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Arriba Los Zorros

Our midfield - best in the league

By Arriba Los Zorros, in Leicester City Forum

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Tielemans, Ndidi, Maddison. 3 players that are on the verge of being world class

 

Praet, Mendy, Choudhury. Really high quality back up pressing the first team.

 

Wide options of Barnes, Under, Perez and Albrighton - a lot of different skillsets for different games there.

 

Is there a case we have the best midfield options in the league?

 

I can never remember ever Leicester having anything near this quality, and also strength in depth in all the time I've supported them!

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coolhandfox

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Not for me, especially in wide area.

 

We are weaker in wide areas than Man C, Liverpool, Spurs, Man U and Chelsea  in my view.

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Only the other week it was suggested that we had one of the most fragile and dominatable midfields in the league that too easily gets rolled over. To be fair, the return of Wilf to the fold completely transforms the side. This is getting Kante-esque. 

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Our wide players need to chip in with more goals, Maddison needs to learn that sometimes he needs to up the tempo rather than try to pick a lock, Teilemans needs to find his shooting boots. 

Ndidi on the other hand is amongst the best in Europe. 

Not yet the best in the league, but one of the best and still relatively young. If we keep hold of them, improve them and add a bit of competition, of everything clicks, then we have the making of the best in the league

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These threads are ridiculous, title wins, best midfield in the league, best manager in the league, better than the 15/16 squad, it's always after a decent win.

 

No. Liverpools midfield is miles better than ours. I'd argue United is as well purely because of Bruno. Ours is good though.

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Ndidi is in the top 3 in this league for his position with Fabinho and Kante. No question.

 

Tielemans and Maddison are probably not in the top 5 in theirs, maybe not even top 10.

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3 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

Isn't it just, last week it was all about how Madison and Tielemans stifle each other like Gerrard and Lampard, this week they're one of the best duos in the worl

different posters, differing views. What a forum is meant to be

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Saying Maddison is on the verge of being world class is a bit of a stretch imho

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As others have said, I'd only say that N'didi would be the "best in the league" in his position. Tielemans and Maddison are good, but not that good.

 

(Dare I say, and I'm going to get shot for this, but even Villa's midfield of Barkley, Grealish and McGinn isn't far off ours :mellow:)

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3 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Ndidi is in the top 3 in this league for his position with Fabinho and Kante. No question.

 

Tielemans and Maddison are probably not in the top 5 in theirs, maybe not even top 10.

Agree on Ndidi, disagree on Youri and Maddison.

 

For me they are right up there with the best but the system doesn't always get the best from them.

 

We have all the pieces don't always put the puzzle together right

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Also to put this in context a team that are generally considered to be our competitors for finishing 4th - 6th,

 

Southampton, their Midfield is Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Stuart Armstrong and Nathan Redmond.

 

Arsenal: a team that 'should' be competing with us: Ceballos, Saka, Xhaka, Elneny, Maitland-Niles

 

We blow those completely out the water.

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No chance. I only mentioned after Everton that we haven't got midfielders that can win the game for us out of nothing. I still stand by that.

 

"World class" is massive. Its overused nowadays.

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1 minute ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Also to put this in context a team that are generally considered to be our competitors for finishing 4th - 6th,

 

Southampton, their Midfield is Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Stuart Armstrong and Nathan Redmond.

 

Arsenal: a team that 'should' be competing with us: Ceballos, Saka, Xhaka, Elneny, Maitland-Niles

 

We blow those completely out the water.

We might do... but that still puts is 4th or 5th best.

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23 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Not for me, especially in wide area.

 

We are weaker in wide areas than Man C, Liverpool, Spurs, Man U and Chelsea  in my view.

Not Spurs. Their wide midfielders are bang average.

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17 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Ndidi is in the top 3 in this league for his position with Fabinho and Kante. No question.

 

Tielemans and Maddison are probably not in the top 5 in theirs, maybe not even top 10.

Would love to know which 10 attacking midfield players you would swap for Maddison.

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6 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

No chance. I only mentioned after Everton that we haven't got midfielders that can win the game for us out of nothing. I still stand by that.

 

"World class" is massive. Its overused nowadays.

Yes, Lee Catermole will be very upset that this term is banded around willy nilly.

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Our record when we play a midfield 3 of Ndidi, Tielemans and Maddison is extremely good.

I looked up the stats a few days ago and when they play together as an actual 3, i.e. Maddison not on the wing and no other central midfielder, our record is now 11 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss since the start of last season.

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I think Tielemans has been great this season, but has flown under the radar a bit. He's already got 34 caps for one of the best international sides in the World so I think "world class" is a slight exaggeration but isn't stretching it that much.

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