Reserves v Charlton

[Steven]

At home to Charlton. :icon_razz :icon_wink Charlton sending a strong side. :icon_eek:

A youthful Leicester City reserve side will take on Charlton Athletic at Hinckley United on Tuesday evening (7pm).

Alan Sheehan, who was a late substitute in the 2-1 Carling Cup defeat at the hands of Bolton last week, is named in the starting XI while Joe Mattock returns to the side following his Victory Shield exploits with England.

Entrance to the Marston's Stadium for the game is just £2 for adults and £1 for concessions. Junior members go free - so don't forget to take your membership card along.

The game is City's only second string clash of the month and follows a productive November which saw the team register a win and two draws from their four fixtures.

Charlton, meanwhile, has named a strong squad for the game containing Dennis Rommedahl, Shaun Bartlett, Jason Euell and Bryan Hughes.

A report from the game will appear on lcfc.com. Extended highlights from the game will be available on Leicester City World from noon on Wednesday

City: Conrad Logan, Joe Magunda, Alan Sheehan, Scott Lycett, Liam Norval, Tom Tejan-sie, Ryan Beswick, Andy King, Ricky Muggleton, Billy McKay, Joe Mattock.
Subs: Connor Franklin, Carl Pentley, Adam Wykes, Kraig Rochester, Eric Odhiambo.

Charlton: Darren Randolph, Osei Sankofa, Goncalo Brandao, Barry Fuller, Gonzalo Sorondo, Jonathan Fortune, Dennis Rommedahl, Alex Varney, Shaun Bartlett, Jason Euell, Bryan Hughes

 

[Steven]

Posted by Thracian (who Silver thinks is Chandler :icon_razz :icon_wink ) on another forum. :icon_wink Thracian is also a Sheehan fan.

Leicester Reserves 0 Charlton Reserves 5

Lambs to the slaughter this. Hacks against hunters, novices against racehorses. Anyway you looked at this you were struggling to find anything positive.

Dennis Rommedahl (2), Alex Varney, Sean Bartlett and Rurik Gislason registered Charlton's goals, three in the first half, two in the second while they also whacked two against the woodwork, brought a few decent saves from Conrad Logan and sauntered through the second half in cruise control.

Leicester might have had three shots all told, non of em of any consequence and one had to wonder at the point of the exercise. They needed to field a far stronger team cos hammerings like this would have done no-one's confidence any good.

Leicester showed themselves fit enough to keep trying against a team whose passing and movement left them chasing shadows for long spells of the game but that energy apart they were always too small, to static in possession, too inaccurate with their passing, second best in the air, second best in the tackle and unlikely to score if they played for a week.

Sheehan, the skipper, while never at his very best, was always a class or two above any of his mainly novice team-mates but he was never going to stop a Charlton side who swept through City's midfield and defence like a Tsunami. No one man could.

Until taken off after an hour, Sheehan presented City's only attacking threat, being his usual cultured and mainly accurate self on the ball but he is one who desperately needs better players alongside him to bring his talent to fruition.

People like Joe Magunda, Scott Lycett and Liam Norval were never fast enough, aware enough or clever enough to cope with the likes of Premiership performers like Shaun Bartlett, Romerdahl and Jason Euell and to see little Tom Tejan-Sie tying to cope with the runners from midfield was painful.

Only Eric Odhieambo who came on late in the second half as a right winger and Kraig Rochester (centre-forward) showed momentary signs that they might be half-decent players, particularly the former.

Otherwise, for the remainder, I'd make sure I kept up my general education.

 

[Babylon]

Posted by Thracian (who Silver thinks is Chandler :icon_razz :icon_wink ) on another forum. :icon_wink Thracian is also a Sheehan fan.

Might as well rename it the Sheehan report.

 

[Steven]

Might as well rename it the Sheehan report.

To be fair, it was earlier and better than the OS effort.