Ipswich v city live

Frustrating way to lose out on 2 points but a draw not a disaster. Just the manner of the draw is the most annoying this and the way we lost control of the game in the second half.

Better decision making and quality in the final 3rf and we win that game easily, but in the end Ipswich well deserved their point. We need to more when we’re in good positions attacking.

Something’s to learn also as 99 points out. Keeper’s distribution really poor and sloppy passing also causing us a problem.

I haven't watched/listened to the game at all, but it's interesting to read the comments on how poor Ipswich were and how we did not take control of the game in the second half leading to us dropping two points.

Interesting because we were playing away to Ipswich, who are second in the table and have been chasing us all season - maybe stuttering a bit recently but commendably pushing us so far; as such I expect many would have taken a draw if offered before the game as it would have been seen as a good result and kept them well behind. It does seem that we have high expectations, but this match appears to be a microcosm of the season, with us playing well in parts but not for the whole game, and at times giving the opposition opportunities to score, which frequently have not been taken, mainly due to the poor standard of play in the Championship.

It is why I am failing to get completely excited by our performances this season. If, for example we are promoted and facing next season say, with the greatest of respect, one of the lower ranked teams in the EPL, Bournemouth, do we expect Solanke to be so generous with his misses as the Championship strikers tend to be? Also I can only think of very few games where we haven't given up some chances - the recent game against Rotherham springs to mind as one, but is the exception rather than the rule.

I suppose it's why I'm still feeling , with some trepidation about the future.

Not sure why you need to be a worry wart about next Season, it's a long way off yet.

Remember all the bull carp last Season, oh we'll be down there for the next 10 Seasons, we'll get relegated again to Div 1 etc.

The Club and Enzo have defied all expectations turning around a Cancer ridden squad into a Team breaking all sorts of records and running away ( atm ) with the League.

Once that happens they start again with the Premier League, anything 17th and above with be success again, thought of European Football are so far away they may as well just be forgotten for now but with Enzo you never know!

Just enjoy the ride and have faith in the Club and Enzo.

I can see all the same problems as you Nuneaton. But I think that we need to take a lead out of TB’s book a little and see what happens rather than worrying about it.

If we leave the gaps we’re doing right now and give away the chances we are we’ll be punished badly in the premier league. I’d forgotten just how big the gap is between strikers in the prem vs championship and it’s let us off so so many times.

We’re not setting the world alight winning games but with the quality we have, we are winning games and in record fashion. So it’s hard to complain.

So hopefully with some strengthening in the summer if we go up, we can see if Maresca’s methods do work or not. I certainly don’t think we’ll have a great season and feel like it will be an adjustment but I’m hoping we can stay up. My bigger concern really is the lack of chances we seem to create despite the amount of ball we have. I still don’t think we’ve got a centre forward that fits fully in this system. We had so many breaks yesterday where the tight pass would have resulted in a goal but we goosed it.

Despite our points haul this year my summary would be that we’re definitely a work in progress.

One more positive is we don't rely on Vardy anymore, not so long it seemed like it would be the end of the World.

comment by True Blue ( Wake up Boo ) (U9486)
posted about 5 hours ago
Not sure why you need to be a worry wart about next Season, it's a long way off yet.

Remember all the bull carp last Season, oh we'll be down there for the next 10 Seasons, we'll get relegated again to Div 1 etc.

The Club and Enzo have defied all expectations turning around a Cancer ridden squad into a Team breaking all sorts of records and running away ( atm ) with the League.

Once that happens they start again with the Premier League, anything 17th and above with be success again, thought of European Football are so far away they may as well just be forgotten for now but with Enzo you never know!

