Randers 1-3 Leicester (2-7) - Post Match Thread

[Ric Flair]

2 minutes ago, Nannypig7 said:

Love Madders honesty at the start 

 

Love him

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Either I’ve had too many carlsberg or I’ve over exaggerated the amount of clear cut, yawning, chances they had. Either is possible 

Maybe it’s me 

you said they were a terrible team but they should have won by three or four …

[grobyfox1990]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Maybe it’s me 

you said they were a terrible team but they should have won by three or four …

Yeh true. Edited to include ‘due to our incompetence’ - they are awful, but shows how unprofessional we are that they should have smacked us tonight. There was never a doubt we were going through tonight, we are just so unprofessional 

[Ric Flair]

1 minute ago, enmac said:

Randers have drawn 1-1 with Galatasaray (H) and 2-2 with AZ Almaar (H) this season in the Europa and Conference. 3-1 seems more than OK considering. 

No team of their level should have 26 shots against you but this is testament to the persistent issues we have this season of not being strong enough to snuff out chances before they are fired in. There's no excuses, it was our 1st choice midfield and they were systematically taken apart time and time again and the chances came in waves and waves.

 

Defensively we threw bodies at things which was admirable and in some ways that's a positive bit we were our own worst enemies being in those positions so it's a frustrating one.

 

Vestergaard twice did a Bertrand and played them on by a few yards and they failed to make us pay, Soumare looked like he'd been hit by a brick when he came on, was all over the place tripping himself up and couldn't handle their intensity. 

[bmt]

11 minutes ago, Nannypig7 said:

Love Madders honesty at the start 

 

Absolute boi

[StriderHiryu]

10 minutes ago, sishades said:

Does Madders look a bit too unhappy? Did not smile when he scored. Something not right methinks.

He was playing badly in the first half. Fair play though he turned it around completely.

 

Maybe the only downside is two amazing pieces of magic were produced in a game that was rather meaningless. Still top class from him, he's been very consistent for us this season despite the rest of the team being shite.

[Tielemans63]

18 minutes ago, Nannypig7 said:

Love Madders honesty at the start 

 

Top man. Love Madders' interviews. The man is actually articulate and doesn't talk in clichés. 

[filbertway]

1 hour ago, KingsX said:

 

Ridiculous comment.  Maddison is our second-leading scorer in the Prem this season, and they haven't been tap-ins.

Wasn't a dig at Madders haha

 

Has he bagged a free kick this season in the league?

[Spudulike]

Wasn't really surprised by the performance after watching the footage of the final training session at Seagrave. They looked like a group of giggling 12-year olds being coached by the Geography teacher. Can only hope the real stuff was done off camera. 

[filbertway]

3 minutes ago, Tielemans63 said:

Top man. Love Madders' interviews. The man is actually articulate and doesn't talk in clichés. 

Not many players give better interviews than Madders, like you say. No cliches and actually talks like a normal person rather than some media trained robot

[Guest David Oldfields Gate]

Just got back to Arhus (in the middle of Denmark), had a brilliant time, everyone in the away end was buzzing. Can't be arsed reading all the negative comments this time. Job done. Move on. Let's get it right for Tuesday now.

 

Love this club, love the 600 nutters with me in Randers. 

We're on our way.

 

X

[fuchsntf]

2 hours ago, Ian S said:

Play well and lose and get slagged off, do enough to get through and win and we get slagged off.

 

Environmental disaster...we are a slag-heap...I

 

Though Good for a traditional  Leicester thursday Night out hunting a few slags...

[daddylonglegs]

I didn’t watch but judging by the reaction you’d think we’d lost 3-1 😂

[smudgerfox]

12 minutes ago, daddylonglegs said:

I didn’t watch but judging by the reaction you’d think we’d lost 3-1 😂

I think that’s because had Randers had a clinical finisher up front they actually COULD have overturned the first leg deficit…there’s nothing very reassuring about that 

 

plus we fielded a full strength side - so yet another opportunity to blood some squad players and get them pushing for a start - Hamza in the NDidi role for instance - hasn’t been taken. The same small group of players is asked to do the donkey work even when we have a 4-1 lead…

 

 

 

[KingsX]

1 hour ago, StriderHiryu said:

That was the worst 3-1 win I’ve seen us have. Still through to the next round but we won’t be going much further playing like that!

