Rovrum (A) - Post Match Thread

[Lillehamring]

10 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Are we placing that statistic in the context that Mavididi attempted the most tackles (8) of the Leicester team today? 
 

Or that Doyle made five fouls on opposition? 

In the context that they must have put up some resistance - it wasn't as though they offered zero resistance, they stopped their attack on several occasions by making tackles, which doesn't tell the whole story, there were numerous times in possession where rotherham were forced back or forced into a bad pass... Yes, they had some joy down our left but it wasn't a major issue.

 

It just feels like peopel are still trying to find issues so they have something to feel miserable about, or taking slight issues and blowing them up into massive crises?

 

[Lillehamring]

1 hour ago, Simmo86 said:

Keeping the ball isn’t just passing though is it? Can complete a pass but then when either Wilf, KDH or Kel run straight into a Rotherham player or take a shit touch when running with the ball and lose it. Did loads of that today.

Sure, but to suggest that our standard of 'keeping the ball' however you chose to define it, was 'nowhere near as good' as in other games, is absurd.  One thing we have been this season is consistent. 

 

If you factor in the issues you suggest, a downturn in our quality would be reflected in a drop off in possession, which wasn't the case.

[Motty]

29 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

There were times in the early years of rodgers where we passed the opponents to the point that they couldn’t stay with us in the last twenty five minutes 

 

In the latter years of rodgers the passing became stale and the opponents weren’t moved around - we gained no advantage by playing keep ball 

Because we are utilising the wide men it stretches teams and yes there is a considerable amount of sideways passing, however  we are looking for a quicker ball through the middle cutting open teams. Yes the last 2 years under Billy 50 excuses we never looked to break the press.

[lanefox]

1 hour ago, Lillehamring said:

today we had 62.3% possession and completed 487 out of 560 passes (87%)

against cov: it was 65% and 571/642 89%

against huddersfield: 69.4% and 490/577 85%

against cardiff: 65.3% 580/640 91%

 

If you think that is a major drop off in quality then  you need to step back and have a think about what is reasonable - by any standard we have been both relatively consistent and generally excellent.

It's asinine the way people talk about us being wasteful with the ball

[Simmo86]

Just now, Lillehamring said:

In the context that they must have put up some resistance - it wasn't as though they offered zero resistance, they stopped their attack on several occasions by making tackles, which doesn't tell the whole story, there were numerous times in possession where rotherham were forced back or forced into a bad pass... Yes, they had some joy down our left but it wasn't a major issue.

 

It just feels like peopel are still trying to find issues so they have something to feel miserable about, or taking slight issues and blowing them up into massive crises?

 

People are allowed the criticise, I’m pretty positive when it comes to Leicester this season but today was crap, simple. 

It was the worst performance of the 4 so far but luckily for us Rotherham weren’t good enough to take advantage and 2 bits of quality won it for us.

 

Nobody is doing to be miserable or conjure up a crisis, they’re just saying it as they see it. 
 

Things are going well but we won’t get away with many more of those this season, far too many players off it. 

[lanefox]

1 hour ago, Simmo86 said:

Again, did you even watch? They constantly targeted Doyle aerially and he struggled at bit, apart from that he was fantastic.

Thought it was his best game so far

[Langston]

Deserved to win. Won. 

[Ashley]

Was it anyone on here who went flying over the advertising boards when we scored? 

 

When you see it back 😂😂😂😂😂

[MattFox]

4 minutes ago, Simmo86 said:

People are allowed the criticise, I’m pretty positive when it comes to Leicester this season but today was crap, simple. 

It was the worst performance of the 4 so far but luckily for us Rotherham weren’t good enough to take advantage and 2 bits of quality won it for us.

 

Nobody is doing to be miserable or conjure up a crisis, they’re just saying it as they see it. 
 

Things are going well but we won’t get away with many more of those this season, far too many players off it. 

Tbf the standard of most teams is pretty poor so we’d probably get away with it against most

 

It’s the away games against Southampton, Norwich etc where I think we’ll struggle atm

[Lillehamring]

1 hour ago, Simmo86 said:

Again, did you even watch? They constantly targeted Doyle aerially and he struggled at bit, apart from that he was fantastic.

The post i was replying to focussed on Mavididi and the left side generally - i read this as attacking down the left - rather than Doyles ability to deal with the ball in the air.

 

There's a difference between 'struggled a bit' which he did and the idea that rotherham's tactical genius totally dominated the left hand side of our defence.

 

If you look at rotherham's heat map, it's true that they played more down our left (probably because they had a better option that side) but didn't really progress into the final third - so i don't think the threat was as devastating as is being suggested.

[bmt]

6 hours ago, Daggers said:

This is an absolute belter

[Lillehamring]

8 minutes ago, Simmo86 said:

People are allowed the criticise, I’m pretty positive when it comes to Leicester this season but today was crap, simple. 

It was the worst performance of the 4 so far but luckily for us Rotherham weren’t good enough to take advantage and 2 bits of quality won it for us.

 

Nobody is doing to be miserable or conjure up a crisis, they’re just saying it as they see it. 
 

Things are going well but we won’t get away with many more of those this season, far too many players off it. 

We have been pretty consistent in every game - start strong, dominate possession, have a wobble, finish strong - same pattern, week in, week out.

