Plymouth post match

[Sly]

Okay, reflection a few hours later after losing to a couple of terrible teams within a week. 

 

Plymouth and Millwall were both dreadful. I can’t think of two other teams that have been so bad all season. The fact we’ve lost to both of these is embarrassing.
 

However both have scored from similar passages of play, as the inverted full back leaves so much space at right back, then Faes isolated one on one. 
 

Ndidi looks finished and him leaving this summer will be a bonus at this point. He’s not a 10 and doesn’t have the legs to get around the pitch. He’s a shadow of himself from three years ago. 
 

Daka has gone from being a clinical forward at Salzburg to whatever we’re witnessing. It’s ironic that non of our forwards have exactly thrived in this system. We may as well have kept Hirst. Why we’ve signed Cannon I’ll never know. We are missing chances but we need to change and offer additional support.
 

The lack of overlapping fullbacks as an option is causing us major issues. The doubling up and zonal closing the space down when Fatawu and Mavididi have the ball has nullified our attacks. As good as Fatawu is defensively, my generated and scored more with McAteer in the team in the earlier parts of the season. 
 

Hermansen was getting some stick during the game, not called for as he can’t really be blamed for either of the goals we’ve conceded this week. 

I’ve been annoyed by Enzos game management since maybe the Coventry collapse. We haven’t been right since and I’ve typically voted leave since then in the player ratings. We are one dimensional, have no plan B, no in game management, like for subs is pointless. 
 

This is not how we all really wanted to end Vardy and Albrighton last season with us. 
 

 

[Sly]

16 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Wouldn’t be any worse than some of the crap playing in it currently

I think they both need match sharpness, however no doubt they’ll both feature next season, as we aren’t exactly buying anyone! 

[Tom12345]

9 hours ago, Cadno'r Cymoedd said:

Faes, Vestergaard and others just walking with the ball and passing it leisurely sideways and backwards. Every frigging game. No player running to create space. No subs. No tactics. No ****ing hope. 

It is not the players this time.

 

I think the players tried. They wanted to win. You can see. But they are hampered by the team selection and tactic.

 

As it turns out, Enzo’s tactics is too one dimensional. He is a one trick pony.  His only tactic was to stretch the pitch by playing out from the back and having his CBs passing around to draw the opponents in. However, that has now gone to pieces because we have been figured out and we have no answer because we don’t have a plan B.

 

We now just keep passing to the side for the winger to try to cross from the side. Rinse repeat.

 

He puts players without creativity in the middle and hence the channel through the middle is ineffective. KDH is the best of all, but he is too rough around the edges and too inconsistent to play that role. Maybe he is too tired. But Maresca does not change his personnel at all. He could do with Nacho stepping in there (by the way still play a striker).

 

With the same personnel, Maresca seems to have also asked his team to do more long balls. But they are from players who are not the best at it. Albrighton is but he is no where near the squad.

 

And players are tired but the same old is repeating. Yet with such a big squad for Championship standards, Marseca makes zero change whatsoever.  I remember he said at the beginning of the season that the season is long and he would need all his players.  Faes clearly needs to be benched but he does not start Coady. Fatawu has been subpar but he does not even include Albrighton in his match day squad. We need to change things a bit by having more players in the box but yet he persists with a lone striker (Vardy hardly touched the ball yesterday). 

 

The more important the games, the more Enzo’s true character is revealed. Conservative and unwilling to mix things up.

Edited 13 April 2024 by Tom12345

[Tom12345]

I said before the game go gun ho and put two strikers on from the start. That didn’t happen at any stage of the game even when we were chasing.

[Gamble92]

I can't sleep 

[Sly]

7 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

I can't sleep 

I think we’ve witnessed the most horrific performance in years, that’s why. 

[Sly]

 

[Gamble92]

32 minutes ago, Sly said:

 

This man is an embarrassment.

