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Leicester v Swansea
Leicester v Swansea, Tuesday 30 Jan, 19:45
As the first month of the new year draws to a close we can reflect on what has been a pretty disastrous few weeks of football, with almost assuredly another defeat on the cards on Tuesday.
The Bournemouth game showed naive tactics, that our players had no backbone or fight in them and were leaderless on the field.
An example of a team fighting to win was the Ipswich v Maidstone match yesterday, where the Maidstone players pulled off a spectacular result against the odds.
We need to go back to basics and sort out our defending before trying to introduce those suicidal tactics again of passing out from the back. They didn’t work before with Martin because we didn’t have the right players so why should they suddenly work now under his protégé Williams.
Bringing back a failed keeper in Fisher for the Cup match wasn’t a good idea and must have affected the confidence of the defence in front of him, he was responsible for at least one of the goals. With the wing-backs Ashby and Cullen pushing high it left Wood, Naughton and Humphreys cruelly exposed. Mind you not one of the players came out of this match with any glory, and with five changes from the Southampton home defeat it was always going to be difficult.
I suppose you can go back to last summer to see where we went wrong. There are question marks over recruiting 13 players of which only two have come good, Rushworth and Key, who is out injured, and is not a success story.
Going back to Tuesday night’s game against the league leaders, football is a funny old game, as ‘Greavsie’ used to say, and we know that it can often be unpredictable. As diehard fans we live in hope that the unpredictable happens, that Williams can reverse the trend and start getting some results.
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Swansea: Carl Rushworth, Jay Fulton, Harry Darling, Matt Grimes (c), Jerry Yates, Jamie Paterson, Josh Tymon, Liam Cullen, Nathan Wood, Harrison Ashby, Bashir Humphreys
Subs: Andy Fisher, Kristian Pedersen, Ben Cabango, Joe Allen, Charlie Patino, Mykola Kuharevich, Kyle Naughton, Ollie Cooper, Ronald
Leicester: Mads Hermansen, Wout Faes, Callum Doyle, Harry Winks, Stephy Mavididi, Patson Daka, Ricardo Pereira (c), Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Jannik Vestergaard, Dennis Praet, Kasey McAteer
Subs: Jakub Stolarczyk, Conor Coady, Jamie Vardy, Hamza Choudhury, Tom Cannon, Yunus Akgun, Ben Nelson, Arvan Raikhy
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Leicester 3 - Swansea 1
Okay this is beyond a joke now. He plays the same useless players in defence again, Wood, Humphreys and Ashby and they all contributed to the Leicester’s goals. Together with his crazy tactics of a high line and playing out from the back we actually threw the game away again.
I mean what team goes to Leicester and plays those tactics against their fast forwards, it was suicidal.
Actually our attacking prowess wasn’t too bad but those good chances missed by Yates and Paterson were hugely frustrating.
Their first goal looked offside, their penalty was not a penalty as replays showed no contact in the block by Wood.
The short ar-e ref has form with us and didn’t hesitate to award the penalty.
We can’t go on giving silly goals away and Williams needs to abandon his mad tactics or we are going to be deep in it.
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Some shocking defending and individual errors made this a walk in the park for Leicester.
For supposed professional footballers this sh-t show was embarrassing.
As you say, surprisingly we also had some good chances but they were squandered anyway.
This coach is a weak product of the Martinball school of madness, carry on with those tactics and we’ll end up being relegated.
