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Is he going to the WC do we know or will his injury keep him out?

Ah, ok!

Can anyone pm me a river?

Tbh, he reminds me a bit of Redondo.

My early Xmas wish is for a young, athletic left footed DM. Fits the bill!

This. Sub JL and Maxi somewhere between 45 & 60 mins so they’re fresh for Chelsea.

Looked stronger today which is a boon.

Very glad he’s back tbh. We’ll definitely help our possession game.

Nice to see a club like Leicester sticking by Rodger’s tbh. It seems customary to can a manager at the first sign of trouble despite what they’ve done for the club. Rodger’s has had a very good few seasons with them and I’m happy he’s been given the chance to turn their form around. Hope they’re stupid enough to sell us Ndidi though….

Hope he’s got a couple more like that in him for the rest of the season. It wasn’t just that it was a good finish, it came at a very necessary time. Important goals > worldy goals.

Tbqph, I thought Southampton had our number tactically today (when attacking) but didn’t have the personnel to pull it off. They got players around Burn and made him look a bit cumbersome. They also attacked the space behind Trippier. We were sloppy in the middle and gave the ball away and when they hit the wings I think we looked quite exposed. We we’re incredibly efficient in attack, at one point, 3 shots with 3 goals. That’s clearly not a sustainable statistic. Think we are looking a little tired. I’m hoping that Isak, Maxi and Shelvey coming back will help reenergise the team post WC.

Was a very good and necessary outlet for us today.

MK2 Ford Granada today.

Watched an hour of it myself. May have been an outlier performance wise but he was pretty poor from what I saw. Especially in key defensive moments. From the DM position he let players run off of him and made minimal effort to recover. When is possession and building from the back he often went to the left (clearly tactical). Once BM lost the ball on the half way line and worked a man overload towards BM’s right back. Kone just casually jogged over and the attack went on without him making the slightest effort to help out. In fact, I didn’t see him sprint once in the hour I watched. He mostly walked and sometimes jogged. Often didn’t show for the ball and certainly no effort to retrieve it. Given he’s built a reputation this must have been a very below par performance from him. Odd to see a young player just walking around in such a close game (it was 2-1 when I had to leave). Was a very good game though, cracking goals from both teams.

Wilifred Ndidi for me. Contract is up in 19 months.

I think we could do with a DM who has pace than the likes of Merino. Someone sitting at 6 with good recovery speed to cover the FB position is we get caught in transition as an example. We’re a bit ‘one geared’ defensively. Positional awareness and reading of the game are tremendous attributes but pace is something fantastic to have to resort to.

Would have Targett in, myself. Wouldn’t it work is JL played inside and Willock played LW?

Probably the most complete footballer at the club. Can literally do everything.

Was it Botman who got beaten to the ball for the flick on that led to their goal? I couldn’t really see.

Thought he was Dan Burned for the 1st 15 mins or so. They could’ve been 3 - 0 but we made adjustments and he looked a lot better.

It was apparent to me last season, and I know it’s easy to say now he’s been canned, but the way he shifted the blame into the players made me think he couldn’t last. He didn’t give a sense of collective in the interviews I saw (after a bad result). I thought that would wear thin with his squad at some point. He might have a bit of Sounessitis tbh. Whereby, as a player, he was so self motivated and so mean to dominate as a personality trait he can’t empathise with players who need coaxing from their leader.

I’m sure that was the only time he lost out to DCL in the air in that game. Haven’t watched it again but I thought there was a couple of times. Anyway, hopefully he’ll learn what to do against a forward who jumps well, early and into him and adjusts. Am impressed with his communication with Schar regarding offsides. They seem to read each other pretty well.

Thought his run and leap in the box was great. Kinda disappointed he only did that once in 45 mins though. There was plenty of space for him to drive forward...

Funny how we all see things differently. I thought Burn had an ok game but some of his passing and made me think Targett will be back in soon.

Always looks like he’s auditioning for Zoolander 3.