So an ever more important game to overcome the social stigma of being in the bottom 3, a win tonight is crucial for Shakey to put a bit more confidence back into the fans who didn't want him in the first place for many differing reasons.
Leicester City haven't beaten WBA at home for 23 Years so it shows we have a voodoo to overcome tonight, time for Shakey's Heroes to come out fighting!
With the International break and Leicester having so many players these days away with their National teams I don't think Shakey will have had time to install new formations into the players who are pretty ingrained in the way we play so I still expect the same formation and a normal team selection.
Maybe though a return Slowmani with both Ian and Oki away with their teams and his mate Mahrez also probably back in who served his penance last match, I sat next to Oki in Oadby Traffic on Thursday afternoon traffic, even though he missed team training having just returned, still drives his Blue BMW present from the Club.
Schmeichel
Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Fuchs
Mahrez, Iborra, Ndidi, Allbrighton
Okazaki / Ian
Vardy
Or
Schmeichel
Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Fuchs
Mahrez, Iborra, Ndidi, Allbrighton
Vardy, Slowmani
Team for Today
posted on 16/10/17
There's a general acceptance around the club that Okazaki suffers quite a lot from jetlag. If he's been away (I assume he has) then it may be sensible that he doesn't start in this one.
posted on 16/10/17
Vardy and Nacho are too similar to play together up front for me. I really don't know how we're going to play them both as strikers at once without one of them changing their natural game - banging goals in.
posted on 16/10/17
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posted on 16/10/17
comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 47 minutes ago
There's a general acceptance around the club that Okazaki suffers quite a lot from jetlag. If he's been away (I assume he has) then it may be sensible that he doesn't start in this one.
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I’ll try again.
Yes he has and missed Thursday Training but will have had a couple more days to recover.
With Vardy and Oki being our in form Strikers I can perfectly understand them starting.
Awkward start for Ian at LCFC, he came to us unfit so wasn’t in contention to start at the beginning of he Seaon then injured his toe when he did play setting him back.
So far due to this he’s shown us very little, unless OKI is jet lagged there is no reason for Ian to start ahead of him.
posted on 16/10/17
23 years since we last beat West Brom at home...
...that must have been the evening game with that horrendous thunderstorm hovering over Filbo. I was there 🙄
If bad weather’s a good omen for this fixture then maybe our luck’s in today ⚡️💨
posted on 16/10/17
TB - I'm still not sure he'll play. It's good if the club are trying to deal with the situation but maybe that's just the way Okazaki works.
STS - From interviews with the man himself, Iheanacho says his preference is the number 10 role behind a front striker; so in theory he should be able to play with Vardy. Unlike Vardy and Slimani, who both want to play the number 9 role.
posted on 16/10/17
Well Dunge, from what I've seen of him (which isn't too much admittedly as he only seemed to have a bit part role at Man City) he appears to like running onto a ball and sticking it away, rather than being foil for a number 9 which is what a good number 10 (like Oki) does.
Hope I'm proved wrong as it would be great to have two natural goalscoring options up front rather than Vardy with Oki behind or Vardy with Slimani going for the same ball and just getting in the way.
And speaking of previous matched against West Brom, anyone remember that night match at Filbo in the 90's where West Brom looked to be in danger of going down and Richard Sneekes hit a shot so hard it went in and got stuck in the frame of the goal?!!
I remember walking out of Filbo feeling incredibly sick after that match.
posted on 16/10/17
Ian very much likes playing as a number 10, but that's much easier when your number 9 doesn't play on the shoulder.
I think Nacho will come good, but he's going to have to learn how to play in this team which is very different to a front 3 he's played in at Man City.
Until he's got it, I also don't understand why you would drop our player of the season so far.
If he's 90% or more ready, Okazaki has to start. I think he will in the usual 4-4-2 with Iborra in for King.
posted on 16/10/17
Great Team
posted on 16/10/17
comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
Ian very much likes playing as a number 10, but that's much easier when your number 9 doesn't play on the shoulder.
I think Nacho will come good, but he's going to have to learn how to play in this team which is very different to a front 3 he's played in at Man City.
Until he's got it, I also don't understand why you would drop our player of the season so far.
If he's 90% or more ready, Okazaki has to start. I think he will in the usual 4-4-2 with Iborra in for King.
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Nope.....CS has gone with Vardy and Ian Iborra and Mahrez in too