So, footballs Nostradamus gets a prediction uncannily right. A bit like that octopus at the World Cup, Nevs uncanny ability to forecast the Arsenal result has reasonable minded posters scratching their heads. How could this happen? It’s like Sandy posting something genuinely thought provoking. Or Hafi not including a list of irrelevant stats in a counter argument.
Last nights result but more importantly performance was entirely unexpected for mere mortals who don’t have the football insight Nev, Sandy and Hafi have. But what happened last night? Here’s a few thoughts;
- The players aren’t backstabbing traitors after all and haven’t downed tools. They simply got confidence from an Arsenal side who as Nev to be fair said, allowed them to play Claude’s style of football
- If the above is true - we will only win about 1 in 10 games next season. Most teams won’t allow us to play how we want.....
- Or alternatively, Claude, for one night only abandoned the slow, sideways passing build up play which is so tedious to watch. Did he revert back to playing to our strengths to save his job?
- The players have come in for unfair criticism once again - accused of not playing for their manager, did that motivate them to take matters in to their own hands?
The fascinating thing is where does this leave Puel? Because right now he’s stuck in no mans land. His preferred style of football works about 10% of the time with these players. It’s hard to think that he can sign pretty much a whole new starting 11 in the space of one window and get them to gel in time for next season.
So if given the job - what does he do? Play to Leicester’s strengths? Find something in between? Go back to France???
Nevs Thursday I told you so
posted on 11/5/18
Hello team. So I’ve just returned from a short trip very confused.
Trying to check the Leicester score on Wednesday and my phone was playing up as it said three impossible things:
1. We played well
2. We actually created chances
3. We won
None of that can be right so can those atthr game help me understand what actually happened?
What I’m most confused by is whether Puel changed his tactics or not. Surely we couldn’t have played his chanceless passing football AND played well?
Did we tweak anything, play a higher tempo, press more? Or did it..... did it really.... have his ta tics worked??
Help me understand!
posted on 11/5/18
Don't worry mersey
You'll step out the shower in a minute and the whole season will have been a dream,
Puel came in and tweaked the team we won the league and are in the FA Cup final.
posted on 11/5/18
Cheers Dublin! This never knowing what’s real and what’s a dream has been impossible since first revealed possible by 1980s soaps!
posted on 11/5/18
And big shoulder pads 😱
posted on 11/5/18
It’s a good question Mersey. Dunge and any others at the game would be the authority on this
Vardy came out and said Puel has been wanting the players to move the ball quickly for weeks - but why has it taken since January for this to happen? Another clue is that Arsenal are a shambles defensively right now, if this was an Arsenal side with anything to play for it would have been a bit different
I think we will go again vs Spurs and worryingly could then mean Puel stays for the summer
posted on 11/5/18
Thanks BS. I guess spurs will reveal if this was a random one off or if Puel and the players have found some sort of consensus on how to get ge best out of the players.
posted on 11/5/18
Why would we worry about Puel saying if we beat Spurs it would show he knows what he is doing is begining to work,things like turning someone who could not score into a fox in the box getting Choudrey som game time Diabarti becoming another Marhez at least with his first touch.
So if Spurs have got their flip flops on we could do the same and it is our favorite team and they love us.
posted on 11/5/18
I think it was a combination of things. We definitely looked to play a higher intensity from the start and attacked the spaces when they were there. But we were also helped by an Arsenal side who had little interest in defending, gave the ball away to us repeatedly inside their own half, and were down to 10 men for most of the game.
It was a very attacking contest. The only surprise was that it was limited to 4 goals.
posted on 11/5/18
comment by Nevsaysagoal2city (U5194)
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Why would we worry about Puel saying if we beat Spurs it would show he knows what he is doing is begining to work,things like turning someone who could not score into a fox in the box getting Choudrey som game time Diabarti becoming another Marhez at least with his first touch.
So if Spurs have got their flip flops on we could do the same and it is our favorite team and they love us.
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I think it’s a worry because it might misrepresent what’s to come next season - I.e are the arsenal and spurs games indicative of Leicester under Puel next season or the 4 wins in 19 games with absolutely turgid football being played?
You called the Arsenal game right because you knew they would give us tons of space. That will very rarely happen next season and that’s the worry
posted on 11/5/18
I think we will be a different team next season forget my opinion on the attitude of some of them.
It will be a younger team this season is as bad as three of the last four fighting relegation we need to get stability into the club and forget Europe and top six and have a season without being in the relegation places at all mid table and no drama's.