Roma (A) - Post Match

[RobHawk]

10 minutes ago, CloudFox said:

Good analogy. I do wonder once Ndidi is back (or we use Mendy better) if having a right-hand-side equivalent of KDH would work better as a midfield three.

 

I see where you're coming from with Maddison, but I just think him and Fofana are the only players capable of actually making a difference in games at the moment. Fofana pushes the team forward, and Maddison makes space for others by drawing in the opposition and playing clever balls. If he had better outlets for his passes, I think tonight would be a different story.

Maybe your right with madders, so if we look at the outlets Barnes was the biggest let down tonight. He's had a very up and down season and tonight was the worst I'd seen him. 

 

Vardy was quiet, he's not 100% and it shows. 

 

Lookman was trying but not getting very far. 

 

It was a disappointing night, some players really didn't perform. I think in part some of that was good defensive work by Roma and the ref stopped us gaining any momentum but ultimately, I'm still pinching myself that I'm disappointed that we lost to Roma in a European semi. It wasn't that long ago we were relegated to league one.

[turlo]

7 minutes ago, Jakemoore said:

I back BR. Always have. But that interview has pissed me off so much. He shows no passion, no anger, no nothing. Moyes got sent off tonight. I bet he was giving everything from the touch line. BR shows nothing. How can you not call the ref out after losing a semi-final in a game where the ref was absolutely atrocious? 
 

to add to that - Moyes just called the ref out three times in his post match interview. The Westham fans will feel better about him than we do about BR tonight. 

I bet he got in a really expensive bottle of wine to share with Jose after the match though. 

[oxtonfox]

11 minutes ago, Izzy said:

BR post match:

 

Atmosphere was great

Second half we were better

Corners our Achilles heel

We lacked physicality

We dominated the game 

We had opportunities

Players responded well second half

Its been a great journey

A lot of young players finding their level

Just missed out

Have to finish season strong

 

Seriously, that's what he said

 

 

 

A few predicted most of this. Brendan is somewhat deluded. 

[PAPA LAZAROU]

2 minutes ago, eastendfox said:

I have a better idea than sacking Rogers. Sack you whingeing over privileged idiots who think a European semi final is a wasted season. Yeah we fell short tonight, not enough quality, but the players worked herd and the manager made changes to try to make it happen. Just p*ss off from supporting my club if that's not good enough for you, go and support Man United, you'll fit in perfectly with their fans. 

Every fan has a right to criticise their team and manager especially when they played like they did tonight . It doesn't mean they are not loyal fans it means they are truthful and care about their club. Telling your own fans to " piss off and support Man united because it doesn't fit your agenda is really pathetic. 

[5waller5]

21 minutes ago, KingKoala said:

BR is a tactician but not a motivator.

He seems to be unable to fire up players this season.

Tactician?????

 

That may be the media narrative but I can’t see it.

 

Sideways, backwards passing without a hint of attacking intent. Relentlessly boring negative football.

 

Oh, and because we’re so bad at defending set pieces we’ll put our worst header and smallest player on their tallest best header. Then concede a goal due to it, then carry on with the same tactic.

[PAPA LAZAROU]

4 minutes ago, Ely fox said:

Nah the officials wanted Roma to win in both legs didn’t you watch both legs??

Nah you can't blame the officials for our one all draw at home it was rogers tactics that buggered us up. 

[Mark_w]

1 minute ago, FoxesWalk said:

Optimist I see. 

 

I disagree that we have longer term positive performances tbh, we have been inconsistent at best for 18 months ish now, the last time I had confidence in us was pre-January 2021. 

 

I’m 50/50 on stay/go tbh, I don’t see who we would bring in to improve things drastically. I like Gasparini, but doubt we could get him, Potter maybe worth a gamble, but it’s a gamble. 

I'm not talking about performances, I think that's too subjective to make any fair comment on unless it's absolutely blindlingy obvious. I'm talking purely about results.

Better win percentage in the Prem than any other permanent Leicester manager.
Finishes of 5th, 5th & 9th-12th versus previous finishes of 9th, 9th, 12th
An FA Cup win for the first time ever, League Cup semi-final for the first time in a long time, a European semi-final for the first time ever.

We have improved under Brendan Rodger's management, this year has been a regression sure, but we have had to deal with a disproportionately large number of injuries to key players, and we are less likely to have those troubles to the same degree without Europe to manage on top of going for the cups and looking for European qualification in the league.

