Leicester 1-2 Crystal Palace Post Match Thread

[SOCCERROO FOX]

Played in central midfield alongside Dikgacoi.

Great player is Jedinak probably the best midfielder, to come to the King Power this season.

Dominated alongside Dikgacoi, and closed down Drinkwater ever so well and made him make many mistakes.

Cheers good to hear but would have preffered him to have a shocker against us.

[1964FOX]

Because if I moved to L block, Stu, that's accepting defeat in my eyes. It's accepting that the "Kop" is never going to improve, and in all honesty, how much better would I have it in L? I've always been a big believer in having a substantial vocal support behind the goal at home grounds; I just think it's something we should have. And if we all start drifiting over to L ... well, then the "kop" really is done for. I'm sorry if my original post sounded a bit holier-than-thou, and despite what I said, I do recognise that there are those that make the effort in L. But I felt so damn angry after the game at the apathy that was being shown. I mean, ok, we were 0-2 down. but how is the team going to lift itself without the vocal encouragement of the fans? Yes, we all pay our money and yes, despite our fantastic start, we do deserve better than the performance on Saturday. But we have to play our part, too. We all have a duty to lift our team, week in week out.

A day out at the football is all about passion, so why have we become so apathetic? And I include myself in that. I have been extremely guilty at times this season but am going to try my bloody hardest to not let it happen any more. If the vast majority in the "kop" want to sit, then fine; they paid their money for those seats, but they have got to get more involved. If the whole of L wants to stand, fantastic, but with that does come the responsibility to make more noise for longer periods than a brief five minute burst every now and then.

If we all just sang "Leicester, Leicester, Leicester!" or "LCFC!" continuously for 60/70 minutes that would be the business; we don't necessarily have to have a big repertoire, just something with a bit of longevity and passion! So please, all of us, let's make some sodding noise when we play Forest. We owe it to ourselves and the players.

Just keep trying mate you never know one day we might succeed, I have thought about moving over a bit and stand below a group who stands on the back row on the edge of. SK1/2 as they seem to sing but need a bit of encouragement.

[RonnieTodger]

I'm in the Kop and it is dire. During the rare occasions we do burst out into song, does anybody below the top 10 rows sing? I'm not being rhetorical, it's hard to notice when you're higher up.

[Guest]

I'm in the Kop and it is dire. During the rare occasions we do burst out into song, does anybody below the top 10 rows sing? I'm not being rhetorical, it's hard to notice when you're higher up.

Yes they do. Me and a significantly large group of people round me for instance about 7 rows from the front.

[Reynard Bleu]

Horrible afternoon, so disappointig to lose at home. Defo penalty, but we have to live with these decisions. Let's home its the spur to regain some of our zip and fluency.

[marbelladave]

Morning all, broken Macbook power supply meant I was offline all weekend, all fixed now........

As I have been saying for months, that formation will see us get turned over by the better sides, and frankly, Palace were just the side to do that......

They simply played their strength against our weakness, going tight (3 against 2) against Drinkwater and King left the pair of them in real trouble, no outball to our fullbacks who were pinned back by their widemen and neither Dyer nor Knockaert showing in forward positions.

The result, a lot of long balls forward that neither Nugent nor Vardy could do much with, not their fault but neither got a look in.

That said, City looked to be holding their own for 20 minutes or so, then 2 awful Palace goals in less than 10 minutes left us in disarray, Schmeichel failing to command his area and, sadly, culpable for both.

NFP steadied things by bringing on James and from then on, despite the threat of the Palace forwards, they never really looked like troubling us again.

The problem remained in getting forward, our front 3 of Vardy, Nugent and Knockaert looked at a loss as to how to play this system and with none of them, not even Knockaert, showing for the ball we were in deep doo doo.

With few options our midfield passing was made to look woeful and although Drinkwater seems to have taken much of the blame I think our front players should take their share. Persisting with Knockaert as a wide man is I think, an error. Isolated and uninvolved for much of the time, when he does get possession he tries to do to much.

Once again, I have to say this, we need to get him more involved and this means changing the system and learning how to play it.

[Simmo86]

Morning all, broken Macbook power supply meant I was offline all weekend, all fixed now........

As I have been saying for months, that formation will see us get turned over by the better sides, and frankly, Palace were just the side to do that......

They simply played their strength against our weakness, going tight (3 against 2) against Drinkwater and King left the pair of them in real trouble, no outball to our fullbacks who were pinned back by their widemen and neither Dyer nor Knockaert showing in forward positions.

The result, a lot of long balls forward that neither Nugent nor Vardy could do much with, not their fault but neither got a look in.