 

Why do any managers use people like him? Apparently he kept doing this for a manager at Wolves as well and they all got sick of him doing it. 

 

Does he think we will see that bloke who gives us his knowledge on Spanish football on Sky Sports News backing his mate and we'll all go oh okay Gulliem!

 

[Matt]

5 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

I'm just sick of hating my team.

I'm sick of come the turn of the year just wanting the season over for the past 7 years.

[OzFox]

The kick-off just about sums up our tactics this season. Straight back to Ricardo and Winks, no more than two yards away from each other, who exchange four passes (what's the point?) then one of them flicks it back to Vestergaard whose first touch is poor and almost gets himself in trouble.

 

If that's modern football/Enzo-ball, you can keep it thanks.

[wardyfox86]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

 

"a manager looking for solutions" come on now Guillem, that's insulting to every Leicester fan who can clearly see otherwise.

 

If we saw any tactical flexibility during any of these defeats, there'd be an element of leniency towards him. The players are tired and over coached to play 1 way, you can see the lack of anything spontaneous happening. Everything we do has been rehearsed on the training pitch 100 times over. The players are bored, we're bored.

[LcFc_Smiv]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

 

This sums it up, again we have a manager who is failing to deliver and he uses his media buddies to deflect blame on to the fans. I appreciate the influence support/discontent from the stands can have, but we’re ignoring some pretty big issues if we’re going straight to “your energy is required” and not what’s going on on the pitch and in the technical area.

[dobbylcfc]

I’m the most optimistic fox going but after last night enough is enough. Fair play to the poor sods who traveled all the way down there and didn’t get back until the early hours to watch that shite. At the moment it’s like Groundhog Day you can change the manager but the bad feeling hangs around this club like a bad smell. How that stubborn moron not see we need to make subs earlier how can he stick with Daka again who let’s be fair couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo. Please top get him gone and get someone in who uses the team that can play to our strengths.

[Guest Lcfc82]

2 hours ago, Sly said:

 

Wish Enzo would fcuk off and take this twat with him.

[foxinsox]

4 hours ago, Sly said:

Okay, reflection a few hours later after losing to a couple of terrible teams within a week. 

 

Plymouth and Millwall were both dreadful. I can’t think of two other teams that have been so bad all season. The fact we’ve lost to both of these is embarrassing.
 

However both have scored from similar passages of play, as the inverted full back leaves so much space at right back, then Faes isolated one on one. 
 

Ndidi looks finished and him leaving this summer will be a bonus at this point. He’s not a 10 and doesn’t have the legs to get around the pitch. He’s a shadow of himself from three years ago. 
 

Daka has gone from being a clinical forward at Salzburg to whatever we’re witnessing. It’s ironic that non of our forwards have exactly thrived in this system. We may as well have kept Hirst. Why we’ve signed Cannon I’ll never know. We are missing chances but we need to change and offer additional support.
 

The lack of overlapping fullbacks as an option is causing us major issues. The doubling up and zonal closing the space down when Fatawu and Mavididi have the ball has nullified our attacks. As good as Fatawu is defensively, my generated and scored more with McAteer in the team in the earlier parts of the season. 
 

Hermansen was getting some stick during the game, not called for as he can’t really be blamed for either of the goals we’ve conceded this week. 

I’ve been annoyed by Enzos game management since maybe the Coventry collapse. We haven’t been right since and I’ve typically voted leave since then in the player ratings. We are one dimensional, have no plan B, no in game management, like for subs is pointless. 
 

This is not how we all really wanted to end Vardy and Albrighton last season with us. 
 

 

I really don't like this inverted full back system.

 

It's not an awful system, and has put us top, at least until Leeds kick off, but is so one dimensional and rigid. Possession without penetration and too slow in the build up, so that the opponent gets time to organise their lines.

 

We are also absolute dog poo at attacking set pieces and corners. When was the last time we scored one? Was it one that Maddison did? It certainly feels like it.

