Bamba's Babes Posted 22 September 2014 Posted 22 September 2014 We have a few lookers in the squad such as: Gary Tayl... Seriously though, we are non-stop and teams don't seem to be able to live with us. Do we have official stats on player fitness? Has this been mentioned before by the media/pundits?
Soar Fox Posted 22 September 2014 Posted 22 September 2014 I saw in another thread someone say that Albrighton said he was the 2nd fittest player at Aston Villa, but here he was 10th when they tested them in the summer.
weller54 Posted 22 September 2014 Posted 22 September 2014 Albrighton seems a long way off getting into the starting 11...
Soar Fox Posted 22 September 2014 Posted 22 September 2014 Albrighton seems a long way off getting into the starting 11... I actually forgot about him yesterday until someone in the pub said he didn't even make the bench.
Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot Posted 22 September 2014 Posted 22 September 2014 Cambiasso looked knackered after an hour or so yesterday, considering his lack of a pre-season I'd expect his stamina to improve immensely. Vardy, Drinkwater and James will surely get a lot fitter as well, scary really.
Harry - LCFC Posted 22 September 2014 Posted 22 September 2014 Ulloa was described as 'lazy' at Brighton. Doesn't look it atm. Must be partly down to the work done with him in pre-season.
Raw Dykes Posted 22 September 2014 Posted 22 September 2014 I find it a bit odd that it seems not many other managers consider fitness as important as NP does. It doesn't really cost anything to get the players all as fit as they possibly can be, does it? I don't see why you wouldn't make it a priority if you were managing any sports team. Who remembers the team under Sousa? I can remember him skipping a lot of the fitness work in pre-season to get the players passing the ball around instead. It showed. In the first match they were all blowing after an hour.
StanSP Posted 22 September 2014 Posted 22 September 2014 A lot of it is probably to do with conserving energy too and probably goes unnoticed while the match is going on. Yesterday we stepped up a gear from 60th minute onwards whilst Man Utd gradually went down in gears so to speak. We are tireless but make it look so easy. I suppose having a week in between matches for the majority of the season helps, too.
EGBFitness Posted 23 September 2014 Posted 23 September 2014 Fitness/strength levels are massively important but obviously so is skill and tactics, no point having a team who can run a whole game but don't know how to play. We've invested heavily in sports science and is defiantly paying off, we have a 'king if the gym' league here too- players height/weight categories against each other to what they can lift- great way to push your players and get a competitive mindset. Regarding other teams and Sousa era- I think these teams believe they can set up like Barcelona and not do much work of the ball- hoping to dominate games by possession. IMO our physical attributes will be the difference this season as of last season. We managed to keep fitness levels up last season over a 55-60? Game season with shorter rest periods. Unless we go on a good FA cup run were looking at a 40-45 game season with longer rests between games
Fatty Arbuckle Posted 23 September 2014 Posted 23 September 2014 We have a few lookers in the squad such as: Gary Tayl... Seriously though, we are non-stop and teams don't seem to be able to live with us. Do we have official stats on player fitness? Has this been mentioned before by the media/pundits? There was a Phil Neville tweet on Sunday saying that we're the fittest team he's seen.
Haydos Posted 23 September 2014 Posted 23 September 2014 True Geordie bloke thought we looked much fitter than them after 70 mins as well.
Xen Posted 23 September 2014 Posted 23 September 2014 The way we play means that other teams use up more energy than they normally would, so where they would normally tire around the 70 minute mark, we've got them puffing and panting after just an hour. From there, player's performance drops off similar to F1 tyres - slow degradation and then suddenly they hit a cliff and are far worse than usual - all the while we're still firing on full cylinders. If we make a team run out of energy 10 minutes sooner - that's 10 minutes sooner they hit that cliff, and we can capitalise. In matches like yesterday it's most evident. At the start of the game you'd probably rate Man U about an 8 in terms of quality, whereas we'd be underdogs at 6/7. Once their fitness dropped off around the hour mark, they went down to about a 5 whereas we were able to keep our performance at the same level, and some might say we went up another gear as well. We turned from underdogs into the favourites - all down to our fitness levels. I'm astounded other managers haven't taken more notice and done the same as NP.
BoyJones Posted 23 September 2014 Posted 23 September 2014 I know United were down to 10 men, but the last 15 minutes was all Leicester. Even if Man U wanted to stage a fight back they were physically and mentally drained. Even Konch keeps on running, he looked fitter than any of United's players. We are such a professional team, the back up is superb. Long may it continue.
st albans fox Posted 23 September 2014 Posted 23 September 2014 This fitness factor cannot be overstated. the way we seem to run our playing side from a scientific perspective is surely the way the game is headed. Whilst we are ahead of the curve, we need to make it count and establish ourselves as a PL club before the others catch us up.
Harry - LCFC Posted 23 September 2014 Posted 23 September 2014 I think we'd have had a decent chance of coming back into the game on Sunday even without the penalty. We were coping better late in the game and I'd have thought we'd have been piling the pressure on in the last half hour.
ScouseFox Posted 23 September 2014 Posted 23 September 2014 Paul konchesky is so fit his hair has grown back. He goes through each game like Benjamin button, bombs forward with more pace and energy at about 87 minutes than he does at 5. He is mental
Raw Dykes Posted 24 September 2014 Posted 24 September 2014 I think we'd have had a decent chance of coming back into the game on Sunday even without the penalty. We were coping better late in the game and I'd have thought we'd have been piling the pressure on in the last half hour. Absolutely right. We looked the side more likely to score as time went on towards the end. Man Utd looked more worn down than we did. Anyone else see the 3 nutmegs in 10 seconds in stoppage time?
The Quick Brown Fox Posted 24 September 2014 Posted 24 September 2014 Didn't Ulloa say he was surprised at the amount of fitness work they have to do? It's not very often you see a Leicester player looking tired (excluding those just coming back in).
Freesolo Posted 24 September 2014 Posted 24 September 2014 I think its proven that your cognitive ability decreases the more tired you get, hence the the higher your fitness levels are the less likely you are to make a mistake or do something stupid. So it just seems like common sense to keep your players as fit as possible at all times
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