LCFC 2-1 Stoke, post-match thread

[Fox85]

Honestly if he doesnt win the next 4 out of 5 games we need to sack him and move forward we are seriously regressing under him.

 

We would of been better off with RVN, I genuinely think the table would look a lot different with us near the top under him than Marti the fraud

[Foxin_Mad]

14 minutes ago, Ian S said:

With the exception of the horrible bunch at the other end of the M69 how many decent performances have you seen from

anyone this season in this division, it’s bloody awful.

Even Cov haven’t been good but we are really shit, I’m not really sure what this Marti fella is trying to do, I can only assume he was once a PE teacher in Spain?!

[Double Decker]

Vestergard was decent. Credit where it's due.

[Jabfox]

Was surprised to see him bring silko Thomas on instead of Monga, especially on Monga’s favoured side. 

[Double Decker]

2 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Even Cov haven’t been good but we are really shit, I’m not really sure what this Marti fella is trying to do, I can only assume he was once a PE teacher in Spain?!

Nothing wrong with pe teachers!

[Bert]

Just now, Jabfox said:

Was surprised to see him bring silko Thomas on instead of Monga, especially on Monga’s favoured side. 

I think it boils down to Thomas being a bit better at helping the full back out. 

[Mike Oxlong]

Just now, Bert said:

I think it boils down to Thomas being a bit better at helping the full back out. 

What full back 🤔

[PhillippaT]

I forgot we were out all day today, so I missed the match.

 

*Checks scores*

We won? YES!!! 

Postman Pat delivered? OMGWTFISITXMASALREADY?  

[foxinsox]

2 minutes ago, Jabfox said:

Was surprised to see him bring silko Thomas on instead of Monga, especially on Monga’s favoured side. 

Monga was sensational in his first few matches, but far from convincing more recently.

 

It's probably just "too much too young" and using him carefully this season.

[Jabfox]

3 minutes ago, Bert said:

I think it boils down to Thomas being a bit better at helping the full back out. 

Valid point, perhaps if it was 2-0 he’d have used monga instead! 

[Phil Mitchell]

2 hours ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

How many months have you had this gem on hold? 😜 

The gif, the bottle or Shirley. Phil 

[Ric Flair]

25 minutes ago, Ian S said:

With the exception of the horrible bunch at the other end of the M69 how many decent performances have you seen from

anyone this season in this division, it’s bloody awful.

I don't watch much football these days as I've had a gutfull of it but I've been impressed with several teams who have played us this season in their performance and I guarantee you more teams will have at least had 1 good game in 16 than haven't (like we).

 

We are revolting.

[Ric Flair]

11 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Even Cov haven’t been good but we are really shit, I’m not really sure what this Marti fella is trying to do, I can only assume he was once a PE teacher in Spain?!

If Cov haven't been very good then we are the bastard reincarnation of Egil Olsen's Wimbledon. 

 

 

[Reg Vardy]

We could/should have beaten Coventry and Middlesbrough, we have beaten Stoke…..the top ten teams are at a similar level, Coventry’s goal scoring the exception to the rest….so much stick given on here,our team couldn’t be faulted for effort, and Stoke would be disappointed to leave with nothing……we won today, two in a row, ffs enjoy it

[TheStig]

1 hour ago, Pliskin said:

Positive, we somehow won….

 

Negatives, everything else.

 

****ing terrible game, mildly entertaining but not for footballing reasons, for the shenanigans, hopeless referring and general scrappiness..

 

We didn’t deserve to win, I thought we were horrible. Two moments of quality provided the goals, other than that we were pretty terrible, I’d go as far as saying it’s one of our worst performances, two exceptional saves got us the three points today coupled with Stokes inability to finish, but I thought at the very least they deserved a point.

 

It’s now getting to the stage where it’s tactical, Marti’s philosophy is disgusting, the football is utterly turgid and completely unimaginative. The majority of these players have played a similar style before, but the way we play you would think they’ve never passed a football before. 
 

The playing from the back is embarrassingly bad, what on earth are they being asked to do? Winks and Skipp drop far too deep, meaning the opposition can push right up and peg us in, and then there’s no way out other than Yannick to pass to Winks who under pressure bundles the ball to Faes who then again under pressure either bundles is back to Begovic, or bundles it to Ricardo who then launches it down the wing to Fatawu but instead concedes possession. 
 

This is a fairly simple tactic, you need your two midfielders to sit higher in the pitch, so winks drops into the hole creating space for the likes of James to drop into or Ricardo to invert into and then a pass and go triangle can see you playing through the press….. we did it all of the time under Enzo, Winks Ricardo and James should have the ability to play in this way. Ricardo is inverting at the wrong time, and he is getting caught in midfield constantly, allowing Stoke to break.

 

The “passing” is far too slow, sideways and with absolutely zero movement off the ball, again this is a coaching/tactical problem. 
 

The second half was even worse than the first, I recall James’s miss control, and Abdul’s ball across the box being the only two moments that troubled Stoke? 

The subs were ****ing abhorrent, again, Silko Thomas has no business playing senior football, he’s absolutely trash, and he leaves Monga on the bench? 
 

Very, Very fortunate to have come away with three points, another red herring of a performance. 

Love the positivity  

[Sol thewall Bamba]

5 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I don't watch much football these days as I've had a gutfull of it but I've been impressed with several teams who have played us this season in their performance and I guarantee you more teams will have at least had 1 good game in 16 than haven't (like we).

 

We are revolting.

Who out of interest?

[Pliskin]

1 minute ago, TheStig said:

Love the positivity  

If you can be, then I want whatever you’re taking. 

Edited 22 November 2025 by Pliskin

[Bob Weasel Fox]

1 hour ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

EVERYONE IN THIS LEAGUE IS SHIT

You are right

 

its piss poor quality in this division 

[Dahnsouff]

6 minutes ago, Reg Vardy said:

We could/should have beaten Coventry and Middlesbrough, we have beaten Stoke…..the top ten teams are at a similar level, Coventry’s goal scoring the exception to the rest….so much stick given on here,our team couldn’t be faulted for effort, and Stoke would be disappointed to leave with nothing……we won today, two in a row, ffs enjoy it

Agree. Don't get it. We are not at our best, so why spend your time when we do win foretelling of doom next game!

 

Not like positivity or negativity makes any difference to our current predicament, so just enjoy the good times I say. 

[Finnegan]

22 minutes ago, Bert said:

I think it boils down to Thomas being a bit better at helping the full back out. 

 

We were defending a lead. It made sense. 

 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Positives from today - 3 points obviously and decent showing from Begovic (MOTM) Mavididi Jordan James Winks and Vestergaard

 

Negatives were horrific showing from Oliver Skipp a genuinely poor footballer and Boo Faes wasn't much better 

 

special mention to the ref who was ****ing horrific and as bias as you will ever get   

[Uncle Monty]

Really dirty team Stoke. Elbows and digs at players nowhere near the ball. 

 

Happy we shit housed them. Daka looked good and was really happy to see Mav looking on it. Hope they can both kick on. Will Begovic keep Stolacyzk out of the team when he's back?

[Aleksz]

25 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I don't watch much football these days as I've had a gutfull of it but I've been impressed with several teams who have played us this season in their performance and I guarantee you more teams will have at least had 1 good game in 16 than haven't (like we).

 

We are revolting.

We are revolting, but disagree with the rest. I have not been impressed with one team we’ve played this year. Even all I could say about cov was they were organised and pressed well. 

[Foxes1]

[Aleksz]

What was with the police presence today, thought the second coming of Millwall had turned up when I walked down Filbert Way 

 

Are Stoke (historically) handy?