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Steven

Crewe Post-Match Andy King love in 2-1

By Steven, in Leicester City Forum

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Tilley

Tilley

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What was Crewe's support like?

Maybes...

*Walks up stairs, has once glance over, smiles, & has another glance, & shakes head whilst laughing*

Guest

Guest

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I thought Howard did well when he came on, certainly holds the ball up better than anyone else we have at the club.

No doubt there'll be numerous posts slagging the bloke off, however......

GLC

GLC

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It does seem bizarre that our main divisional rivals didn't even exist 5 years ago though......

i was thinking that, funny aint it

Corky

Corky

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I thought Howard did well when he came on, certainly holds the ball up better than anyone else we have at the club.

No doubt there'll be numerous posts slagging the bloke off, however......

He's crap :angry:

He was crap on Saturday, never involved, did he touch the ball? :P

JakeShingler

JakeShingler

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1 Leicester 18 15 38

2 MK Dons 18 20 37

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3 Millwall 18 6 36

4 Oldham 18 12 34

5 Peterborough 18 13 33

6 S****horpe 18 9 33

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7 Leeds 18 10 32

8 Stockport 18 11 31

9 Tranmere 18 3 27

10 Southend 18 0 27

11 Walsall 17 0 24

12 Hartlepool 18 -1 24

13 Northampton 17 2 23

14 Huddersfield 18 -5 23

15 Bristol Rovers 18 4 22

16 Carlisle 18 -8 20

17 Leyton Orient 18 -8 20

18 Swindon 17 -4 19

19 Brighton 18 -5 19

20 Colchester 17 -4 18

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21 Yeovil 18 -10 18

22 Hereford 18 -17 12

23 Cheltenham 18 -22 12

24 Crewe 18 -21 9

JakeShingler

JakeShingler

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Lambert Bristol Rovers 17

Fryatt Leicester 14

Cox Swindon 13

Mackail-Smith Peterborough 13

Beckford Leeds United 12

Graham Carlisle 10

Hooper S****horpe 9

Hughes Oldham 9

Murray Brighton 9

Baldock MK Dons 8

Becchio Leeds United 8

Dyer Leicester 7

Hayes S****horpe 7

Porter Hartlepool 7

Taylor Oldham 7

Corky

Corky

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I spoke to both of Crewe's fans. The rest were cardboard cut-outs. :whistle:

I'm in love with Andy King, Thrac. I know what you see in him.

Thracian

Thracian

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1 Leicester 18 15 38

2 MK Dons 18 20 37

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3 Millwall 18 6 36

4 Oldham 18 12 34

5 Peterborough 18 13 33

6 S****horpe 18 9 33

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7 Leeds 18 10 32

8 Stockport 18 11 31

9 Tranmere 18 3 27

10 Southend 18 0 27

11 Walsall 17 0 24

12 Hartlepool 18 -1 24

13 Northampton 17 2 23

14 Huddersfield 18 -5 23

15 Bristol Rovers 18 4 22

16 Carlisle 18 -8 20

17 Leyton Orient 18 -8 20

18 Swindon 17 -4 19

19 Brighton 18 -5 19

20 Colchester 17 -4 18

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21 Yeovil 18 -10 18

22 Hereford 18 -17 12

23 Cheltenham 18 -22 12

24 Crewe 18 -21 9

I thought you'd missed Leeds out for a minute! :D

Koke

Koke

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First goal - Clever combination down the left by Joe Mattock and Lloyd Dyer. After that we had chances to bury them but didn't take them.

Calvin Zola gave Tunchev some problems. If there is a weakness in Tunchev's game, it's that he finds it hard dealing with big men. Zola won most of the headers, and I was very surprised to see Dario Gradi take him off.

Clever sub by Pearson at the end, I'll have to give it to him. 2-1 up and he realized Crewe were gonna lump it forward a lot, so he took Edworthy off who is cack in the air, and brought in Hobbs so we had 3 defenders who could head a ball. I could see the logic in that sub, I don't know why people around me couldn't.

All in all - a very mediocre performance in a freezing cold night.

Corky

Corky

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Wow, we've had lots of Andy King love ins lately. He's making a habit of these late winning goals.

Thrac will tell you he's an impact player. Only starts to make an impact after about 70 minutes :D:thumbup:

Finnegan

Finnegan

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King seems to have the mental attributes required to make a bit of an impact and you can't deny he's got fair technique, but we'll have to see how he copes with the significant physical disadvantage he's going to always have in football.

He's big and he's lanky. He isn't strong, he isn't powerful and he certainly isn't fast.

If he can overcome that and continue to develop as a goalscoring, creative influence then long may he reign. But Muz was Muz because he'd sprint tirelessly from box to box like a little livewire, King's never going to have the body to do that.

Maybes

Maybes

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Big up the 201 massive.

This man lies. Yeovil had 180 fans inside the walkers. Crewe had about 100.

Maybes...

*Walks up stairs, has once glance over, smiles, & has another glance, & shakes head whilst laughing*

lol Spot on.

Thracian

Thracian

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Tilley wasn't far off.

This was an unconvincing and mostly laboured performance and nothing like what we need apart from the result.

Instead of keeping some tempo to our game when we scored we started getting casual and sloppy.

You couldn't have imagined Crewe scoring this side of Christmas but they did thanks to some woeful decision making by DJ for whatever reason and by Morrison who had a night to forget, especially with his passing.

As Tilley said Martin shouldn't have been beaten on the far post but his save from Zola just before half-time might well have been a points saver because he did extremely well and Zola must have been so frustrated.

We'd already gone down to their level which wasn't very high and allowed them to slow or stiffle the game.

The substitutions saved our day.

Gradel didn't start well but he grabbed yet another assist from his corner to King who netted his second headed goal on the far post, his sixth of the season and his second match winner in succession to complete four days he'll doubtless remember for a long time.

And once the goal went in it was Gradel who continued to try to lift our game, putting a whole string of passes into the box, some of them enough to make you wince and another three which so nearly created goals.

Howard also made a difference and surely won his starting place back, the two substitutes together proving too much for Crewe to cope with, as most of us would have guessed.

I've talked about our need to open a gap and the points from today helped to do that. But we weren't an oiled machine. After passing Crewe to raggedness in the first 10/15 minutes we lost our crispness and our patience. Crewe did a decent job on Dyer for the most part and DJ, while so nearly making a goal for Fryatt with a pass across the goalmouth, rarely looked especially dangerous.

Fryatt's 16th goal was a fitting end to a good move but he still slowed our passing down at times and hung onto the ball too much. Kingy was competent but not really urgent enough although I did feel generally that our players seemed a little jaded after their mammoth effort up at S****horpe Saturday and that might have at least partly explained their lack of urgency.

There were other downsides too. I'm sick of referees giving free kicks evry time a player falls over and I'm even more sick of the game being stopped almost every time a bloke takes a knock. For fractured skulls and broken bones I understand it but for bruised egos and as a tactical ploy to slow the game or win some time it gets on my nerves.

And I didn't like to see City playing silly buggers by the corner flag yet again. They had the chance to get the ball in the box and maintain their impetus. They should have done it. We've lost enough points doing the other thing.

Performance no more than 5/10. Effect, three vital points that Leeds and S****horpe would have loved.

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