Guest Col city fan Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 One positive is that Knockaert's delivery frombset pieces is superb. It's about time we had a player that can beat the first man from a corner I thought exactly the same and that was something else that we lost when he went off.
marbelladave Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 I don't get you Dave? Your assertion that we play 'a strong and attacking style' which is 'less effective against the better teams'.... Well I thought that was how you wanted us to play? If it's 'less effective against the better teams' what's your Plan b? Afternoon Col. I think this is quite difficult, we do play a 'strong attacking style' but we are a bit devoid of real attacking flair. We do not cut through the opposition, we tend to wear them down, pressure them into errors and get our goals through mistakes or the ball simply falling for us. That is how I see our plan A. When that doesn't happen we tend to struggle, second half yesterday being a case in point, Forest sat back to hold what they had and we had no real idea how to open them up, I really can not recall us being truly threatening from open play. The real point though is that our plan A is going to win us a lot of games at this level, which is great but our inability to step up and, just for a short time, take our play to a different level is going to cast us. We have no Plan B.
Maybes Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Blaming the ref? Haha, easy get out I guess. Forest got took their two fortuitous chances and we missed a number of opportunities prior to them netting. Granted it was against the trees but it's only one game. We move on. Top season so far.
Bilo Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Blaming the ref? Haha, easy get out I guess. Forest got took their two fortuitous chances and we missed a number of opportunities prior to them netting. Granted it was against the trees but it's only one game. We move on. Top season so far. Aye, nine times out of ten we'd have been out of sight by half time. It was a freak first half. The worry for me is the pitiful second half showing, other teams will come and park the bus and we need to know how to combat it.
Maybes Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Aye, nine times out of ten we'd have been out of sight by half time. It was a freak first half. The worry for me is the pitiful second half showing, other teams will come and park the bus and we need to know how to combat it. Second half reminded me of Doncaster away. Simply ran out of ideas. It's not easy at any level to break a team down when they do that but you would have thought we'd have had a plan B.
Bilo Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Second half reminded me of Doncaster away. Simply ran out of ideas. It's not easy at any level to break a team down when they do that but you would have thought we'd have had a plan B. Taking Knockaert off was the big mistake, he was ripping them to shreds at times. He'll be a big miss at Ipswich. I also think a fully-fit Vardy could have done a job yesterday, his pace and industry would have molested that back four if he'd been fit.
Lionator Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Knockaert's suspended for the next game by the way (5 bookings)
Corky Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Aye, nine times out of ten we'd have been out of sight by half time. It was a freak first half. The worry for me is the pitiful second half showing, other teams will come and park the bus and we need to know how to combat it. Most sides won't be as competent defensively as Nottingham Forest, which will be a good thing in the future. Also, I hope we learn that lumping the ball is playing into the styles of defenders at this level, we have good pace in the side with Dyer, Schlupp and Vardy and if Knockaert and Drinkwater can give them the service to run onto we'll have more joy as I doubt many defences are fully equipped to deal with pace. As much I like him defensively, Liam Moore doesn't look that comfortable attacking, which is where De Laet would've been much more handy yesterday.
zigga-zagga Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Interesting to see how the majority seem to think that the referee was evry kind of useless but no-one has mentioned this - I quote from the Leicester Mercury website "City were fortunate not to be down to 10 men inside the first 10 minutes when Marcin Wasilewski was only shown a yellow card following a dangerous two-footed challenge."
Lionator Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Interesting to see how the majority seem to think that the referee was evry kind of useless but no-one has mentioned this - I quote from the Leicester Mercury website "City were fortunate not to be down to 10 men inside the first 10 minutes when Marcin Wasilewski was only shown a yellow card following a dangerous two-footed challenge." And also the continual diving from several players.
ithuriel Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 City were poor in front of goal, wasting chances and sloppy in defence. Forest turned up, survived the poor finishing of our forwards and did a smash n' grab. What annoyed me was that the team really did not look up for it when we went two down and it reminded me of last season. Hopefully the team can bounce back from this. The ref may have been less than average but we threw the game away, Forest just accepted the gift.
Leicesterpool Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Just read that Knockaert's yellow means he's suspended for Ipswich. Not good. Probably means Schlupp will cover that position and i actually think he's better there to be honest, for some reason Schlupp looks weak up front now! I would also be tempted to relegate Nuge to the bench and start with Wood and Vardy.
