Leicester City v West Bromwich Albion post match thread 0 - 1

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

What has today got to do with our left back, apart from the og they never looked like scoring either?

I am looking at the overall picture, not just today's game.

 

We always did, and still do need, a decent left back, and of course, strengthening elsewhere.

[roger the dodger]

It's been 5 games!!!! We had 5 excellent games and a fantastic season before that. The fine margins weren't with us today. Can you hand on heart say that WBA deserved all three points? I certainly can't..

no but they got them deserved or not

[HoustonFox]

What did wasyl do?

Deliberately elbowed Berahino in face.

[Guest Col city fan]

Come on guys lets have some perspective, we weren't at our best today but it was an improved performance over recent games. Also, as bad as we were West Brom were far worse. Can't believe they've gone home with all 3pts today as they are one of the worst away teams I've seen in a long time.

It's never wise, really, to argue that the visiting team, coming away with all three points were ' far worse' than we were. Again,it shows a lack of understanding regarding what the opposition were doing. West Brom came with a game plan of getting a smash and grab. They were very very quick on the counter, defended very well ( I thought Lescott was superb) and got the win. We were worse because we couldn't break them down.

I think West Brom are a decent side, have a great striker in Berahino and will stay up. IMO.

[ScouseFox]

Vardy's handball that he got away with summed up the officiating. woeful. didn't change the outcome though.

[st albans fox]

There was 6mins of added time played.

No chance of shape to bring on some width is very strange. What did NP know that we didn't?

We look inept. We can't create. We have lost the ability to press in groups. Too many of the players looked lost in the positions they were asked to play.

[MrAus]

Wasyl is a proper centre half hahahahaha Gave Berahino a good whack.

Anyway, I don't think we was as bad as everyone makes out, we looked okay in spells of the game, they were no better or no worse though.

Really think if he's playing the diamond then Knocky or Mahrez would suit more at the tip of than having 4 very similar players in the middle. Quite a shite game altogether.

I'm not sure at all about Nugent anymore, apart from the ball across goal to Vardy I can't think of anything he did well. Our set pieces have never been that good and I'm afraid nothing has changed.

We have gotta stop the rot ASAP, and really need to sign some quality in January, but it's a marathon not a sprint. On to the next one.

[Donut]

It's never wise, really, to argue that the visiting team, coming away with all three points were ' far worse' than we were. Again,it shows a lack of understanding regarding what the opposition were doing. West Brom came with a game plan of getting a smash and grab. They were very very quick on the counter, defended very well ( I thought Lescott was superb) and got the win. We were worse because we couldn't break them down.

I think West Brom are a decent side, have a great striker in Berahino and will stay up. IMO.

 

Exactly the point i wanted to make earlier in the thread, but put far more eloquently by you.

 

Can we just stop this lose every week but were the better team garbage PLEASE

[daddylonglegs]

That was embarrassing. I mean genuinely embarrassing. Don't get me wrong, I would argue that almost half of the players out there today had average to good games (Vardy, Wasyl, RDL, King - apart from the miss) but Pearson has to take a very large slice of the blame today. He got so, so many things wrong. They were simple mistakes too.

 

He played 4 players who do exactly the same thing - I'm sure people will say 'but King is an attacking midfielder and Cambiasso is holding so they don't do the same thing'. Today, either 4 of them were attacking or none of them were. When you need someone to break up the play, the 34 year old Esteban Cambiasso is the 3rd midfielder I would pick to do so. He physically cannot cover that sort of ground anymore, and when you're supposedly supposed to be picking up someone who's as quick as Sessegnon, he didn't have a hope in hell. Playing 4 midfielders is such a schoolboy error. We won the league last year playing two wingers. Now we play no wingers. West Brom created nothing at all today and won. A little bit of quality and we'd have won:

 

No Mahrez and no Knockaert - We have two creative players in this team as far as I'm concerned, that is by my understanding, someone who will take a player on ( and actually beat them), cross the ball in, move the ball quickly and look for dangerous passes. In a game that absolutely begged for some sort of quality (see King's piss poor header straight at the goalie), Pearson not only left out Knockaert entirely, but thought the wise thing to do would to bring on Chris Wood over arguably one of our best players so far this season. 

 

Nugent - evidently from what I've read so far not a lot needs to be said. My brother and I were talking during the game and noticed that he appears to need about 2 seconds longer than everyone else to decide what he's going to do. He works hard, yes, however that does not make a Premier League footballer. I would argue that after 10 or so games we're in a position to judge our players at this level fairly, and it does not look like he cuts it.

 

It was a very poor performance. before the start of the season I backed us to succeed and comfortably stay up, and after the first five games I was justified. The last 5 however have been laughably poor.To pick up 1 point against Newcastle, Swansea, Burnley, West Brom is not good enough. Pearson has gone from tactically wonderful to inept in the space of a month. 

 

 

 

[eastendfox]

Seems to me we either play with the diamond and are more solid but make less chances, or with wingers, more chances, but less solid defence. Either can work, both though need us to be clinical in front of goal. Or lucky. Today we were neither. Can't see why changing Pearson would help, while he still has respect of the players. Players are having to learn at this level, which is surely what we want to see. We may also need to spend in January, as Hull did last season, but I think we have to stick together and I think we will slowly turn it round. It clearly won't be easy on any of us mind.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Pathetic absolutely pathetic

Things need to change

[Larry_LCFC]

Nigel comes across as an arrogant fvck sometimes. Does him self no favours on the radio.

