Leicester 0- Man City 1 Post match thread.

[bfox]

No shame in losing 1-0 to Man City, not vintage Leicester but best we've played this season so far. Saying that, we consistently seem to be much better against better teams than against teams we "should be beating" anyway. Couple of qualms, please drop Maddison now, a spell on the bench should sort him out. Why do commentators always speak highly of Kaspers distribution?? Chinese whispers??, it's mostly faff. The propranolol prescriptions in Leicester will be through the roof by season end with Caglar at the back..

[Deeg67]

Outshot 25-6 with 39% possession (most of that after they scored) is hardly much resistance.  You can't fault the effort and we defended well (Vestergaard was excellent) but in no way were we in their class as far as execution.  

 

Major problems in the final third, clearly.  Nothing from the right again, and even when we were trailing Lookman came on for Barnes on the left with Albrighton remaining - that should make it pretty clear we aren't seeing Barnes and Lookman as opposite wingers in the same lineup.  Kelechi has to start every match, period - our only real threat was after he came on.  And Maddison has delivered nothing in four matches.

 

I think you have to consider Lookman ahead of Barnes too at this point, as he looked much more threatening and Harvey has been almost as invisible as Maddison.

 

 

Edited 11 September 2021 by Deeg67

[LanguedocFox]

Watched an NBC stream with Leon Osman as co-commentator. He's apparently another one who doesn't know how to pronounce Iheanacho's name. I mean, FFS, it's not difficult, so why to Osman, Hoddle, Savage etc persist in calling him Inni-acho!.Can't someone tell the pricks?

[nabb7]

I feel much more comfortable playing long balls from the back with Vestegaard on, when he went off the long balls seemed to be pretty aimless and accounted for the majority of times we lost possession, hope to see him start on Thursday

[drumbeat]

Never happy to lose but happy with that performance, particularly after going behind. Cags looked decent, not effected by recent poor form, so that's a plus for me. Good to see JE back too. We played some good football in patches, and we've not a decent subs bench with real options... yep, no complaints from me. You just give the ball away Man City.

[Webbo]

Albrighton looked, understandably knackered in the last 20, couldn't we play Barnes or Lookman on the wrong side for just the last 10 minutes?

[jayfox26]

Despite the result it was a much better performance. Defence looked solid and goal only came from Kasper giving the ball away. Good performances all round but Barnes and Madders are way off the pace and should be worrying about their starting places. We looked miles better when Iheanacho and Lookman came on. Really want to see either Daka or Iheanacho play alongside Vardy. 

[MPH]

1 minute ago, Vindaloo FOX said:

What position did Lookman play ?

 

standing up, I think..

[splinterdream]

I hope I don't sound harsh when I say Man City were mediocre and we were worse than that. On that performance I'd say without Youri we'd be a mid to bottom side. Love Albrighton and Vardy but Brendan, it's time for Leicester City to evolve, and Maddison needs some reflection time, Nacho and KDH look more than capable, and whilst we're at it, buy a right winger ffs

[Sol thewall Bamba]

As long as we learn from this and make some changes it's not a bad result. But I think we'll just line up the same next weekend as well.

 

Also, the lack of game time for the new players is frustrating.

[Sampson]

1 minute ago, Webbo said:

Albrighton looked, understandably knackered in the last 20, couldn't we play Barnes or Lookman on the wrong side for just the last 10 minutes?

Barnes refused to chase through balls after about 65mins. He looked way more knackered than Albrighton. It was right to bring him off. In fact, Barnes should not be starting right now, he just doesn't look fit enough.

[HankMarvin]

I guess it could be argued this was one of the weaker Man City teams we have faced over the years.

no KDB

Sterling as sub

no Mahrez

 

no out and out Striker with Jesus on the wing and Torres utilised.

 

 

 

[Collibosher70]

5 minutes ago, Fox85 said:

Well look a better team with Ihanacho in the team shit bust. If that means Vardy has to make way then so be it.

Lookman looks very good.

 

We played well today when we actually started attacking them.

 

Albrighton looked ****ed at 60mins but played well.

 

 

Thought the same.....should've kept barnes on and lookman for albrighton

[SecretPro]

5 minutes ago, Tom12345 said:

Absolutely agree. How could we let last years’ top scorer sit on the bench? Nachos can also link up play much better than Maddison can. Why is Maddison undroppable??

Because Brendan is seemingly the only person in Leicestershire who can't see his faults. 

[ARM1968]

Must be more positive from the outset. Too cautious early on. Much better in patches. Agree Maddison needs benching - he might find some form there. Costly mistake but not a disgrace at all. Let’s move On and take the positives. 

[Corky]

We need the defenders back to fitness. That should hopefully mean we free up some subs to give the attackers more of a go. Vestergaard and Evans can't complete 90 which always means a sub reducing us to two positive changes at most.

 

We should have a strong team whoever we put out now.

[Bats8711]

11 minutes ago, LanguedocFox said:

We were better with Iheanacho and Lookman. I hope Rodgers notices that.

If he didn’t notice that, Vardy help us all 

[fox_up_north]

Good performance. No shame in that loss. Nacho looked great and the way he just shrugged off their defenders to set up Lookman for a chance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch Madders start next game. 

[An Sionnach]

Stats tell you it was a fair result, performance tells you yet again we are better when denied possession. This is something that needs sorting out because we are going to have possession in a lot of matches. In truth for all the praise our midfield gets , they produce few chances.

[Lesta Legend]

2 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

I guess it could be argued this was one of the weaker Man City teams we have faced over the years.

no KDB

Sterling as sub

no Mahrez

 

no out and out Striker with Jesus on the wing and Torres utilised.

 

 

 

They won the league with a team like this 🤣

[tom27111]

Rode our luck at times, probably the right result, certainly no disgrace.

 

Would have liked to have seen Daka thrown on for the last 10 and gone to 3 at the back.

 

Would also have liked to see the lines for the offside goal, their centre back was leaning back towards his own goal and it would have been very tight.

 

Got to be more clinical against sides like that, chances are at a premium.

 

Some good individual performances though, nice to see Cags with a decent player next to him.

 

We move on.

[Scotch]

7 minutes ago, Vindaloo FOX said:

What position did Lookman play ?

LW

[LCFCCHRIS]

Combination of vestegaard and Fofana would be nice, one with good passing and height and the other not afraid to start a forward push. Cags only really does it out of necessity. 

[Tielemans63]

Decent performance. Once Harvey starts to find his shooting boots and we bring in Nacho for Madders, we won't be far off. 

 

Shame Lookman isn't really a right winger because he looked good in his cameo.

Edited 11 September 2021 by Tielemans63

[An Away Move]

Great to have two defenders back and it’s a game we could have won. We had the chances. Would have liked to have seen two attackers on for longer. We showed them a just a touch too much respect. Vardy’s offside looked marginal. Would have liked to have seen it.