Roma (A) - Post Match

[foxes_rule1978]

It’s been a terrible season really, I can’t deny that and I have defended Rodgers… but yeah after the last four pl games in which we were very poor, it is almost unforgivable that we put in a performance like that last night and went out with a whimper 

Edited 6 May 2022 by foxes_rule1978

[foxinsocks]

1 minute ago, Corky said:

I mean the opposition having a lead. I know we turned it around in Eindhoven but you saw us struggling last night a mile off.

Go it.

Imo our possession based approach means we play without intensity and aggression and avoid playing the ball quickly into dangerous areas. We normally have 65% possession and two shots on goal.   Worse  our players get beaten to 50 50 balls and await the arrival of passes only for the opposition to step in.

I am not sure this is right for any situation 

[NasPb]

29 minutes ago, fuchsntf said:

Makes up for the last Nights misery...Italy Mixed answer to Monty- Python & Benny-Hill...

More entertaining than the whole match 

[Clever Fox]

If anyone needed any proof  ( including Brendan ) That we badly need a player of the Abraham type it was there for all to see in last nights performance.

Tammy took his chance expertly while we continued to try and find space for Vardy which was never there.

 

We have so many issues but this one has been a glaring mistake by Brendan since he arrived.  

 

Honestly, I'm worried about him spending money we can ill afford in the Summer, on average players when we need quality.

His signings haven't been great and I'm worried he'll do a Taylor and leave us in shit for years. 

[Clever Fox]

4 hours ago, KFS said:

Hahahahahah this has made me feel 10x better

This is so funny I come back for another look every few minutes.

[KFS]

20 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

This is so funny I come back for another look every few minutes.

Doing the rounds on all the British banter pages now on insta 😂

[Fox1norfolk]

4 hours ago, dynamark said:

Not read the full thread but we didnt lay a glove on them.

Sorry to say but Vardy having missed a lot of games is not the answer we would all like- barely touched the ball did his usual charging about and pointing a lot .I forgot Barnes was playing until he went off .Lightweight all over bar Nacho who did put himself about.

Roma are good though in many areas

We did not really have a game plan. Attacking with speed was the only way to break down their defence, but we played it sideways, to each other or back. They had time to get reorganised with 8 players perfectly positioned. Explain just only two attempts in 90 minutes

[BrummieFOX]

Best bit of the night was Bus 6 back from the ground. 

[Ian Nacho]

Had some time to mull over this and what gets to me the most is the fact we just didn’t have a go at the end. You’d expect from almost any team in stoppage time in the second leg of a European final where they need a goal to be launching the ball into the box, getting centre backs playing upfront, and forcing the opposition to put their bodies on the line. We got absolutely none of that. Disgusting. 

[TrentFox]

I heard a rumour that, as we’ve now exited the Conference, we are now automatically entered into the Eurovision Song Contest. Is that true?? 🤔

[Ian Nacho]

Anyone got a clip of that Fofana penalty shout?

[CrazyKopCorner]

Forest, Spurs and now this performance are pretty unforgivable

[Kitchandro]

21 hours ago, Beechey said:

Compare and contrast that to how we went out against Atletico Madrid in the CL.

People say this but I remember us playing it safe for 3 quarters of that tie instead of our usual high press.

 

Yes we did push forward late on but it was all too little too late by then. Granted, we lost to a good side, but we were passive for most of the tie and only had a go when we had a mountain to climb. Plus we brought on 2 defenders in the 2nd half, one was Amartey with 5 minutes to go. I was angry with Shakespeare that night as well.

 

Obviously, this isn’t really relevant to how I feel about Rodgers but ya know, let’s not rewrite history.

 

PS Rodgers out.

[whoareyaaa]

46 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Had some time to mull over this and what gets to me the most is the fact we just didn’t have a go at the end. You’d expect from almost any team in stoppage time in the second leg of a European final where they need a goal to be launching the ball into the box, getting centre backs playing upfront, and forcing the opposition to put their bodies on the line. We got absolutely none of that. Disgusting. 

well the ref did give them two goal kicks which where clear corners at the end, that was disgusting and no one will blink an eye

Edited 6 May 2022 by whoareyaaa

[The Year Of The Fox]

Still feel very done with football after last night

 

Left the hotel at 10am today. Only just getting back into our village now. All bloody day travelling home, and for what?

 

Would love to invoice the club, the manager and some of our players the cost of all the European away trips this season. Then show it as a % of my disposable monthly income to try and get them to see the relevance of going out without so much as a whimper last night 

Edited 6 May 2022 by The Year Of The Fox

[drofmor55]

Agree with Martin Keown's comments re we need to learn from this...as far as European comps go we are inexperienced but nights like this in Rome will benefit players like Fofana,Dewsbury- Hall,Barnes and Maddison. You dont win European comps until you have become battle hardened. This defeat may almost turn out to be a blessing in disguise, like when we got relegated to Div 1. We know what that led to.

