LCFC 2-0 Birmingham, post-match thread

[Trent Steel]

Didnt get to watch it as had to go to the missuses friends house for dinner( I tried to get out if it) but just watch the extended highlights, we were fairly decent I though Birmingham were sh!te, Denney can go suck himself

when do we get the points deduction ?

[Corky]

Enjoyed it, the atmosphere was good and thought we worked hard, looked fitter and had bits of quality to make the difference.

 

Need additions to the squad, though.

[rugbyblue]

I mean, we weren't 1970 Brazil but what i liked and really what is most important to me is that the players actually looked like they gave a sh*t, looked like they were trying and worked hard, showed effort.  Ive seen it all over the years, i can live with being crap, it happens, but as a fan i will not accept half hearted effort.  Saw effort last night. 👍

[ronnup]

2 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

I thought they were anything but solid and confident.

Didn't look it last night did they, have been is my point

[The Doctor]

5 hours ago, Bilo said:

I'll always say that Cooper was a worse appointment than RVN. Van Nistelrooy had absolutely no tactical nous, but he also had a January transfer budget of £1.32 because of the millions wasted by Cooper on absolute pony. 

 

Imagine if we'd had a proper boss this time last year.

honestly I think we'd still be a prem side with a proper manager last summer. Cooper was actively sabotaging us. Watching Abdul rip this division to shreds again and remembering that Cooper preferred to put Ayew and BDCR up against the likes of Ashley Young early season was infuriating. Could have had a lot more points on the board early on and not had the shitshow we had.

[Dan]

To me it just feels like a decent starting point. We are absolutely miles off the finished article and if business isn't done in the next few days then I think you can forget going up. But I like what he's trying to do - happy to alienate players who aren't committed. That was one of the strengths of Pearson and I can't really remember anybody since doing this - maybe Van Nistelrooy but too much damage was already done by the time of this.

 

I thought we got lucky at Charlton but less so yesterday. Very efficient, but I was impressed how little we let them create. Stolarczyk only had to make one save.

 

I was really disappointed in Birmingham. They were so bland. Hard to tell how much that was down to them and how much it was down to us. Charlton got far more joy than they did.

 

Cifuentes is doing really well. He's being rewarded for the right type of principles. But it'll all be in vain if they don't back him this week because this side isn't good enough.

[OadbyBlue]

I think with our current squad there will be a lot more games like this, Charlton etc than games where we blow away the opposition as we did at times in 23/24:

 

Clear signs of improvement though, especially defensively, and it’s great to have so many youngsters and academy players in and around the squad.

[Guest Bilo]

6 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

honestly I think we'd still be a prem side with a proper manager last summer. Cooper was actively sabotaging us. Watching Abdul rip this division to shreds again and remembering that Cooper preferred to put Ayew and BDCR up against the likes of Ashley Young early season was infuriating. Could have had a lot more points on the board early on and not had the shitshow we had.

I have sympathy for the fact that it was hard to attract quality with the looming points deduction, but we'd genuinely be in a better position as a football club if we'd signed nobody instead of Skipp, BDCR and Ayew.

[Lambert09]

7 hours ago, Zear0 said:

Apart from deleting all his Leicester posts and saying "shackles off. Freedom" when he left you mean? Let's not be revisionist and claim "he didn't do anything negative" when he did on and off the pitch with us.

Hahaha people are so sensitive these days! 

[Lambert09]

9 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Why you so bothered? He was a petulant child and he got as many claps as he did boos anyway. I'm sure he will live. People have worse to deal with. 

Just a bit embarrassing. Extremely tin pot! 
 

 

[Zear0]

2 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

Hahaha people are so sensitive these days! 

Great rebut buddy 

[The Doctor]

1 hour ago, Bilo said:

I have sympathy for the fact that it was hard to attract quality with the looming points deduction, but we'd genuinely be in a better position as a football club if we'd signed nobody instead of Skipp, BDCR and Ayew.

Honestly we could have dipped into second tier top flight markets like Belgium and Denmark, or even back into the championship for the likes of Gus Hamer, rather than go for those three, and we'd have been better for it 

[Lambert09]

40 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Great rebut buddy 

I just think football is different now, mostly because of social media. Some of the players we would consider hero’s did far worse to leave the club back in the days. It was just standard that most ex players would get a warm reception. 
 

save the boos for people like fofana who actually deserve it, or were just watering it all down. 

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

Just a bit embarrassing. Extremely tin pot! 
 

 

I won't lose any sleep over it. 

 

Then again I have been using nytol

[leicesterseddon]

I will feel better once we’ve mustered more than a couple of shots on target against a team that wasn’t in League One last year or likely to be next year.

 

The team is just desperately crying out for a decent striker and someone in midfield who can actually pass it forwards more than a few times a game.

[Gamble92]

6 hours ago, Trent Steel said:

Didnt get to watch it as had to go to the missuses friends house for dinner( I tried to get out if it) but just watch the extended highlights, we were fairly decent I though Birmingham were sh!te, Denney can go suck himself

when do we get the points deduction ?

I hate her

[hackneyfox]

8 hours ago, adejo92 said:

But let's not believe the multiple 'rumours' hey @hackneyfox - Perhaps they're all wrong and he is committed to Leicester City.

 

Thankfully the majority of us arent as naive. 

 

 

 

Edited 30 August 2025 by hackneyfox

[PaulW]

On 29/08/2025 at 22:01, Tielemans63 said:

It's not pretty to watch, but the team has developed a bit of backbone and resilience. The workrate out of possession is so much better. Credit to Marti in that regard. Also, his subs were good yet again.

 

Also, Vesty was bloody brilliant tonight. Soumare and Skipp were good, too. Superb

Whatever (or whoever) will the moaners move to now to try to destablise the team in order to achieve their aim of ousting King Power?

[PaulW]

Hate the fact our team that has so-called fans in its midst that sneeringly refer to loyal supporters as 'happy clappers',  and call for boos to be heard throughout the match.

[Corky]

No one in our team was being booed on Friday. People were getting behind the team and enjoyed the game.

 

Almost as if we'll properly get behind them if they give us something.

[FoxesTalker]

After the misery of last season, it's great to go into the first international break of the season with back-to-back wins. Credit should go to Cifuentes - to be 4th in the league at this stage without being overly convincing is very decent. There's certainly some early promise under the new man.
 

Edited 1 September 2025 by FoxesTalker

[Leicesterpool]

Incredible in a small space of time the negativity as gone... well Rudkin is still a C##t. Lets hope the positivity continues.

Edited 31 August 2025 by Leicesterpool

[ClaphamFox]

27 minutes ago, Corky said:

No one in our team was being booed on Friday. People were getting behind the team and enjoyed the game.

 

Almost as if we'll properly get behind them if they give us something.

Hopefully that will continue when BEK, Winks and Faes are restored to the team after the international break. 

[Leicesterpool]

Thought the atmosphere was good Friday and do feel the team responded well to it 

[MGLCFC]

17 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Thought the atmosphere was good Friday and do feel the team responded well to it 

I agree and perhaps the atmosphere is generated by the players giving it a go. Whilst I think Choudhury is a limited player, I thought, first half particularly, he made some very strong challenges that got the supporters engaged. This commitment and physicality often lifts the crowd and then this translates back to the players. I don't expect things to be perfect 4 games in under a new manager trying to play a different style, but I can accept that, if I see commitment, passion and energy from those on the pitch.