Post-Match City 0 - 1 Cardiff

[Danno]

Not good enough, always thought this myself. A few good games, and then nothing more... Doesn't seem to look when crossing, and he is always inside providing nothing for Konchesky.

I really don't get why he cuts inside when Konchesky has the ball? Is he stupid or something?

I think he's brilliant on his day which is 2/10 but more often than not he goes missing and hides behind his full back. An organised team who their homework can nullify Dyer so easily.

I'd love us to sign a player like Bolasie from Palace but it's probably way out of the question.. Very impressed with him

[samuel]

Basically..

Played well for first 20 minutes, very attacking but no cutting edge. Then they scored, Konchesky should have put a foot in, and King and Drinky should have been tracking Bellendamy.

Then our heads went down and we looked flat for a while, until Vardy hit the bar with a good header.

Second half for the first 5 mins we were alright, but turned to hoofing it to no one in particular, absolutely dreadful. Schmeichels distribution was awful.

Cardiff were there to frustrate us and sit back and hit us on the break.

Subs were useless and I have no idea what Lingard offered us.

Must improve!!

Exactly what I saw. Good review Dan.

.Knocky and Vardy were the only 2 interested in going forward. NP really needs to up the ante in the Jan Window, The Longball may work with someone like Kenwynne et al, not Waggy.

Eddy, first class bellend mate. And Lindegard, why?

[Sampson]

I'm sure I'll get stick for this but I can't imagine I'm the only one who has this niggling suspicion at the back of his mind that Schmeichel really isn't very good and is still living off his first 4 or 5 months here and that everything Leeds fans said about him when he signed is true.

[Mark_w]

Everyone knows cup goals only count when it suits certain people's arguments.

Do you want to find some evidence of 'certain people' ever using cup goals scored to support their argument then.

[Danno]

I'm sure I'll get stick for this but I can't imagine I'm the only one who has this niggling suspicion at the back of his mind that Schmeichel really isn't very good and is still living off his first 4 or 5 months here and that everything Leeds fans said about him when he signed is true.

I do think he's a pretty good keeper at this level, but he makes mistakes. He is not commanding enough of his defence, people will say he is, but that's only when something has happened he will start shouting rather than before it happened.

I don't think he'd do well in the premier league.

[inckley fox]

Marshall has been awful this season, does nothing when he comes on.

Vardy again looked out of his depth and got lost in the game.

De Laet was one of the stand out players for me. I don't think we were watching the same game.

De Laet? Really? Wow.

Marshall has 5 assists, the most for anyone at the club. He's also scored 4. He's done this in far less starts than Dyer.

[Bert]

Do you want to find some evidence of 'certain people' ever using cup goals scored to support their argument then.

Not really. Didn't even say it was you did I?

[_Fatboyslow_]

I think the most frustrating part of the day is we've dominated again but seemed out of ideas when under pressure. There's no plan b. we've had enough chances to win the game.

Happens to often and I beleive that we need a quality midfielder to resolve this issue. Add a quality striker and away we go. I like the football we are playing and don't think we have a bad squad at the moment and most of the time we are competitive we just lack some quality and nouse.

[Mark_w]

Not really. Didn't even say it was you did I?

I didn't say it was aimed at me either. But whoever it's aimed at I think you should have some proof.

[inckley fox]

Everyone knows cup goals only count when it suits certain people's arguments.

If the argument concerns how best to get promoted, then surely 'certain people' are right.

[C-man]

I'm sure I'll get stick for this but I can't imagine I'm the only one who has this niggling suspicion at the back of his mind that Schmeichel really isn't very good and is still living off his first 4 or 5 months here and that everything Leeds fans said about him when he signed is true.

Absolutely. Been saying all season he rarely makes a save and his kicking is getting worse. Don't see him organising the back four much either. Par for the course really.

To clarify, he had no chance with the goal so the above wasn't a particular dig at today's performance.

