Media Stupidity!

Reading the papers this morning over my breakfast, one would be forgiven for thinking that we had blown our chances of winning the PL.

Yes we lost by a single goal to a team that is performing exceedingly well at home under a very good manager, so I really don't think we should write too much into last night's results, except maybe City's chances of winning have pretty much gone in my opinion.

Right back to the media, who seem to think that Leicester's chances improved exponentially by the apparent implosion of ourselves, Arsenal & City last night.

Two journalists have even questioned whether Poch has taken Spurs as far as he can!

One poor result & suddenly we are not capable of going further. This is the youngest team in the PL & any fool can see that they have been improving brilliantly, now all that is needed is for them to continue believing; there were several reasons last night I believe for our below par performance:

a) No Dembele to orchestrate & run the midfield.
b) Alli not being able to start loses us a lot of our drive & aggression, which allowed West Ham to over run our midfield.
c) This was a "Derby" & results are often a contradiction in terms of League position & performance.
d) West Ham were the better team on the night.

This game is gone, the one on Saturday is much more important, it is effectively a "Double Header", if Arsenal win the get back level on points with us, however a win for us opens up a 6 point difference with only 9 games left to claw them back.

I think Dembele will be back on Saturday & Alli will start, which gives us a much better balance inthe team.

Arsenal will be without their best player in Cech & this could unsettle their defence even more. Cech has probably saved Arsenal at least 10 points so far this season.

On the question of goalkeepers, although a huge fan of Hugo, I have pointed out on several occasions an area which seems to be his biggest weak spot.
That is of course near post shots/headers!

He should have saved that header last night in my opinion, however he still remains one of the best keepers in the World!