Post Match Leicester 2 Liverpool 3

[Moose]

All well and good saying it's Liverpool, but that's a poor Liverpool team and we also lost to a poor Arsenal team.

Substitutions didn't work again. It's far too easy for the opposition managers to counter and ultimately outsmart Shakespeare. You can get away with that if you have the best players, like we did under NP in league one and the championship, but at this level when you've got a squad full of average players you're going to struggle.

And struggle we will. We are in a relegation battle, no doubt about it.

 

[Speedy1]

I can't grumble too much about them types...I'd never been as far south as Leicester until I went and got my first season ticket there. As someone born in Consett and raised in Gateshead I can fully appreciate people wanting to have connections to arsehole parts of the country, I love our downtrodden shitholes....though I'm always envious of liverpools great superior shitness. I chose to support Leicester because I wanted brief success followed by utter bollocks followed by worse than utter bollocks and then a prem trophy.

Brilliant. I have no sympathy for the glory-hunters but for someone not from Leicester to choose Leicester (before '15/'16) shows real class.

 

[glyn]

I'm kinda impressed with the spirit and desire we showed. And we played a bit too at times, with a confidence. We could have had a draw so I'm not so downbeat. As that brings an end to our supposedly tough opening, I'm feeling positive.

I think Gray has shown his worth too. Iheanacho looks to be a useful addition, way more mobile than Slimani or Ulloa. Get Silva and Iborra taking part and I think we've got the makings of some options; tactically and with formations.

Yep more Arsenal away than Man U or Chelsea, I'm more annoyed than anything tonight at a chance missed.

Big games coming up though to get the season back to an even keel. In 2-3 games time we'll certainly know what kind of season we face.

 

[bocadillo]

Could be crucial in the goal difference in May

We need a few more points before we need to start worrying about goal difference.

 

[Robin127]

Brilliant. I have no sympathy for the glory-hunters but for someone not from Leicester to choose Leicester (before '15/'16) shows real class.

Cheers mate, born and raised in South Herts

 

[bocadillo]

True. But I was at school then...& I FEEL old!

Jeesh! I'd LEFT school then and I still don't feel OLD!!

 

[fitz]

Brilliant. I have no sympathy for the glory-hunters but for someone not from Leicester to choose Leicester (before '15/'16) shows real class.

I've supported them since the mid 90s. Oddly enough when the convenient local team were actually good. There's a few others on tb who only chose Leicester out of self hatred....thanks to Claudio that backfired a fair bit.

 

[Speedy1]

If I understand the concept I think waiting is pretty much the only way to do it Although I've had about a decade chopped off my life expectancy recently, so maybe I feel old because I'm actually closer to death than I should be? Who knows? I could kill a cup of Ovaltine though.

Spot on about the waiting, although in hindsight it doesn't feel like waiting. Re the rest of your post, shit, what can I say. Ovaltine is on me.

 

[Brown Nose]

That was a remarkably predictable performance and result.

I thought most of our players worked hard. King and N'Didi were exactly as poor as their recent form suggested they'd be. Chilwell was just not good enough. I hoped he'd cement the position with a run of games but not on that evidence. I'd like Fuchs back please.

We were carried by Vardy yet again. He won the free kick that led to the first goal with an appallingly funny bit of gamesmanship. He then scored the second and generally created chaos in the Liverpool defence. That is, until Shakespeare did a perfect impression of Nigel fecking Pearson by putting our main goal threat out on the wing. Of all his crazy decisions recently, this was my favourite. It was utterly incomprehensible and strengthened his reputation in my mind as a clueless buffoon.

The only moan I have about Vardy was how predictable his penalty was. Surely we all knew exactly what he was probably going to do, so he really shouldn't have done exactly that. Surely that was obvious?

We've now played each of the 'top six' teams over our last nine league games. We've lost all six and conceded nineteen goals in the process. It really isn't hard to see where we're going wrong. It's about as blindingly simple as anything can be. We've stopped winning challenges. We've stopped getting the second balls. We've stopped preventing crosses coming in. We've stopped marking players properly. No excuse for any of that really.