[Bilbo]

He's produced more in terms of goals than Dyer.

What did De Laet that was good? Vardy came as close as anyone to scoring today. Nugent was just as lost as Vardy.

One more goal and that was a penalty. I admit that Dyer has gone quite but his overall game has more to offer than Marshall IMO.

De Laet made some good runs and closed down their players well - in fact I thought that the defence played ok as Cardiff rarely looked like scoring. He is also part of the best defence in the league.

I agree Nugent looked lost today but for Vardy it is a regular occurrence.

[lcfcsnow]

Is anyone else sick of hearing that were a tight knit group? Pearson comes out with this every game, well my 5 a side team is but if the quality aint there then it's not going to help is it.

[samuel]

Dyer has to be the most frustrating player in Leicester's history.

[Kitchandro]

I'm really surprised some people thought we were 'brilliant' today.

We were good in the first half on the whole, but the second half was really poor. We were so wasteful in possession and barely looked like creating anything. The tempo was decent up until the hour mark, then we ran out of energy and ideas.

I think we got what we deserved in the end, we weren't good enough to break them down and they saw it through with a good professional performance. We needed to show what we were made of in the second half and were found wanting.

For what it's worth I thought our shape was poor throughout. The middle was constantly dominated by red shirts.

[Happy Fox]

Dyer is Dire, NP should start his best two wingers in Marshall and Knockaert I really don't understand why he isn't, leave Dyer on the bench.

[Kitchandro]

Another game where we have played very well at times but ultimately lacking in the final 3rd. Arguably it was the premiership quality in Bellamy's finish that secured the win for Cardiff. I wouldn't be surprised if some Cardiff fans came on here stating that they thought that we're a decent team and will definitely be right up there at the end of the season, we've already heard it on several occasions this season. But what is it about us that just stops us from making the most of the periods that we are on top. Is it bad luck? Poor finishing?

Jesse Lingaard is honestly pointless. He's shown me absolutely nothing to want him in our team when I've seen him play. He could be a decent player if we persisted with him, but why the hell would we want to do that during a very important part of our season for a player that doesn't even belong to us?

I'm a big fan of Pearson's and I'm certain that he's the man to take us forward, but I couldn't understand why he took Knockaert off. He was one of the people that could've created that bit of magic to get us back in it.

On the plus side despite our terrible run of form (compounded by throwing away 2 easy goals at home to Barnsley when we really should've pushed on to win comfortably), we are still up there and should still be able to secure a play off position for the end of the season.

Also, the atmosphere from our end sounded very good with the Melbourne chant getting an airing too. Except for the last 20 minutes, once Cardiff got a foothold in the game and killed it off, our fans practically gave up.

It's so frustrating to be a Leicester fan sometimes.

Good post this.

[Bluetintedspecs]

If those opportunities had been converted in the first 30 mins we would be having an entirely different discussion!

Cardiff not great and we dominated first half could/should have had 3 goals.

Baffling substitutions by NP.

Bitterly disappointed, however it's not the end of the world though and January can't come soon enough!

[Bert]

One more goal and that was a penalty. I admit that Dyer has gone quite but his overall game has more to offer than Marshall IMO.

De Laet made some good runs and closed down their players well - in fact I thought that the defence played ok as Cardiff rarely looked like scoring. He is also part of the best defence in the league.

I agree Nugent looked lost today but for Vardy it is a regular occurrence.

Even then, that "one more goal" won us the points. Why didn't you choose his "one more goal" being the one v Brum or Wednesday? The one thing that dyer offers over Marshall is pace.

Would Dyer have whipped over a similar ball to Marshall which lead to our equaliser v Barnsley? Or the one for Nugent's header v Derby?

It's ok making forward runs. But you've got to bust a gut to get back into position. De Laet didn't once today. He was too busy waving his arms about at others. How many times did he clumsily lose possession? Too many. Not good enough.

