Simply the worst 45 mins of football I’ve seen us play since we got promoted.
Yes Man City are fantastic but rarely have they had to do so little to get so much out of a game. We bent over and just asked them to do us up the arris in that second half. Awful for our goal difference as well as we look to contrive to blow our chance of top 7
Here are the alternative player ratings
Schmeichel - 0. That was the worst goalkeeping performance I’ve seen since Dave Beasant for Forest. A total embarrassment
Simpson - 4. Inexplicably bought on for Silva and it killed us. By his fault
Maguire - 4. Will probably go to Man City to fill out their squad - not much he could do today
Dragovic - 3. Defending short corners?? Erm....no. Just no.
Fuchs - 3. He’s been poor all season hasn’t he? Looking past it
Chilwell - 2. Garbage. I mean really bad. Gave the ball away constantly in the first half - looks like he’s being coached by Paul Konchesky
N’didi - 4. Struggled but was surrounded by very good Man City players in a midfield that wasn’t performing
James - 1. Puel has got to stop picking him. Even Pearson wouldn’t. He’s dreadful
Silva - 4. Still getting up to speed, shouldn’t have been brought off
Albrighton - 4. Tried hard enough but couldn’t get hold of the ball
Vardy - 5. The only player to come out with any credit. MOTM for us
Mahrez - 4. Looks a class apart and when he goes then the golden era of Leicester will go with him
Iheanacho - 3. Couldn’t really get into the game
Embarrassing
posted on 11/2/18
I didn't watch, may well not bother even with MoTD either given the score so I'm not commenting from a position of strength, but taking an overview so far, I'm still reasonably optimistic.
From the sound of it we've had a bad half of football; so presumably one reasonable half of football? To put it in context we've made some mistakes and got punished by the best team in the league at present; or to put it another way got hammered 5-1 by ditto. Shock! Not. We're not the only side that has been shown up by Man City this season.
When Claude took over we were in danger of relegation. We're now 8th, a couple of decent performances away from safety in the league with 11 games left, only a point behind Burnley in 7th, and in a decent state in the FA Cup.
So at present I think we're OK - it depends how we finish the season, hopefully it will be good and we can build on that in the summer to compensate as best as possible for losing Riyad.
posted on 11/2/18
Things in the grand scheme of things are going well Nuneaton compared to where we were under Shakey. BUT we have started to become sloppy. The performance against Everton is an example of that. Switching off against Swansea. And honestly mate, the worst 45 mins I’ve seen from us - it was actual comedy out there.
That’s the concern for me at the minute - really not sure we have the players in defensive positions to play how puel wants apart from Maguire and we are being badly punished recently. Losing 3-0 at home against Palace was another ‘bad day at the office’
It’s a shame because with a little strengthening in the January window, which again we didn’t take advantage of, 7th should be well within our grasp.
posted on 11/2/18
comment by Cantona 7 (U11258)
posted 10 hours, 26 minutes ago
#freeMahrez
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The only positive about yesterday was helping Man City pull even further away from your half a billion pound shambles of a title challenging team.
Enjoy trying to hold on to second
posted on 11/2/18
Cantona
Newcastle 1 v 0 Molan U
Pogba £100mil
Top 4 asSAF wouldsay its squeaky bumtime
posted on 11/2/18
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posted on 11/2/18
If you’re going to be a sarcastic bell then you’ll be deleted
posted on 11/2/18
People are free to do the same to me btw
posted on 11/2/18
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posted on 11/2/18
Disagreeing is fine - being an idiot in your response is something else entirely
posted on 11/2/18
I don't know about worst 45 minutes since promotion. There have been many other bad halves that have probably now been forgotten and several very bad whole games.