The players must hate Ranieri. Either that or he is instructing them to boot it randomly into orbit for no reason whatsoever.
I'm beginning to regret our trip to Seville in the week. Oh well, think we'll just go out on the razz
comment by The_Real_Slimani (U1254)
posted 1 minute ago
I'm beginning to regret our trip to Seville in the week. Oh well, think we'll just go out on the razz
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They'll turn up for Sevilla.
Immediately after Ranieri took off the link between the midfield and attack, who was our creative outlet and also up to that point the best player on the pitch.
Instead, with Okazaki, Gray and Musa then later Vardy (are any of them above 5"8?) up front we bring on Albrighton whose one skill is crossing.
It was utterly senseless and totally destroyed any momentum we had. We all love Claudio for what he's done for us, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to defend him.
comment by Uncle Wang Wong 25 (U16263)
posted 3 minutes ago
The players must hate Ranieri. Either that or he is instructing them to boot it randomly into orbit for no reason whatsoever.
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Which we know he isn't because he's even said it in an interview after the first Derby game, he explicitly told them not to but they carried on. They're clueless though that's why, they don't have any idea what to do other than boot it.
comment by This Is Madness (U1209)
posted 55 seconds ago
Immediately after Ranieri took off the link between the midfield and attack, who was our creative outlet and also up to that point the best player on the pitch.
Instead, with Okazaki, Gray and Musa then later Vardy (are any of them above 5"8?) up front we bring on Albrighton whose one skill is crossing.
It was utterly senseless and totally destroyed any momentum we had. We all love Claudio for what he's done for us, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to defend him.
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I can't remember properly so I might have this wrong but didn't Albrighton provide the cross that Okazaki inexplicably failed to finish?
The simple fact is Leicester can't break teams down. They are a counter attacking side and Ranieri hasn't invested in any kind of a plan B. The board haven't recruited properly and so we have one way of playing with players who are getting worse not better
The slide is irreversible, I've been saying this for weeks. Ranieri is killing them and as awful a thing to say as it is, if the owners had been ruthless, we wouldn't still be in this position.
He will take us down and probably stay on and it will be Sven mark 2 in the championship
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Immediately after Ranieri took off the link between the midfield and attack, who was our creative outlet and also up to that point the best player on the pitch.
Instead, with Okazaki, Gray and Musa then later Vardy (are any of them above 5"8?) up front we bring on Albrighton whose one skill is crossing.
It was utterly senseless and totally destroyed any momentum we had. We all love Claudio for what he's done for us, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to defend him.
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I can't remember properly so I might have this wrong but didn't Albrighton provide the cross that Okazaki inexplicably failed to finish?
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He did but it wasn't a great cross to be honest - a Millwall defender just totally missed his clearance and it squirmed through to Shinji.
But nobody can blame Albrighton even though he did struggle after coming on, because he didn't have anyone to pick out in the box.
I just couldn't believe Ranieri chose to take off Kapustka instead of Mendy, who had an absolute shocker.
We seemed to have a game plan in the first half and to be fair we created enough chances to go ahead.
Then he inexplicably ripped it up after they went down to 10 and the players spent the rest of the game running around like they had absolutely no idea what they were supposed to be doing.
Did anyone else think Mendy was awful?
comment by Dave The Jackal (U7727)
posted 2 minutes ago
Celtic fan in peace. My other half is from Leicester, so can totally sympathise with whatever the feck has happened to your team this season.
Enjoy Seville though, whatever the result. Was there for a week's hols a few years back. Great place. Big Irish bar in the square by the cathedral would be a good base ... if it's still there!
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Cañas and tapas around the city centre is about as good as life gets.
I don't really want Mendy or Musa anywhere near our first team.
Thought our starting CBs looked decent, particularly Benalouane with some of his passing (I know he was part of the mess for the goal)
I thought Mendy was by some distance the worst player on the pitch for either side KTF. All he did was put his teammates under pressure with poor short passes and give the ball away in the middle of the park with poor long passes.
I wouldn't want to totally write off a guy who was so highly rated back in France just yet, but I've got to be honest at the moment I'm struggling to really understand what he contributes and frankly what the point of him is in terms of the wider team performance.
No idea what Mendy is supposed to offer, he literally does nothing. Can't pass, can't tackle. Musa had the worst first touch I've ever seen from a professional football, pure speed merchant. Both can fack off after were relegated to The Championship.
