Post Match Leicester 1 Stoke 1

[homer]

Holy shit, that was truly awful wasn't it

The whole set up was a complete sham once the first five minutes of hussle and bustle was out of the way. There was one time when Chilwell, Albrighton, Mahrez, James and Gray were all stood on the left touchline fartarsing about with it while Vardy stood on his own thirty odd yards away. It summed up the whole first sixty minutes of the game in one horrible moment.

Completely unbalanced, completely devoid of ideas, lacking any ounce of creative thought (apart from Mahrez), no frontwards movement off the ball, slow pedestrian tripe through the middle and the predictable ball to the wing. Clueless. How the manager cannot see what is blindingly obvious is a mystery. The game changed as soon as the subs came on, but it was much too late

Well i say 'subs' but in reality only one man came on, so utterly inept was Iheanacho. Not quite sure I've seen anything quite like his 'performance' at this level ever. He's a complete donkey, I'm afraid, and that's that

Facts are Gray simply isn't good enough, Albrighton is now complete wank, Schmeichel appears to be having some sort of breakdown, and Matty James plays at walking pace in the fastest moving League in the world

A dozen corners of complete and utter rubbish, and an equal number of hopeless, hopeful 'crosses' to absolutely no one. How ironic that our goal comes from yet another hopeless cross that was nowhere near any of our own players

My main worry is that Puel simply doesn't understand what is wrong, and that doesn't bode well for the future

 

[Micky]

The comparisons to Shakespeare are not warranted. Under Shakespeare we were totally dreadful and still got dominated. Now we are dominating (possession) but do not have the nous to unlock the opposition.

For me, the big problems are Simpson at right back, James in midfield and the lack of support around Vardy.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Wank.

 

[Volpone]

Holy shit, that was truly awful wasn't it

The whole set up was a complete sham once the first five minutes of hussle and bustle was out of the way. There was one time when Chilwell, Albrighton, Mahrez, James and Gray were all stood on the left touchline fartarsing about with it while Vardy stood on his own thirty odd yards away. It summed up the whole first sixty minutes of the game in one horrible moment.

Completely unbalanced, completely devoid of ideas, lacking any ounce of creative thought (apart from Mahrez), no frontwards movement off the ball, slow pedestrian tripe through the middle and the predictable ball to the wing. Clueless. How the manager cannot see what is blindingly obvious is a mystery. The game changed as soon as the subs came on, but it was much too late

Well i say 'subs' but in reality only one man came on, so utterly inept was Iheanacho. Not quite sure I've seen anything quite like his 'performance' at this level ever. He's a complete donkey, I'm afraid, and that's that

Facts are Gray simply isn't good enough, Albrighton is now complete wank, Schmeichel appears to be having some sort of breakdown, and Matty James plays at walking pace in the fastest moving League in the world

A dozen corners of complete and utter rubbish, and an equal number of hopeless, hopeful 'crosses' to absolutely no one. How ironic that our goal comes from yet another hopeless cross that was nowhere near any of our own players

My main worry is that Puel simply doesn't understand what is wrong, and that doesn't bode well for the future

Totally agree with all the above and thanks for saving me the time it would have taken me to write it myself.

Chilwell by far the worst player on the pitch. Simpson was hopeless. Even Maguire was woeful today. Gray contributed nothing. Vardy was tripe. Albrighton was poor. Our keeper was hopeless.

What did Dragovich do wrong? Why has Amartey been ditched? Why pay over £20 million for international midfielders and not play them yet keep James in the team who cost next to nowt?

Baffled.

 

[camberwell fox]

The comparisons to Shakespeare are not warranted. Under Shakespeare we were totally dreadful and still got dominated. Now we are dominating (possession) but do not have the nous to unlock the opposition.

For me, the big problems are Simpson at right back, James in midfield and the lack of support around Vardy.

I agree with the Vardy bit but the rest?

 

[Micky]

I agree with the Vardy bit but the rest?

The rest?

 

[Brown Nose]

Yet another home match where I'm looking around the stadium or trying to keep my eyes open. We're sooooo boring to watch. Pointless passing and no inventiveness.

Only thing worth being there for at the moment is Mahrez. He's the only quality on display until even he couldn't be bothered any more as the game wore on. The rest were all plodding, brain dead and disinterested throughout.

