Top of the league - Not anymore - Bristol post match

[Bluebirds Boyo]

**** off you Welsh *****!

So the usual warm Leicester welcome?

[bluesbrothers]

Feck. Last i heard it was 1-0 Ipswich. Oh well, enjoy it while it lasts. I'm quietly confident we might be able to sneak the title if we keep playing like this, even if we have the odd blip along the way.

[Grey Fox]

As long as we keep winning our own games I'll be happy. I don't care what anyone else does including Cardiff.

We've won 5 in a row for the first time in a couple of years (which seems a lot longer), lets enjoy it!

[SeCrEt FoX]

Just rememberd the Brizzle fans chanting "England" what was that all about?

[Thracian]

Not impressed at all today other than the first 20 minutes. We were purring until we scored and, after that, i just wished our tacticians had buggered off home and left the team to win the game in the style they could have done had they not been stifled on the altar of so-called professionalism.

First congratulations to the team for their fifth successive league win, for going briefly top of the table. to Nugent for his fifth goal of the season, to Vardy for an assist and to Kingy for delivering such an almost undefendable ball to the far post that it teased out an own goal by Foster.

Did Kasper have two shots to save all match? I can only remember one, such was our stranglehold on amost anything Bristol offered in attack.

Their one dangerman, left-winger Adomah was eventually completely neutralised by Moore's dogged peristence and the deployment of Dyer in a sort of midfield-based right-half position which virtually eliminated all supply.

But it also reduced our own flow so that the countless chances of the first 20 minutes were gradually reduced to a trickle and the game became a relatively slow-motion exercise in mostly going nowhere fast.

It was classic Pearsonisation, but with more competent players than in the past.

Not that Whitbread didn't almost contrive to give them a goal from nothing.

I'm quite sure there's some football to be seen from the bloke one day because surely no manager or scout could really get it so wrong about a player. But Whitbread had about five or six things to do in his short time on the pitch today and three of them were appalling.

He was certainly no better against Burton either so I just hope the club know an expert in miracle cures for St Leger before our next outing or Whitbread finally remembers what he's being paid for because, honestly, Bristol looked about as dangerous and ambitious as an arthritic amoeba wearing leaded boots and to have allowed them a goal would have been laughable.

Quite how much Leicester rely on Dyer for anything exciting down the flanks was emphasised by his exile to deep right midfield.

Earlier the "no end product" winger had completely outstripped the Bristol defence and fired an inch-perfect ball low across the visitors goalmouth where, once again, there was not a single predator waiting for the simple tap-in.

It was his third or fourth such cross of a season in which we should be greedy for goals but in fact we contrive to make the admirable Dyer look indifferent at times.

Dyer, well supported by Konchesky, continued to be a danger on the left and Nugent's eventual goal seemed inevitable. It was a probing pass and the striker made the most of it with his strength and no-how.

After that we became so cautious we wouldn't have created much at all against a good side - but Bristol weren't good and even with us narrowing the play to help em a bit, we still made a few chances that really should have been put away if we hadn't developed our own version of the Arsenal tendency...a desire to play one pass more than is necessary.

Even the otherwise exemplary and influential King joined in by denying himself two odds on chances of scoring at least once by giving a final ball to someone a few yards nearer than his own position perhaps 20 yards out! Why do that?

And Knockaert was just the same on another occasion when he wasn't disappointing with his final ball.

Then concentration started lapsing altogether and we started fooling around with our own version of football's silly season. Dyer fell over the ball when a goal looked possible, Marshall stared at a simple pass, ignored it and ran into a brickwall. Knockaert started playing poseur passes in deep midfield and Whitbread came on to add his own selection of errors.

Yes, Bristol were so bad that we did control the game throughout and we did make some genuine chances with our close passing but we had no real driving ambition, no ruthlessness and wasted a great opportunity to score about six.

I even left four minutes from the end of the official 90 minutes because it was clear we'd finished completely and were simply insulting the paying fans by playing out time when there was no reason on Earth why we shouldn't have gone for more goals.

[Benji]

Someone give me a leg up please

[AKCJ]

Typical

[5waller5]

Not impressed at all today other than the first 20 minutes. We were purring until we scored and, after that, i just wished our tacticians had buggered off home and left the team to win the game in the style they could have done had they not been stifled on the altar of so-called professionalism.

