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Esteban Cambiasso responsible for our swoon in Fall 2014?

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Please note: This is pure speculation on my part.

 

During the early days after the Cambiasso acquisition, I seem to remember some reporting that he would be helping to set Leicester's formation and tactics.  After a good September, we swooned without a win from 27 Sep to 26 Dec.

 

Is it possible that Cambiasso's mucking with Leicester's tactics at least partially led to the long fall slide?  It seems that we have regained form and intensity in the last few weeks.  This appears to coincide with Nigel seeming to take a more active gametime role as manager, and Cambiasso being relegated to the sub bench.

 

Or am I just mental?

 

Posted

"swoon" and "fall" - are you a yank talking like that about our game of soccerball?

 

Yes, I am a Yank.  We speak different variants of the 'English' language :).

Posted

I have wondered the same thing a few times. The diamond particularly. But then I can't imagine nige allowing anyone to pick his tactics for him. I just can't see that ever happening. Could he have been influenced? Probably, but it would have been his decision ultimately. Also, nige has a history of swoony tactical tinkering in previous Falls, even before we upgraded with passmaker Cambiasso.

Posted

I can see where you're coming from - maybe more due to Cambiasso's arrival and presence playing disrupting our team (Drinky and James partnership) rather than him tinkering with tactics though

Posted

Between September and December we just made a shed load of mistakes, which resulted in letting in a shed full of goals.

Nothing to do with tactics, just human errors. Can think of 9/10 goals conceded that were plainly individual slip ups / cock ups.

Burnley at home

Palace away

West Brom at home

Liverpool at home x 3

Tottenham at home x 2

QPR away

Fongers crossed that 2015 will bring an improvement in defending.

And my spelling!!

Posted

It has taken a while for us to find a system which allows us to be strong defensively whilst being a counter attacking team and the system we have played the last couple of games suits a lot of our players. Cambiasso has played very well so I expect him to only further improve our performances as part of the midfield two.

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Responsible in other ways though

The midfield played with much more verve, purpose and energy before he was added to the starting line-up,eg. Everton, Arsenal etc and again more recently when he's been rotated out of the side like against Spurs & Liverpool (A). Against Hull when he played we hardly got a foothold in the game at all despite the team's much improved efforts in this mini-run of better performance levels.

Posted

Responsible in other ways though

The midfield played with much more verve, purpose and energy before he was added to the starting line-up,eg. Everton, Arsenal etc and again more recently when he's been rotated out of the side like against Spurs & Liverpool (A). Against Hull when he played we hardly got a foothold in the game at all despite the team's much improved efforts in this mini-run of better performance levels.

What would the etc be? Certainly not Stoke where he turned the game around for us when he came on, not United.

Facts are we've played well and crap with him in the team and with him out of it.

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Nice to see that Col's son has joined the forum.

Welcome mate.

Shut up KF. No-one thinks you are amusing.

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