 

There wasn't anything lucky about today's win - we were the better team, we did what we needed to do, we maintained the standard in pretty much every metric, no one got injured, we restricted them to one shot on target and only 8 in total (compared to 20,13 & 10 in the other games) - how this game could have sunk to the level of 'crap' despite being very similar to the pattern and standard of the previous games is implausible?  I genuinely have no idea how that performance could have disappointed you so much?  In fact, i think  it's more reasonable to say that each game we look more natural and more comfortable.

[ALC Fox]

7 hours ago, Daggers said:

You know what, after going out on loan to Forest Green and then Wimbledon, two clubs who had appalling season's last year, he must have felt so far away from being a Leicester City first-teamer. Yes, we had an atrocious season of our own but even being a game-changer at Championship level will have felt like a faraway dream.

 

Fast-forward to today. Yes, it's Rotherham. But that is quite disrespectful. They're in this division on merit and they gave us a game. Even when we're not at our most fluid, our moments of quality made the difference. And Kasey is the man who came up with the goods.

 

After Chilwell and Barnes (and Choudhury to a lesser extent) it really gladdens my heart to see the likes of McAteer and Marçal-Madivadua making names for themselves in our first team. I do hope they can develop, flourish and become key members of the team 

[ALC Fox]

7 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

 

"Why didn't you shoot first time!?"

 

"Oh wait..."

Cesare with the run that gave Kasey the time he needed 

[Chrysalis]

4 hours ago, lanefox said:

Anyone who says Vesty is at fault has an agenda

 

Also I couldn't care less who scores as long as we win, result 1st, performance 2nd, everyday a week and twice on Sunday, GET A GRIP the 1st time in the history of our football club we've won this amount games too start a season, beggars belief sometimes with the absolute tripe you read on here

He is marked for life, the old saying "mud sticks".

[Detroit Blues]

1 hour ago, CosbehFox said:

Him all over today - brilliant cross, superb feint to give Mavididi his chance before half time but then moments where he’s losing the ball or over complicating a pass 

Yeah, Nacho in a nutshell.

[filbertway]

Just watched the highlights. Hermansens save first half was stupidly good 

 

Kel did amazingnfor our first.

 

Its gonna be havoc when we have genuine class across the front line.

[Beachyboy]

It's not fluent at the moment but 5 different scorers, an without the 2 high profile strikers not scoring is for me a good thing. If 1 striker had scored all 7 of our goals, he can't play/gets injured everyone thinks we are gonna struggle here. We look like we will concede at least 1 most games, so as long as we can keep scoring at least 2 every game, I'm not bothered who the individual scorers are.

[fuchsntf]

5 hours ago, Jimbo said:

Also overlooking the fact that teams may adapt the way they play when they face us.

 

I'm getting slightly bored myself of using the "Man City" example. But look at us 2 or 3 years ago. We'd be flying against teams like West Ham or Everton, for example, but Man City came with a reputation and when we played them we'd set up completely differently, we'd go into a game against them not to lose, and at best nick a goal and take a 1-0 win, as most did and still do.

 

We keep picking up these results with this style and system, the likelihood is that the vast majority of teams this season will set up the same way. In the hope that that 1st team that doesn't set up that way takes a bit of a hiding, the rest of the league will take note and not try it again. 

 

We don't need to concentrate on what other teams are doing right now and how they're playing against other teams. The fact is, they may come to our place and not play that way anyway.

 

While it's not exactly clicking right now it's not as bad as some are making out and again, I'll say we need more patience. Football is a results based business, 4 from 4 and only Leicester fans can still be upset by that and look for the flaws in it. 

never understood why fans still insist coming out with that first sentence

 

Everybody knows how other teams play…There are enough videos and oppo-game-analysts..!!

Its making sure you show them you know,they know..

 

[fuchsntf]

4 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Parts of Rotherham’s game plan today were tactically spot on today. Wonder how many more will go direct and attack Mavididi too / our left wing 

Yep, and the next time,maybe his own 5-6 chances bring him a Hattrick..

He got quite a few shots off today…

[fuchsntf]

2 hours ago, Lillehamring said:

today we had 62.3% possession and completed 487 out of 560 passes (87%)

against cov: it was 65% and 571/642 89%

against huddersfield: 69.4% and 490/577 85%

against cardiff: 65.3% 580/640 91%

 

If you think that is a major drop off in quality then  you need to step back and have a think about what is reasonable - by any standard we have been both relatively consistent and generally excellent.

well that stopped that melt down, right on the nose..

[fuchsntf]

1 hour ago, MattFox said:

Tbf the standard of most teams is pretty poor so we’d probably get away with it against most

 

It’s the away games against Southampton, Norwich etc where I think we’ll struggle atm

TBF..they all play good football for championship sides,sofar we are playing better…

should & poor,don’t exsist in football, only for pundits and Refs..

[Drink Water]

[KFS]

Just now, Drink Water said:

Nice to see we’ve passed on the ‘have perspective’ tagline this season  

[fuchsntf]

39 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Just watched the highlights. Hermansens save first half was stupidly good 

 

Kel did amazingnfor our first.

 

Its gonna be havoc when we have genuine class across the front line.

It’s gonna be more havoc,when we don’t find these so called better players,

because fans keep looking for the next best player…before they give Club and squad credit..