Spot on. Leicester are seriously good. Brendan Rogers has bought well and manages them very well. I think some small crumb of credit to us, was that we (mostly) stopped them from being very effective in attack. Thus it was a dull game for a neutral.
But, of course, earlier in the season we swept away many decent sides and pressed the life out of them. Thatās hard to watch now that some teams can counter this, just as our own form has dwindled.
Which is exactly why we need a plan B. What is frustrating from my point of view is that in our last two games (particularly in the latter stages) it has been incredibly apparent that what we were doing wasnāt going to deliver goals.
Weāve been sussed out. So why not throw Vestergaard upfront for more than injury time and play direct with Ings playing off his flicks? Iām not saying we need to change our style completely and become Burnley but we do need to mix it up to at least keep the opposition guessing and put them on the back foot when we are struggling to create anything with plan A.
This is clearly a very simplistic argument but Iām sure there are other less crude ways we can change up our game when things arenāt working. Ralph just seems unwilling to do anything differently at present.
Its when we get it to within 5 yards of the oppositions box and instead of somebody actually taking a shot we recycle it and it ends up back with our goalkeeper then we have to start again. frustrates the hell out of me. " No fucking forward you cunt" is an often used phrase in the Philippine Saintās residence.
This!
I think its also about putting the game into practice. At the start of the season there was much more āzipsā pace about the way we played. A confidence that meant we did not delay the forward pass, and this unlocked more stubborn defencesā¦post Ings injury 1, we continued that for few weeks but gradually we lost that confidence and passing started going sideways, backwards and slower build up.
We had many injures and so more caution crept in and our best is NOT about cautionā¦ since players have returned, we have lost that swagger and in part the enjoyment in that way of we played?
Blah, blah, blah ā¦ why donāt you all just get 3 more points and get the fuck out of my head until next season. Done with the talking, sabre rattling and rhetoric. Just shut the fuck up, get the fucking job done against Spuds and keep out of my life ā¦
Totally agree - any way you can email the lot of them so they know how we feel?
āWe donāt lose. We win, or we learn.ā
We looked absolutely terrified of getting a right dicking again. The 9-0 scars are deep in the manager and the players.
To be fair, when Ralph went positive and moved the press farther forward at the start of the second half, thatās when they scored. We got caught out on the break mainly because we were trying to press higher than weāre capable of against a side with their sort of speed and threat on the break.
They scored because one of our supertanker central defenders could not move quick enough and the ball bounced of his hull back to the Leicester player to put it in the back of the old onion bag.
Naā¦down to luck. Iheanacho fucks up his chance shooting well off target and gets a lucky rebound to score the only goal of the game. Shit game, shit result.
You make your own luck.
BUT just felt wrong since we beat Bompey. Simply didnāt feel it and that happened.
Letās not forget also that Diallo was probably a millimetre out on his connection to that volley which caused it to bend away from the goal instead of becoming a part of football history.
(Weād have still missed the penalties)
They wouldnāt have been there in the first place had we not merrily pressed as high up the pitch as if we were Man City and they were Sheffield Utd. They didnāt trouble us greatly in the first half, when we were a bit more circumspect. (We didnāt look much like scoring in the first half either, Iāll grant you that.)