Post Match Leicester 0 Cardiff 1

[cornishfox]

In 4 out of our last 5 league defeats, we have conceded goals from a similar distance. Everton, Palace, Tottenham & now Cardiff. All of these goals although of high qualiteeee were relatively unchallenged. Our midfield plays to deep. Harry arter yesterday made some bad challenges, but I am sure that the Cardiff fans would of been encouraged to see him playing at both ends of the pitch.

 

[PFKAKTF FOX]

Leicester City manager Claude Puel said "a lot of players were tired" as they slipped to a disappointing home defeat against Cardiff City. This was taken from the BBC website, this is where I have an issue, as Manager of the football club surely it is his responsibility and that of his backroom staff to assess workloads, fatigue etc and therefore make informed decisions as to which players needed rest and which players were fit enough to play 90 minutes at the required levels of intensity. This is why Premier League clubs have 25 man squads to help manage rotation and stop players from burning out. And yet we have a striker who is supposedly injured and needs his workload carefully managing, or at least that was the excuse for missing a cup quarter final, now being flogged for a 3rd game in 7 days ......this is absolutely clueless.

I think most fans are realistic enough to know that changes are inevitable at this time of year and many on here expected wholesale changes given the quick turnaround of games, however I was actually surprised that there were so few changes, albeit on paper I was happy enough with the team selected, assuming these players were deemed fit enough to play another 90 minutes. And this is where I have the issue, Claude you picked the team, you chose to make minimal changes and ignore a number of fringe players who would have been fully fit and have decent energy levels, to select 80-90% of the team that had already played 2 energy sapping games in the week, so to then trot out the tired card as an excuse is complete and utter rubbish. Squad management is critical at this time of year and I am surprised at how naive Claude and his backroom team were yesterday, in thinking that these players could perform to similar levels for a 3rd time in 7 days.

 

[big_mac4824]

Seriously?

Maddison played in the middle and Albrighton and Gray played wide. They might have switched on occasion as they've been given licence to roam but that was their default positions.

Maddison played in the middle? not from what I could see he was trying the fill the gap between Vardy and our midfield which played into Warnocks hands.

 

[homer]

Maddison played in the middle? not from what I could see he was trying the fill the gap between Vardy and our midfield which played into Warnocks hands.

He was playing in the middle in front of Ndidi and Mendy

Gray was on the wing

 

[big_mac4824]

He was playing in the middle in front of Ndidi and Mendy

Gray was on the wing

so did we have two strikers up front Homer?

 

[homer]

so did we have two strikers up front Homer?

No, of course we didn't

What match were you watching ?

 

[tedfoxxx]

I’m pretty down on Puel but I personally think yesterday was down to too many lazy, arrogant, plain bad performances from players.

For the obligatory Puel bash, i’d say it was allowed to go on too long, a change of shape would have made more sense than chucking Iheanacho on. Ricardo was our only attacking threat but obviously can’t do everything from so deep on the pitch. Mendy and Ndidi looked totally knackered, as well as the latter looking half pissed as he has done all season. What do you know, neither one is there to stop the winner from being hit.

Zero game management at home as usual. You can grind a team down with possession and punish them late on. Our lot labour away for ages and panic late on, let the game get stretched and lose all control. Sometimes we get lucky, yesterday we got punished. After beating the two teams we did over Christmas I am now completely flummoxed as to why these results happen. I’m still not happy with Puel in charge but **** me i’m surprised the bloke hasn’t torn his hair out yet watching some of those players perform inconsistently.

Good on Cardiff too, I think Maddison dived and they displayed a lot of heart to win the game after that. It’s hypocritical but if we’d played them off the park and won the game late on with a dodgy penalty I wouldn’t have cared. I still don’t particularly care to be honest, I’m all footballed out after another stupidly congested fixture list. If anything yesterday just serves to remind us that there’s zero chance of us getting 7th this year.

 

[The Old Fox]

I’d like to see him gone, but it has taken a while for me to get to that point, so I see why people would feel like that, though.

If my memory serves me correctly, you weren’t quite so patient when Pearson was in charge?

Guilty, as charged.

 

[big_mac4824]

No, of course we didn't

What match were you watching ?

Homer I was trying to respond to posts on here who were chastising me when I pointed out Puel made selection errors and they he was negative. we should have been more attacking and had 2 strikers upfront. Puel was wrong for dropping Choudry I think he should have dropped Ndidi instead.
He is too conservative by playing one attacker as I stated earlier whether he puts Maddison or Shinji upfront I don't care as long as we support Vardy, the problem is Puel will not change formation.

 

[pork pie fox]

so did we have two strikers up front Homer?

