Socks Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Fuchs totally owned their current "star" Deulofeu they even subbed him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Corky Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 http://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1450508400# Micky Quinn's prediction. In the 10.00-10.30 slot about 9 minutes in. Said the Everton game was a banker home win. It's incredible, do some people not watch football/ have a brain/ unable to read? A banker home win against the league leaders, 2 defeats in 26, unbeaten in 12 away? I know he's predicted us to lose pretty much every game this season though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalis Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 He would deserve £17 million if we win the league let alone £1.7 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Steve_Walsh5 Posted 19 December 2015 Popular Post Share Posted 19 December 2015 Fuchs totally owned their current "star" Deulofeu they even subbed him I had to laugh earlier when Deulofeu did about 8 step overs Fuchs just watched him then stuck his foot in and took it away from. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 (edited) He would deserve £17 million if we win the league let alone £1.7 million. He can have the keys to the city if he wins the league Edited 19 December 2015 by foxes_rule1978 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny the fox Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 http://toffeeweb.com/season/15-16/news/31389.html The kung-fu comment at the bottom is funny.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 http://toffeeweb.com/season/15-16/news/31389.html The kung-fu comment at the bottom is funny.. Not much love for Martinez. Perhaps we'll get a hat trick of managers sacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Not much love for Martinez. Perhaps we'll get a hat trick of managers sacked. I didn't realise how fed up they were with him... would be great to get our third sacking inside one month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny the fox Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 I didn't realise how fed up they were with him... would be great to get our third sacking inside one month Klopp is next on the list.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hungry Hungry Fox Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Can't undestand their dislike of Martinez I really rate him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnglishOxide Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Can't undestand their dislike of Martinez I really rate him He's been there a while now and has not improved on Moyes work. He should be getting more out of Stones and Barkley IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Can't undestand their dislike of Martinez I really rate him they've won 2 games in 3 months (home to villa and sunderland). they've gone massively backwards since his first season and their team is nowhere near the sum of its parts. we'd be pissed off too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Listening to talk sport and it was great hearing them say that Leicester, Arsenal and Man City have three of the four champions league places sewn up... just casually saying it and Man U are in danger of not taking that last spot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Barry Hammond Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 I didn't realise how fed up they were with him... would be great to get our third sacking inside one month We were a large factor in Sherwood getting the boot - and of course kicked off Advocats nightmare start! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My Nads Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Complaining about time wasting while pretending he wasn't complaining as well. I like to call it game management, time wasting sounds unprofessional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchandro Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 martinez getting digs in post match. we rarely offer a threat and there's no way they should have lost or something. goon. I'm our staunchest defender against opposition managers and idiot pundits but today I think he's got a point. The penalties were completely against the run of play and we made our only real dominant spell count with the 3rd. I'd be a bit frustrated if I was them, they shouldn't really have lost. Not that I'm complaining, we don't play badly very often and to still grind a win out is brilliant. Listening to talk sport and it was great hearing them say that Leicester, Arsenal and Man City have three of the four champions league places sewn up... just casually saying it and Man U are in danger of not taking that last spot If we finished below Man Utd I'd be devastated. They are absolutely crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 This was on Facebook. David Horne 2 hrs · Basildon · T'was the week before Christmas, as I watched the live streamI could hardly believe what appeared on my screen.With Manchester losing to Norwich two one,We c... See More 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithuriel Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Sign of a good team is playing badly because every team will and still getting a result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 everton fans that me and my brother came across were decent, both pre-game and afterwards. Before the match on the train up to Liverpool they were all for us to win the league and would back us throughout the season over the likes of the traditional top teams. And afterwards even though saying they didn't deserve to lose, they kind of didn't mind doing so against a team like us. They were happy for us to win despite it at the cost of their own team. Fans we came across were quite friendly and certainly very gracious in defeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 It is arguably the most remarkable turnaround in fortunes in Premier League history. Saturday afternoon’s victory at Goodison Park ensured that Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City side will sit atop the league tree this Christmas – a far cry from 12 months ago, when they languished at its foot. Ranieri returned to English shores this summer under a cloud, after an embarrassing failed stint in charge of the Greek national team – an ordeal that saw the country lose home and away to the not-so-mighty Faroe Islands. The Italian’s prospects of continuing the resurgence