Match Thread Leicester v Nottingham Forest

[fitz]

I'm sticking a fiver on us giving them a right good bumming.

 

[popillius]

We've been in every game is the **** I'm on about. I can just see us getting beat 2 or 3 nil.

You always can.

And we might.

But I still don't understand why on earth you think we are so much worse with this lineup when we've been so dreadful defensively this season. We've been in most games because of our attack, not our defence... Why do you think that will change?

 

[popillius]

I'm paying a fiver for a right good bumming.

****ing hell that's cheap. You on a day trip to Middlesbrough?

 

[Jeff]

Yep.

Just a bit worried about our FBs being exposed again but I'm excited to see what this lineup can do.

This looks like a change of system though. Having two wingers in the team means we don't have one of the full backs playing in two positions at once, so they can concentrate on defending, and they'll both have a player in front of them to help.

 

[popillius]

This looks like a change of system though. Having two wingers in the team means we don't have one of the full backs playing in two positions at once, so they can concentrate on defending, and they'll both have a player in front of them to help.

You're absolutely right.

I was thinking we'd still have one pushing up but they won't need to go as far now.

 

[Brown Nose]

Feels a bit like Cooper picking the side least likely to result in blame for him if we're shit.

Hopefully not as one thing I've liked about him is his distain for the popular choices.

We're matching up with the Forest system and there is nowhere to hide for our lot. They've all got to be up for it.

That said, Forest are missing their best player and I really don't think much of them.

Could be a lot of goals.

 

[FrenchFox]

This absolutely has to be the first team. A mixture of youth and experience, plenty of Premier league knowhow and some creativity. I might well regret this post. I will be watching the match on French tv

 

[fitz]

****ing hell that's cheap. You on a day trip to Middlesbrough?

Expensive for Boro. Outsiders rates...

 

[fitz]

This absolutely has to be the first team. A mixture of youth and experience, plenty of Premier league knowhow and some creativity. I might well regret this post. I will be watching the match on French tv

Isn't France an hour ahead? How we playing so far?

 

[Brown Nose]

Not Craig ****ing Pawson.

Oh shite.

 

[Cambridge_fox]

The side I would have picked from the start of the season. We’re doomed

 

[popillius]

Not Craig ****ing Pawson.

Oh shite.

Yep.

He's a **** of the highest order.

 

[homer]

I love this team. Its everything we have right now that is good

Watch us get ****ing hammered.....

 

[City Fan]

Feels a bit like Cooper picking the side least likely to result in blame for him if we're shit.

Hopefully not as one thing I've liked about him is his distain for the popular choices.

I was thinking the exact same. You can tell from his comments about Fatawu and Mavididi in the same team that he doesn’t really want to do this, but knows he’ll get criticism if we lose at home to the rivals without doing it.

 

[pork pie fox]

I was thinking the exact same. You can tell from his comments about Fatawu and Mavididi in the same team that he doesn’t really want to do this, but knows he’ll get criticism if we lose at home to the rivals without doing it.

Yep agree with that.

 

[Rock Fox]

I like the selection - will like it even more if we get the three points
COYBs!

 

[Graz]

Wow - Ricardo at last!

Not sure of the reasons for the changes, but this is the team most of us have wanted to see (maybe Skipp over Winks).

Let's ****ing go.

 

[FOX Franks]

We've been in every game is the **** I'm on about. I can just see us getting beat 2 or 3 nil.

You’re suggesting a team lead by Nuno is going to go for a more than one goal lead?

 

[big_mac4824]

no complaints with that line up, I just hope we start well and really get stuck into them! run the midfield into the ground and subs at 65 mins to maintain the intensity.

 

[popillius]

I was thinking the exact same. You can tell from his comments about Fatawu and Mavididi in the same team that he doesn’t really want to do this, but knows he’ll get criticism if we lose at home to the rivals without doing it.

Well if that is true then he's not a very good manager at all. In fact, he'd be a ****ing coward. I don't think it is however. I think it's a manager who is learning and, hopefully, taking into account his mistakes to date. This is good news.

We may be shit tonight, time will tell, but we absolutely had to do something about our defensive issue. We simply could keep giving opposition teams a free path down the right to score at will. He's tried to address that with the team he has selected which can only be a good thing. It may not work but at least we'll know and can try something else.