[J. James]

2 minutes ago, eastendfox said:

I have a better idea than sacking Rogers. Sack you whingeing over privileged idiots who think a European semi final is a wasted season. Yeah we fell short tonight, not enough quality, but the players worked herd and the manager made changes to try to make it happen. Just p*ss off from supporting my club if that's not good enough for you, go and support Man United, you'll fit in perfectly with their fans. 

I'm not happy or content with mediocrity and failure, boring football and a pig headed manager whose style of football makes Puel look positively reckless.

We are an ambitiout club not a " happy just to be in the Premier league" side.

 

Anyone who is content with this trash needs their bumps feeling!

[RoboFox]

I don’t even know what to blame anymore. Is it the managers tactics? Is it a lack of quality? 
 

Either way 70-odd percent possession and 2 shots on target isn’t acceptable.

 

Something needs to give.

[PAPA LAZAROU]

5 minutes ago, andy peake said:

Crap performance, crap season generally. But there’s no way that Top will sack Brendan after two previous top 5 finishes and a European semi final, plus the huge amount of compensation that would have to be paid. He’s here for the rebuild and into next season, like it or not.

They sacked Ranieri the season after we won the prem title ?

[Jakemoore]

8 minutes ago, sishades said:

Moyes got a red card for kicking a ball at a ball boy. Disgusting behaviour of a disgusting club with disgusting fans (who rioted by the way and attacked a german media crew last week). We nay be a soft touch but at least we are respectable.

You didn’t see our fans in Nottingham earlier this season then? I don’t want BR to be violent or aggressive. But to not even call the ref out reeks of a man who doesn’t give a toss.

[DennisNedry]

36 minutes ago, Lcfcbl said:

Taking the emotion out of it, am I the only one that is proud that we controlled the game and looked the better team across two legs imo against a massive club. They had the nous, especially tonight, the diving, screaming bitching etc but I genuinely thought we tried and did play better football than Roma over the two legs. Could I ever imagine saying that sentence when I was a kid in the O'Neill days and obviously after that? Let's not forget how far we have come in such a short space of time.

How can it possibly be 'controlling a game' to be 1-0 down for 85 minutes and not test the opposition keeper? It's just turgid, uninspired, shite football.

[jim5000]

Roma setup to frustrate us and nullify our attacking threat. They showed no ambition over two legs other than trying to get a corner.

 

Their game plan worked exactly as they planned, complete Mourinhoball in a European semi-finals. 
 

Many far greater teams have been undone by Mourinho in Europe,

and we won’t be the last.

 

It was a tough watch, and the officiating was diabolical, but they won the tie.

 

The absolute meltdown from many on here is not justified.

[lcfcdamo]

6 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

Tbf to Rodger’s, he went with the most attacking lineup he could in the formation we have been the most successful in under him. Unfortunately Barnes is way, way off form and Lookman suffered because he’s better on the left but got shoved out on the right due to Barnes’ inability to play anything other than one position. When the half time change came, we took off two creative players and replaced them with one. Our wingbacks, still not fully up to levels pre major injuries aren’t in strong enough form to threaten in a 3 at the back and so we just created very little. We play way too slow and our shooting (which is rare anyway) is shambolic at times. That combined with a Mourinho team excelling at disrupting play and influencing a truly shocking referee meant we just couldn’t get going. Rodger’s has got a lot of work on his hands before Sunday when absolute Shithouse merchants ‘Frank Lampard’s Everton FC™️‘ come to the KP with survival to play for. Can’t bear to see those cheats prosper.

I would actually drop barnes for rest of season and play lookman there every time hes played on the left has looked very good

[J.Lisemore]

Toothless, the passive football was embarrassing. Where was the heart and drive to get back into that game? Can every player say they 100% took the game to Roma, absolutely not is the answer. Don't think Roma broke sweat to be honest. 

[Silverfox14]

Hated to see such a tepid  and tame performance.  If you were organising the defending of corners for a pub team would RP match up with someone like Abrahams seem right……what could go possibly go wrong??

[Ric Flair]

We weren't anywhere near good enough tonight. We've chosen the absolute worst time yet again towards the end of the season to go winless in 6 and we've paid the price since that brilliant 2nd half performance at PSV.

 

I could just about tolerate the lack of movement and ideas collectively if we at least remained resolute at the back but yet again we are an absolute disgrace at set pieces, as it stands its overshadowing everything and I don't know what the club do to make Rodgers sort it, or remove him if he can't.

 

No team can afford to ship 20-25 goals from set pieces and do anything to achieve their ambitions and goals, this has very little to do with injuries and its been an issue dating back to last season. Like the issues in the final 3rd with a breakdown in movement and desire to create, the same is happening and a lack of desire and bloody determination to deny teams at corners and free kicks.

