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Think you’re being a tad harsh on Ricardo. He hasn’t even had enough match time to be considered fully match fit let alone find form....so to even consider scrutinising his form and compare it seems extremely critical. This is without taking into his account how many minutes he’s actually played in his primary position of RB.

Vardy Just being on the pitch helps the team, he created the goal for Ian the other night just by taking a few steps away and creating the space by taking the defender with him.

If that' all he did in that game it was worth it.

comment by Keep_the_faith1 (U8129)
posted 32 minutes ago
Think you’re being a tad harsh on Ricardo. He hasn’t even had enough match time to be considered fully match fit let alone find form....so to even consider scrutinising his form and compare it seems extremely critical. This is without taking into his account how many minutes he’s actually played in his primary position of RB.
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I’m not being harsh, I’m being worried!

I think suggesting he is costing us points and it is basically playing with a player less is quite harsh

Well “degrading embarassment” is a ridiculous over reaction. Vardy has always been a ‘streaky’ type of player with runs of poor form followed by goals every game.

He’s had a hernia op and lost form and fitness. Ideally we’d be resting him now and hoping to build him up on the training ground. The problem is we haven’t had that luxury with so many injured players and I’m still not convinced that Ian provides a reliable alternative.

We knew the day would come when we had to start managing Vardy out of the side. Puel started to do it prematurely, but we’ve been too reliant on him for too long now. Ideally we’ll invest on his successor or successors in the summer and Vardy will become an impact player or rotated in. He needs to be playing once a week now.

But he’s earned a bit of patience before we all write him off for the umpteenth time

comment by Keep_the_faith1 (U8129)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
I think suggesting he is costing us points and it is basically playing with a player less is quite harsh
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I guess my point is that Albrighton would offer a lot more currently.

Lack of rest this season has cost vardy,,
He gave up England to get the extra rest in a normal season,
His fitness was always going to be a thing
Even without an injury to recover from
Which he obviously hasn't,,
Brendon telling him not to play his normal game
Is probably to save the impact on his body,,

Just having on the pitch makes defenders second guess what hes going to do, which helps others get space,,
Nachos goal is a prime example

I recall seeing him defending Burnley corner, I thought to myself if he were near the halfway line, but in our half he'd take at least two, maybe three players with him. That's not a criticism, just a thought

We've been playing two games a week for as long as I can remember. From now on we just play at weekends (apart from Man U away on a Tuesday in May), with an international break coming up, giving Jamie a couple of weeks off. Hopefully we can manage all injuries a bit better with more time between playing.

comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
comment by Keep_the_faith1 (U8129)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
I think suggesting he is costing us points and it is basically playing with a player less is quite harsh
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I guess my point is that Albrighton would offer a lot more currently.
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Albrighton should definitely start. Ricardo should be played in his usual position so that we don’t have this dilemma to even consider