his predecessor, Nigel Pearson, oversaw in the second half of last season were rated as slim at best. Scaling these lofty heights was completely unthinkable. Yet scale them Leicester have. And they have done so by turning in an uncanny impression of Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid. Atletico, of course, sensationally upset the odds two seasons ago to capture the La Liga crown and come within seconds of clinching an unlikely first Champions League title. Ranieri, like Simeone, has turned back the years by employing an old-fashioned 4-4-2 formation. The 4-4-2 had previously been thought obsolete at the highest level since the emergence to prominence of one-striker systems like 4-2-3-1 at the turn of the millennium. Managers were wary of exposing themselves to potential overloads in the middle of the park, where teams with more layered formations could catch them between the lines. The 4-4-2 of Simeone and Ranieri resolves this potential pitfall by minimising space in midfield. The distance between the back four and the two strikers – who are both pulled back to form a third defensive barrier – is extremely slight. This ultra-compactness has its benefits both when a side is on the attack and on the defence. Choking off the opposition midfield by sheer weight of numbers increases the number of successful tackles and interceptions that can be brought to bear. It is no surprise, therefore, that Leicester City are the second best tacklers in the league and the best interceptors. They managed 29 of the former today and an almost silly 36 of the latter – with holders Andy King and the marvellous N’Golo Kanté managing seven and six respectively. The seasonal per-game averages across the league for both defensive statistics are roughly 19 and 16 respectively. The congestion facing the opposition is further exacerbated by the narrow roles played by the wide midfielders in the defensive phase. Ranieri asks both Riyad Mahrez and Mark Albrighton to tuck in beside their central colleagues to further guard against those aforementioned midfield overloads. The task asked of them is a very physically demanding one, with both also expected to spring into wide areas on the counter-attack when the ball is won. Mahrez’s stellar performances this season have been well documented, but it was Albrighton who typified the workrate necessary to fulfil a wide role in this system on Saturday afternoon. The English winger finished as the game’s joint-top tackler and it was his harrying that blocked down Seamus Coleman’s attempted clearance to prompt Leicester’s third goal. Leicester’s first goal – a Mahrez penalty – also resulted from the lost-cause chasing of Shinji Okazaki. The short distances between players in the defensive phase is also a primary reason why Leicester have scored the most goals from counter-attacking situations in the Premier League this season – ensuring that when the ball is won, the successful tackler/interceptor is more likely to have an available passing option. Augmenting this threat on the break is the sheer number of bodies Leicester commit to the attack, increasing the potential for a successful direct pass out of defence. Here they reap the benefits of a two-striker system, with both frontmen often joined in the final third by both energetic wingers in a pseudo 4-2-4. That would be a difficult prospect for any Premier League side to defend against at transitions. For Roberto Martinez’s Everton, who often leave Gareth Barry stranded in front of their defence thanks to their adventurous 4-1-2-3 formation, it was a particularly tall order. Although Barry matched Albrighton’s game-leading tally of five tackles, he was unable to singularly prevent the stream of through balls that Leicester attempted to thread in behind Everton’s defence. The victorious visitors were allowed to chance their collective arm with seven of these. The league per-game median is below two. Unsurprisingly, Everton were eventually punished for the space vacated by the advanced positioning of Tom Cleverley and Ross Barkley. Witness the time Mahrez had to thread one through for Jamie Vardy, leading to Mahrez’s second spot-kick – and goal – of the game. Few observers would have been surprised to see two of the league’s three best players this season – the other being Mesut Ozil – combining successfully yet again. Leicester’s latest success stands in stark contrast to the latest failure of one Louis Van Gaal, whose Manchester United side suffered a predictably dull 2-1 home reverse against Norwich City. It’s certainly worth noting that the ultra-direct table-toppers lie in 18th in the average possession table and sit 20th in the average pass completion ratio standings. The season-low 59% pass completion ratio from the Chelsea game was very nearly matched here against Everton (60%). Yet, the Tigers managed more shots on target than the outgoing champions on Monday night. They also matched Everton’s tally today, despite seeing only 35% of the ball. In other words, Ranieri has his side in pole position – comfortably outscoring their competition – despite putting seemingly no faith in the supposed primacy of possession. So much for Louis’ blunt and bankrupt “philosophy”. Also published at Tactics Truck v2.0 About Alan O'Brien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_w Posted 19 December 2015 Share Posted 19 December 2015 Jamie Vardy won a penalty? No prizes for guessing whose fans have a thread about that. http://boards.footymad.net/clarets-mad/2109651604/#JdWY2VjS6rcD51Pg.97You'd have thought they'd be over it two years on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riyad_Suarez Posted 20 December 2015 Share Posted 20 December 2015 (edited) That was a good article up until this boo-boo..... "Yet, the Tigers managed more shots on target than the outgoing champions on Monday night." ..oops.... Edited 20 December 2015 by Riyad_Suarez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooksy Posted 20 December 2015 Share Posted 20 December 2015 The everton match thread on their poverty forum makes for brilliant reading, proper weird bunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 20 December 2015 Share Posted 20 December 2015 That was a good article up until this hip-hop..... "Yet, the Tigers managed more shots on target than the outgoing champions on Monday night." ..oops.... It was a very good article, so let him off on that and just put it down as a mistake and he meant to put foxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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