Bournemouth (H) Pre match thread (05.10.24, 3pm)

[ronnup]

Lose this and hes out surely 

[Chelmofox]

2 minutes ago, ronnup said:

Lose this and hes out surely 

Doubt it.

[Ric Flair]

26 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

I'm not even sure he tries to break down teams! Look at our expected goal threat, it's one of the worst in the league. In the video there's an example of how Chelsea attack with 5 players, as we did last season. But this season we attack with 4 at most, and sometimes even fewer, there were multiple examples of us attacking with just 3 players going forwards against Arsenal.

 

Bournemouth proved last season that as they started attacking teams more often, they conceded less. Cooper needs to take the handbrake off, but it seems like all the managers that come from the English FA setup all favour defence, multiple England U21 and below managers such as Boothroyd, Southgate and Cooper are all cowards.

Which makes the guff about his box midfield 4 joining the striker to attack in a 5 a load of waffle.

[JimJams]

Gonna try and take as many positives from this as possible Lose or Draw and we get rid of Cooper (for the love of fxxking Christ!) or we win, get 3 points on the board and things are looking up for a few weeks!

[StriderHiryu]

10 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Which makes the guff about his box midfield 4 joining the striker to attack in a 5 a load of waffle.

Leicester have taken the joint-fewest shots per game in the Premier League this season, while also conceding a league-high 19.3 shots on average. Their expected goals (xG) is 5.38 is also the lowest of all top-flight teams, suggesting even their relative attacking underperformance has still been technical overperformance.

 

These are the facts.

[JimJams]

It's almost like he hasn't got a fxxking clue.

[filbertway]

1 hour ago, Ashley said:

 

 

No they aren't. 

 

Championship season we beat them twice. Five draws with them in the PL. Two wins for us in the PL, 3 wins for them.

 

Then the cup win. Hardly a bogey side?

 

Anyway, that wouldn't go towards the betting markets. 

Considering in that time we'd be big favourites in most of those Prem games. Failing to win 8 times out of 10 doesn't exactly scream that we've done well against them.

[Ric Flair]

28 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Leicester have taken the joint-fewest shots per game in the Premier League this season, while also conceding a league-high 19.3 shots on average. Their expected goals (xG) is 5.38 is also the lowest of all top-flight teams, suggesting even their relative attacking underperformance has still been technical overperformance.

 

These are the facts.

It's absolutely wild ain't it

[Richmondfox]

The usual pre match interview saying just enough of nothing.  Roll on match day where it will be the same singular change, same tactics and formation. Post match excuses and guff. 

 

[Big_Nige]

45 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Leicester have taken the joint-fewest shots per game in the Premier League this season, while also conceding a league-high 19.3 shots on average. Their expected goals (xG) is 5.38 is also the lowest of all top-flight teams, suggesting even their relative attacking underperformance has still been technical overperformance.

 

These are the facts.

Such a sobering stat

[Tielemans63]

54 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Leicester have taken the joint-fewest shots per game in the Premier League this season, while also conceding a league-high 19.3 shots on average. Their expected goals (xG) is 5.38 is also the lowest of all top-flight teams, suggesting even their relative attacking underperformance has still been technical overperformance.

 

These are the facts.

From a reasonable set of opening fixtures, too 

[Ric Flair]

2 minutes ago, Tielemans63 said:

From a reasonable set of opening fixtures, too 

If this doesn't improve over the next 4 fixtures then it'll be a scandal.

[foxfan92]

1 hour ago, ronnup said:

Lose this and hes out surely 

I wouldn't bet on it, unfortunately. 

[ClaphamFox]

1 hour ago, StriderHiryu said:

Leicester have taken the joint-fewest shots per game in the Premier League this season, while also conceding a league-high 19.3 shots on average. Their expected goals (xG) is 5.38 is also the lowest of all top-flight teams, suggesting even their relative attacking underperformance has still been technical overperformance.

 

These are the facts.

We’re conceding an average of 19.3 shots per game? Assuming 10mins of added time per game, that’s a shot against us every five minutes on average. Golly 😳

[STEVIE B]

1 hour ago, ronnup said:

Lose this and hes out surely 

We don't do things quickly, especially sackings. He will be here until mid November at least, even if we're in the bottom 3. 

Unfortunately, money comes into such decisions now. 

 

[foxfan92]

1 hour ago, StriderHiryu said:

Leicester have taken the joint-fewest shots per game in the Premier League this season, while also conceding a league-high 19.3 shots on average. Their expected goals (xG) is 5.38 is also the lowest of all top-flight teams, suggesting even their relative attacking underperformance has still been technical overperformance.

 

These are the facts.

Playing as negatively as we do will not only limit the number of chances we create, but invite more pressure on ourselves so these both go hand in hand given our style of play, and doesn't exude a winning mentality. 

 

We either change this way of playing or get used to losing or scraping draws... pretty much as we have done so far, and get relegated at the end of the season.

[Gazza M]

                    Mads

  Justin   Faes    Okoli   VK

 

             Ndidi   Winks

Fatawu   Buonanotte   Mavididi 

                  Vardy

[5waller5]

11 hours ago, J. James said:

As well as confirmation bias (those people manically calling for sacking after a handful of frankly expected results),
we are also seeing "mission creep", i.e. expectation being raised above pure survival to "must win" against a team like Bournemouth (over double our points total) who some describe as "dogsh*t"!

 

Had we lost every one or had we picked up one point from seven (remember that?) - then some of the opinions on here may have been justified.

 

This is clearly not a must win and Bournemouth are clearly not a bad side.

 

A good performance will gain us a point i think, a win is very unlikely, much less likely than a loss.

 

As far as Coopers job is concerned,

A win = job safe

Draw = job safe

Loss = job safe

 

And no amount of wishful posting on here is changing this position for months if at all this season.

Can I please have a job with you as my manager please???

 

You have such low expectations it’d be brilliant!! 

[TheUltimateWinner]

Feel like this is the one we finally win…

[westernpark]

Hermansen, Ricardo, Vestegaard, Okoli, Justin, Winks, Skipp, Fatawu, Buanotte, Mavididi, Vardy.

[Clever Fox]

On 02/10/2024 at 19:49, FoxinNotts said:

If he starts winning games, I have no issue

The issue is in the plural,Games .

We've got to beat more than the bottom teams to stay up.

I've no issue with Cooper himself.

What I do have an issue with is the way he sets us up and the poor signings. Making survival that much harder.

[RumbleFox]

                          Mads

 

  Ricardo       Vesty    Okoli          JJ

 

                    Ndidi   Skipp

    Fatawu   Buonanotte   Mavididi 

 

                        Vardy

It’s just that ain’t it. It’s not even hard. 

[Bourbon Fox]

4 hours ago, J. James said:

For me there is could win, should win and must win.. Since we thrashed Man city at their place some months ago (about 48), l dont have a can't win anymore!

 

Imao this one is a definite could win.

Need to start turning could'ves and should'ves into wins, fast

[J. James]

51 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

Can I please have a job with you as my manager please???

 

You have such low expectations it’d be brilliant!! 

Lol.. You may be surprised to know that l couldn't find people with a high enough level of skill to grow my business!

 My expectations were too high!

 

But thats me with business head on, sport is just fun.. or should be.

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

We’re conceding an average of 19.3 shots per game? Assuming 10mins of added time per game, that’s a shot against us every five minutes on average. Golly 😳

The 35+ against Arsenal have slapped this up, but it was already bad.