[smudger63]

37 from 23 is. Do the other 12 not count for some reason?

Well, what 12 points from the last 11 games tells you, is that had it not been for the good start, we would on current form be in a relegation scrap.

Make no mistake, if we had started the season with 12 points from the first 11 games, Pearson would not be a manager by this point.

Still if you think 12 points from 11 games is acceptable, that`s fair enough.

[kingfox]

Surprised by the comments about De Laet, I think it was one of his strongest defensive performances today, he actually got stuck in and put some very good tackles in. One tackle when they hit us on the counter attack, in front of where I sit in the family stand, was a cracking tackle, judged it to perfection,

De Laet and Knockaert on the right side especially first half, was the only real good thing about the performance. However for some reason Pearson decided to swap Knockaert and Dyer, and put Dyer on the right with De Laet. From then on, De Laet began to struggle and mistakes started to creep in.

But I thought for the majority of today's game he was pretty good.

Same with King, people are still complaining about the midfield, but I didn't think we got overpowered today and got dominated by there midfield, Andy King won a lot of balls in midfield today, some of them were top class, which created 2 good chances for himself, one where he hit the bar and one he put just wide. King was much better today, it was the defence and the lack of precision and ideas in the final third which were the problems.

[Guest Col city fan]

If those opportunities had been converted in the first 30 mins we would be having an entirely different discussion!

Cardiff not great and we dominated first half could/should have had 3 goals.

Baffling substitutions by NP.

Bitterly disappointed, however it's not the end of the world though and January can't come soon enough!

Mate... I getcha but think about what you are saying? It's like saying 'if we had scored more conversions' in Rugby, or 'if we had finished more doubles' in Darts, or 'caught more fish' in Angling....

The point to football is scoring goals...

There's NO point in having possession against better sides, making chances and then not converting them. It's happened too often all season hasn't it...

And then we've conceded a sucker punch of a goal scored by the opposition from near the edge of the area. THAT'S happened too often too.

[Mark_w]

Well, what 12 points from the last 11 games tells you, is that had it not been for the good start, we would on current form be in a relegation scrap.

Make no mistake, if we had started the season with 12 points from the first 11 games, Pearson would not be a manager by this point.

Still if you think 12 points from 11 games is acceptable, that`s fair enough.

We got 11 points from MON's first 11 games, should he have been sacked?

[Sampson]

Absolutely. Been saying all season he rarely makes a save and his kicking is getting worse. Don't see him organising the back four much either. Par for the course really.

To clarify, he had no chance with the goal so the above wasn't a particular dig at today's performance.

It's his positioning that worries me most and the aggressive nature in which he seems to want to "attack" the ball.

In the first half today Cardiff missed an open goal because he came flying off his line trying to punch away a cross he had no chance of getting and left Cardiff with an open goal which really should've been 2-0. He seems to want to win every cross, every corner and every free-kick and comes flying off his line for every single one even when he has absolutely no chance of getting there. It's cost us quite a few goals since he's been here either directly or indirectly.

It's the same when in open play too, he's far too eager to attack the ball and is drawn to it like a moth. Last weeks goal against Millwall was a prime example. Most goalkeepers when that cross came in would've moved over to the side to the attacker and have a chance at saving the shot, whereas Schmeichel dove in to try and stop the cross leaving Millwall with an open goal to tap it in. We've concede far too many goals with Kasper in goal when he's dove in trying to stop a pass or a cross leaving another striker with a tap in, yet I always see people say "he had no chance with the goal" when he really could've done better.

[ScouseFox]

Couldn't go today cos of work but my dad did and his summary was "good for the most part, unlucky they went ahead but we got desperate and started going long to the big man. But the big man was on the bench. Weird subs from Nigel."

Seems Pearson's getting quite a bit of stick for his subs today. Shame we couldn't get the win but Cardiff might be the real deal this season and we can't win every game. 2 huge games in a few days coming up.