Filbert Street 7.45pm Wednesday
Intriguing this one, does anyone want the extra games and a trip to Millwall? Leicester are on course to make history - again - by being relegated to the ignominy of the second tier 😳. Which,brings us neatly to Derby County, or as the Faithful call them after seeing various displays of eptitude 'WTF?'
Leicester have an important trip to Wales on Sunday which will be the raison d'etre and trying to survive the drop being the excuse for a weakened Foxes (no-one reads this 5hit) tomorrow night. I thought they had played a weakened side at PP until someone pointed out they included 9 of last years EPL champions.
Derby, meanwhile will Hughesless, Brysonless and possibly BJless and definitely Nugentless who definitely doesn't seem to want to play for us.
Derby have only lost three of their last 17 matches in all competitions (W11, D3) but those defeats have all come in their last five away games.
However, they have lost just one of their last seven FA Cup away matches (W4, D2), after losing their previous five in a row.
They have only gone further than the fourth round on one occasion in the last six seasons.
The Rams' win over West Brom in the third round was the first time they had beaten a team from a higher division in the FA Cup in 31 years.
Much more to come no doubt, including the team news, I understand that we still have tickets left, which shows the magnitude and pull of this game despite being just down the road. I shall be watching on real telly.
Team news:-
Leicester 3 - 1 Derby C AET (1-1) FAC Reply
posted on 9/2/17
Daily Mail feature writer 666 again making a stupid misinterpretation for his own pathetic agenda.
Quote 666
"I would agree wholeheartedly that Richard Keogh is one of the very best in the Championship"
See what I mean by interpretation out of context.
posted on 9/2/17
I actually understand the words 'interpretation out of context' Spart, but well done on demonstrating that you do too.
Your premise is that the attacker will beat the defender because he possesses more skill, which plainly ignores the fact that the defender has the whole of the perimeter of the pitch to clear the ball to whilst the attacker is aiming only for the 8 yards between our posts. The defender only needs to kick the ball away, whilst the attacker needs to get past the defence and place the ball between the sticks. Sorry to be so rudimentary but it appears that you have no prior knowledge of the game whatsoever.
If it is to be accepted that an attacker with any level of skill will beat the defender then why do we have defenders at all? Surely selecting the outfield players all as attackers would be the way to promotion! Or is that you have no actual grasp of reality and are so entrenched with opposing my opinion that you give very little consideration to your own?
posted on 9/2/17
Spart's right, 666. The idea is not to let the forward have a free run at the defender in the first place. It's the same as trying to block a cross rather than relying on heading it away when it's on the 6-yard line. If the striker has back to goal or the ball is played into a channel then the defender ought to be able to cope - Keogh and Shackell in fact did this effectively a few times last night. If the forward is allowed to receive the ball in a deeper position and run unchallenged then the best defenders in the world will struggle. Goal one was a cross allowed too easily, goal two a player allowed to run from midfield unchallenged and goal three a player allowed to run from wide. I didn't think Keogh had a good game but none of the goals could be reasonably laid at his door.
posted on 9/2/17
Keogh ran 15 yards AWAY from the man for their second goal; he retreated to the edge of the area and then turned his back on the shot when it came. His eyes are very possibly far enough out of his face to be able to see behind him but why not just charge the shot down or, better still, NOT give the man enough room to receive and turn in the first place?
Oh, right; I forgot that he's not a good enough player to be able to tackle, my bad.
He could and should have dealt with Gray outside the box for their third but, as usual, decided to let him run at him unchallenged until he was in the penalty box when the ramifications for fouling him are so much higher.
Look at him for their first; out of position when the midfielder and fullback already had the Leicester players covered, he retreats to the near post, sees a player unmarked and just leaves him anyway. There were TWO unmarked Leicester players in front of our goal when King headed that in; King was BJ's man to pick up but the unmarked man on the penalty spot was Keogh's.
FFS, how are you not seeing these things?!! Look at the highlights reel on BBC; watch Keogh's positioning and his movements throughout. If that's top class defending then we may as well give up now because it was garbage. Make no mistake, this was Leicester's weakened side, the understudies to the team that is in serious relegation danger in the Prem. If Keogh is in anyone's mind to defend for us if we somehow get promoted then you need sectioning. Listen to Martin O'Neill's appraisal of him pre-match; this is his International manager, and all he could muster was that he is 'a good guy, lots of energy'. JFC.
posted on 9/2/17
You don't half know nowt, 666.
posted on 9/2/17
I think you are an oaf 666
posted on 9/2/17
comment by 666 ⚽️ (U11795)
posted 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
Keogh ran 15 yards AWAY from the man for their second goal; he retreated to the edge of the area and then turned his back on the shot when it came. His eyes are very possibly far enough out of his face to be able to see behind him but why not just charge the shot down or, better still, NOT give the man enough room to receive and turn in the first place?
Oh, right; I forgot that he's not a good enough player to be able to tackle, my bad.
He could and should have dealt with Gray outside the box for their third but, as usual, decided to let him run at him unchallenged until he was in the penalty box when the ramifications for fouling him are so much higher.
Look at him for their first; out of position when the midfielder and fullback already had the Leicester players covered, he retreats to the near post, sees a player unmarked and just leaves him anyway. There were TWO unmarked Leicester players in front of our goal when King headed that in; King was BJ's man to pick up but the unmarked man on the penalty spot was Keogh's.
FFS, how are you not seeing these things?!! Look at the highlights reel on BBC; watch Keogh's positioning and his movements throughout. If that's top class defending then we may as well give up now because it was garbage. Make no mistake, this was Leicester's weakened side, the understudies to the team that is in serious relegation danger in the Prem. If Keogh is in anyone's mind to defend for us if we somehow get promoted then you need sectioning. Listen to Martin O'Neill's appraisal of him pre-match; this is his International manager, and all he could muster was that he is 'a good guy, lots of energy'. JFC.
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To be fair, if MON really didn't think he had anything to offer other than being a good guy he wouldn't pick him for Ireland would he?
I think it's a perfectly legitimate position to argue that Keogh isn't good enough but using MON's comments has to be the flimsiest evidence ever.
posted on 9/2/17
...which is why it was mentioned at the end rather than my quoting it as irrefutable proof.
posted on 9/2/17
Occasionally 666 gets it right about Keogh, throw enough 5hite n'all.
Last night Keogh had a poor game. For the King goal, Johnson was ball watching making him slow to react to the header back across goal that he thought was going out, that wasn't Keogh's fault, if the ball had gone further back then Shackle would have been at fault for leaving his man. Keogh may have been able to pick Shackle's man up but it happened too quickly to do it.
So for that one BJ at fault.
Shackle out of position.
Keogh staring in wonder.
For the Musa miss, Christie didn't pick him up and Keogh ball watching not having a clue where Musa was.
For the N'didi(?) goal, Keogh dropped back too far but Shackle came across so should have challenged making N'didi take on two with no shot available. I think Shackle was at fault for that one.
For the Gray goal, Keogh was out of position to start with being dragged over to the RB position, he was always going to struggle from that point on. Keogh's fault.
Keogh struggles with positioning when under pressure. The reason he fails in big games is because the big games usually are against good teams who can run at you and drag you out of position.
The fault doesn't all lie with Keogh, I think Christie is worse at positioning and often ball watching. If you look at the player positions for their goals almost all of them are in the wrong place.
posted on 9/2/17
That's a fair assessment, Iwas, although I think Vydra shares the blame for the third goal for losing the ball and getting brushed off to easily.
'Slimani will finish Keogh's career in these 30 minutes.'
We all know 666 has an agenda to fulfil, as proved by the above comment at the end of 90 minutes