 

There will be a mass exodus in the summer with another year in the Championship. It will be sad to see players like Vardy, Albrighton and Ndidi go this way. We will need to play the kids as we aren't going to have anyone else.

 

It's going to be a long road back.

[Weller Wing]

4 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

Just got home. Driving 800 miles in 3 days and not even seeing us score will be one to remember. 

👏👏👏😕

[Jazzy_Jeff]

This is all on Enzo.

 

Should have taken Wilf and Daka off at h/t with further changes if required as game developed

 

Sickening to constantly see a glum looking Cannon on the bench behind a manager with no intention to ever use him. Why no Akgun, Albrighton etc. Poundland Pep just won’t accept this “his way” isn’t working.

 

We are so easy to play against it’s embarrassing. If we’re serious about going up this season he needs  to have a long hard look at himself and bury his pride before he buries us. 

[Green Army 75]

6 hours ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

Losing to rubbish like Plymouth and millwall is shocking 

We don’t have the quality that you have.  Not one of our outfield players gets in your squad let alone team.  
 

But we have our heart, determination and guts back as a club (and a little luck) now that Foster has gone. 
 

“Rubbish” feels harsh.  
 

[CrazyKopCorner]

1 minute ago, Green Army 75 said:

We don’t have the quality that you have.  Not one of our outfield players gets in your squad let alone team.  
 

But we have our heart, determination and guts back as a club (and a little luck) now that Foster has gone. 
 

“Rubbish” feels harsh.  
 

Congratulations on the result last night - Saying you are rubbish is totally disrespectful and your team played extremely well last night and deserved to win. 

 

You were poor at the KP around The New Year but the turnaround is evident and you more than deserve to be in this division.

 

All the best for the last 4 games.  

[Green Army 75]

2 hours ago, OzFox said:

The kick-off just about sums up our tactics this season. Straight back to Ricardo and Winks, no more than two yards away from each other, who exchange four passes (what's the point?) then one of them flicks it back to Vestergaard whose first touch is poor and almost gets himself in trouble.

 

As a Green that kick off was astonishing.  
 

It looked like the two players decided to take the mick out of us rather than get playing.  

[Foxontherocks]

Ahh that blissful 2-3 seconds when you first wake up before you remember yesterday.

[Claudio Fannieri]

4 minutes ago, Green Army 75 said:

We don’t have the quality that you have.  Not one of our outfield players gets in your squad let alone team.  
 

But we have our heart, determination and guts back as a club (and a little luck) now that Foster has gone. 
 

“Rubbish” feels harsh.  
 

Too be fair pal you are everything I want to see, 11 players giving absolutely everything, a manager kicking every ball and the crowd roaring you home. 
 

Truth is if we turned up and match the endeavour and work rate of both Plymouth and Millwall then we should win, but we didn’t and too be fair both teams showed top quality with the goals scored. You fully deserved your win last night. Of course it’s frustrating too lose games we are expected to win, but at same time we should show respect to each and every team, truth is we have been tactically out fought and out battled in the last 2 games and we got exactly what we deserved, as did Millwall and Plymouth. 
 

well done and good luck for the remainder of the season, I have a feeling we will be locking horns again next season. 

[CrazyKopCorner]

6 hours ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

Losing to rubbish like Plymouth and millwall is shocking 

Plymouth are not rubbish I need to correct you .......... they are atrocious  

[Scanchez]

10 hours ago, Zear0 said:

Decent coaches don't make decent managers. Bloke hasn't got a clue and is out his depth. 

 

A foreign Steve McLaren. 

I thought Steve McLaren was Dutch?

[fox_favourite]

4 minutes ago, Green Army 75 said:

As a Green that kick off was astonishing.  
 

It looked like the two players decided to take the mick out of us rather than get playing.  

Great win for you guys though, safety looking more possible. The Leicester players looked happy to help. But fair play  to Plymouth that is a big win