During one of my longer lapses in interest in the game, I began to apply some counter factual assumptions if we'd not employed Puel and kept with Appleton (or Filbert Fox to be honest). I don't think we'd be any better or worse off. I just don't see the point of Puel. He's come in and just tried to adapt the team to his own image; dour, traditional and predictable. Great, thanks for that.

I don't understand what we're trying to do. I don't think the players seem to give a shit any more. We're just another plastic team pretending to be something better than we are. And what they're doing in training all week to serve up that drivel is a total mystery.

Oh, and either Iheanacho has had a lobotomy or he really doesn't want to be here.

 

[Volpone]

Only 2 wins from the last 11 games and how did Albrighton get man of the match? I thought his final ball was poor throughout.

 

[Jeff]

Why pay over £20 million for international midfielders and not play them yet keep James in the team who cost next to nowt?

Why does the cost of a player come into it?
Mahrez cost next to nowt, should we have dropped him at the expense of a more expensive player like Musa?

 

[Blue Maniac]

Clearly there was a modicum of exaggeration in the statement but there is such a thing as playing above your level. Maybe hes been very fortunate in his career to have been carried by team mates of significantly better ability. All I can say to that is that just because a bar of gold looks like a bar of gold, and is surrounded by other bars of gold does not mean that it is not actually a steaming pile of dogshit - disguised as a bar of gold

Gold-plated dogshit is about an appropriate description of Charlie Adam’s Premier League career as is possible with English words.

 

[camberwell fox]

Simpson and James. Although not the greatest - weren’t the main offenders today, Chilwell was awful and tried to be Pele but has the vision of Ray Charles. Please don’t ask me to bescribe the performance of albrighton today.

 

[camberwell fox]

And ****ing hell Gray is shit, along with Nacho who must have ate his own body weight in turd before the game to stink that bad.

 

[popillius]

I don't understand the criticism of James today. I suppose it's just his turn to be enemy number one this month but he's done little wrong today or in most of the games he has appeared in. How on earth anyone with eyes can advocate Iborra or Silva starting over him after the complete manure they have served up is beyond comprehension. I'm hopeful Silva will become Ndidi's partner in midfield but he needs to get a whole deal tidier and fitter before that can happen.

Gray was appalling today and Albrighton, although not for want of trying, was apocalyptically poor. But the prize for horse shit performance of the week is shared by Chilwell and Schmeichel. Both need removing from the first eleven but then this was the story after last week and nithing happened. Puel must learn that he has players whose strengths aren't what he wants them to be and no amount of 'training methods' or 'transition' will ultimately change that enough for it to be a success.

We aren't in 'transition' we look hopelessly lost at the moment and I'm not convinced we have a Plan A, never mind a Plan B or C.

 

[Robin127]

I don't understand how a team that completely outplayed Chelsea at Stamford Bridge have put in the perfomances tghay have in the last two home games.

 

[H T B]

I don't understand how a team that completely outplayed Chelsea at Stamford Bridge have put in the perfomances tghay have in the last two home games.

That's football!

 

[Feriol]

Plan A is keep the ball and hope the opposition make a mistake.

It's not a good plan at the best of times, but when you make loads of mistakes yourself it's a disaster.

 

[TommyK]

We want to play a passing game yet don't have two of our best passes on the pitch (Iborra or Silva) I don't get that. James offers nothing got me. Always seems it's the simple keep the ball type pass with rarely any urgence or intelligence.

Albrighton for all his effort and running was poor today with his crossing.

Personal thought Mahrez should have done so much more today. He had loads of space, but rarely the quality.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

Wank.

Maybe later.

 

[Feriol]

James doesn't really do anything wrong, but he doesn't offer much.

He is not particularly a defensive midfielder, he is not at all creative and lacks the energy to be a box to box player.

He will recycle possession as well as anyone, but he epitomises our lethargic and boring attitude ATM.

 

[Rock Fox]

Holy shit, that was truly awful wasn't it
A dozen corners of complete and utter rubbish, and an equal number of hopeless, hopeful 'crosses' to absolutely no one. How ironic that our goal comes from yet another hopeless cross that was nowhere near any of our own players

Agree - They were awful - IDEA - Instead website of showing players laughing and joking in training sessions (I said they weren't taking it seriously at the time) perhaps we should have a few images of them trying corners and free kicks