Oh, and we're soooooo predictable. Our team, our formation, our tactics (if you can call them that). Seriously, any decent manager should be able to beat us at the moment.

 

[popillius]

Not many complaints at all about performance. If Vardy could take a penalty we'd have got a very well deserved point.

Individual errors or poor play from Maguire and Kasper cost us. Albrighton was awful throughout and this must surely open the door for Gray?

The acid test coming up.

 

[Franky Wortho]

So the 2014 rehash team only just lost, so poison dwarf is vindicated and no chance of him not picking those that got him the job by crappin on Ranieri.
Same line up for next game boys no matter how shite some of them are.

You'd think there would be an ambition to go forward with this club after winning the league but constantly playing pass it back 'King' says it all.
Iheanacho must wonder what the hell he's signed up to. Him, Kaputska, Gray, Krameric, Mendy, etc, etc.
You aint gettin in this team unless you were part of gettin Mr Small Man syndrome his job....Fact

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Spot on about the waiting, although in hindsight it doesn't feel like waiting. Re the rest of your post, shit, what can I say. Ovaltine is on me.

 

[homer]

One dimensional, formulaic, predictable, boring drivel

We set up precisely the same, week in week out, with no variation whatsoever - and then just sit there and hope that Vardy or Mahrez do something special. The whole team have no idea whatsoever what to do

It's pitiful in every single way.

Just. Feckin'. Rubbish

Shakespeare is a tragic, clueless fat fool, without an original idea in his head.
Oh wait, no, he had one today. He took the one player who was causing havoc amongst their hopeless back four, and he stuck him on the right wing.
HE PUT HIM ON THE FECKIN' RIGHT WING, FOR FECK'S SAKE

It's so genuinely awful, it beggars belief

 

[Speedy1]

One dimensional, formulaic, predictable, boring drivel

We set up precisely the same, week in week out, with no variation whatsoever - and then just sit there and hope that Vardy or Mahrez do something special. The whole team have no idea whatsoever what to do

It's pitiful in every single way.

Just. Feckin'. Rubbish

Shakespeare is a tragic, clueless fat fool, without an original idea in his head.
Oh wait, no, he had one today. He took the one player who was causing havoc amongst their hopeless back four, and he stuck him on the right wing.
HE PUT HIM ON THE FECKIN' RIGHT WING, FOR FECK'S SAKE

It's so genuinely awful, it beggars belief

Yes, But.... we can only play to our strengths. We are simply not blessed with an abundance of skillful ball playing South Americans, although maybe given our title winning season and reasonable wealth of our owners we perhaps should be. However reality is we have a couple of quality players and a load of reasonable journeymen. Given this, all Shakespeare can do is try and get the best from what he has.
I thought we did OK today and should have got at least a point. Do agree about putting Vardy wide however.

 

[homer]

And don't get me started on Andy King, FFS

What a complete pile of shit he is

 

[Speedy1]

I've supported them since the mid 90s. Oddly enough when the convenient local team were actually good. There's a few others on tb who only chose Leicester out of self hatred....thanks to Claudio that backfired a fair bit.

I don't know why, (possibly the drink) but I love the fact that people not from the city have looked at this team and decided to support them with all the choice that's out there. Possibly self hatred, but I doubt that somehow.

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

More of the same. They might all be Shakey's mates, but they'd hop off for a chance at winning trophies in a shot, leaving us with a crap manager with no mates. Get Big Sam in.

 

[Skitzo]

Same faults every game and the manager won’t fix them

 

[Lako42]

We are shit.

We have no coherent approach when we have the ball, we just test the thing about and hope the opposition **** up and gift us something.

We have no style and no identity

 

[pork pie fox]

We were in the game. Yes we missed a penalty, but we were at least creating pressure and it felt like we could get something. And then we changed our set up to some bizarre 4-2-4 type thing, with Vardy out wide. Thus, the last 10 minutes disappeared without us being able to threaten again. Very frustrating.