The shame with Musa and Mendy is that they have both proven themselves at top level. Look what Ranieri has done to them
comment by This Is Madness (U1209)
posted 1 minute ago
I thought Mendy was by some distance the worst player on the pitch for either side KTF. All he did was put his teammates under pressure with poor short passes and give the ball away in the middle of the park with poor long passes.
I wouldn't want to totally write off a guy who was so highly rated back in France just yet, but I've got to be honest at the moment I'm struggling to really understand what he contributes and frankly what the point of him is in terms of the wider team performance.
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That can't be right, I'm sure someone recently said he's the best passer in Europe??
Mendy and Musa are not awful players. They have become awful since joining Leicester. If the club sells them, they will regain their confidence and be able to hit the levels before we got hold of them
I don't think they are awful players but I also don't think Ranieri has made them awful. Mendy has been played in his position, bloody Musa has been played in a range of positions and still have both been average. I don't really care where else they have been good, they aren't 'yet' up to scratch but it is incredibly hard for a lot of players to come and play in the Premier league and it often a big step up or very different (I'm giving both the benefit of the doubt that today against lower opposition, their performances were just as a consequence of their struggles all season)
To try to be positive to them, I would say the rest of their season now should be about getting up to speed on the training pitch and really hitting the gym hard. I think both should consider themselves lucky to be making the bench now on in.
If we play our strongest team or potential strongest team I think we win that game - Millwall were awful. But that isn't the point, I don't mind us playing a reserve team and losing in the cup because we are prioritising the ECL or PL, but we haven't got the friggin' luxury to be resting a first team because it needs changing and we could have had game time trying out some of these !!!
I am just so deflated that exactly what I thought would happen has happened and we are left simply thinking 'what was the point in that? How has it helped prepare us for Liverpool?'
And I genuinely worry the players are staring to think it as well.
I wonder when it gets to the point where even if we do manage to turn it around and avoid relegation, it a) won't be enough to avoid damage to morale b) won't be enough for anyone to look back and not still think, what a waste of an opportunity to at least try to build on something.
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posted on 18/2/17
The players must hate Ranieri. Either that or he is instructing them to boot it randomly into orbit for no reason whatsoever.
posted on 18/2/17
I'm beginning to regret our trip to Seville in the week. Oh well, think we'll just go out on the razz
posted on 18/2/17
comment by The_Real_Slimani (U1254)
posted 1 minute ago
I'm beginning to regret our trip to Seville in the week. Oh well, think we'll just go out on the razz
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They'll turn up for Sevilla.
posted on 18/2/17
Immediately after Ranieri took off the link between the midfield and attack, who was our creative outlet and also up to that point the best player on the pitch.
Instead, with Okazaki, Gray and Musa then later Vardy (are any of them above 5"8?) up front we bring on Albrighton whose one skill is crossing.
It was utterly senseless and totally destroyed any momentum we had. We all love Claudio for what he's done for us, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to defend him.
posted on 18/2/17
comment by Uncle Wang Wong 25 (U16263)
posted 3 minutes ago
The players must hate Ranieri. Either that or he is instructing them to boot it randomly into orbit for no reason whatsoever.
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Which we know he isn't because he's even said it in an interview after the first Derby game, he explicitly told them not to but they carried on. They're clueless though that's why, they don't have any idea what to do other than boot it.
posted on 18/2/17
comment by This Is Madness (U1209)
posted 55 seconds ago
Immediately after Ranieri took off the link between the midfield and attack, who was our creative outlet and also up to that point the best player on the pitch.
Instead, with Okazaki, Gray and Musa then later Vardy (are any of them above 5"8?) up front we bring on Albrighton whose one skill is crossing.
It was utterly senseless and totally destroyed any momentum we had. We all love Claudio for what he's done for us, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to defend him.
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I can't remember properly so I might have this wrong but didn't Albrighton provide the cross that Okazaki inexplicably failed to finish?
posted on 18/2/17
The simple fact is Leicester can't break teams down. They are a counter attacking side and Ranieri hasn't invested in any kind of a plan B. The board haven't recruited properly and so we have one way of playing with players who are getting worse not better
The slide is irreversible, I've been saying this for weeks. Ranieri is killing them and as awful a thing to say as it is, if the owners had been ruthless, we wouldn't still be in this position.
He will take us down and probably stay on and it will be Sven mark 2 in the championship
posted on 18/2/17
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posted on 18/2/17
Immediately after Ranieri took off the link between the midfield and attack, who was our creative outlet and also up to that point the best player on the pitch.