First congratulations to the team for their fifth successive league win, for going briefly top of the table. to Nugent for his fifth goal of the season, to Vardy for an assist and to Kingy for delivering such an almost undefendable ball to the far post that it teased out an own goal by Foster.

Did Kasper have two shots to save all match? I can only remember one, such was our stranglehold on amost anything Bristol offered in attack.

Their one dangerman, left-winger Adomah was eventually completely neutralised by Moore's dogged peristence and the deployment of Dyer in a sort of midfield-based right-half position which virtually eliminated all supply.

But it also reduced our own flow so that the countless chances of the first 20 minutes were gradually reduced to a trickle and the game became a relatively slow-motion exercise in mostly going nowhere fast.

It was classic Pearsonisation, but with more competent players than in the past.

Not that Whitbread didn't almost contrive to give them a goal from nothing.

I'm quite sure there's some football to be seen from the bloke one day because surely no manager or scout could really get it so wrong about a player. But Whitbread had about five or six things to do in his short time on the pitch today and three of them were appalling.

He was certainly no better against Burton either so I just hope the club know an expert in miracle cures for St Leger before our next outing or Whitbread finally remembers what he's being paid for because, honestly, Bristol looked about as dangerous and ambitious as an arthritic amoeba wearing leaded boots and to have allowed them a goal would have been laughable.

Quite how much Leicester rely on Dyer for anything exciting was emphasised by his exile to deep right midfield.

Earlier the "no end product" winger had completely outstripped the Bristol defence and fired an inch-perfect ball low across the visitors goalmouth where, once again, there was not a single predator waiting for the simple tap-in.

It was his third or fourth such cross of a season in which we should be greedy for goals but in fact we contrive to make the admirable Dyer look indifferent at times.

Dyer, well supported by Konchesky, continued to be a danger on the left and Nugent's eventual goal seemed inevitable. It was a probing pass and the striker made the most of it with his strength and no-how.

After that we became so cautious we wouldn't have created much at all against a good side - but Bristol weren't good and even with us narrowing the play to help em a bit, we still made a few chances that really should have been put away if we hadn't developed our own version of the Arsenal tendency...a desire to play one pass more than is necessary.

Even the otherwise exemplary and influential King joined in by denying himself two odds on chances of scoring at least once by giving a final ball to someone a few yards nearer than his own position perhaps 20 yards out! Why do that?

And Knockaert was just the same on another occasion when he wasn't disappointing with his final ball.

Then concentration started lapsing altogether and we started fooling around with our own version of football's silly season. Dyer fell over the ball when a goal looked possible, Marshall stared at a simple pass, ignored it and ran into a brickwall. Knockaert started playing poseur passes in deep midfield and Whitbread came on to add his own selection of errors.

Yes, Bristol were so bad that we did control the game throughout and we did make some genuine chances with our close passing but we had no real driving ambition, no ruthlessness and wasted a great opportunity to score about six.

I even left four minutes from the end of the official 90 minutes because it was clear we'd finished completely and were simply insulting the paying fans by playing out time when there was no reason on Earth why we shouldn't have gone for more goals.

Have to say that I usually agree with most of your points Thrac, but I really can't understand leaving early today.....

We won the game comfortably. Yes we didn't keep the gas turned as high as we could have - but cantered home to a 2-0. Whilst I love watching great football, and we have been playing some fabulous stuff recently, I'm also quite happy to see us canter home to an easy win without going all out for a 3rd goal!!!

I can't believe the difference a run makes - we really haven't had many in recent history - I'd forgotten how good it is!

[wakeyfox01]

Earlier the "no end product" winger had completely outstripped the Bristol defence and fired an inch-perfect ball low across the visitors goalmouth where, once again, there was not a single predator waiting for the simple tap-in.

It was his third or fourth such cross of a season in which we should be greedy for goals but in fact we contrive to make the admirable Dyer look indifferent at times.

If thats the one in the first half you're on about, Knockaert was coming in for a tap-in on the back post, but Dyer rifled the cross so hard he had no chance of reaching it. Too often that's the case with Dyer's final ball.

