Man City Post Match

[The Fosse Way]

“These fixtures have a surreal air to them. It’s like tasking ChatGPT to put together a Premier League football team. In a literal sense it has achieved that goal. This is a Premier League team playing Premier League games. On Wikipedia in 20 years time, it will describe Leicester City as having participated in the Premier League in the 2024/25 season.

 

Every match is designed to pass a cursory test. Pop this one into your AI checker and it’ll soar through with flying colours. Manchester City 2 Leicester City 0, a perfectly normal scoreline.

 

Chris Sutton isn’t going to shout about it on TalkSport, no one is going to call anyone a disgrace. It’s just going to drift quietly away, never to be spoken about again, just like Leicester City 0 Manchester United 3, or Chelsea 1 Leicester City 0, or Leicester City 0 Arsenal 2.

 

In fact, to complain about them would actually be a sign of unreasonable expectations at this stage, a sign of your own failings, not ours. Why would you be angry at this set of entirely reasonable results. We stole a record of every result in Premier League history and rubbish teams always lose to good teams, what did you expect?

 

Possibly this is Van Nistelrooy’s masterplan, a genius tactic to perform such feats of dull mediocrity that the most basic acts of competence look like historic success. To flood the market with mindlessly boring results so no one notices that he’s pouring out defeats on an overwhelming scale.”

 

https://www.thefosseway.net/matchday/leicester-city-match-report-manchester-city-away-25

Edited 3 April by The Fosse Way

[RoboFox]

31 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

With the players we have, the form we have been in, and the malaise in the squad, we were always going to lose. But the game plan for this match meant we never stood a chance.

 

As you say after a poor performance where we got beat 3-0 at home, making zero changes to the tactics used or team selection says eveything you need to know. Ruud isn't even trying, and hasn't been for some time.

You think it's a matter of giving up, or more that he doesn't know what to do? 

 

I thought it was the former, but it's becoming more apparent that he's so tactically inept that he's burned through all of his few ideas and now has indecision paralysis. 

 

This guy's next level bad, man. Stands there like a lost little boy on the touchline. 

Great aura, though. And that's what's important for KPFC.

[StriderHiryu]

10 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

You think it's a matter of giving up, or more that he doesn't know what to do? 

 

I thought it was the former, but it's becoming more apparent that he's so tactically inept that he's burned through all of his few ideas and now has indecision paralysis. 

 

This guy's next level bad, man. Stands there like a lost little boy on the touchline. 

Great aura, though. And that's what's important for KPFC.

Very good question. In my opinion he's got a bit of the Russel Martin about him in that he's got a specific phillosophy he wants to stick to and won't deviate away from it too much. He is prepared to change the formation, but all we've seen from Ruud is an extremely slow and pedestrian style when attacking.

 

If we keep him next season, I suspect he will get found out, as I think teams will just park the bus and our stlye will be too slow to break teams down. Enzo's style was patient, but we injected pace when we exploited the man advantage due to Ricardo inverting and why a lot of our goals were actually pretty classy and explosive when we scored them. We don't see any change in the speed of our attack under Ruud. It's almost like he wants to play the tiki-taka style that domiannt 2008-2012 Spanish national team had, but with players that have nowhere near the same level of techinical ability.

[Adster]

Just sat in Stockwells in Hinckley and can here some old guy talking to him mate saying "much better than recent, think we deserved to get something out the game" 

 

What the actual fvck???????

[Leicester_Loyal]

28 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Very good question. In my opinion he's got a bit of the Russel Martin about him in that he's got a specific phillosophy he wants to stick to and won't deviate away from it too much. He is prepared to change the formation, but all we've seen from Ruud is an extremely slow and pedestrian style when attacking.

 

If we keep him next season, I suspect he will get found out, as I think teams will just park the bus and our stlye will be too slow to break teams down. Enzo's style was patient, but we injected pace when we exploited the man advantage due to Ricardo inverting and why a lot of our goals were actually pretty classy and explosive when we scored them. We don't see any change in the speed of our attack under Ruud. It's almost like he wants to play the tiki-taka style that domiannt 2008-2012 Spanish national team had, but with players that have nowhere near the same level of techinical ability.

The thought of keeping him next season fills me with dread. We need to get rid ASAP. Not sure if losing by a couple of goals a game is enough? Need a 6-0 pumping so they're forced to sack him at this point.

[Dan]

Just occurred that RVN has basically screwed Manchester United over. Manchester City at the weekend, and they have essentially had a week off where United had to play.

[RoboFox]

4 hours ago, Adster said:

Just sat in Stockwells in Hinckley and can here some old guy talking to him mate saying "much better than recent, think we deserved to get something out the game" 

 

What the actual fvck???????

Too busy clapping King Power to fully pay attention to the game, I suspect. 

[Chelmofox]

4 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

The thought of keeping him next season fills me with dread. We need to get rid ASAP. Not sure if losing by a couple of goals a game is enough? Need a 6-0 pumping so they're forced to sack him at this point.

Losing has become a habit. 

 

Not scoring has become a habit.

 

We can't take this momentum into next year. We have to change it.

[rugbyblue]

6 hours ago, kingpower said:

Great analysis.

he needed to bench Vardy,

play Daka as the furthest forward ,

play Mavididi for his pace on the transition, play Winks as the technical deep lying midfielder (alongside N’didi),

play Ricardo for his carrying ability 

 

instead RVN picks the same lot as last time and his assistant spends all game listening to Spotify on his AirPods 

 

AND I’ll add that I’ve seen some folk on here saying RVN is the man to lead a promotion push. You must be sniffing glue if you think that 

[oldbluefox]

So what exactly do they do in training? Do they not discuss tactics.  Do they not discuss where it's all going wrong or have they all decided they're crap, relegation is around the corner and roll on their summer holidays?

[SemperEadem]

Hope they lady who was goaded into going at the home fans is not banned, just a little common sense from Dave Stevens lot and the club.

[Royston.]

Its never boring being a leicester fan but it has got quite boring so maybe we should resign from the league to spice things up?

[Sol thewall Bamba]

On top of everything else, another game where a player we turned down 8 figures for in January doesn't make the bench.

[The Year Of The Fox]

4 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Hope they lady who was goaded into going at the home fans is not banned, just a little common sense from Dave Stevens lot and the club.

Be well embarrassed being her husband though 

[HankMarvin]

10 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

We don't see any change in the speed of our attack under Ruud. It's almost like he wants to play the tiki-taka style that domiannt 2008-2012 Spanish national team had

Dated methodology, plus his version of Tiki taka is players playing the ball backwards in their own half.

Maybe the cock should take a leaf out of Forest book, 20% less passes 

 

 

[DJW1]

22 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

Is Ruud drinking 2 pints or has Rudkin gone to buy some crisps?