Leicester's league position if matches ended early.

[Mack]

I might be wrong but I think you'll find that percentage wise a lot of goals are scored in the last 30 minutes of games league wide, for a number of reasons...

Tiredness.. time running out... subs... Managers going on the offensive at the end etc.

[MrSpaM]

You know what is strange, the fact that a lot of teams we have played this season looked to have run out of steam against us towards the hour mark. We should be capitalising on this but by the looks of it, we've done the complete opposite.

[ajthefox]

Whats even more annoying and much more significant is that if it stopped at 86 we'd be 6th.

The hour thing is pretty irrelevant but thats an 8 point difference between us and middlesborough in the last 4 minutes and stoppages.

[Trav Le Bleu]

I notice the fairly big jump for the first 20 mins of the 2nd half which would appear to indicate that NP is a good motivator of players - great HT team talks whatever. Sadly heads seem to drop towards the end. Got to be a confidence thing.

[Tielemans63]

Wow! great find

Shows how really bad we've been in the last couple of minutes and injury time of games.

Is it just me or have we always been a bit like this? Even in the good days we had a habit of throwing it away late on!

[biggs]

If the game was only 60 minutes long we'd still concede in the 55th to 60 minutes plus. It;s all mental and we top that poll.

[Guest Col city fan]

If the game was only 60 minutes long we'd still concede in the 55th to 60 minutes plus. It;s all mental and we top that poll.

Have I read wrongly into this or does it again suggest that we cannot retain possession and see games out when we really need to?

Eg Blackpool.

[StanSP]

Have I read wrongly into this or does it again suggest that we cannot retain possession and see games out when we really need to?

Eg Blackpool.

We have a fair bit of trouble seeing games out. It's as if the pressure gets too much in the majority of matches we play when we are leading. It's definitely a mental weakness across the bunch of players.

[teblin]

Fitness the problem? As if I remember correctly we scored alot of late goals under Pearson before?

[Guest Col city fan]

Fitness the problem? As if I remember correctly we scored alot of late goals under Pearson before?

Isn't Pearson meant to be shit hot on fitness?

Takes it massively seriously and scientifically.

I think this has shown. Both Beckford and Danns look a lot fitter IMO.

[Guest DavidJCW]

Bloody hell this really is straw clutching at its very best.

[Louise]

Isn't Pearson meant to be shit hot on fitness?

Takes it massively seriously and scientifically.

I think this has shown. Both Beckford and Danns look a lot fitter IMO.

A lot of it starts pre-season though - players can pick up over the season, like Danns and Beckford as you say, but if you don't do pre-season right then it can catch up with players in the end (or even at the start - just look at Sousa's pre-season...ugh). One thing Pearson said a few times in his first time here was that 'players have to have a 95 minute mentality'. I imagine he'll be drilling that into the players pre-season.

[Raw Dykes]

Bloody hell this really is straw clutching at its very best.

I can see why you'd think that, but it does show in which times during the 90 minutes teams are strongest and when they're weakest. Evidently, we've been losing a lot of points in the final few minutes of matches, and doing badly after the hour mark. Is this a problem due to concentration? tactics? substitutions? stamina? I don't know, but if I was manager, I'd want to look into it. On the face of it, I agree it looks like a pointless "If only.." comment, but there's much more to it than that.