Brighton & Hove Albion FC pre match

[ClaphamFox]

14 minutes ago, Lionator said:

There’d be no reason not to play Faes today right? 

Lack of time training with the team? Not that training seems to have much of an impact on the team anyway…

[adam]

Surely the new guy starts. Rodgers been moaning on for weeks about a lack of signings and he's gonna leave him on the bench and play a midfielder at centre half. 

Thomas is a disaster waiting to happen. He was at fault for the goal in the week and will probably cost us one today. Still not sure what his strengths are. 

[ronnup]

I can see us going 352 today with Daka and Kel

[moore_94]

Just now, hejammy said:

Pre season he was working on that with a back 5. Once Ricky P got injured that scuppered his plans. Thomas even when going forward was terrible. He was supposed to be a full back not a wing back vs Man U. He was caught in no man's land more than once and you cannot excuse that. 

It was a back 4 with Castagne effectively acting as a right winger.

It was very clear what he was being instructed to do, and Rodgers had poorly planned for what he had instructed JJ and Thomas to do as hardly ever was there someone covering.

 

[Aus Fox]

Through the good times and the bad, we always back the lads…

For those of you lucky enough to be going today, leave all the negativity at home and get behind the lads for 90 minutes! 

Once the first three points are on the board the next 3 will be easier to get!! Be loud and proud! Come on you mighty Foxes!

Gerrrinnn to ‘emmm

[Poco]

Looking at others' suggested XIs it really hammers home the lack of balance in the squad. I think most would agree that Madders and Barnes are our most effective attacking outlets and that all three of our strikers would benefit from playing in a two. How do you fit all four in the same XI without unbalancing the team?

 

IMO, Madders needs to be in a midfield three but then that prevents us from playing with either Barnes or the two up top... 

[hejammy]

2 minutes ago, Poco said:

Looking at others' suggested XIs it really hammers home the lack of balance in the squad. I think most would agree that Madders and Barnes are our most effective attacking outlets and that all three of our strikers would benefit from playing in a two. How do you fit all four in the same XI without unbalancing the team?

 

IMO, Madders needs to be in a midfield three but then that prevents us from playing with either Barnes or the two up top... 

4-4-2 diamond with madders at the top tip of the diamond and Barnes out wide 

Edited 4 September 2022 by hejammy

[BKLFox]

A message from Danny Simpson

 

Please can we back Brendan and the team. You guys are the reason why people fell in love with Leicester City. Relegation to winning. We can still have bad times you know, that’s what made Leicester city in the first place. Please back the boys and support them 💙 @LCFC

 

 

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, BKLFox said:

A message from Danny Simpson

 

Please can we back Brendan and the team. You guys are the reason why people fell in love with Leicester City. Relegation to winning. We can still have bad times you know, that’s what made Leicester city in the first place. Please back the boys and support them 💙 @LCFC

 

 

It's a nice message but there are no comparisons between this team/manager and the the side that pulled off the great escape. 

Edited 4 September 2022 by foxfanazer

[SheppyFox]

1 minute ago, BKLFox said:

A message from Danny Simpson

 

Please can we back Brendan and the team. You guys are the reason why people fell in love with Leicester City. Relegation to winning. We can still have bad times you know, that’s what made Leicester city in the first place. Please back the boys and support them 💙 @LCFC

 

 

We support the boys, Danny. Just not Brendan.

[Ryy]

2 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

A message from Danny Simpson

 

Please can we back Brendan and the team. You guys are the reason why people fell in love with Leicester City. Relegation to winning. We can still have bad times you know, that’s what made Leicester city in the first place. Please back the boys and support them 💙 @LCFC

 

 

Back the team yes. Back Brendan? No tah

[Poco]

3 minutes ago, hejammy said:

4-4-2 diamond with madders at the top tip of the diamond and Barnes out wide 

I'd argue that would expose the leftback too much (unless you mean Barnes as one of the front two à la Thierry Henry)

[st albans fox]

Cannot see faes starting in a two. He cannot have learned our defensive shape and patterns so quickly (yeah I know )

 

it’s possible he may try him in a three where there is more cover available - if he’s played for Belgium then he knows the drill 

Edited 4 September 2022 by st albans fox

[Iran]

3 minutes ago, SheppyFox said:

We support the boys, Danny. Just not Brendan.

 

[sacreblueits442]

12 minutes ago, Poco said:

Looking at others' suggested XIs it really hammers home the lack of balance in the squad. I think most would agree that Madders and Barnes are our most effective attacking outlets and that all three of our strikers would benefit from playing in a two. How do you fit all four in the same XI without unbalancing the team?

