Post Match Leicester 1 Bristol City 2

[Jeff]

Eco has made a very sensible point.

Have you had your eyes tested recently?

 

[FoxCovert]

Have you had your eyes tested recently?

Can you see this David




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[RHYDAL]

Eco has made a very sensible point. He has not said that he does not understand the panic of some of the posters. It is easy to single out alli but he has not been the worst poster to over-react. At the start of the match many people around me thought that replacing Mills with St Ledger was right and after Saturday it was not unreasonable. You may remember that in post 85 someone claims dropping Mills for St Ledger "was bordering on insane."

Yes Homer it is a football forum and people can pass on opinions however silly. Eco is equally entitled to pass on sensible ones as well.

I'm afraid I disagree David. What Eco has done is give instructions on how fans should behave i.e.calm down and get behind the team.

If a fellow Cardiff fan told me how to behave they'd get a flea in their ear too. I'm with Homer on this.

 

[escos66]

I'm afraid I disagree David. What Eco has done is give instructions on how fans should behave i.e.calm down and get behind the team.

If a fellow Cardiff fan told me how to behave they'd get a flea in their ear too. I'm with Homer on this.

How the **** is "can we all please calm down" an instruction? The rest may be a suggestion but not an instruction!

 

[RHYDAL]

How the **** is "can we all please calm down" an instruction? The rest may be a suggestion but not an instruction!

I think Beighton is better qualified than me to comment on how what you actually wrote (with double exclamation marks and a FFS) constitutes an instruction. He is currently Pendant in Chief.

 

[Matt_B]

I think Beighton is better qualified than me to comment on how what you actually wrote (with double exclamation marks and a FFS) constitutes an instruction. He is currently Pendant in Chief.

 

[Blue Maniac]

After suffering a second shock home defeat of the season to Bristol City midweek, Leicester City’s manager has a hill to climb to get them in The Premier League…

Buy a stiker

Last season Leicester City scored 76 goals, which is on par for promotion, but only three players netted more than five goals in the League and one of them – Yakubu (11 goals) – isn’t at the club any more, which ain’t great.

Strangely, to compound matters, the other two players who did get more than five League goals – Andy King (15) and Paul Gallagher (10) – have been relegated to the bench for the first couple of matches which leaves a 36-goal-sized headache for Sven, partly of his own making.

So while ‘sign a striker’ sounds obvious, and it probably is, it is also an absolute must.

There have been moves to try and bring Yakubu back to the King Power Stadium but his wages seem to be a sticking point. The club’s also missed out on LA-bound Robbie Keane (although as we don’t play in green that’s probably no bad thing) and Shane Long, who bizarrely decided he wanted to play in the Premier League. Everton’s Jermaine Beckford and Bristol City’s Nicky Maynard have also been mentioned as targets, among a not inconsiderable list of others.

Sort out their form away from home

Last season Leicester had the fourth best home record in the division but they were woeful away from home with the 17th best record. If Sven wants his boys to win promotion he needs to sort this as a matter of urgency as away form is a marginally better barometer of success than what teams do at home. Don’t believe me? Well, *adjusts train-spotter specs* check the stats; of the twenty teams to finish in the Championship’s top two over the last 10 years, only seven have had the best home record, whereas eight have had the best away record. Yet, perhaps more significantly only one of those 20 teams (Birmingham in 2008/09) had an away record worse than third best yet conversely six had a home record worse than third best.

While ‘sign a striker’ sounds obvious, and it probably is, it is also an absolute must.

Don’t believe the hype

OK, we have the billionaire owners and the superstar manager who’s been spunking money like Billy Big Bollocks all close season so it’s little wonder that the club were pre-season favourites to take the Championship title. But let’s not forget it wasn’t so long ago that City went into administration without having points docked, only to gain promotion to the Premier League in the same season, something which still rankles with some opposition supporters. So the reality is that every team sees Leicester as a scalp. Furthermore, despite spending in excess of £10m the team only has the look of a very good Championship team, promotion is far from guaranteed.