That said, City looked to be holding their own for 20 minutes or so, then 2 awful Palace goals in less than 10 minutes left us in disarray, Schmeichel failing to command his area and, sadly, culpable for both.

NFP steadied things by bringing on James and from then on, despite the threat of the Palace forwards, they never really looked like troubling us again.

The problem remained in getting forward, our front 3 of Vardy, Nugent and Knockaert looked at a loss as to how to play this system and with none of them, not even Knockaert, showing for the ball we were in deep doo doo.

With few options our midfield passing was made to look woeful and although Drinkwater seems to have taken much of the blame I think our front players should take their share. Persisting with Knockaert as a wide man is I think, an error. Isolated and uninvolved for much of the time, when he does get possession he tries to do to much.

Once again, I have to say this, we need to get him more involved and this means changing the system and learning how to play it.

Agreed.

4-2-3-1 is the way forward. Knockaert in the hole so he can be more involved!

[marbelladave]

Agreed.

4-2-3-1 is the way forward. Knockaert in the hole so he can be more involved!

Can you have a word with Nigel.......

He's clearly not listening to me.........

[dynamark]

Only listened this week but seem to have very little to offer for our numerous corners.Watched some of the Prem stuff sunday morning and there were great set moves.Sounded like Knocky was trying to do it by himself.Got bullied a la Milwall by the sound of it.

Regroup and move on but hopefully with a bit more tactically.

[Dan]

I agree with Dave to be honest, I think the team personally needs to be built around Knockaert, I'm not saying become a one man team but we ought to work to allow him as much space as possible because he is by a distance our most creative player and I think having him out wide really did fvck us over the other day, it's hard to put him in the centre and stop Palace barging through King/Drinkwater like they did before but I think if we put Knockaert CAM they'd automatically have stuck another man back and it would've relieved the pressure on King/Drinkwater alone, I couldn't see them personally going for more if we'd put Knockaert in CAM because they'd clearly done their homework on him and it would've been pretty risky.

I hope Pearson learns really and that's all, we won't win them all and the disappointment has gone (although it's painful seeing the small club top) but we generally bounce back very well and I hope for the same again. I'd like to hope we start 4-2-3-1 at Watford but truth be told if we play our normal game we'll beat them, they're so dodgy at the back.

Here's one - watching Palace this weekend, can any of you work out how the hell they've shipped so many? I thought they were by a distance the best defence we've come up against this year.

[marbelladave]

Drinkwater and King had real problems on saturday.

Firstly, with no one playing in front of them the Palace holding player, Dikgachoi, was able to push forward and make it 3 on 2.

Secondly, neither Dyer nor Knockaert were showing for the ball and our full backs were kept busy by the Palace wide men.

So they had very little on so either they tried to 'force' passes which often went astray or hit long to our front men who are, as we know, poor in such situations.

When we play with either Knockaert or Marshall in the hole we effectively have another man in midfield, ie Dikgachoi can't step forward and King and Drinkwater have more time. Play the ball into the feet of our 'hole' player and let him take on their big men where they are weakest, on the ground.

Playing like this means playing with just one man up, ie scrapping 4-4-2, don't hold your breath.......

[RowZ]

They came, they saw, they conquered. They did a professional job and did enough to deserve their win.

I know the ref was woeful but even so. We didn't deserve anything today.

We may be favorites for automatic promotion, but if there are at least 2 teams better than us the playoffs are the best we can hope for. Cardiff can't stop winning and Palace are obviously a better side (maybe Brighton too)? Have to watch the Trees as well who are hitting goals and in good form.

This will be a long tough season - especially for NP.

[jimmy_mac3]

Conceded from two corners, Morgan and Whitbread and liabilities at the back, Morgan looks like he has never seen a football half the time! If we are going to kick on we need better central defenders! Look good going forward! Marshall should be starting rather than Dyer though! COYB

[Happy Fox]

We may be favorites for automatic promotion, but if there are at least 2 teams better than us the playoffs are the best we can hope for. Cardiff can't stop winning and Palace are obviously a better side (maybe Brighton too)? Have to watch the Trees as well who are hitting goals and in good form.

This will be a long tough season - especially for NP.

It doesn't matter about being the best side you could argue last season that West Ham should of won the league with the players they have but they didn't and finished 3rd, what is important is about having that work ethic and everyone fighting for each other as well as having that quality throughout the spine of the team we have that imo we may not have the best players in the league I am looking at Blackburn and Bolton for example but we have quality no doubt about that whether we can sustain this automatic promotion push is another matter I believe we can.