 

as a side note, that 3-1 win -- to go through in the knockout stage of a European competition -- actually dropped us 5 spots in the fivethirtyeight club rankings.

 

          (because we got slaughtered on xG by the club ranked 288th)

[KingsX]

39 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Wasn't a dig at Madders haha

 

Has he bagged a free kick this season in the league?

 

    Not according to his interview just above.

[Ian Nacho]

One of the strangest games I’ve ever seen is involved in. We were piss poor but we win 3-0 but it still wasn’t a smash and grab. Very odd. 

[NasPb]

7 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

One of the strangest games I’ve ever seen is involved in. We were piss poor but we win 3-0 but it still wasn’t a smash and grab. Very odd. 

Explain a bit more i didn't watch the game didn't have time 

[Ian Nacho]

3 minutes ago, NasPb said:

Explain a bit more i didn't watch the game didn't have time 

They could’ve genuinely scored about 5 and I’m not over exaggerating. 

[NasPb]

5 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

They could’ve genuinely scored about 5 and I’m not over exaggerating. 

Wow lol, I'm not going to judge too much bc i didn't see the match but let's see if we can avoid giving away so many chances against Burnley 

[Genesis1]

If we get Roma and that was Tammy Abraham, he could comfortably be getting 5+ goals over two legs.

As been pointed out, we got battered by what I'd suggest as a top league 1 side who couldn't finish. Hopefully we can coast the next round and have a full strength squad for the quarters.

[sacreblueits442]

18 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

I think that’s because had Randers had a clinical finisher up front they actually COULD have overturned the first leg deficit…there’s nothing very reassuring about that 

 

plus we fielded a full strength side - so yet another opportunity to blood some squad players and get them pushing for a start - Hamza in the NDidi role for instance - hasn’t been taken. The same small group of players is asked to do the donkey work even when we have a 4-1 lead…

 

 

 

....it was hard to understand that strong team, because as soon as we scored we probably felt we had nothing else to prove!!!

We do not know how the team would have reacted if Randers had finished half their chances, we were cut open too often and that is a worry.

[sm1]

Pretty dismal performance, conceding 23 shots on goal, with some of them being absolute sitters. It was a Forest like performance, where once again our midfield went missing for the majority of the game. To cap it off Vesty looked out of his depth against league 1 opposition. Literally spent the whole game wandering around aimlessly. Play like that against any PL team and we lose badly.

Edited 24 February 2022 by sm1

[StanSP]

1 hour ago, sishades said:

Does Madders look a bit too unhappy? Did not smile when he scored. Something not right methinks.

Stop reading into things too much. 

[deep blue]

57 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

I think that’s because had Randers had a clinical finisher up front they actually COULD have overturned the first leg deficit…there’s nothing very reassuring about that 

 

plus we fielded a full strength side - so yet another opportunity to blood some squad players and get them pushing for a start - Hamza in the NDidi role for instance - hasn’t been taken. The same small group of players is asked to do the donkey work even when we have a 4-1 lead…

 

 

 

Agree that Hamza for Ndidi was a risk worth taking.  Ndidi is so off his game at the moment.  Would have been opportune to have rested Tielemans too but not sure about his replacement; maybe Soumare would have done OK in a more well-defined role with more responsibility.

 

No lack of effort, in my view, but the team just isn't working as if they are familiar with each other's play or the system they're playing.  We are embarrassingly weak in the tackle, too, and not sharp enough to what's around us - second to so many loose balls.  It's especially worrying that we're like this even when playing a team that, though putting in a lot of effort themselves, are very much inferior to us on paper.