Post Match Leicester 2 Stoke 0

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

I'm glad you can see what I can see with Mahrez, but it seems like no one is allowed to criticise the one and only Riyad. He has been absolute dog shit all season.

It is hard to put up with 80 minutes of Mahrez taking the ball past three defenders and not passing it, to wait for the 10 minutes of absolute magic that creates a couple of goals.

If he could manage the magic for even half a game, Barcelona would have snapped him up a year ago for £80million+!

 

[Blaarev]

It is hard to put up with 80 minutes of Mahrez taking the ball past three defenders and not passing it, to wait for the 10 minutes of absolute magic that creates a couple of goals.

If he could manage the magic for even half a game, Barcelona would have snapped him up a year ago for £80million+!

The 10 minutes of absolute magic is quite useful for us.

 

[David Gwilliam]

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Ndidi is the dogs danglies

Riyad. He has been absolute dog shit all season.

I like dogs. However, some members of the forum seem do seem to have an unsavoury interest. .

The applause for Birch and the nurse who saved his life was touching. The fireworks and support for the Chairman were impressive. Stoke fans must have been rather baffled by it.

For me Gray was second only to Ndidi. He caused Stoke problems all match and a different referee might well have reduced them to ten men after the Shawcross tackle. His manner of play will surely get us several penalties in the future.

Well done to Wes Morgan who spent a lot of time patiently posing for selfies

What has happened to Leicester's Mr Angry. In his prime Mike Stowell would have exploded at the Shawcross tackle; instead we got total calm. Has he taken up yoga?
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[camberwell fox]

The 10 minutes of absolute magic is quite useful for us.

I'm glad a few people are balanced and can look at the whole picture rather than individually point out players weaknesses (I'm all for subjective criticism when we aren't playing well and losing)...

 

[Lako42]

The 10 minutes of absolute magic is quite useful for us.

Sometimes, not often enough though.

I genuinely don't think he deserves a place in the 11, his body language and application is a joke at the moment.

He needs to forget all of this Barcelona talk as there is no way they will be genuinely looking at him, unless they could tap him up for a heavily reduced fee.

 

[Lako42]

I'm glad a few people are balanced and can look at the whole picture

Erm, you do realise you are replying to someone who said he's good for 10 minutes?

How is that the whole picture?

 

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

Because the 'good for 10 minutes' often produces a couple of goals, in the same way that Schmeichel is good for 10 minutes when he saves a couple of goals.

 

[yackandandah]

Okazaki out. He fell over and didn't score.

That'll be Shinji! And I love him to bits for it.

Watching him yesterday, his close control can be incredible. He can get the ball under control and turn so tightly, a real handful for anyone marking him. He plays little flicks and touches, faints and dummies too. Tricky little bugger!

I laugh when he skies a goal attempt though! Poor bloke is not the best in front of goal!!

 

[yackandandah]

Mahrez is our marmite perhaps. I've mentioned my uncertainty over him before, and I see it every time he plays. You wait for him to turn it on, knowing he can if the moon's in the right quadrant, but he so often disappoints. It's the promise that leads to the disappointment though. I guess we can't have it both ways.

I recall Le Havre fans where equally divided, some quite vociferously anti.

For me, he's not a complete player and I honestly can't see Barcelona being interested in him at the prices quoted. In fact, I can't see him going anywhere over the summer (excepting on his hols), I reckon he's got it good where he is - until he shows some consistency. He takes the field and you just don't know - which does, of course, make him someone oppositions fear. Worth that alone??

 

[Brown Nose]

The absolute state of this......I mean you come out with some weird and utterly absurd stuff but this takes the biscuit.

Utterly bizarre

When Gray has scored or created or worked for the team half as much as Schlupp did, then you might have a point.

Too many people rate players based on nothing more than potential nowadays. Gray is potentially excellent but he hasn't done anything yet. He doesn't score enough, he barely ever creates chances for others, his passing is poor, his decision making is terrible and his work rate is feeble.

Schlupp's decision making was also terrible but he out-performed Gray in every other one of those attributes. Schlupp was also versatile and a team player. Gray can only do one thing and looks to me as though he plays for himself.

Right now, I don't even think it's a close contest.

 

[spionfox]

Mahrez, currently an absolute insult to anyone on the bench.

80 minutes of complete piss, week in, week out.

Yet except for their keeper he could have had a hat-trick.

He always offers something even if it doesn't always look like it.

Criticism of him is a tad unfair IMHO.

 

[spionfox]

The fireworks and support for the Chairman were impressive.

Cake and beer on Tuesday

 

[FIF]

When Gray has scored or created or worked for the team half as much as Schlupp did, then you might have a point.

Too many people rate players based on nothing more than potential nowadays. Gray is potentially excellent but he hasn't done anything yet. He doesn't score enough, he barely ever creates chances for others, his passing is poor, his decision making is terrible and his work rate is feeble.

