Post Match Fleetwood 0 Leicester 0 (FA cup)
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I don't see how (pedantry aside)
I'm simply disputing it being a result "never" in doubt when we were quite clearly lucky with that shot off the post.
popillius
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Yes, really. Unless your crystal ball says otherwise the outcome may not have been different. We should have had more than enough on that pitch to beat them regardless of Mahrez's inclusion. Blame the performances of the players on the pitch rather than the ifs, buts and maybes surrounding a single player who wasn't.
Perhaps giving players a break away from football so that they can recuperate properly after a very difficult series of games is a good way to keep them healthy, happy and playing at the top of their form. Just a sensible and rational thought mind.
popillius
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I would suggest you read Jeff's original post again really carefully.
City Fan
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You don’t think 7 days is enough?
If we were playing in the semis of the EFL cup I would completely agree with the lineup today. But in my opinion Puel completely ****ed up today.
The Old Fox
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The positive from this is that Puel has seen, under match conditions, who is and who is not worth a squad place. He can now decide where to use youngsters as back up and where he needs to strengthen.
Just a point for those complaining about Mahrez not playing: it MUST have occurred to you that he may well be off to pastures new during this window. City will want to get the best price and an un-cuptied striker should attract a higher fee within the UK.
Just a point for those complaining about Mahrez not playing: it MUST have occurred to you that he may well be off to pastures new during this window. City will want to get the best price and an un-cuptied striker should attract a higher fee within the UK.
I'm not critical of Puel in the slightest. That selection should have had enough about it to win; despite unfamiliarity, playing surface and whatever other excuses might get offered. We were simply poor and I'm at a loss to know why. On paper, that was a more than capable selection for the purpose.
In reality, we were poor and lucky.
In reality, we were poor and lucky.
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popillius
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No, I don't. After such a hectic schedule I would suggest there is more to rest and recuperation than a break from physicality. I hope those first team regulars who were not involved today were sunning themselves with their families in foreign climes. Like I say, happiness is also key to performing well. Puel took the sensible option today and played the odds; the players let him down not vice versa.
fitz
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Hopefully they all got to sit at home eating wedges and fried chicken or we can kiss goodbye to our open top bus for 8th/9th in May.
Other teams with something to play for in the league managed to put out more than 1 player who plays occasionally. It could be Puel or it could be the board but someone couldn't give a **** about this competition (or the other cup) in our club. Granted the money isn't there but our most skilful player is looking to move to win trophies and we are fully justifying that by doing our best to avoid competing for any.
popillius
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How on earth does putting out a team full of international, well paid, Premier League players, some of whom, individually, are valued at more than the entire opposition squad against a League One outfit such as Fleetwood, shown you that the club doesn't care about trying to win the FA Cup? Some of the conclusions people on this forum leap to are apocalyptically chasm-like!
That squad should have beaten Fleetwood without any problems. I'll state again, the fact that they didn't is not proof of anything other than some of our players are, at times, egotistical, perennial under-achievers who don't care enough. What in God's name is the point in having a squad if you are not going to use it to replace injured players or give your most valuable players more chances to recover properly so that they can serve you better? Whatever the number of people on here (and it isn't many thank goodness) that think Mahrez should have played, there would be countless more criticising Puel if Mahrez had played in such a game and picked up an injury that put him out for weeks. Every business should protect their best assets.
Brown Nose
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I don't know what you're all getting so worked up about a draw in the third round for.
I guarantee that we'll end this season with a trip to Wembley . . .
I guarantee that we'll end this season with a trip to Wembley . . .
Blaarev
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Indeed
City Fan
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Ah yes thank goodness there aren’t too many people that have a different opinion to your obviously correct one.
Clearly the 0-0 we just served up without getting a shot on target shows you’re correct that we put out a team good enough to win. Clearly.
fitz
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The number of changes is my main beef. I could put up with a few but that was stupid.
International and prem players? Sounds great until you look at them. The keeper often kept out by Hamer as a reserve. a back 4 where the most regular first team performances come from someone who can't actually defend. A player who hasn't played a full prem match due to our incompetence playing alongside two championship quality players who have had their day. A winger who can perform on a bowling green surface who also prone to take the arse, thrown into a team of duffers on a shit pitch. A lost child on the opposite wing. Slim up front standing around able to contribute **** all, I'm a big critic of his but he had the hardest job of the lot.
Blue Maniac
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I understand your point, but does any top level player move clubs so they can have a better chance of winning the FA Cup?
fitz
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Arsenal.......
Edit - they all move for money, I get that. Surely though some half decent players would rather come to a club for similar money who want to win things than move to another West Brom type club that most of us appear to dream to be.
Blue Maniac
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Ture. Or Liverpool.
fitz
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A move to Liverpool doesn't bring the benefit of 8 months out with an injury though, you're expected to actually play there.
popillius
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Except that's not what I said. You have a habit of making this type of nonsense up so I can't be bothered to explain it to you - there isn't a piece of paper or a wax crayon big enough.
Do you think that this is the paradigm? Because we drew, the team we put out are not ever going to be good enough to beat Fleetwood? I suppose that the team Stoke fielded today are a much worse side than Coventry City then. Maybe the team of players Chelsea put out against Norwich are equally matched. In the Premier League, as Crystal Palace drew with Manchester City a week back, their two squads are equally as good as one another. Your logic is twisted at best and foolish at worst.
Just because they didn't win, that doesn't show that they weren't good enough to. It may show that, today, they couldn't be bothered or that they were too arrogant or any other number of things.
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