Post Match Tottenham 3 Leicester 1

[H T B]

An entertaining game that we should have had at least a point.
We played some bloody good football today, and, you could see what the club is trying to do. (Well, some of us can )

 

[SilverFox]

It's frustrating as **** as it could have so easily been different.

We've not been playing terrible.

Imagine if we made some tactical decisions that helped us to capitalise on ‘not playing terrible’.

 

[SilverFox]

The one that missed the golden opportunity to get us level in the game?

The one that scored the only goal for us. Yeah. That one.

 

[Volpone]

I saw more confidence amongst the players and more inventive and deliverate forward movement than I have for a long time.

Quite.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Ok.

Well,that was actually worse than I was expecting which is saying something since I expected nothing.

From team selection to game management, to performance. Everything was wrong.

We should have been 2 up by the time they scored.

No striker in the starting 11...& none on the bench either until they had to change it after Mendy's injury. What in the name of **** is that? Does Puel actually believe in his heart that 0-0 is the perfect result for a football match? Thats the message the team sheet seemed to send.

Despite a couple of years of titting about we are STILL quite clearly best when we play on the counter. So in a game where we were always going to concede possession...he drops the best counter attacking striker in the league.

I've made the entire journey. At first I wanted him given a decent chance, then I wanted him gone as he clearly doesn't have a clue. Now I want his coaching licence rescinded so he can't ruin the game for anyone else.

2 more games like this & I'll want him dead.

How to win friends & influence people.

 

[Miles Away]

I saw a poorly defended set piece, a lack of confidence in finishing and a woeful lapse of concentration from our right back.

Tielemans looks great. Barnes, for all of his misses, was a real threat, and Ricardo continues to look good going forward.

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

Be honest you'd back Vardy to have bagged 1 or 2 of those chances Barne's missed. The one at 2-0 down was an absolute sitter....

 

[pork pie fox]

I thought we played well. We defended poorly, but we attacked well. I still think it was daft to leave Vardy out, though.

 

[City Fan]

Barnes could have had a hat trick, Vardy misses a pen, Chilwell could have had at least one.

2 individual mistakes cost us a couple of goals and get hit for a third at the end chucking everyone forward to equalise.

Definitely all the fault of Puel.

So let’s say Barnes had scored his hattrick and Vardy scored his penalty, and we win convincingly. 5-2 or whatever. And Puel rightly would take credit for a fantastic win.

Yet Barnes and Vardy missed their chances, and hence made individual mistakes, so Puel takes no responsibility for that?

You can’t have it both ways.

 

[Jeff]

We won 3.1 - 0.8 on expected goals.

 

[M17TT C]

The one that scored the only goal for us. Yeah. That one.

Shame he missed the easiest chance of them all that would have put us level.

 

[Skitzo]

also that was said to be a 4231 by Sky but it was a 433 and often Tielemans was ahead of Maddison, Wilf, until the slip for their 3rd was back to his usual level of performance

Be honest you'd back Vardy to have bagged 1 or 2 of those chances Barne's missed. The one at 2-0 down was an absolute sitter....

I'd be wondering why he was playing left wing

 

[bocadillo]

No striker in the starting 11...& none on the bench either until they had to change it after Mendy's injury.

eh?

 

[M17TT C]

So let’s say Barnes had scored his hattrick and Vardy scored his penalty, and we win convincingly. 5-2 or whatever. And Puel rightly would take credit for a fantastic win.

Yet Barnes and Vardy missed their chances, and hence made individual mistakes, so Puel takes no responsibility for that?

You can’t have it both ways.

So now you want to blame the defeat on Puel for not starting Vardy and also for bringing him on and missing a penalty??

The guy can't win.

 

[pork pie fox]

Tielemans looks like a player.

 

[bocadillo]

We won 3.1 - 0.8 on expected goals.

Remind me about expected goals

 

[Funky Fox]

Puel makes a point that I AM IN CHARGE so drops Vardy even though we had a player just starting their first game who could provide the ammunition for a player like Vardy and Puel plays Gray who did his best but he's not a centre forward which was proved as we had chances that probably Vardy would have put away.

We had the chances to win that game and we made Spuds look like a sack of them at times. We had more chances but we kept missing them!

 

[SilverFox]

Shame he missed the easiest chance of them all that would have put us level.

Yeah you are right. He is shit. Sorry. My mistake.

 

[Jeff]

Remind me about expected goals

Premier League: 'Expected goals' tells us whether a player really should have scored

We've all said 'he should have scored from there'. But now, for the first time, we can say with certainty whether a chance really is as good as we think.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Skitzo]

No striker in the starting 11...& none on the bench either until they had to change it after Mendy's injury.

Vardy and Okazaki were always named on the bench