Leicester vs City - Live Thread

by blueboy Tue Dec 29, 2015 4:37 pm

First topic message reminder :

So, another big 3 points needed against a team that will definitely provide a sterner test than Sunderland.

Team? Be difficult for him to drop Bony after he scored again, so I'm going for Aguero to be on the bench tonight.

Hart
Zaba, Ota, Manga, Clichy
Fernandinho, TLMLF, KDB
Sterling, Bony, Silva

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:09 pm

bony offside. ffs

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:11 pm

did it bobble or did he just sky it???

by Nijinsky Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:13 pm

Bony should take that spoon off his foot

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:14 pm

why do we run backwards when they get the ball?

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:17 pm

Still take that draw...

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:18 pm

shit defending

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:18 pm

lazy from otamendi and clumsy from mango

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:19 pm

good defending from mango

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:24 pm

shit pass from bony. shit control earlier.

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:24 pm

itchy should be given his chance ahead of bony

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:25 pm

wank from kolarov

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:26 pm

Topdawg wrote:why do we run backwards when they get the ball?

Exactly what I said...its madness.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:28 pm

Well... what a fracking anticlimax. ... we never loooked like scoring... just shit all around. ... no tooth up front..

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:30 pm

what shit from navas? all that time to cross the ball and he waits for the defender to close him down.

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:31 pm

shit defending....again

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:31 pm

DeBruyne has been nothing short of shit today... awful corners and crosses...

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:33 pm

poor pass from itchy

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:34 pm

i'd take itchy learning and making mistakes than bony just making mistakes and not learning

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:35 pm

Awful game

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:35 pm

by **Topdawg** Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:36 pm

itchy before bony please. let itchy run around and pressure their defence into making mistakes rather than bony stroll around.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:38 pm

We should sell Bony in January. ...offers nothing special looks like a lazy bum

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:39 pm

It's a start, first clean sheet in forever and we were the better team. Awful I know but 3 points against Watford and that is causing good Xmas if truth be told

by blueboy Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:40 pm

Well Aguero was equally wank tonight....

Thought the CB's did well tonight.

I'll take a point, especially as this Manager couldn't muster fuck all out of this team if he tried.

by blueboy Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:42 pm

Howard fucking Red..."no penalty, Aguero made a meal of it"...and BT wonder why footy fans can't stand watching it. Rolling Eyes

McManalady, Glenn 'no personality' Hoddle....it's fucking painful listening.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:46 pm

Aguero wasn't wank he was not sharp

That arrogant toerag just said that he is disappointed with the result! You ffffckink ttwt ! They couldn't get out of their half for most game and We would have wiped the flooor qith them if we had a decent manager

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:46 pm

Like his rag dad doesn't know his place!

by **Wensdi** Tue Dec 29, 2015 10:07 pm

Not the end of the world - we didn't lose and we have moved up to third - so need good performances over the next couple of weeks. I'm sure Leicester will slip up also - so we still have everything to play for.

by Guest Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:06 pm

Yes Wensdi not the end of the world but we have been playing like a top 10 team and not title contenders for a couple of months now which is worrying.

Can only hope the players step up because MP isn't helping them with the tactics.

by **Topdawg** Wed Dec 30, 2015 2:13 am

Last 14 games - 6 wins and 3 draws. That's not top4 form.

by **Wensdi** Wed Dec 30, 2015 2:49 am

Miserable Danny Mills commentating on the match - every Monday night game - he gets on my nerves. Had to keep repeating that the whole Leicester team cost less than one of our players. Get a life Mr. Mills.

by blueboy Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:39 am

We are 12th in the table for away wins...that form will not win us the title.

MP needs to resolve this issue and resolve it immediately.

This is not a TLMLF bashing, but:

Last night he did spray the ball around nicely, but he made only ONE burst forward with the ball last night. ONE. That's not offering us anything.

After his 20 yard run with the ball, he walked back for the next 2 minutes as if he was knackered - it was embarrassing to watch.

For me, we need to sacrifice him if we want to accommodate Silva, Sterling and KDB.
He's been played in a 2 in MF for most of the season and hasn't offered anything. He's been tried playing further forward, and again still not offered us anything.

For me, he shouldn't be in the starting 11 when we play away. We need more energy - I'd even go as far as to say that Navas (yes, Navas!!) would offer us more.

The manager has to resolve this centre MF stubbornness...it's up to him to find a different formation but he's just not up to it. His over-reliance on TLMLF will cost us.

by blueboy Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:43 am

Maybe with Sorriano going to Madrid to speak about signing Isco, is the answer, but even if we got him in January, you can see MP playing him alongside TLMLF.

