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Hopefully Barnes can build some confidence from not shitting his pants in front of goal for once. I said (about 30 secs before he scored) a goal deflected off his arse or something is needed and I'm glad he did better than that. On the flip side of confidence we have Madders who either falls over or expects his floated crosses or shots to be allowed through.

For all Burnleh are a bunch of shithouses...when they had the ball in our half they went in numbers towards our box with speed. When we got it out wide every ****er queued up 30 yards out wanting to make that brilliant 2 yard sideways pass. I reckon even if we had a big centre forward we'd still leave only 1 in the box against 4/5.
 
We did carve them open and they were playing a high line providing space for Vardy to run into, BR should IMO have started with Albrighton for this one, he is more direct and looks to put Vardy in at the earliest opportunity, we do not always have to play and create the perfect goal.

Albrighton definitely should be starting. He looks for the forward pass every time.
 
According to Lako, I apparently need to offer an opinion, and so here it is.

Results started to tail off after the Villa game. We were poor against Norwich and it's continued. Some may argue that we were poor against Villa, I disagree, but that's the joy of opinions.

Up until Villa, there was little outside pressure. The media were actively ignoring us and our rise. It became a running joke, it was that obvious. Post Villa, Rogers and others gave interviews about being ignored and the media hype ramped up considerably. I've just found reports calling it a two horse race etc immediately after those interviews and that match. There was also the added pressure of it being a record breaking victory, Vardy being on another scoring run etc.

In my humble opinion, the pressure got to the players at the worst possible time. We went into the Liverpool and Man City games under that pressure. Suddenly the media were talking about us catching Liverpool and leaving Man City behind. Other than Kasper, Evans and Vardy, none of our regular first team have experience of playing at that pressure. It's not about having so many first team games (Barnes, Chilwell etc) or even Premier League games. It's about knowing how to deal with the pressure of having to win every time you step out there. That's hard to do with 8, mostly young, players new to that.

The same youthful confidence that served us so well leading up to the dip is equally fragile and susceptible to knocks.

What really pisses me off, and is a reflection on society as a whole, is how everything must be black and white. Nobody is allowed to make mistakes and learn or move on. Look at Stormzy with his accurate, but misreported, comment on racism. It wasn't enough for large swathes of society and the media to be given the correct context, there were demands for him to be dropped from labels and kicked off shows. It's the same with us. Chilwell has shown on many occasions he's a more than capable left wing back for this team. He's also shown on many occasions he has weaknesses that hinder that. He can't possibly be a young player trying to cope with the extra mental pressure and adapt his game and still be learning, he's "dogshit", or should be sold for whatever we can get.

So, my opinion Lako, is that the players have struggled with the pressure and played themselves into a bad run of form. None of them are shit (if they are, you'll need to think of a different word to describe Alan Maybury going forwards), as they clearly weren't when they drove us to second.

Great Post.

Might surprise you that I agree with it, but it shouldn't.
 
Now it could just be me (normally is), but if you look at the training pictures on the club website before this game, everyone looks a bit... miserable.
 
Albrighton definitely should be starting. He looks for the forward pass every time.
I was at the game - felt like it was crying out for Albrighton. I thought he changed the game for us against Villa, but hasn't had a sniff since.

I think the substitutions are quite interesting at the moment. We need attacking options. We were given lots of space on the wings today, but despite that Gray and Albrighton, two players that can cut inside and score, didn't even really warm up in the second half.
 
I was at the game - felt like it was crying out for Albrighton. I thought he changed the game for us against Villa, but hasn't had a sniff since.

I think the substitutions are quite interesting at the moment. We need attacking options. We were given lots of space on the wings today, but despite that Gray and Albrighton, two players that can cut inside and score, didn't even really warm up in the second half.

Yup. I was there too. Agreed with bringing Nacho on as I've said before as he wants to score or create goals. Marc should have been on too.
 
Interesting that on MOTD2 they felt we were back near our best and should have won.

We were better than recent performances, and didn't look as lethargic, the problem this game was tactics and confidence. We had plenty of chances but to me we didn't look dangerous. Perhaps I am being too critical.

I suppose if Vardy had been his usual self and Barnes wasn't so wasteful, on another day we might have scored 3 or 4 and it would have felt very different.

Brendan has to get the team playing with confidence again. I think we need a signing to liven things up. A powerful direct runner to drive us forwards, or a tricky winger to unlock defenses
 
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