[harmoye]

Pearson failed to sign the Premier league players in the transfer window, and come January the show will be over and Leicester will be effectively down !

 

We have a few promising youngsters but by the time Pearson plays them it will be game over and clutching at straws !

[Mad Dog]

It was an improvement. Best we have played since Man Utd. Vardy, King and Morgan - one of them has to score from those chances. That was the difference today. We weren't *too* bad.

Substitutions were too late, and you can't play a diamond without any kind of playmaker in the 4.

At the moment, we are looking for 3 teams to be worse than us, which is a dangerous game. Burnley will obviously be way off the pace, but QPR are capable of stringing together a run, as are all the others who will be in and around.

The big, big problem today (and with Burnley) is that they were total shit. We had to win. We won't get six easier points put in front of us again this year.

[roger the dodger]

anyone who thinks we were unlucky v west brom is talking bo..cks we were not that good even when we beat man utd. 3.1 down and we only won because man Utd have a shit Defence. and that crap about you can.t judge until Christmas is shit carry on like this and we will be down before Christmas . hard luck stories don.t win games sort it Nigel or we are f..cked

[Lasty]

It was shite. Simple as.

[harmoye]

Will everyone stop ranting about the MAN U game !

 

We got lucky, ultra lucky...and it won't happen again !

 

What you see now is what you get !

[Thracian]

Defiinitely an improvement in terms of performance, especially second half, but we sacrificed width and pace on the left side to accommodate Cambiasso and it was a major mistake.

 

Nothing to do with the goal - that was sheer bad luck. But Cambiasso simply didn't influence the game enough. He dips out of tackles, played one pass of any vision in the opening few minutes, was as guilty as others of  giving it away and simply didn't do anything like the work of King and James from where I was  sitting.

 

We also carried too many underpar players. Drinkwater was wretched and Cambiasso indifferent but Konchesky was way below par in the first half with two inexplicable attempts to dribble his way out of defence.

 

Nugent worked hard but, yet again, he never looked like a goal threat and so many of our crosses were woeful. Someone blamed King for missing a so-called sitter but he had three efforts on goal from headers and none were easy - the last because there simply wasn't the pace on the ball to generate suffiicient power.

 

For me though King and James probably plundered out best chances but, apart from one fairly lame effort each from Ulloa, Vardy and Wood I really don't remember much real threat from our recognised strikers although quite why we played at twice the tempo when we went a goal down in the second half compared  with our pedestrian pace in the first half I don't know.

 

Pearson will be coming under scrutiny, no question. Today was another game when we were screaming out for the pace of Dyer, Schlupp or someone similar but for some reason the boss pretends we can do without that sort of input. If Schlupp had played left side of midfield with licence to provide width I'm sure we'd have posed far more threat - and even been better defensively.

 

Not sure why Moore was sacrificed either. His replacement should perhaps have ben send off and, although dominant in the air, he and Morgan were so fortunate not to be punished by the livewire WBA forwards in the first half.

 

Overall at least one point dropped but - as I've warned so often - we always concede so if we don't score twice we've little chance of winning and that's what we need to focus on first if we're going to survive.

[funkyrobot]

Anyone know Tony Pulis' number.

The only part of lcfc that would welcome that plonker's arrival is the merchandise department. He wears every item you could possibly wear in one go. If you want guaranteed hoofball then he's your man.

[harmoye]

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[Guest ttfn]

I don't know what was worse - Powell's haircut or his shot.

[ian_marshall]

It's never wise, really, to argue that the visiting team, coming away with all three points were ' far worse' than we were. Again,it shows a lack of understanding regarding what the opposition were doing. West Brom came with a game plan of getting a smash and grab. They were very very quick on the counter, defended very well ( I thought Lescott was superb) and got the win. We were worse because we couldn't break them down.

I think West Brom are a decent side, have a great striker in Berahino and will stay up. IMO.

I disagree, I thought we handled their threat very well indeed and really restricted the counter attack. Other than the goal which came about as a result of a mistake by us, I can't recall them having any real chances.

Personally I thought Lescott was ok, but we've come up against far better defenders this season. I really don't think that we asked enough questions of their backline today which was our biggest shortcoming.

The point I was trying to make is that whilst many are being critical, there was a clear improvement today which is a positive, and for all the negativity do you think the Baggies fans are critiquing their sides performance against us today in such a negative fashion when in fact they were no better than ourselves?

[Danno]

But it's ok we beat Man Utd so it's all fine.

[Callabinho]

Pissed off, miserable and fed up. Life of a Leicester fan.

[Clever Fox]

At this level you've got to have width. Width buys time for others to get forward. It also stretches the opposition.

I can't believe it was Pearson's decision to let Dyer go.

Why he left out mahrez out today is a mystery. He's been our most consistent forward so far.

We'll really have to spend in January. Two mid fielders steel and guile. For the middle .

A few others also.