Matt Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Still trying to work out how we deserved to lose Because they took their chances, we didn't. Unfortunately it is as simple as that really.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Shocking ref, most pedantic pratt to put a whistle in his mouth. Davies setting up the most boring team I've ever seen to the KP, if people get stick in the office on Monday, at least we're not watching THAT every week. Not our day unfortunateNothing Nothing wrong with the ref imo, mate. It was a bad day at the office though.
crisp monster Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Good comments on here and agree with most. Another day and we would have won by half time but as anyone who's been to the previous home victories would agree that our failure to convert our dominance has almost cost us - today our luck deserted us. To give a Billy Davies team a lead like that is asking for trouble with the gamesmanship he instills in his teams. Team and fans started well but after the goals, we both let the club down. Foxes never quit wasn't the case yesterday.
stud2012 Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Funny how when we win the Ref never gets mentioned When we loose a new thread is started.I not saying the ref got everything right on sat.far from it.However when we win the ref is never questioned when we loose we look for things that went wrong and the Ref always gets it!I'm sure we are not on our own and every clubs set of fans are the same.Just need to stop looking for excuses we lost,they scored more than us,move onto the next game 31 to go and no doubt more losses to come and more threads like this to be started.Come on City! In the last couple of days it seems people are blaming the defeat on the REF,Konch,Nuge,Jeff,King,Pearson's subs to name a few! Fact is we lost but we will bounce back.
Bert Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Funny how when we win the Ref never gets mentioned When we loose a new thread is started.I not saying the ref got everything right on sat.far from it.However when we win the ref is never questioned when we loose we look for things that went wrong and the Ref always gets it!I'm sure we are not on our own and every clubs set of fans are the same.Just need to stop looking for excuses we lost,they scored more than us,move onto the next game 31 to go and no doubt more losses to come and more threads like this to be started.Come on City! In the last couple of days it seems people are blaming the defeat on the REF,Konch,Nuge,Jeff,King,Pearson's subs to name a few! Fact is we lost but we will bounce back. Who has blamed the ref for the defeat in this thread though? Pretty much everyone was just saying that he was typically shit.
stud2012 Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Who has blamed the ref for the defeat in this thread though? Pretty much everyone was just saying that he was typically shit. Yes just saying funny how no1 says the refs shit when we win.Not just us but fans in general.
Corky Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Yes just saying funny how no1 says the refs shit when we win.Not just us but fans in general. They do, I'll always say if the ref was poor regardless of the result.
Bert Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 They do, I'll always say if the ref was poor regardless of the result.Same here, I've done it a few times this season.
stud2012 Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Same here, I've done it a few times this season. Please refer to my quote i said fans in general.Well done to you.You are obviously in the select few i bow to your greatness. Bert the great.
NewburyFox Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Interesting to see how the majority seem to think that the referee was evry kind of useless but no-one has mentioned this - I quote from the Leicester Mercury website "City were fortunate not to be down to 10 men inside the first 10 minutes when Marcin Wasilewski was only shown a yellow card following a dangerous two-footed challenge." He was a good foot away from making contact with the player. I can sort of understand why it was a yellow as it was two footed (but not dangerous, how can it be when the player is in no danger?) but a red would've been ridiculous.
Lionator Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Do we expect too much of referees? Do we personally expect a referee to nail 100% of decisions because that's unrealistic?
Kitchandro Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 Interesting to see how the majority seem to think that the referee was evry kind of useless but no-one has mentioned this - I quote from the Leicester Mercury website "City were fortunate not to be down to 10 men inside the first 10 minutes when Marcin Wasilewski was only shown a yellow card following a dangerous two-footed challenge." That was the worst decision of the lot. He was about a kilometer from making contact with the bloke.
foxfanazer Posted 10 November 2013 Posted 10 November 2013 He was a good foot away from making contact with the player. I can sort of understand why it was a yellow as it was two footed (but not dangerous, how can it be when the player is in no danger?) but a red would've been ridiculous.I don't really understand the rule to be honest. If he makes contact its a stone wall red and.he probably breaks the players leg. He didn't make contact, he was miles off so how is it a yellow. Surely if it's for intent it has to be deemed a red card for how severe the challenge would've been. It's either nothing or a red imo
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