[Whiner]

2 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Still feel very done with football after last night

 

Left the hotel at 10am today. Only just getting back into our village now. All bloody day travelling home, and for what?

 

Would love to invoice the club, the manager and some of our players the cost of all the European away trips this season. Then show it as a % of my disposable monthly income to try and get them to see the relevance of going out without so much as a whimper last night 

 

[SemperEadem]

The curva looked stunning.

[Guest Lako42]

16 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

The curva looked stunning.

I saw quite a lot of stunning curves over the 2 days

[AjcW]

4 hours ago, TrentFox said:

I heard a rumour that, as we’ve now exited the Conference, we are now automatically entered into the Eurovision Song Contest. Is that true?? 🤔

🎶 Du du du du du du SEASONS OVER ERRRR 🎶 

[Beechey]

4 hours ago, Kitchandro said:

People say this but I remember us playing it safe for 3 quarters of that tie instead of our usual high press.

 

Yes we did push forward late on but it was all too little too late by then. Granted, we lost to a good side, but we were passive for most of the tie and only had a go when we had a mountain to climb. Plus we brought on 2 defenders in the 2nd half, one was Amartey with 5 minutes to go. I was angry with Shakespeare that night as well.

 

Obviously, this isn’t really relevant to how I feel about Rodgers but ya know, let’s not rewrite history.

 

PS Rodgers out.

Difference being I felt proud of the team despite the result of the Atletico game. Can't say the same for the team that played Roma.

[Dan]

All in all a game that totally summed up the season.

 

I'll get the referee out the way. The sooner there's some serious investigating into these refs the better. There's just no way they can be this bad impartially. I'm not as disrespectful to these refs to assume they're this incompetent. There's something else at work here. Seemingly in any competition - the Premier League, the Champions League, the Europa League, you name it. It goes beyond incompetence. When you have the killjoy of VAR active, how do you still see so little of the upsides of it?

 

Anyhow I'm not making it all about the officials, much as they played their part, because they aren't the ones managing our side.

 

It was always going to be tough. I maybe was naive to think because we'd overcome a similar scenario against PSV that it'd be anything like that here, but this was always going to be tougher, there was a hostility about their home crowd that wasn't there at PSV from way before the game. It's a tougher environment and a fanbase totally behind their manager and team.

 

Sadly though what panned our was just a series of the usual issues with us. Pathetic defending at set pieces, general lack of aggression and no real clue how to open a team up and create chances. There's no attacking pattern. We've scored a lot of goals this season because we have quality attacking players, not because we're a well organised, cohesive side.

 

I look and think if we're capable of a top half finish when playing so obviously below par, what would we play like if we were organised?

 

Piss poor league performance for the most part. Shocking choke in the League Cup. A scandal in the FA Cup. The conference league is the one competition we haven't been piss poor in this season and yet even then it's a knock on from a failure in the Europa League. By any measure it's been piss poor. Nobody will convince me this squad isn't capable of better.

 

It won't happen but I'd change manager this summer. I think by keeping him we're prolonging the inevitable by a few months. Providing the club has clawed back the power in the recruitment then things will work out OK - under Rodgers or not. But I'd guess that we're having a lot of the same debates in six months time. I don't magically think we're going to start defending set pieces well, or become cohesive going forward. There'll be subtle changes which are expected with some transfer window movement, but I think we'll still have the same fundamental issues we have this season. If you think injuries are the sole reason for underperformance I think you're just coping a little bit personally. It's had an impact but it isn't solely responsible for everything I've just written and I really think some believe it is.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Maddison's tweet this morning is concerning tbh. If these players genuinely feel they died for the cause on Thursday then we have problems.

 

[foxes_rule1978]

11 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Maddison's tweet this morning is concerning tbh. If these players genuinely feel they died for the cause on Thursday then we have problems.

 

I agree with this, dying for the cause is actually putting some pressure on. Didn’t see any of our players showing any aggression and a willingness to win on Thursday… it was very flat.

[BoyJones]

49 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

I agree with this, dying for the cause is actually putting some pressure on. Didn’t see any of our players showing any aggression and a willingness to win on Thursday… it was very flat.

What disappointed me the most was the away end and our support. Should have been cheering start to finish and this is from a 70 year old.
 

Very intermittent and spasmodic. Me and my lads were sick to death of loads pushing past us every five minutes to get a drink of go for a piss. I said to one drunk, why did you bother coming to the game! 
 

What was the point of singing Ranieri’s name, waste of effort, living in the past. That moment has long gone, the match in front of us was a lot more important. 
 

At the end of the match not many people were gutted, all smiling and chatting. 
 

Of all my European trips probably the worst away end. 
 

I was so wound up, ended up with the medical team at the end of the come on a heart monitor. 
 

Anyway, we lost a game of football and now move on, but I think some of our so called fans need to have a look at themselves. Accept this point of view won’t go down well with the younger generation, but a lot let themselves down Thursday.