Team for Today

It's more the law of averages that I'm concerned about than this single result, which isn't bad.

Having a convo with me ma who was at the game, she was saying it looked very worrying and worse than anything we saw last year.

Let's hope this is a one off and not the start of the rot!

Bad day at the office, nothing more.

Like the bad days at the office against Huddersfield and Liverpool? The Huddersfield game I was willing to put down to a one off, but the same happened today and with the same problems we saw against Liverpool: The pressing is as aimless as the passing. It's screaming out lack of management.

First half against Huddersfield was woeful but like today we improved second half.

The issue is both then and today we struggle when teams like that play a high intensity pressing game on us, anyone can see we don't like it and currently don't have the players to fight fire with fire BUT we had exactly the same problem the year we won the League and we still haven't found an answer to it apart from going on to win the League.

Not sure why you mention Liverpool, 4 teams we've payed so far are way ahead of us in playing quality, Liverpool being one of them and yet we gave all 4 a game and should have got a point out of Liverpool, Arsenal and possibly Chelsea.

Midfield is a key component of any team and we've been handicapped all season so far by injuries and incompetence, once that's finally sorted and yes that might Xmas we'll know more where we are.

Personally I'd go 352 but then I've been saying that for the last two seasons.

comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 4 hours, 13 minutes ago
Bad day at the office, nothing more.
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i watched the whole game and i'm with Miami it was awful we were totally out played by a team with an equally back recent record. They should have been 4 nil up at half time.
We sit so deep,we have no out ball because of this except a big hoof up to Vardy who has 2 defenders on all the time and no support. time and time again we did that yesterday, something needs to change because in varying degrees its the same every week its not just a one off i'm afraid.

Quite happy with the point, which we got playing badly according to the comments above (I didn't hear or see the match). That's a good result if not performance. Reading between the lines I think I'd be more worried if I were a Bournemouth fan that they couldn't score against us.

As for Shakey, he'll be under extra pressure due to his lack of managerial experience - the next few games are I feel going to be critical for him. Do well and we'll climb the table. Do badly and we'll drop into the relegation zone where his job will be at risk. I do have some sympathy for him as the incompetence of others has led to us being left short in midfield but it's a problem he needs to solve, it'd be no different to Silva being injured.

I absolutely do not want him to fail, but remain to have doubts about his ability in this job - if he isn't up to it then a change should be made, the sooner the better. Ancelotti is now out there in addition to Pearson.

It has to be the players.

Midfield allow opposition way too much space and our full-backs don't challenge, just shadow their player.

Let's get the ball back pronto and let them worry about us instead of Kasper being in the firing line way too often.

Surely it's common sense?

The 30 minutes worth of highlights on Sky showed one-way traffic towards the Leicester goal, and, as mentioned above, they were sitting far too deeply. It was difficult to get out of their own half.

I can’t quite work out why Shakey declared he was “disappointed we (City) didn’t get something out of this”. Perhaps he was referring to a 6-goal hammering.

As for Eddie Howe, whether or not this was a penalty early on, and it did appear there was some intent on the part of Simpson to deviate the course of the ball, if the referee is well behind play and the lino is on the far side, you simply can’t give it if you clearly didn’t see it.