Leicester 0-2 Arsenal post match

[BKLFox]

17 minutes ago, Koke said:

Not our day.. M

 

First half was terrible especially the first 25 minutes. I'm annoyed we let these beat us. 

 

 

 

Can we get hold of that Brentford fan and ask why we lost with the stats in our favour 😂 

[Tielemans63]

If we're still conceding loads of goals with a back 3 then what's the point? We may as well go back to a back 4 and have another option in midfield or attack.

[BKLFox]

17 minutes ago, Tomek said:

Boring and predictable. Just like the match day thread

Amended 

[Sly]

We need to approach our set piece defending differently. Teams target us now, as they know how weak we are. 

[when_you're_smiling]

4 minutes ago, enmac said:

Have we ever won a 12.30 kick off? 

Didn’t we win the last one we played in v Liverpool?

[Jimmy]

1 minute ago, Webbo said:

We dominated the game in the second half when he came off.

Arsenal stopped playing second half and decided to stick with what they had

[Sly]

1 minute ago, BKLFox said:

Can we get hold of that Brentford fan and ask why we lost with the stats in our favour 😂 

The joys of mid table football! 

[lgfualol]

Defence really needs sorting and we need a set piece coach. Not sure why we started so slow either, almost like nobody knew we were playing today until an hour before the match. Really poor.

 

Hope we bounce back midweek.

[LCFCCHRIS]

Miss sitting back and counter attacking sometimes

[urban.spaceman]

We should absolutely not be losing to Arsenal any more. I will no longer tolerate it.

[Webbo]

1 minute ago, Jimmy said:

Arsenal stopped playing second half and decided to stick with what they had

And decided to give us free headers and shots on goal?

[lcfc_forever]

1 minute ago, eastendfox said:

With those who say we haven't played badly over 90 (but we did over 20) and they ain't all that, but today we couldn't finish. More than enough chances to at least get a point. 

Yeah, they were clinical today and we weren’t. 
 

Just can’t keep giving teams such soft goals. 

[Langston]

Not entirely sure how Vardy outlasted Kelechi, tbh.

[Sampson]

3 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

Arsenal stopped playing second half and decided to stick with what they had

They didn't, we created more than enough chances and cut Arsenal open plenty of times, we were just wasteful. Arsenal's defending and gameplan was pretty poor today.

Arsenal played like a team who wanted to bottle it, we just bottled it more.

Edited 30 October 2021 by Sampson

[Jimmy]

Just now, Webbo said:

And decided to give us free headers and shots on goal?

mate they stopped attacking almost completely on the few times they did bother they were cruising

[Matt]

Shit game between two shitly set up teams.

 

First half we were awful, a disgrace, as bad as we’ve been all season which barr the last few games (where I thought maybe, hopefully we’d turned a corner) we’ve been pretty consistently crap.

 

The difference between today and the general feeling from how we’ve started the season is instead of being angry about this incessant sideways playing out from the back nonsense was there wasn’t any, we didn’t get the ball, we were simply sloppy all over the pitch from the 1st second, abit of it did creep in around the 20th odd minute.

You just knew we weren’t in the game and knew how it was going to go from the first whistle.

 

That said and slightly contradictory from me, I hoped we could get back in it because Arsenal were far from anything special.

 

Second half we came out a lot better for about a 20 minutes spell then it went back to how we were in the first half.

 

The Arsenal fans make me laugh thinking they’re world beaters again. They’re far from anything special.

 

Edited 30 October 2021 by Matt

[Langston]

9 minutes ago, enmac said:

Have we ever won a 12.30 kick off? 

 

Wasn't Liverpool at home last season a 12.30?

[Babylon]

6 minutes ago, eastendfox said:

With those who say we haven't played badly over 90 (but we did over 20) and they ain't all that, but today we couldn't finish. More than enough chances to at least get a point. 

They went 2-0 and coasting, pointless judging performance after that as they dropped off. 
 

We were crap. 

[MPH]

15 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

Match stats are as follows:

 

Arsenal 2 - Leicester 0

 

The rest are meaningless trinkets like possession… yeah we had loads of possession deep in our own half between the centre halves. Whilst Arsenal watched wondering why we were wasting as much time as them.

 

Theres a reason Ramsdale has been voted man of the match..

[An Sionnach]

If we think we can win all our matches 3-2 or 4-3 we are simply asking for trouble.

[Weller was god]

I know its Halloween but our defending didn't have to be so scary 😱

[oxtonfox]

Disappointing performance though I cant really fault the effort, just lacked a bit of quality. Not going to rip anyone apart, today being remembrance day and all that and to see where we have come from in the last 10 years. Just hope we can fire in midweek. 

[winteriscoming]

2 poor goals conceded. Still think if one of those chances goes in second half we’d of got something out of the game. 

[Sampson]

4 minutes ago, Babylon said:

They went 2-0 and coasting, pointless judging performance after that as they dropped off. 
 

We were crap. 

They weren't coasting, they were there for the taking.

Yes, we were crap, but we still missed 2 free headers the keeper wouldn't have got to, Thomas was an inch off target and Ramsdale got MOTM and made 4 or 5 great saves. What does that say about Arsenal if were that crap? Doesn't sound like a team who were coasting to me.

Edited 30 October 2021 by Sampson

[Sunbury Fox]

24 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Ramsdale would have saved an asteroid today.

 

That said, Arsenal gave us a lesson in pressing today. They were the away team but started on the front foot, pinned our wingbacks into our half and took advantage when they were on top. Second half the system change and more intense pressing finally pinned Tavares and Tomiyasu back, but their backline held firm.

 

Morale of the story, as it has been at the KP for what feels like the lat 5 years is that we start too slowly. We need to get into them and play further up the pitch from the get go.

 

Fair play to Arsenal, they more than earned their win. For us, after 10 games, it's a disappointing start to the season. Based on what we've seen so far, West Ham and Arsenal who we finished above last season are better teams than us this time round.

West Ham look strong but remain totally unconvinced by Arsenal. Long way to go yet.