Maddison and Tielemans created our only openings tonight. There is zero creativity in that side setting up ultra-defensively against the league's bottom side is perhaps a little too conservative.
Praet and Barnes can both be creative, until Tielemans relearns how to actually run around he will keep getting caught out and is often far too casual
I think he played some excellent balls tonight and created many good opportunities including a sublime pass from which Vardy should have put us one up. Running around is absolutely no determiner of quality and we should know that from watching the likes of Hume and Slimani. His engine is not great though. 70 minutes is his limit and that is a concern. Praet is most certainly not creative. Nearly every single pass goes backwards or sideways. He is a very tidy footballer indeed and a good holding player for when Ndidi isn't available but he will never be a creative midfielder.
if fit he starts in place of Hamza, but until he's back I'm going to keep assuming he's unavailable
Oh yeah. Kind of forgot about him! He starts in place of Praet with everything else the same if he's fit.
Has it escaped everyone that we looked like a team of 11 players last night? As soon as you start with Barnes you are effectively playing with 10 men, he is awesome going forward but he is ****ing bone idle and tactically clueless.
it would be a terrible message if they are not dropped when consistently poor, people keep saying they created our chances last night but not through anything special they just played the ball over the top, Praet could do that but he was the deepest man so wasn't in a position to
| P | Pld | Pts | |
| 1 | Ipswich | 43 | 89 |
| 2 | Leicester | 42 | 88 |
| 3 | Leeds Utd | 43 | 87 |
| 4 | Southampton | 42 | 84 |
| 5 | West Brom | 43 | 72 |
| 6 | Norwich City | 43 | 71 |
| 7 | Hull City | 42 | 65 |
| 8 | Coventry City | 42 | 63 |
| 9 | Middlesbro | 43 | 63 |
| 10 | Preston | 43 | 63 |
| 11 | Cardiff City | 43 | 59 |
| 12 | Bristol City | 43 | 58 |
| 13 | Sunderland | 43 | 56 |
| 14 | Swansea City | 43 | 53 |
| 15 | Watford | 43 | 52 |
| 16 | Millwall | 43 | 50 |
| 17 | Blackburn | 43 | 49 |
| 18 | Plymouth | 43 | 48 |
| 19 | QPR | 43 | 47 |
| 20 | Stoke City | 43 | 47 |
| 21 | Birmingham | 43 | 45 |
| 22 | Huddersfield | 43 | 44 |
| 23 | Sheffield W | 43 | 44 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 43 | 23 |