We need a box-to-box MF player - Delle Alli type.

by **Topdawg** Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:07 am

Why can't we just play Delph and Fernandinho as DMs, Sterling, Kevin and Silva as AMs and Aguero/Bony up top?

by blueboy Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:14 am

Because Delph only lasts 2 games being fit. Rolling Eyes

The problem is, even if Delph was fit, can you honestly see him dropping TLMLF? It would never happen, he'd fuck around with the team, dropping Sterling or KDB to accommodate him.

That's the top and bottom of it.

by **shakencity** Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:18 am

Why can't we just sell Toure in Jan?

by blueboy Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:20 am

shakencity wrote:Why can't we just sell Toure in Jan?

If only Den, if only!

by Moonchester Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:48 am

somebody is still on the sherry :p

by Guest Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:55 am

Top 4 is all MP has to deliver, hopefully even he can't mess that up! Possibly as bad a manager as we have ever had, Frank Clark or dare I say it, Alan Ball would have delivered more with this group of players. I've not changed my opinion in over 12 months.

by Guest Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:10 am

Wensdi wrote:Miserable Danny Mills commentating on the match - every Monday night game - he gets on my nerves. Had to keep repeating that the whole Leicester team cost less than one of our players. Get a life Mr. Mills.

The guy is still on the books! Money is all he cares about the greedy bastard. Faking injuries with us for God knows how many years. Bleeding us dry when there was no monet at the club. Mercenary Scumbag! I will add the two scouser s Fowler and McManaman to that... vile creatures from Liverpool....

by blueboy Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:24 am

If you look at his performance over his managerial appointment, you'd say a PL title, a C1C and still in all 4 competitions so far isn't that shabby.

The appointments brought in aren't his signings, they would have been brought in by the Spaniards...so we can't really lay the blame at his door for them....by that, I mean the likes of Caballero, Fernando, Otamendi, Mangala, Delph etc etc.

Against him though, we won the PL title when we really shouldn't have won it. Yes, we played well at the end and others slipped up - I get that argument.

Last season was a terrible season in performance and the cup competitions.

This season, we brought in Otamendi, De Bruyne and Sterling which should have strengthened the squad, but, we have had a pretty shite run of injuries, meaning players haven't necessarily been rested or dropped - so places seem to have been a given for some, without any pressure on them. TLMLF being the prime candidate. He plays as if he couldn't give a toss, knowing, regardless of his performance, he'll be in the starting 11 the next game - and probably as a Captain, which is an even bigger joke.

The Manager has had plenty of opportunities to blood 3 or 4 academy players this season, but for some reason, he hasn't - and this has only compounded the argument for players not having to give 100% every game.
Who knows, we could have unearthed a Dele Alli, Eric Dier...but if they don't play, we'll never know...and, if they aren't trusted at the age of 20/21 - then they may as well be sold on as they'll never get the chance.

Patrick Roberts is a prime example. The kid actually takes players on - unlike Navas, yet how many games has he played wide right compared to Navas this season?

Kelechi v the opportunities that Bony has had?

At this stage of the season - where we currently stand, we are desperately missing Milner's work ethic and energy, something we haven't addressed, especially away from home - and this goes back to my previous observation.

I agree BB - with this squad, regardless of the injuries, we should be leading the pack. 3rd keeps us in with a shout, of course it does, but for me, it's not so much the quality of football, it's the effort as individuals and as a team that's the most worrying...and the Manager just compounds it time and time again.

So, for the amount of money spent so far during his tenure - he's been average for me as a City Manager...but, if he wins us a cup and the PL, then you'd have to say 4 trophies in 3 years is a good return, which isn't far fetched right now.

by skyblueoz Wed Dec 30, 2015 3:39 pm

I still don't get why we shouldn't have won the league in 2014? we kept 17 clean sheets & scored 103 goals including 4 players who scored over 20? surely you can't ask for much more. The rest I agree with.

by Guest Wed Dec 30, 2015 3:48 pm

blueboy wrote:So, for the amount of money spent so far during his tenure - he's been average for me as a City Manager...but, if he wins us a cup and the PL, then you'd have to say 4 trophies in 3 years is a good return, which isn't far fetched right now.

Considering the fact that all the other top clubs have been collapsing around us since he has joined I don't think it is a good return. We have been pretty stable and if the clubs around us were as stable we would not have won anything...Arsenal just haven't had the players...

by **Wensdi** Wed Dec 30, 2015 4:08 pm

Somebody said they would take a draw before the match. Got one - we were away to the league leaders (at Christmas). All disappointed that we didn't get a win but we can't keep over analyzing everything. Lets see where we are in a couple of weeks. If nothing changes then I'm sure our owners will fix that. Very Happy

by **Topdawg** Wed Dec 30, 2015 4:49 pm

I said I'd take a draw because we just look poor far too often, Yes we had tons of possession but did very little with it. I didn't want a draw because that was a good result for us, I said I'd take a draw because we have been utter wank (TM) away from home most of the season.

And we weren't brilliant last season, even though we finished 2nd. Our owners don't seem to have changed that over the summer.

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