 

[pork pie fox]

Guilty, as charged.

I thought so. I find it interesting that you can be so keen to support Puel, given how little patience you had with NP. I realise not all situations are the same, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

I think I probably sit in the middle of our supporters, in that I’m never the first to start calling for a manager’s head, but I won’t support them blindly.

Ultimate we all want the best for the club, so we all have the same target. We just differ on how we see the best way to get there.

 

[Brown Nose]

He was playing in the middle in front of Ndidi and Mendy

Gray was on the wing

I think the confusion comes about because of the way Puel plays 4-2-3-1.

His approach is that the two wide support attacking players tend to cut inside a lot. The width is supposed to come mostly from the full backs. It's how he's always played the system. Sometimes players like it, for example it suited Mahrez down to the ground. Other players that are actual wingers don't really thrive. It's very rare that we see a winger run down to the byline and put a cross in. Only the full backs do it, and even that is pretty unusual.

I think Puel would rather play someone like Gray as a striker, much like he converted Redmond to one at Southampton. I just don't think that he likes players that want to play out wide in those positions.

This is why he doesn't see anything much wrong with playing Maddison in one of the wider roles, because he expects them to tuck in.

To be brutally honest, I don't think that our approach suits any of our forward minded players. They all have to adapt to it in some way as what they're asked to do doesn't come natural to them. It really is bonkers management.

 

[tedfoxxx]

I thought so. I find it interesting that you can be so keen to support Puel, given how little patience you had with NP. I realise not all situations are the same, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

I think I probably sit in the middle of our supporters, in that I’m never the first to start calling for a manager’s head, but I won’t support them blindly.

Ultimate we all want the best for the club, so we all have the same target. We just differ on how we see the best way to get there.

It’s almost 2019. Almost nobody thinks like this, get with the times.

 

[The Old Fox]

I thought so. I find it interesting that you can be so keen to support Puel, given how little patience you had with NP. I realise not all situations are the same, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

I think I probably sit in the middle of our supporters, in that I’m never the first to start calling for a manager’s head, but I won’t support them blindly.

Ultimate we all want the best for the club, so we all have the same target. We just differ on how we see the best way to get there.

It is not so much that I support Claude Puel: I would be surprised, were we to reach the end of the season and find that CP has created an exciting, entertaining team. I do, however, think that it would be in the best interests of the club to wait, unless a top manager is currently available, and sounded out, as a replacement.

We do need to be careful; Puel has seen us comfortably in the top half of the table and twice to the quarter finals of the Carabao Cup. If we get a reputation for unreasonable expectations, who will want the job?

 

[pork pie fox]

It is not so much that I support Claude Puel: I would be surprised, were we to reach the end of the season and find that CP has created an exciting, entertaining team. I do, however, think that it would be in the best interests of the club to wait, unless a top manager is currently available, and sounded out, as a replacement.

We do need to be careful; Puel has seen us comfortably in the top half of the table and twice to the quarter finals of the Carabao Cup. If we get a reputation for unreasonable expectations, who will want the job?

Those who want to manage a club that aims higher than that?

 

[pork pie fox]

It’s almost 2019. Almost nobody thinks like this, get with the times.

Apologies. I’m far too moderate for our binary world.

 

[lazzer]

When Abrighton got subbed he wasn't happy but high fived all the squad sat on the bench before taking his seat. Gray on the other hand flounced off and sat down. Just saying.

 

[RHYDAL]

In the cold sober light of the day after, I think 3 points each over our two games is a good return for each of us. I thought that there wasn't much to chose in that game at our place, emotions probably won the day. We played a classic away strategy and nicked it at your place with some heroic goalkeeping and a moment of magic. Realistically, I'd suggest that two bore draws were odds on with two points each overall.
Onward.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

That was so crap. I couldn't bring myself to talk about how crap that was until now.

N'Didi needs dropping ASAP and Iborra or Choudhury should've been in the team. Those subs were disgusting choices.

The biggest thing for me is how we simply cannot break a team down. We were generally OK in defence apart from a few times, however we just cannot pass and move. It was staggering how little confidence we had. That penalty. I managed to catch it on video. I keep looking at it. It is a terrible penalty. You would've thought we'd have learned from the Carabao Cup.

Sitting in SK4 and the crowd was quiet. There seems to be a mood which I think won't be revitalised until Puel goes or puts together a good string of results over 8/10 games.

Credit to Bamba who was man of the match and Etheridge not far off. What a goal to be beaten by - a contender for goal of the season for sure. I hope Cardiff stay up.

 

[alli1]

they all look a bit pissed off to me ,I thought stood out for me he lost interest ,it was a totally flat load of the normal puel shit (but they still keep the arse)