Brentford (H) Pre Match, Sunday 20th March, 14:00 pm

[Supergray22]

2 hours ago, sacreblueits442 said:

....we still need to monitor KDH at this moment, we cannot continue playing him forever!!!

Bringing Soumare in to take over his role, allows Soumare a chance to get up to speed with the league and time in his legs.

Agreed and the recent performances of KDH might inspire him to up his game. 

[AyewJoking]

8 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Confidence will be understandably high.

Perhaps the same team is best to keep up the momentum.

Am sure Fofana will come on at some point.

 

Hope Erikson gets a good reception.

 

I'm sure we'll let him get man of the match

[Nicolo Barella]

I can't believe he's been one of the footballers with the most publicity in the world the last year and people still can't spell Eriksen's name

[Spudulike]

Will be interesting to see if our trio of ill players make a miraculous recovery by Sunday. 

[Ricey]

I really fear that injuries is going to ultimately cost us in the ECL due to the fact it means we can’t rotate much in the league.

 

Thomas, KDH and Barnes ideally need a rest as they’ve started a lot of matches recently but it’s hard to do so if Albrighton, Ndidi, Daka, Soyuncu, Soumare, Evans, Vardy and Castagne are all out, plus Iheanacho was hobbling and it’s probably not wise to play Fofana too much too soon.

 

We’ve seen with Albrighton what happens if you overload a player. We have to rotate as much as possible.

[Ric Flair]

17 minutes ago, Ricey said:

I really fear that injuries is going to ultimately cost us in the ECL due to the fact it means we can’t rotate much in the league.

 

Thomas, KDH and Barnes ideally need a rest as they’ve started a lot of matches recently but it’s hard to do so if Albrighton, Ndidi, Daka, Soyuncu, Soumare, Evans, Vardy and Castagne are all out, plus Iheanacho was hobbling and it’s probably not wise to play Fofana too much too soon.

 

We’ve seen with Albrighton what happens if you overload a player. We have to rotate as much as possible.

Just play some of the U23's

[Nalis]

Good thing is that a lot of our squad wont play over the international break bar our Nigerians and Ghanaians so I reckon best XI who are fit and available please for this one.

 

We can worry about rotation after the break.

Edited 18 March 2022 by Nalis

[Vazman]

I really want us to beat Brentford, just to hear Frank's have a wobble, and, as is normal with him, top the league of we were the better team, with more chances on the post match interview. Come on you Foxes Leicester 2 Brentford 1.

[Foxes96]

Think filling out a bench might be a challenge for this. Anyone that’s not 100% should be rested. Running out of attacking players. 
 

 

                         Kasper

Ricardo - Amartey - Söyüncü - Thomas 

         Tielemans - Mendy - KDH

     Maddison  -  Daka  -  Lookman

 

Subs: Jakupovic / Justin / Fofana / Vestergaard / Choudhury / Perez / Maswanise / Barnes? Iheanacho? 

[The whole world smiles]

Anyone know if there's a presser today? 

[SemperEadem]

Hope the crowd is well up for this.

[Unabomber]

14 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Hope the crowd is well up for this.

Sunday 2pm I bet the place will be absolutely rocking!

[Harpenden Fox]

As much rotation as possible for me. I would also give Vestergaard a start. He has been awful this season, without a doubt, but I would like to think his cameo last night has given him some confidence, and let's be honest, we need to try and get some return on our investment. Give him a start to preserve other CBs, and play him with Caglar if he isn't ill, or big Dan. Clearly lil Wes should not play and should warm the bench for this one. 

 

Nampalys in for Wilf obviously. Maddy to start. Patson up front if he too has recovered from illness. Lookers on the left. Ayoze on the right (eek). Ricky P at right back. Either Youri or KDH. As Youri was rested last Sunday perhaps he should play this weekend with KDH taking a break.

[Sampson]

Is Barnes injured or are you all suggesting resting him?

[Daz93]

There's an international break after this game so we should be going out with a full strength side to win it. 

[Jobyfox]

Let’s play all those players who aren’t coming back from injuries or been overplayed this season to cover for injured players. So that’s:

 

Jakupovic

Vestergaard

 

 errr ……. Lookman?

Perez

 

Hmmmm ……. 
 

 

[lgfualol]

Tiny bit of rotation. Thomas, Barnes and KDH have played a lot of 90 mins lately. Maybe that Brunt lad will get a start at LB over Justin, who's looked wobbly.

 

Schmeik

Rick Amartey Soyuncu Justin

Mendy

Tielemans Soumare

Maddison Daka Lookman.

[Foxes96]

10 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Is Barnes injured or are you all suggesting resting him?

I think it’s based on the whack he took at the end of the game, and the fact he’s played a lot of minutes recently and Lookman is an able deputy, especially on that left hand side.
 

That was my reasoning anyway..

[Ricey]

11 minutes ago, Daz93 said:

There's an international break after this game so we should be going out with a full strength side to win it. 

It's not about fatigue though, it's about running the risk of further injuries on Sunday by playing players that are currently overloaded or just returned from injury.

[Ric Flair]

9 minutes ago, Ricey said:

It's not about fatigue though, it's about running the risk of further injuries on Sunday by playing players that are currently overloaded or just returned from injury.

Exactly, look how bollocksed Albrighton looked vs Arsenal and he gets injured after 5 mins last night. You've got to question that it must have crossed their mind the player was in shocking nick.

[sacreblueits442]

2 hours ago, Nicolo Barella said:

I can't believe he's been one of the footballers with the most publicity in the world the last year and people still can't spell Eriksen's name

...people still struggle with  Praet, and he plays for us!!!

Edited 18 March 2022 by sacreblueits442
Spelling error.

[sacreblueits442]

1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

Exactly, look how bollocksed Albrighton looked vs Arsenal and he gets injured after 5 mins last night. You've got to question that it must have crossed their mind the player was in shocking nick.

...you do not need the analyst to trot out graphs and figures to tell you not to play him, you could tell visually that he was redlining!!!

  Too many times this has happened and the next on the lists will be KDH.

[Lambert09]

14 hours ago, Devonfox1884 said:

Rotate.

 

Kasper

 

Ricardo

Amartey

Soyuncu (Vestergaard if ill)

Thomas

 

Mendy

Tielemans

 

Perez

Maddison

Lookman

 

Daka (Kel if ill)

This would make sense to me. Perez does the gritty stuff albrighton usually does. 

[Jabfox]

8 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

This would make sense to me. Perez does the gritty stuff albrighton usually does. 

Wouldn't be opposed to seeing Perez for this game, but just cannot see Rodgers playing him. 

[Chelmofox]

Being realistic, this one is going to be hard to get a result from as Brentford have come into a little bit of form.  I'm knackered from just watching last night, so god knows how they are going to be able recover quickly enough to get to level needed to grind something out here. Still don't think we have the strength and depth to manage that. 

 

Going to it with the family though,so hopefully we can put on a good display still, but reckon 1-1 draw.