[Kitchandro]

Not impressed at all today other than the first 20 minutes. We were purring until we scored and, after that, i just wished our tacticians had buggered off home and left the team to win the game in the style they could have done had they not been stifled on the altar of so-called professionalism.

First congratulations to the team for their fifth successive league win, for going briefly top of the table. to Nugent for his fifth goal of the season, to Vardy for an assist and to Kingy for delivering such an almost undefendable ball to the far post that it teased out an own goal by Foster.

Did Kasper have two shots to save all match? I can only remember one, such was our stranglehold on amost anything Bristol offered in attack.

Their one dangerman, left-winger Adomah was eventually completely neutralised by Moore's dogged peristence and the deployment of Dyer in a sort of midfield-based right-half position which virtually eliminated all supply.

But it also reduced our own flow so that the countless chances of the first 20 minutes were gradually reduced to a trickle and the game became a relatively slow-motion exercise in mostly going nowhere fast.

It was classic Pearsonisation, but with more competent players than in the past.

Not that Whitbread didn't almost contrive to give them a goal from nothing.

I'm quite sure there's some football to be seen from the bloke one day because surely no manager or scout could really get it so wrong about a player. But Whitbread had about five or six things to do in his short time on the pitch today and three of them were appalling.

He was certainly no better against Burton either so I just hope the club know an expert in miracle cures for St Leger before our next outing or Whitbread finally remembers what he's being paid for because, honestly, Bristol looked about as dangerous and ambitious as an arthritic amoeba wearing leaded boots and to have allowed them a goal would have been laughable.

Quite how much Leicester rely on Dyer for anything exciting down the flanks was emphasised by his exile to deep right midfield.

Earlier the "no end product" winger had completely outstripped the Bristol defence and fired an inch-perfect ball low across the visitors goalmouth where, once again, there was not a single predator waiting for the simple tap-in.

It was his third or fourth such cross of a season in which we should be greedy for goals but in fact we contrive to make the admirable Dyer look indifferent at times.

Dyer, well supported by Konchesky, continued to be a danger on the left and Nugent's eventual goal seemed inevitable. It was a probing pass and the striker made the most of it with his strength and no-how.

After that we became so cautious we wouldn't have created much at all against a good side - but Bristol weren't good and even with us narrowing the play to help em a bit, we still made a few chances that really should have been put away if we hadn't developed our own version of the Arsenal tendency...a desire to play one pass more than is necessary.

Even the otherwise exemplary and influential King joined in by denying himself two odds on chances of scoring at least once by giving a final ball to someone a few yards nearer than his own position perhaps 20 yards out! Why do that?

And Knockaert was just the same on another occasion when he wasn't disappointing with his final ball.

Then concentration started lapsing altogether and we started fooling around with our own version of football's silly season. Dyer fell over the ball when a goal looked possible, Marshall stared at a simple pass, ignored it and ran into a brickwall. Knockaert started playing poseur passes in deep midfield and Whitbread came on to add his own selection of errors.

Yes, Bristol were so bad that we did control the game throughout and we did make some genuine chances with our close passing but we had no real driving ambition, no ruthlessness and wasted a great opportunity to score about six.

I even left four minutes from the end of the official 90 minutes because it was clear we'd finished completely and were simply insulting the paying fans by playing out time when there was no reason on Earth why we shouldn't have gone for more goals.

Hmmm, criticisms accepted Thrac, but even Pearson admitted we weren't at our best and were a bit tired, maybe it was just one of those games?

I admit we were a bit complacent and much of it was boring but we're not going to overrun teams every game. I was happy enough for us to comfortably see it out this time.

[Ozwin]

What is this warm fuzzy feeling I keep getting? I don't like it, I'm not used to it guys.

[stevelcfc]

Just rememberd the Brizzle fans chanting "England" what was that all about?

They are racist ***** and its all about our city's multi culturalism, tbf it makes a change from their usual chant of 'town full of ....'

[Ozwin]

Virtually all of our squad is English the bloody inbreds.

[SeCrEt FoX]

They are racist ***** and its all about our city's multi culturalism, tbf it makes a change from their usual chant of 'town full of ....'

