  of the Belgium games and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him dressed for the Villa game (even if ultimately unused, as with the Belgium games).
 

Nonetheless, even without the break it’s doubtful we would have Praet fully fit and available, because if his injury has arguably been aggravated during the break, it would have been much worse if he had tried playing in EPL games during the same period. At worst, this merely resets a click that would have run anyway.

 

We are desperately unlucky because normally such a 2-week international break should have been helpful to us by giving crocked players more time to heal. Unfortunately, for some reason, it just hasn’t worked out that way this time around. However, that’s a bigger issue generally than just the international break.

[Ted Maul]

[NaijaFox]

Just now, les-tah said:

has maddison been mentioned? i couldnt see him mentioned so im guessing hes fit? 

He’s iffy. Likely to play “some part”.

[les-tah]

worst case team but not bad.

 

Cant wait to to see Fofana play...... If he can pocket Neymar and mbappe he can pocket Grealish and watkins.

 

                         Kasper

Castagne   Wes         Wes    Justin

                        Mendy

              Madders       Youri

Under                                       Barnes

                          Iheanacho

[NaijaFox]

26 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Worst case scenario;

 

Schmeichel,

Justin, Fofana, Fuchs, Castagne,

Mendy,

Tielemans, Maddison (assume he’s fit?) 

Under, Iheanacho, Barnes. 

 

Brendan isn’t going to switch Justin and Castagne at this point.

Even if he were to eventually do so, why start the two least experienced players on the same side?

[Gazza M]

Back to 4-1-4-1 please. No need to go back 3 at home v these in my opinion. They will only go 1 up front. I am predicting Evans, Maddison and Vardy will be fit. 

 

                       Kasper 

Castagne  Fofana   Evans  Justin 

                       Mendy

Under Madders Tielemans Barnes

                        Vardy

 

Subs: Ward, Morgan, Fuchs, Choudhury, Albrighton, Perez, Iheanacho

[Adster]

1 hour ago, Bert said:

Why? 
 

 

Classic reaction by morons on FT when they hear a single bit of "bad" news

[ronnup]

Vardy out. Ffs. We're in trouble here 

[KFS]

On 11/10/2020 at 15:18, KFS said:

Think this one will be a classic bounce back to reality for both teams. We’ll be working hard to put last week right and in their elation, they’ll miss things and be overconfident. 2-1 Leicester for me.

 

 

I might take this back given our injury situ 😅

[Bert]

1 hour ago, surrifox said:

They’re in great form and we’re about 50% of our first team light ( but it’s just an opinion) 

That’s fair enough. Interested to see why that’s all! 

[lcfc sheff]

Fofana double 2-0 up the foxes 

[fox_up_north]

Really weird one this. How's Villa's injury table? Think they're fully strength.

I can imagine Grealish wanting to tear us a new one after the shambles treatment by Southgate

[dayday]

Our b team beat West Ham last season, have faith.

[Hales]

Praet was training with the others so I wonder if him and Madders will swap for one another and play half each?

[Sunbury Fox]

1 hour ago, Gazza M said:

Back to 4-1-4-1 please. No need to go back 3 at home v these in my opinion. They will only go 1 up front. I am predicting Evans, Maddison and Vardy will be fit. 

 

                       Kasper 

Castagne  Fofana   Evans  Justin 

                       Mendy

Under Madders Tielemans Barnes

                        Vardy

 

Subs: Ward, Morgan, Fuchs, Choudhury, Albrighton, Perez, Iheanacho

Fingers crossed we can field this team. Definitely the strongest we have potentially available.

Edited 16 October 2020 by Sunbury Fox

[Dahnsouff]

Does Cengiz even have a happy face?  

[Babylon]

2 hours ago, 80's fox said:

Schmeichel

Justin Fofana Fuchs

Albrighton Tielemans Mendy Castagne

Under Iheanacho Barnes

 

If those reported are out, I'd go with this

Good god...

[moore_94]

1 hour ago, fox_up_north said:

Really weird one this. How's Villa's injury table? Think they're fully strength.

I can imagine Grealish wanting to tear us a new one after the shambles treatment by Southgate

Yep all the players they have missing are back ups

 

Wesley, Engels, Heaton, Hause

[Nick]

Watch BR give Gray a shot and play him up top in the shop window.

[Scotch]

3 hours ago, Gazza M said:

Back to 4-1-4-1 please. No need to go back 3 at home v these in my opinion. They will only go 1 up front. I am predicting Evans, Maddison and Vardy will be fit. 

 

                       Kasper 

Castagne  Fofana   Evans  Justin 

                       Mendy

Under Madders Tielemans Barnes

                        Vardy

 

Subs: Ward, Morgan, Fuchs, Choudhury, Albrighton, Perez, Iheanacho

Switch JJ and Castagne and that's what I would be going for too if we can. 

[Aus Fox]

I think we will go:

 

Kasper

perez Jakupovic Ward Choudhury

 

Under Mendy Tielemans Barnes

         Iheanacho Mable the Tea lady

 

Subs: Rodgers, Toure, Birchenall, Elliott + 3 FoxesTalk competition winners