[MrSpaM]

Conceded from two corners, Morgan and Whitbread and liabilities at the back, Morgan looks like he has never seen a football half the time! If we are going to kick on we need better central defenders! Look good going forward! Marshall should be starting rather than Dyer though! COYB

Morgans been one of our better players this season

[Danno]

Conceded from two corners, Morgan and Whitbread and liabilities at the back, Morgan looks like he has never seen a football half the time! If we are going to kick on we need better central defenders! Look good going forward! Marshall should be starting rather than Dyer though! COYB

Although a few days ago we had the second best defence in the league.

[Bluetintedspecs]

Drinkwater and King had real problems on saturday.

Firstly, with no one playing in front of them the Palace holding player, Dikgachoi, was able to push forward and make it 3 on 2.

Secondly, neither Dyer nor Knockaert were showing for the ball and our full backs were kept busy by the Palace wide men.

So they had very little on so either they tried to 'force' passes which often went astray or hit long to our front men who are, as we know, poor in such situations.

When we play with either Knockaert or Marshall in the hole we effectively have another man in midfield, ie Dikgachoi can't step forward and King and Drinkwater have more time. Play the ball into the feet of our 'hole' player and let him take on their big men where they are weakest, on the ground.

Playing like this means playing with just one man up, ie scrapping 4-4-2, don't hold your breath.......

Agree Dave, I also feel Drinky, King & Knocky were off their best due to the closing down but also their quick interchange passing was deserting them with some silly flicks and just poor passing, which based on the season to date was uncharacteristic of their recent high quality performances! Yes the changes came too late,however, they were 2 quickfire goals and NP saw problem and addressed it. We quelled their dominance with James but Knocky and Drinky still kept making basic mistakes which I think is best putting it down to a bad day at the office! How we deal with this minor setback is the main thing, I expect to see a big performance from us at Watford, sadly I can't make this one due to family commitments.

[Raj]

Is Fcuktas still in Leicester???

[_Fatboyslow_]

Morning all, broken Macbook power supply meant I was offline all weekend,

We did wonder

[marbelladave]

Of course you did......

I have a 6 year old Macbook, some years ago we were looking after a pet rabbit, called puppy. He took a fancy to the (dc) power cable from the power supply to the laptop and nibbled it almost through. I patched it up with tape but after about 3 years it finally gave up and I had to wait till today for a replacement.......

A quick plug for Apple, white Macbook 6 years old, running Snow Leopard and doing everything I need and more. Hard drive failed after 4 years and replaced free of charge, one memory board failed once and the chap in the Apple store made sure I knew how to replace the board myself then recommended me to buy from Crucial at about a third of the Apple price, even gave me the correct part numbers.

Big thumbs up........ :thumbup:

[_Fatboyslow_]

Do you relaise how had it is to train a rabbit to chew cables ?

[deep blue]

Morning all, broken Macbook power supply meant I was offline all weekend, all fixed now........

As I have been saying for months, that formation will see us get turned over by the better sides, and frankly, Palace were just the side to do that......

They simply played their strength against our weakness, going tight (3 against 2) against Drinkwater and King left the pair of them in real trouble, no outball to our fullbacks who were pinned back by their widemen and neither Dyer nor Knockaert showing in forward positions.

The result, a lot of long balls forward that neither Nugent nor Vardy could do much with, not their fault but neither got a look in.

That said, City looked to be holding their own for 20 minutes or so, then 2 awful Palace goals in less than 10 minutes left us in disarray, Schmeichel failing to command his area and, sadly, culpable for both.

NFP steadied things by bringing on James and from then on, despite the threat of the Palace forwards, they never really looked like troubling us again.

The problem remained in getting forward, our front 3 of Vardy, Nugent and Knockaert looked at a loss as to how to play this system and with none of them, not even Knockaert, showing for the ball we were in deep doo doo.

With few options our midfield passing was made to look woeful and although Drinkwater seems to have taken much of the blame I think our front players should take their share. Persisting with Knockaert as a wide man is I think, an error. Isolated and uninvolved for much of the time, when he does get possession he tries to do to much.

Once again, I have to say this, we need to get him more involved and this means changing the system and learning how to play it.

Schmeichel was at fault for the first goal, but for the second he was pinned back (illegally) on the line by one of their forwards. The goal should have been disallowed.

[marbelladave]

Do you relaise how had it is to train a rabbit to chew cables ?

Yes I do. Quite possibly the easiest thing in the world......

Even easier than getting them to poo on the floor......

[marbelladave]

Schmeichel was at fault for the first goal, but for the second he was pinned back (illegally) on the line by one of their forwards. The goal should have been disallowed.

Have not seen any footage but live it appeared that Schmeichel simply made no effort to come for the ball, if he was fouled then maybe I am wrong, I'll look out for the incident when i see the lowlights.....

[rico]

If you watch the Sky highlights ,the game could easily have been a high scoring draw

http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0,,16428_8203155,00.html