Thought as much

[Maybes]

Virtually all of our squad is English the bloody inbreds.

Their end singing the adams family chant to us made me laugh....I mean you're from Bristol, come on.

[FantasticMrFox]

Yeah. Odd West Country wierdos. You'd think they would have more of a handle on multiculturalism since Bristol was the home of slavery in the UK.....

[Libertine Dream]

Thrac, it was one of them games. We cant be scintillating every game and the most pleasing thing is we weren't our best but we were still dominant and in control, unlike the team above us.

[Richard]

I've noticed in the past few post match interviews the opposition manager has been very complimentary of us "they were the better side" "they'll definitely be in the hunt for promotion" etc. I don't really remember this happening much in the past few seasons

[Grewks]

Not impressed at all today other than the first 20 minutes. We were purring until we scored and, after that, i just wished our tacticians had buggered off home and left the team to win the game in the style they could have done had they not been stifled on the altar of so-called professionalism.

First congratulations to the team for their fifth successive league win, for going briefly top of the table. to Nugent for his fifth goal of the season, to Vardy for an assist and to Kingy for delivering such an almost undefendable ball to the far post that it teased out an own goal by Foster.

Did Kasper have two shots to save all match? I can only remember one, such was our stranglehold on amost anything Bristol offered in attack.

Their one dangerman, left-winger Adomah was eventually completely neutralised by Moore's dogged peristence and the deployment of Dyer in a sort of midfield-based right-half position which virtually eliminated all supply.

But it also reduced our own flow so that the countless chances of the first 20 minutes were gradually reduced to a trickle and the game became a relatively slow-motion exercise in mostly going nowhere fast.

It was classic Pearsonisation, but with more competent players than in the past.

Not that Whitbread didn't almost contrive to give them a goal from nothing.

I'm quite sure there's some football to be seen from the bloke one day because surely no manager or scout could really get it so wrong about a player. But Whitbread had about five or six things to do in his short time on the pitch today and three of them were appalling.

He was certainly no better against Burton either so I just hope the club know an expert in miracle cures for St Leger before our next outing or Whitbread finally remembers what he's being paid for because, honestly, Bristol looked about as dangerous and ambitious as an arthritic amoeba wearing leaded boots and to have allowed them a goal would have been laughable.

Quite how much Leicester rely on Dyer for anything exciting down the flanks was emphasised by his exile to deep right midfield.

Earlier the "no end product" winger had completely outstripped the Bristol defence and fired an inch-perfect ball low across the visitors goalmouth where, once again, there was not a single predator waiting for the simple tap-in.

It was his third or fourth such cross of a season in which we should be greedy for goals but in fact we contrive to make the admirable Dyer look indifferent at times.

Dyer, well supported by Konchesky, continued to be a danger on the left and Nugent's eventual goal seemed inevitable. It was a probing pass and the striker made the most of it with his strength and no-how.

After that we became so cautious we wouldn't have created much at all against a good side - but Bristol weren't good and even with us narrowing the play to help em a bit, we still made a few chances that really should have been put away if we hadn't developed our own version of the Arsenal tendency...a desire to play one pass more than is necessary.

Even the otherwise exemplary and influential King joined in by denying himself two odds on chances of scoring at least once by giving a final ball to someone a few yards nearer than his own position perhaps 20 yards out! Why do that?

And Knockaert was just the same on another occasion when he wasn't disappointing with his final ball.

Then concentration started lapsing altogether and we started fooling around with our own version of football's silly season. Dyer fell over the ball when a goal looked possible, Marshall stared at a simple pass, ignored it and ran into a brickwall. Knockaert started playing poseur passes in deep midfield and Whitbread came on to add his own selection of errors.

Yes, Bristol were so bad that we did control the game throughout and we did make some genuine chances with our close passing but we had no real driving ambition, no ruthlessness and wasted a great opportunity to score about six.

I even left four minutes from the end of the official 90 minutes because it was clear we'd finished completely and were simply insulting the paying fans by playing out time when there was no reason on Earth why we shouldn't have gone for more goals.

You often post quite sensible things, but today you have not.

2 games, 4 goals, 6 points, and arguably could have scored 6 in both like you said, so what is wrong with you??