 

IMO, Madders needs to be in a midfield three but then that prevents us from playing with either Barnes or the two up top... 

...the diamond with Barnes in the front two resolves that enigma!!!

[splinterdream]

9 hours ago, OntarioFox said:

A more astute manager might have seen how congested that left hand side was, and how scared Justin was to play forwards into space to encourage runners, and maybe considered getting them to swap wings. Or telling his players to, you know, make some runs and give him some help. Madison barely touched grass on the right hand side in open play, he was too close to Barnes all game, as was Vardy. We kept packing all our attacking threat into the left hand side and the complete lack of flow was painfully predictable. Pound shop tactics from Brendan - basically 'keep trying the same thing and target Dalot and it might work'. It didn't.

 

Thomas has the slight benefit of having not yet had the occasional forward run coached put of him yet, but he wasn't going to get that space on that side in that game. It took us 93 pissing minutes for Justin to make a positive run into the opposing box despite all the space regularly offered to him, and his shot summed up his display - panicked and sub-par.

 

Ironically given the subject this stemmed from, I remember being frustrated as all hell with Castagne for playing in a similar low-confidence way in a few games last season - checking his own runs to instead come backwards for the ball, killing his own momentum and being forced to play sideways / backwards. He wasn't always like that, but when he was, our attacking threat flatlined.

 

I'd strongly recommend anyone reading this to watch our fullbacks more closely - pick the one with the most space (usually Justin at the minute) and watch how they position themselves to receive the ball over the course of a few attacks down their side. You'll see that dropping back (as opposed to making positive movement to encourage an attack) is a common theme in our play, and the reason so much of our death-by-possession football breaks down in midfield.

 

We have exciting wide defenders. It's the coaching. It's ruining raw talent.

I noticed last season and have constantly moaned about our fullbacks not overlapping to stretch the play. 

 

Barnes would receive the ball and be left to beat his man, if the fullback overlaps it pulls in one of their central defenders and allows more space in the box, its basic stuff we just don't seem to do

[BeaumontFox]

21 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Lack of time training with the team? Not that training seems to have much of an impact on the team anyway…

With our current form, I’d be disappointed if he didn’t play today. Looked decent in training and would have a bit of optimism that we need. 

[Cincinnati Fox]

22 minutes ago, adam said:

Surely the new guy starts. Rodgers been moaning on for weeks about a lack of signings and he's gonna leave him on the bench and play a midfielder at centre half. 

Thomas is a disaster waiting to happen. He was at fault for the goal in the week and will probably cost us one today. Still not sure what his strengths are. 

Don’t think he will start faes as it gives him a ready excuse.

 

I don’t see what Thomas offers. Weak, no final ball, can’t beat a man, defensive positioning woeful!

[majaco]

Our potential first team nearly all have experience of finishing in the top 5.

Ward, Castagne,  Evans, Faes,  Justin, Ndid, KDH, Maddison, Tielemans, Barnes, Vardy.     Evans and Vardy have won the league.  Ward hasn't come close, KDH has a top 8 finish.  I am not sure about where teams with Faes in have finished.

 

Our potential second 11 (accepting Perreira is injured) have decent records.   Iversen, Albrighton, Amartey,  Soyuncu, Mendy, Praet. Sou,are, Perez  Daka, Iheanacho, have a lot of players with decent records.

 

With the players we have, we should be turning this around.  

[SheppyFox]

9 minutes ago, Iran said:

 

[String fellow]

Curiously, five of our first six PL matches so far this season are/were against sides that we beat in winning the FA Cup two years ago.

 

Matches so far in the PL:-

Brentford, (Arsenal), Southampton, Chelsea, Man Utd, Brighton.

 

And matches in the FA Cup:-

(Stoke), Brentford, Brighton, Man Utd, Southampton, Chelsea.

 

Is that perhaps a bad omen for today's game? 

 

[SheppyFox]

Danny hasn’t been following Brendan’s post match interviews, substitutions etc it seems..

[ClaphamFox]

5 minutes ago, BeaumontFox said:

With our current form, I’d be disappointed if he didn’t play today. Looked decent in training and would have a bit of optimism that we need. 

Have there been reports of how he’s done in training? That’s good to hear if so…

[ClaphamFox]

1 minute ago, SheppyFox said:

Danny hasn’t been following Brendan’s post match interviews, substitutions etc it seems..

Or even watching our games. 

[HankMarvin]

1 minute ago, SheppyFox said:

Danny hasn’t been following Brendan’s post match interviews, substitutions etc it seems..

Brown nosing, wants to keep his association with the club and LCFC.