Sven needs to work out his best 11. Fast.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Sven and I reckon he’ll get it right but the first home game of the season – against Reading – was dire (not Lloyd Dyer, you understand) with a sense that the team was too defensive and had no creative spark. That the team’s performance was so poor makes it harder to understand why two of last season’s most consistent midfield performers, King and Gallagher, started on the bench. The influx of new signings means that things will take time to gel, but this is exactly what Sven gets paid to sort out, no? With the amount of money that’s been pumped into the club the pressure is on, and this year the Championship looks particularly strong, so what City can’t afford is to be playing catch up after a slow start.

Finally, the fans must be patient

Wow! Bloody hell! Come on guys! OK the defeat at home to Reading was more than a little disappointing but that was only the SECOND game of the season and yet it still spawned a deluge of fan forum posts bemoaning the fact the team was ‘only’ in 15th place. Like I said, in case you didn’t know: THE SEASON’S HARDLY STARTED.

Others were moved to ask whether Sven is the messiah or a just a mercenary. Clue: He’s neither. But he is one of the most experienced and successful managers working in Europe today, so d’ya know what? I say let’s give him a little bit more time. And while we’re at it, let’s not forget that many of the players brought in on loan last season have gone while over the summer he’s signed more than 10 replacements so it’s a much changed team which will take time to gel. One swallow (defeat) does not a summer (season) make. If we’re still 15th after 20 games, then we can start calling the Swede a turnip.

Who wrote this?

Beighton... is currently Pendant in Chief.

Is he ****.

 

[Jeff]

Who wrote this?

Don't you know how to use a search engine?

It came from http://www.sabotagetimes.com/footba...ter-city-need-to-get-into-the-premier-league/


People should link to the source when copying stuff from other sites.

 

[RHYDAL]

Is he ****.

Whoosh.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Don't you know how to use a search engine?

Yes.

It came from http://www.sabotagetimes.com/footba...ter-city-need-to-get-into-the-premier-league/

Yes.

People should link to the source when copying stuff from other sites.

Yes.

Whoosh.

Yes.

 

[David Gwilliam]

Having criticised Alli and Homer I should give them the chance to fire back with my own review of the match.

Generally I approved of the dropping of the players who were so poor against Reading and was optimistic since Bristol City are believed by their fans to have a terrible back four. I was disappointed at how little we did to test that back four. When we tried to set up attacks the balls were too often overhit and Dyer in particular suffered from bad service. After a while the team got in a habit of passing sideways and backwards. I am not one of those who objects "We're playing the other way" but I felt we were not getting the ball forward enough, Sven and Faz clearly thought the same way. Doing "the easy pass" to another defender led to what I can only describe as casualness by St Ledger and a quite dreadful goal.

David Nugent deserved his goal. I am optimistic that in a different system he will be a very effective striker.

At the start I was pleased to see King and Gallagher in the team. However, King who I expected to be outstanding this season contributed very little. Gallagher was more like the fringe player of Pearson's day than the improved Gally of last year - he was positive but far too often gave away possession. Toward the end of the match he was becoming tense and frustrated; at one point showing petulence toward a linesman who had actually called a decioson correctly. Toward the end of the match he seemed to be involved in an altercation with a Bristol player but I am not sure what happened - can someone please tell me.

Sven has said that we played better than against Reading. I do not agree. Reading are a good team and played well.Bristol City are very poor and yet with their penalty it might easily have been 3-1.

 

[Jeff]

with their penalty it might easily have been 3-1.

If they'd scored their penalty we might have won 3-2.

 

[Blue Maniac]

If they'd scored their penalty we might have won 3-2.

We might, but I think it would have finished 15-12.

 

[Miles Away]

Just watched the lowlights:

Absolute stinker from St Ledger for their second, no other way to describe it. Not sure why Peltier gave him the ball either.

Nugent looks tidy in the snippets I saw, could do with some support though.