Saying that the 'tacticians should have stayed at home' is an insult to how Pearson and Co stopped Bristol city performing in the second half.

During the first half Albert Adomah ran our defence ragged, after the change to the formation in the second half he was quiet, and offered much less.

We made 3 substitutions today, all enforced, with konch ill, st ledger pulling up and vardy exhausted. Getting marshall on the pitch to get him some confidence back made sense, and to most leicester fans he is the better player than waghorn and futacs, so the change to one up top made sense.

We took the 2 goal lead and controlled the rest of the game perfectly, it was a very good solid performance. When you look at todays and tuesdays game it is nice to see we are continuing to improve and performing for 90 minutes rather than just 45.

But hey......moaners will moan.

[C-man]

They are racist ***** and its all about our city's multi culturalism, tbf it makes a change from their usual chant of 'town full of ....'

Appreciate that in the past they've chanted some questionable and downright racist things but thought today was just a reaction to 'just a small town in Wales'?

[Legend_in_blue]

Bristol were terrible. At no point in the game did they manage to even look half interested in making any attacking play. It just went left to their only half decent player but nothing happened.

Woeful.

Still, it's tinpot we played and tinpot we beat. Last season it wouldn't have been quite as comfortable. It's encouraging that we comfortably beat a team with a constant 11 behind the ball. A good third of the league contains teams like this outfit.

[Thracian]

You often post quite sensible things, but today you have not.

2 games, 4 goals, 6 points, and arguably could have scored 6 in both like you said, so what is wrong with you??

Saying that the 'tacticians should have stayed at home' is an insult to how Pearson and Co stopped Bristol city performing in the second half.

During the first half Albert Adomah ran our defence ragged, after the change to the formation in the second half he was quiet, and offered much less.

We made 3 substitutions today, all enforced, with konch ill, st ledger pulling up and vardy exhausted. Getting marshall on the pitch to get him some confidence back made sense, and to most leicester fans he is the better player than waghorn and futacs, so the change to one up top made sense.

We took the 2 goal lead and controlled the rest of the game perfectly, it was a very good solid performance. When you look at todays and tuesdays game it is nice to see we are continuing to improve and performing for 90 minutes rather than just 45.

But hey......moaners will moan.

Today wasn't in any way an improvement on Tuesday, or one or two other performances either. As for "controlling the game perfectly" that depends of what you choose to see and how high your expectations are.

Whitbread's nearly giving away an unnecessary goal towards the end had nothing to do with either control or perfection. But ignore it, why not!

And i don't see any merit in playing Marshall with the relationship problems he's been reported as having - especially if he's going to play as he is. I'd be more concerned with giving him time to sort his life out.

As for comparing him to Waghorn and Futacs he's a totally different player competing for a totally different position. If Marshall had done well you might at least have a case, but he didn't.

As for saying Marshall is "better" than Waghorn or Futacs I'd wonder why we're persisting with the two strikers if you're right. But I'd actually doubt you are right. Marshall has his strengths but so have the other two metioned and I've sure not seen enough of any of them to make a firm judgement.

Your point about Adomah is interesting and one i referred too. I wouldn't say he ever ran our defence ragged but he was their only threat and our tactics negated him. But at the expense of our own momentum.

I didn't think he warranted such privilege. Yes, he might have done something but for re-deploying Dyer but, equally, the evidence of the first 20 minutes suggested we could have overwhelmed them anyway.

As for the substitutions, that's what the bench is for...to cover for eventualities. I didn't see Bristol becoming an irrepressible attacking force because Konchesky and St Leger had to be replaced...not even with Whitbread's assistance!

[Bob Weasel Fox]

well played City today, never got out of 2nd gear but still won easily

[Pst]

Get in

[LJS]

I think Thracian has this exactly right. We weren't great today, even though we were very clearly in control of the game, and I can't claim to have been entertained by what I saw. I don't want to moan too much; we won't play scintillating attacking football every week, and when we don't the most important thing is to ensure that we win our games.

But I really think we could have done this lot four or five today had we been so inclined. They have one of the poorer back lines in this league and even as we coasted to victory we could have had another couple. Our players tired visibly towards the end. I suspect the international break has come at a good time.