 

Either the players have clocked off from his methods or Rodgers is deliberately asking them to do something that's fundamentally wrong, either way it's not good enough.

 

Thanks for nearly salvaging a rough season but this last month has been abysmal again with our main players available give or take some careful rotating. The goals have dried up, shot creation in the gutter but the gifts offered to the opposition haven't.

 

Hopefully there's still pride to play for in these final games as the summer is such a huge period for the club.

 

[Vazman]

12 minutes ago, Mark_w said:

The clamour to sack a Leicester City manager for a top half finish in the Premier League and losing a European semi-final is beyond embarassing. I get that it's disappointing. But keep Brendan, and without European football and with little Wes back for the full season we will very likely improve on this season next year and be competing for a European place in the league again, get rid of him and we could very easily end up with another appointment like Puel, or worse, and drag ourselves into an actually bad position.

It's bitterly disappointing and it obviously wasn't an inspiring night. I think it does in some ways bear similarities to Watford 9 years ago though - we had had a pretty terrible run and a disappointong semi-final defeat, and a ton of people insisting we should sack a manager whose overall performance, over the longer term, was positive. I genuinley think we would benefit hugely if Top ignores the knee-jerk reaction as we did then and perseveres with Brendan.

I'm undecided still, but after tonight am struggling, to justify that opinion, but what did you see tonight, or this season, or the back end of last season that's remotely encouraging about his unchanged game plan, and set piece record, that's made you undeniably say keep him.

[sishades]

Evans says Ricky P marking Abrahams was a "problem"

[5waller5]

17 minutes ago, Mark_w said:

The clamour to sack a Leicester City manager for a top half finish in the Premier League and losing a European semi-final is beyond embarassing. I get that it's disappointing. But keep Brendan, and without European football and with little Wes back for the full season we will very likely improve on this season next year and be competing for a European place in the league again, get rid of him and we could very easily end up with another appointment like Puel, or worse, and drag ourselves into an actually bad position.

It's bitterly disappointing and it obviously wasn't an inspiring night. I think it does in some ways bear similarities to Watford 9 years ago though - we had had a pretty terrible run and a disappointong semi-final defeat, and a ton of people insisting we should sack a manager whose overall performance, over the longer term, was positive. I genuinley think we would benefit hugely if Top ignores the knee-jerk reaction as we did then and perseveres with Brendan.

We already have.

 

Brendan is Puel2.0

[mrburns1000]

They were hard to break down, we had all the possession, after going a goal down, what else could we do. Apart from kamikaze and Losing by 4. Plus the comical decisions against us. One of those nights I’m afraid. 

[sishades]

BR "we lack physicality"

[oxtonfox]

14 minutes ago, Izzy said:

BR post match:

 

Atmosphere was great

Second half we were better

Corners our Achilles heel

We lacked physicality

We dominated the game 

We had opportunities

Players responded well second half

Its been a great journey

A lot of young players finding their level

Just missed out

Have to finish season strong

 

Seriously, that's what he said

 

 

 

Atmosphere- to be expected it’s a semi final!

Second half - we couldn’t be any worse than first half 

Corners - you don’t say!

Physicality - you pick and buy the players 

Dominated - lost 1-0 never looked like scoring 

Opportunities - 2 shots on target

players responded - should have from first minute pal

Great Journey/ - yes agree

young players - Evans, Schmiechel 34, Vardy 35 

finish season - let’s see Brendan

 

[Mark_w]

Just now, Vazman said:

I'm undecided still, but after tonight am struggling, to justify that opinion, but what did you see tonight, or this season, or the back end of last season that's remotely encouraging about his unchanged game plan, and set piece record, that's made you undeniably say keep him.

I saw us beat Chelsea in the FA Cup final at Wembley at the back end of last season, I think that's probably part of it. But mainly I don't think we should just judge him on this season and the back end of last season. Over the four years he's been here he's got us to I think 3 semi-finals(?), won the 4th domestic cup in our history and has the best record at this level of any Leicester manager I think. If we're looking at disappointing performances in the cups next year and a bottom half finish I'll start to worry about regression but I think we shouldn't be enetertaining the idea yet considering he's bounced back from negative spells like this with us before, and has an overall very good record as Leicester manager.

[Kierzz]

Need to recruit a top class CM or two.

 

KDH will become a good player but right now should be rotated in and out of the side. He struggles against a deep block and we need a more creative player there at the moment against a better team or big game.

 

Youri has struggled this season but also been played out of his best position for most of it - either box to box midfielder or anchoring. He's best as a deep lying playmaker alongside a CDM like Ndidi