Schlupp's decision making was also terrible but he out-performed Gray in every other one of those attributes. Schlupp was also versatile and a team player. Gray can only do one thing and looks to me as though he plays for himself.

Right now, I don't even think it's a close contest.

He scared the Stoke defence to death. More so than Vardy and Mahrez put together. Gray is clearly the player we should build around over the next few years. He'll be an England regular within 2.

 

[Volpone]

Nope. I wasn't alone either. Each to their own but I wasn't impressed.

Maybe not but you are definitely in a minority. I thought he was outstanding. He could have gone into hiding after that dreadful foul by Shawcross which should have been a straight red. It's amazing it didn't break his thigh. Full marks to him and he was unlucky not to score.

 

[Volpone]

Unlike many, I thought Mahrez had a good game and was unlucky not to score two goals. I have been very critical of him this season but not yesterday.

Okazaki was fantastic for us yesterday and again unlucky in front of goal.

As regards Ndidi, I rate him much better than Kante already. He covers the ground and tackles just as well as Kante but he can also shoot and win headers. I wouldn't swap him.

 

[yackandandah]

It's perhaps hard to believe that our 2 most threatening/tricky/inventive (or whatever word you like) players could be the source of such division. Maybe it speaks to our own preferences of how the game is played? How we each see 'the beautiful game'?

For myself, both players equally frustrate and amaze. Gray played in Shinji yesterday when Vardy was the better option; it was frustrating. But then Gray had amazed to get himself into the position to make the wrong choice. As I said before, maybe you can't have one without the other.

 

[FIF]

Unlike many, I thought Mahrez had a good game and was unlucky not to score two goals. I have been very critical of him this season but not yesterday.

Okazaki was fantastic for us yesterday and again unlucky in front of goal.

As regards Ndidi, I rate him much better than Kante already. He covers the ground and tackles just as well as Kante but he can also shoot and win headers. I wouldn't swap him.

I'm not sure why people are complaining about Mahrez performance yesterday either. He hasn't been so good this season but yesterday I thought he had a good game. Okazaki had one of his best games of the season. The defence looked the safest I've seen in a long time.

What I love most about Ndidi is that he can head the ball so well. For far too long we've lacked a midfielder who can control the air. I'm pretty sure we'll see his first headed goal from a set piece before long.

 

[FIF]

It's perhaps hard to believe that our 2 most threatening/tricky/inventive (or whatever word you like) players could be the source of such division. Maybe it speaks to our own preferences of how the game is played? How we each see 'the beautiful game'?

For myself, both players equally frustrate and amaze. Gray played in Shinji yesterday when Vardy was the better option; it was frustrating. But then Gray had amazed to get himself into the position to make the wrong choice. As I said before, maybe you can't have one without the other.

But Shinji was open and should have scored - excpet he's shinji of course.

Mahrez should have passed to the open Vardy late in the game but I understand him being a bit selfish when we were 2-0 up and he was shooting well yesterday.

 

[popillius]

When Gray has scored or created or worked for the team half as much as Schlupp did, then you might have a point.

Too many people rate players based on nothing more than potential nowadays. Gray is potentially excellent but he hasn't done anything yet. He doesn't score enough, he barely ever creates chances for others, his passing is poor, his decision making is terrible and his work rate is feeble.

Schlupp's decision making was also terrible but he out-performed Gray in every other one of those attributes. Schlupp was also versatile and a team player. Gray can only do one thing and looks to me as though he plays for himself.

Right now, I don't even think it's a close contest.

I genuinely don't know if you are writing this convoluted nonsense to get a reaction (it has worked if that is the case) or, rather more worryingly, whether you actually believe this claptrap.

Schlupp did none of the things you seem to have imagined of him for 85 of any of the 90 minutes he was on the pitch. The term 'headless chicken' doesn't even come close to describing his wayward and inefficient style of 'football'. Gray is infinitely better in nearly every department both actually and potentially. Quite how you can even compare the two without any shadow of irony is beyond any reasonable comprehension. Gray wasn't at his best yesterday and yet for 90 minutes he was better that nearly anything we saw from Schlupp for nearly all of the time he was with us.

Normally when I disagree with you, I can a least see your logic. This time however, I cannot even begin to comprehend what you're thinking. Total and utter madness from start to finish.

 

[popillius]

I'm not sure why people are complaining about Mahrez performance yesterday either. He hasn't been so good this season but yesterday I thought he had a good game. Okazaki had one of his best games of the season. The defence looked the safest I've seen in a long time.

What I love most about Ndidi is that he can head the ball so well. For far too long we've lacked a midfielder who can control the air. I'm pretty sure we'll see his first headed goal from a set piece before long.

Absolutely agree with all of this especially about Mahrez. His performance yesterday was absolutely fine.