Do we have enough physical players?

[tickler28]

Lots of talk about effort, passion, hunger, appetite and aggression but as a squad are we a little light on strong athletic players? I often feel we have to many boys in our team and not enough men.

 

Players I would say have that added physicality are Vards, Evans, Castagne, Wilf and Albrighton.

 

Sadly of the players I've just mentioned Wilf is being deployed at CB and Albrighton is in the twilight of his career.....the rest are injured.

[Unabomber]

No we don’t 

[StanSP]

Nope.

 

Regularly too nice in a match. Not willing to do the dirty side of the game which other teams readily do so.

[tickler28]

Theoretically Vestergaard, Soyuncu, Soumare and Amartey should fall in the list but at present none of them deserve to be

[turlo]

No we lack players with physical presence and height. Also too many Mr Nice Guys. 

[tickler28]

Just now, turlo said:

No we lack players with physical presence and height. Also too many Mr Nice Guys. 

Let's show the players the cat video pre match and hope some of them have cats

[SuperMike]

None whatsoever. I have taken to calling the side 'Weeds United'. The weakest team out of all 92 in top flight football. Swept aside so easily - dreading tomorrow against Zouma, Diop, Dawson, Rice, Soucek and Antonio.

[RoboFox]

Considering “physicality” is one of every ten words that comes out of the manager’s mouth, no.

[nnfox]

We don't.  We could have because players like Soyuncu, Amartey and KDH have potential - they are all pretty solid guys, but without trying to sound like it's all Brendan's fault, it does look like there's a certain ruthless streak that is coached out of them.

 

Take Hamza for example.  The guy was a beast, opposition players were literally scared to have the ball anywhere near him because there was a genuine chance that they'd get their legs broken.  I'll admit, he was a walking red card, but sometimes you need that in the team.  After 3 years of being coached by Brendan, he's as soft as the rest of them.

[turlo]

3 minutes ago, tickler28 said:

Theoretically Vestergaard, Soyuncu, Soumare and Amartey should fall in the list but at present none of them deserve to be

Yep it's a problem that our more physical appearing players still have huge deficiencies:

Vestergaard is tall but has the strength of a dwarf has literally no jumping reach, resulting in him getting bullied/out jumped by smaller players.
Cags is aggressive and has decent strength but lacks the intelligence to deal with more physical strikers compared to someone like Evans.
Soumare has the strength of an Ox but not yet up to speed of the EPL

Ndidi good strength and height but a bit of a nice guy.
iheanacho good strength but lacks aggression and a bit too nice
Amartey is probably our most physical player but ultimately is a back up defender

 

[Chiltern Fox]

Easy. No.

[Hitesh]

https://youtu.be/vWz9VN40nCA

 

 

 

Edited 12 February 2022 by Hitesh

[kingkisnorbo]

I’d argue that we’ve never had less. 

[Dahnsouff]

No, that and smarts badly lacking.

[SkidsFox]

I'm not sure about this. I'd sooner sign up Messi - or bring back Mahrez!

[Sol thewall Bamba]

No. We've been soft for years. 

[Pliskin]

Absolutely not. However, I do think our midfield has more bite in it when KDH plays. Drop Youri now and use him as a bit part, and get KDH in more regularly. Never know a more consistent run with him Wilf, Mendy or Bouba in the side might add a bit more physicality to our game. 

[Angus Scott]

Definitely not & they are mentally very weak also. We consistently look like a little boys team playing against fully grown men

[Vestan Pance]

Most of them make Paul Gallagher and Stephen Hughes look like members of the crazy gang.

[SheppyFox]

Our squad are a bunch of extra gentle fairies. 

[Foxxed]

Soy, Ndidi, Barnes, Soumare, Fofana?

[sm1]

1 hour ago, Angus Scott said:

Definitely not & they are mentally very weak also. We consistently look like a little boys team playing against fully grown men

Hit the nail on the head. It's not so much about physical strength as  mental. We are extremely weak mentally hence why we've blown 5th place twice. This season it's on show more often. As soon as one goal goes in our head drops and we literally capitulate. Contrast that to the team that won the Prem. We got stronger as the pressure mounted.

[Guest BlueBrett]

1 minute ago, sm1 said:

Hit the nail on the head. It's not so much about physical strength as  mental. We are extremely weak mentally hence why we've blown 5th place twice. This season it's on show more often. As soon as one goal goes in our head drops and we literally capitulate. Contrast that to the team that won the Prem. We got stronger as the pressure mounted.

It is about physical strength IMO. That title winning side would destroy the 11 that faced Liverpool in a tug of war. The immortals back 4 alone would probably give them trouble.

[splinterdream]

What I don't see in our games is us aggressively closing the space when we're without the ball, applying the press so to speak. 

Wilf used to do it, Vardy used to do it, Kante would do it, Fofana would come out and do it, Ricardo and  castagne could also apply that pressure. 

I think it's our play style rather than the players we have.

[sammy82]

Categorically no we haven’t and I’ve never seen a Leicester team so weak! But we have to be careful in balancing physical with skill, pep’s Barca team we’re tiny in stature but very aggressive/physical and probably one of the greatest teams of all time. We don’t want to go full tony pulis stoke with centre half’s filling every position but just get some players with heart and pride who hate to be beaten!