Leicester City - v - Leeds United ***Matchday Thread***

[norfolk white]

You say doom and gloom, bad luck cannot continue if we keep losing games, the time and games are running out, more bad luck and unluckily not taking our chances against villa and Norwich next week will definitely put us in the mire, we need to win both of those, I pray we do.

[WTF11]

Before he went back to Brazil. Never been the same since. Unless jetlag lasts a month.
Was he got at there?

Hasn't been the same player since before then. Agents head was turned with all the megabucks talk in the summertime and I suspect it built itself into the new contract. Like others have said, once the other clubs know how good you are and you know what they can offer by way of PL and European competition, why would you risk crocking yourself for a few games for a club you will leave in the summertime? There is no loyalty in professional football, hasn't been for a LONG time.

[klix]

Certainly noticed yesterday how jesse has worked on the shape of the team.
Once leicester had possession in their area.
Harrison Raphinia rodrigo and James just went to a straight line of 4, making it difficult for Leicester to come out, the press was controlled.
At the back we looked more compact, so great work on that and it will get better.
Massive massive worry for me is Raphinia, JM certainly has a issue with him, he's reminding me of Martial when at Man Utd, what the heck am I doing here at 12.30 on a saturday.
Just bloody smile and look like your enjoying getting paid 60k plus a week, and doing something we all would love to do.
In a ideal world yesterday, I would have kept him with Rogers and we took Vardy for the rest of the season, at 35 what a credit to the game that lad is.
I would be thinking of James Harrison on wings,
Joffy and rodrigo up top until bamford is back.
I would just use raphinia last 20 mins if he would bloody allow that done to him.
He is in for a shock if he thinks he could play for Liverpool with that attitude.
Scoring goals now is the key to any survival, if you cannot score you don't win footy matches its that simple.
Norwich is must win, Villa that could be anything.
I would take 4 points now but 3 is a must.
Something in our favour is we finish with 2 winnable games which will be crucial.
I honestly now cannot call the bottom 3, you have to think Watford Norwich are favs to go,
1 from Leeds Burnley everton Brentford.
50/50 to close to call, but we enough games and quality to just get out in my view.

[klix]

To follow up on that - Chelski 11 shots, 5 on target and 4 goals. If you want a low budget comparison: Aston Villa 14 shots, 9 on target and 4 goals (and they did that with only 38% possession). It makes our return from 19 shots look pitiful (which it is). If we had Watkins OR Ings (or Pukki or Toney for that matter) we would be comfortably mid table by now instead of scrapping it out with the bottom feeders.

We know who we can thank for not having a back up in place....
JM has clearly worked wonders on our shape and defence in 4 days. The world could see on Sat the massive improvement... kasper being man of the match tells the story.
Strikers come at a premier rate, they tend to be the most expensive commodity at a football club in general... At the moment we have joffy fit.
This week I'm sure JM will be working on our finishing... Rodrigo now needs to show something this is the time before he goes..
Everton have 2 up top who are quality when on song.
Burnley have a couple of strikers who on the day can cause problems
Brentford have Toney.
Watkins we could have got but ended up with rodrigo, Toney at 10 million was there to see if you can recruit properly...

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

We know who we can thank for not having a back up in place....
JM has clearly worked wonders on our shape and defence in 4 days. The world could see on Sat the massive improvement... kasper being man of the match tells the story.
Strikers come at a premier rate, they tend to be the most expensive commodity at a football club in general... At the moment we have joffy fit.
This week I'm sure JM will be working on our finishing... Rodrigo now needs to show something this is the time before he goes..
Everton have 2 up top who are quality when on song.
Burnley have a couple of strikers who on the day can cause problems
Brentford have Toney.
Watkins we could have got but ended up with rodrigo, Toney at 10 million was there to see if you can recruit properly...

Watkins hasn’t been that prolific at Villa. Toney not that great - the one MB was supposedly interested in was Brereton Diaz at Blackburn and who has been prolific this season.

We also miss a free scoring attacking midfielder - how many key goals did Pablo pop up with - that hasn’t really been replaced.

[klix]

Watkins hasn’t been that prolific at Villa. Toney not that great - the one MB was supposedly interested in was Brereton Diaz at Blackburn and who has been prolific this season.

We also miss a free scoring attacking midfielder - how many key goals did Pablo pop up with - that hasn’t really been replaced.

Pablo never replaced shocking

[WTF11]

We know who we can thank for not having a back up in place....
JM has clearly worked wonders on our shape and defence in 4 days. The world could see on Sat the massive improvement... kasper being man of the match tells the story.
Strikers come at a premier rate, they tend to be the most expensive commodity at a football club in general... At the moment we have joffy fit.
This week I'm sure JM will be working on our finishing... Rodrigo now needs to show something this is the time before he goes..
Everton have 2 up top who are quality when on song.
Burnley have a couple of strikers who on the day can cause problems
Brentford have Toney.
Watkins we could have got but ended up with rodrigo, Toney at 10 million was there to see if you can recruit properly...

Said as much (particularly about Toney (9 in 23 appearances, and 10m, compared to Rodrigo 3 in 23 and cost us 26m!))

[WTF11]

Said as much (particularly about Toney (9 in 23 appearances, and 10m, compared to Rodrigo 3 in 23 and cost us 26m!))

Interesting (maybe) given the comments in the Rapha thread, but Rapha is ahead of the likes of Saka, Kane, Bowen AND Antonio, so it's perhaps not surprising that his head drops given he knows where we are and the prospects of relegation? Just saying.

[Billyni]

Perhaps if he took an interest and made an effort we wouldn’t be facing the prospect of relegation.

[WTF11]

Perhaps if he took an interest and made an effort we wouldn’t be facing the prospect of relegation.

He's had sh1te service in most matches yet still on a par with Kane, Antonio, Toney etc, and yet has seen us ship more goals than I've had hot dinners so human nature being what it is (and PL football being what it is), the thought must cross the guys mind "why bother and risk crocking myself for a team that can't defend"?