Instead, with Okazaki, Gray and Musa then later Vardy (are any of them above 5"8?) up front we bring on Albrighton whose one skill is crossing.
It was utterly senseless and totally destroyed any momentum we had. We all love Claudio for what he's done for us, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to defend him.
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I can't remember properly so I might have this wrong but didn't Albrighton provide the cross that Okazaki inexplicably failed to finish?
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He did but it wasn't a great cross to be honest - a Millwall defender just totally missed his clearance and it squirmed through to Shinji.
But nobody can blame Albrighton even though he did struggle after coming on, because he didn't have anyone to pick out in the box.
I just couldn't believe Ranieri chose to take off Kapustka instead of Mendy, who had an absolute shocker.
We seemed to have a game plan in the first half and to be fair we created enough chances to go ahead.
Then he inexplicably ripped it up after they went down to 10 and the players spent the rest of the game running around like they had absolutely no idea what they were supposed to be doing.
posted on 18/2/17
Did anyone else think Mendy was awful?
posted on 18/2/17
Great minds TIM
posted on 18/2/17
comment by Dave The Jackal (U7727)
posted 2 minutes ago
Celtic fan in peace. My other half is from Leicester, so can totally sympathise with whatever the feck has happened to your team this season.
Enjoy Seville though, whatever the result. Was there for a week's hols a few years back. Great place. Big Irish bar in the square by the cathedral would be a good base ... if it's still there!
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Cañas and tapas around the city centre is about as good as life gets.
posted on 18/2/17
I don't really want Mendy or Musa anywhere near our first team.
Thought our starting CBs looked decent, particularly Benalouane with some of his passing (I know he was part of the mess for the goal)
posted on 18/2/17
I thought Mendy was by some distance the worst player on the pitch for either side KTF. All he did was put his teammates under pressure with poor short passes and give the ball away in the middle of the park with poor long passes.
I wouldn't want to totally write off a guy who was so highly rated back in France just yet, but I've got to be honest at the moment I'm struggling to really understand what he contributes and frankly what the point of him is in terms of the wider team performance.
posted on 18/2/17
No idea what Mendy is supposed to offer, he literally does nothing. Can't pass, can't tackle. Musa had the worst first touch I've ever seen from a professional football, pure speed merchant. Both can fack off after were relegated to The Championship.
posted on 18/2/17
The shame with Musa and Mendy is that they have both proven themselves at top level. Look what Ranieri has done to them
posted on 18/2/17
comment by This Is Madness (U1209)
posted 1 minute ago
I thought Mendy was by some distance the worst player on the pitch for either side KTF. All he did was put his teammates under pressure with poor short passes and give the ball away in the middle of the park with poor long passes.
I wouldn't want to totally write off a guy who was so highly rated back in France just yet, but I've got to be honest at the moment I'm struggling to really understand what he contributes and frankly what the point of him is in terms of the wider team performance.
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That can't be right, I'm sure someone recently said he's the best passer in Europe??
posted on 18/2/17
Mendy and Musa are not awful players. They have become awful since joining Leicester. If the club sells them, they will regain their confidence and be able to hit the levels before we got hold of them
posted on 18/2/17
I don't think they are awful players but I also don't think Ranieri has made them awful. Mendy has been played in his position, bloody Musa has been played in a range of positions and still have both been average. I don't really care where else they have been good, they aren't 'yet' up to scratch but it is incredibly hard for a lot of players to come and play in the Premier league and it often a big step up or very different (I'm giving both the benefit of the doubt that today against lower opposition, their performances were just as a consequence of their struggles all season)
To try to be positive to them, I would say the rest of their season now should be about getting up to speed on the training pitch and really hitting the gym hard. I think both should consider themselves lucky to be making the bench now on in.
If we play our strongest team or potential strongest team I think we win that game - Millwall were awful. But that isn't the point, I don't mind us playing a reserve team and losing in the cup because we are prioritising the ECL or PL, but we haven't got the friggin' luxury to be resting a first team because it needs changing and we could have had game time trying out some of these !!!
I am just so deflated that exactly what I thought would happen has happened and we are left simply thinking 'what was the point in that? How has it helped prepare us for Liverpool?'
And I genuinely worry the players are staring to think it as well.
I wonder when it gets to the point where even if we do manage to turn it around and avoid relegation, it a) won't be enough to avoid damage to morale b) won't be enough for anyone to look back and not still think, what a waste of an opportunity to at least try to build on something.
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