What a Strange few Days

Being a smaller Club we have to play to the squad strengths and we've done that brilliantly
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I would not for one single second knock Leicester's achievement. It's one of the greatest in the history of the game, imo.

But your status in football changed the day you lifted the PL trophy, and will stay that way for years to come.

Btw, doesn't Mahrez have good playmaking skills, or is he all dribble?

Which Silva's that, Hugo?

One things for sure, if you have the ball the other team can't score, until you give it away cheaply like Mahrez does far to often to be a real top player.
It's what you do when you haven't got the ball...

True but equally true what you do with it while you've got it and where you've got it.

Adrien Silva BTW.

We were really flat yesterday in the first half. Lack of movement coupled with poor passing put us under pressure. There may have been an element of tiredness as there was one less recovery day since Wednesday. Iborra didn't have a great game either which didn't help.

It was marginally better in the second half until Ndidi had his brainfart. He's young though and will hopefully have learned he gets 0 points for artistic impression.

Trying to play a possession based game potentially exposes our defence more and as we've seen, it isn't the best when not getting the protection it has been used to . Would playing Okazaki and Fuchs from the start have made a difference? Probably yes, it might have ended up 0-0 instead which would have been an improvement on what happened. We'll see what Claude makes of it.

Where are Dunge's ratings btw?

Where are Dunge's ratings btw?

I think he’s still knackered from playing and scoring midweek!

Can't anyone see that we could played 442 and sat back the result would of been the same CP had a game plan and as the home team its our job to take the game to them but it was the other way round.
Nothing wrong with our PL winning team mangaged and inspired by the best manager we have ever had who was sacked by the players for trying to get them to evolve into the revolution that Puel is making now.

Who said anything about playing 442 or even playing a different way?

comment by Nevsaysagoal2city (U5194)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Can't anyone see that we could played 442 and sat back the result would of been the same CP had a game plan and as the home team its our job to take the game to them but it was the other way round.
Nothing wrong with our PL winning team mangaged and inspired by the best manager we have ever had who was sacked by the players for trying to get them to evolve into the revolution that Puel is making now.




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I disagree, if we'd played more to our strengths we could have got something. We were not good enough at playing the sort of possession game we tried yesterday and got punished for it.

Start without two lightweights up front and a lad learning his trade at left back and we would have been much tighter and more difficult to break down. Boring maybe but we could have got a draw at least.

It's not a shock that we don't have the best defenders, that's always been the case but they've had much better protection so not as evident.

We're going to get occasional bad days as we try and evolve but it's no good pretending that it's nothing to do with team selection and tactics.

Well the team selection and tactics have won us four on the spin and with all the players you mentioned so its must be working just not yesterday

comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 6 hours, 55 minutes ago
Where are Dunge's ratings btw?

I think he’s still knackered from playing and scoring midweek!

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