Just enjoy the ride and have faith in the Club and Enzo.
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But this is just isn’t true is it? Lets break it down

1. Find one single post on here predicting we would get relegated twice. I can’t remember Leicester fans saying that

2. It was TB himself that actually said we’re now relying on finding another Pearson to get promoted and that will take a long time

3. One of our most pessimistic posters Foxello (although I’m much worse) predicted we would come straight back up because we were too good for this division. He’s right. We are

4. The club and Enzo haven’t defied any expectations at all because we were the pre-season favourites to go straight back up 😂

5. I’ll admit I wasn’t confident when Maresca was hired - he’s proven me wrong in that respect, but I never thought we’d get relegated 😂

True Blues penultimate paragraph is the most revealing and backs up exactly what I’ve said about Rudkin and the ownership. There is now an acceptance that we have gone from an established PL club to a yo-yo team. We’re crossing our fingers we can stay up - the expectations are back to ‘little old Leicester’. Thats something that Top and Rudkin will always be ultimately responsible for - taking this team from the pinnacle under Vichai with firm foundations to a struggling yo yo club

I’m not sure anyone is accepting we’re a yo-yo club 99, but when you are relegated you have to accept that it’s not a simple task of rebuilding to establish yourself back in the prem.

Wages are cut, your best players leave, a new manager with new ideals is in. The fact we’re actually doing as well as we are is a shock to me.

But what we all want is for us to get promoted and invest wisely enough to stay up, and then build from there gradually and sustainably so we’re not a yo-yo club. I think that’s when the biggest questions of Rudkin will be asked - how does he oversee next summer if we are promoted. Get it wrong and we’re struggling to get results with Maresca’s ideals and we could see some bad results. But get it right and hopefully we can re-establish ourselves as a top half team.

These questions will remain unanswered until then because I think we all acknowledge there are still issues with this system and the players in it, but we’re winning because we have a different level of talent compared to the rest of the division.

If we have a different level of talent then it goes without saying that it shouldn’t be a surprise we’re smashing the championship. It’s exactly as Foxello said it would be. We lost 2 of our best players from last season but that was it. Losing the rest has been a blessing to be honest - they were that bad.

Next season for me is all about how long Rudkin (who is now the most influential person at the club) sticks with Maresca. Unless we start uncovering the next Kante and Mahrez’s, I really think we are in for hiding playing like this is the PL

Unfortunately - this is a style of football Rudkin has wanted to implement ever since 2017 and the reason why Puel was recommended to Vichai. Since Vichais passing Rudkins influence has grown considerably and Maresca has been brought in for one key reason - to return us to the style of patient, possession dominating football

What Rudkin doesn’t understand is that even if fans aren’t bored to death by it, no one outside the top 6 has the quality of players needed to pull it off. We’re getting away with giving the ball away every 30 seconds in the championship in a way in which we’re going to get ruthlessly punished in the PL. Cue Burnley

The rot at this football club is still very much here and I’m afraid our future depends on how quickly Rudkin can wake up from his delusion that Leicester can replicate Man City on a shoestring

Mersey - we are already a yo-yo club, bad enough last year to get relegated, and from results so far this season, too good for the Championship.

In a way I find that slightly a good thing, as a not implausible alternative to me before the start of the season would have been a terrible year in the lower league; fortunately, and to my surprise, the standard of football in this division has dropped considerably over the last 10 years - I'm having difficulty in believing how we are getting away time and time again with poor play (which would not be happening in the EPL).

I suppose there are two things which are making it difficult for me to properly enjoy our success so far, one being that very good position we find ourselves in, which is a constant reminder that we should never have got ourselves relegated last year, the other is what both Mersey and 99p have alluded to - how does the club, under the guidance of Rudkin , invest in players sufficient to make Enzo's style successful enough to stay up?

I get over the first point as we are where we are, and it's a better place than the immediate alternative. As to the investment needed next year I'm more with 99p than Mersey, but I'd even go as far that finding another Kante and Mahrez might not be enough - we'd still potentially be left with a back line giving up chances a plenty and a dearth of players in the team with the technical ability to play through defences.

Hence I'm staying with for the time being.

I’m in broad agreement with you both I think.

I sure the same doubts about our attempts to play the Man City way in the premier league. The rate in which we give the ball away doing it fills me with dread for next season. We’ll be punished badly.

But the reality is we’re going to attempt it aren’t we. Because Maresca isn’t going to change his ways so we’ll find out if we can recruit good enough players to make it work.

Strangely despite the rate in which we look open at the back, my bigger concern is actually that we don’t look dangerous enough with that system and better defences won’t leave the gaps we’ve exploited rather than created chances. For me our modified and front 3
Is a bigger concern.

Let’s hope we get promoted and ge to find out!!