How are we all feeling after we have given the result a few hours to sink in?
2 points lost or a hard fought point won?
IMO I would have taken a point against a good quality West Ham team BUT with so many talking points all I can say is " that's why I love football".
Lots of passion, intensity, hard tackles, controversy and a fantastic goal.
I thought we actually played well and looked in control in the first half......
A couple of talking points...
1) Payet challenge - quite lucky. Raised foot, studs showing could have been a red but wasn't. That's how it goes.
2) Vardy booking - tried to make the challenge then pulled his leg back but the player was caught by Vardys knee on the follow through. Very harsh, I have read some people saying that is was a culmination of fouls by our players. I understand that BUT the point is that the challenge didn't warrant a yellow. Irrelevant of other fouls it wasn't a book able offence. BUT once a player is booked he has to be mature enough to manage his performance for the rest of the game.
Great pass by Kante and finish by JV for our opening goal and at half time we looked comfortable.
Then we get onto a cracking second half.
Vardy incident - it was never a penalty. The defender makes no attempt to challenge Vardy but he he is just trying to ease him out away from goal. JV then attempts to put his legs into the defenders legs and " buy" a cheap penalty. BUT his exaggerated fall/dive when there was no deliberate contact from the defender gives the referee a decision to make. He made the decision that is was simulation and worthy of a yellow card. No complaints from me.
Then we come onto the penalty decision for West Ham, this is the most frustrating part for me. I understand if the refs think that Morgans challenge and ones like it are worthy of a penalty but we all just want consistency. Either Refs give penalties week in week out for things like that or they give none, what we can't have is one ref giving it and another not Or the same ref not giving a penalty in his next game when the same thing happens.
CONSISTENCY please referees.
And yes the above relates to our equaliser as well.
Now let me congratulate Cresseell on a absolute stunner of a goal, sweetly struck and a goal worthy of winning a game.
So after all of that we extend our lead by a point and we now wait to see what Spurs can do tomorrow night.
Onto next week where I expect to see Okazaki start in Vardys place with Mahrez moving to play the No 10 supporting role with Schlupp or Gray in to play wide.
A fantastic point with 10 men against a top 6 side that have beaten Sours amongst others. Let's get another 3 points against Swansea and secure a top 2 finish.
UTF
My last word to the crowd today - awesome just amazing.
So Fellow Foxes.......
posted on 17/4/16
Point gained, but more than that it showed the pundits what we are about,
if ever the wheels were going to come off this was the game,
Awful referee
down to 10 men
then 1-0 to 1-2
And carried on fighting and attacking and got a deserved equaliser,
posted on 17/4/16
It was a weird afternoon for me. Only listening to it on the radio I could sense them getting the win. And the Four point gap going around my head!
When we got the penalty I didn't even react, it was almost as if it was supposed to end like that. No emotion. Bizarre!!
But all in all. No one is beating us while we have 11 men. And on this occasion with 10 men too
posted on 17/4/16
Ref had a nightmare, truly miraculous that huth is still on the park by Midway in the second half, so many could in his own box and one blatant penalty for west ham not given early second half.
posted on 17/4/16
I feel a bit better having just noticed that Arsenal managed a steal a draw from the jaws of victory. Hopefully tomorrow night Spurs will remember that they're actually Spurs and should therefore be bottling 4th instead of battling for 1st.
posted on 17/4/16
The ref was all over the place. I dont really blame him though. The crowd was vociferous. The pressure was huge. TBF it must be hard even, for a pro, to work under that much pressure. Refs need more help from technology.
The Vardy decision was right. Two yellows. Though the first was a bit harsh it happens.
As to the penalties... West Hams was never a penalty. But if it was a penalty, then so was Huths.
All in all a draw was a fair result.
Hope Stoke do you all a big favour tomorrow.
Keep roaring your lads on!
posted on 18/4/16
Yeah fair result all in... And a superb point gained for us after being down to 10 men
Foxes never quit yet again.
8 points clear. Worse case scenario, 5 points clear tomorrow night with just 4 to,play.......what a sensational position to be in for us, astounding.
posted on 18/4/16
Still feel like we had two points robbed from us. Yeah it's great that we didn't lose but we should never have been in that position. West Ham would never have scored.
I will feel less piisssed off if Stoke manage to take at least a point off Spurs.
posted on 18/4/16
Perhaps I'm biased, but I think Moss got every decision completely correct.
I really don't understand the uproar. Sure, some decisions were borderline and could have gone either way. But not one of his decisions was blatantly wrong.
Let's not resort to blaming the ref. The culprit was not Moss but Vardy and his shameful display of cheating. It's a shame an honest man is being slammed while Vardy gets away without bad press.
posted on 18/4/16
comment by WorcesterSpur (U1678)
posted 50 minutes ago
Perhaps I'm biased, but I think Moss got every decision completely correct.
I really don't understand the uproar. Sure, some decisions were borderline and could have gone either way. But not one of his decisions was blatantly wrong.
Let's not resort to blaming the ref. The culprit was not Moss but Vardy and his shameful display of cheating. It's a shame an honest man is being slammed while Vardy gets away without bad press.
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Yes you are biased. And you're not a fox
So Piiss off Spurs fans. Absolutely fed up with Spurs fans this season. All have a chip on their shoulder and so annoying
posted on 18/4/16
Moss was terrible for the entire game, the lack of consistency was staggering and he clearly buckled under the pressure of the crowd to give the Schlupp penalty. I will be surprised if he manages in The Prem again this season.