Leicester v Swansea

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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.