AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 there was a lack of skill, misplaced passes and poor touches, but i guess thats down to confidence as much as anything. That was the most worrying thing for me, do we have time to fix it? Controlling the ball up into the air, passing it behind the player, not getting enough weight on the pass. Those are things that confident, relaxed players just don't do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relámpago blanco Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Its good that we werent 100 miles an hour as we would have been torn apart. We had a plan we stuck to it. We didnt get anything but the fact that we stuck to a plan for the entire game was important. Alot of positives. The mackems and Norwich is the test. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Definitely good that they took the plan on board and stuck to it. Basically the game went exactly according to what Benitez wanted, except they scored a ridiculous goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Totally agree about the not chasing back branko, my neutral mate also commented time and time again about our lack of urgency when building from the back. Too much strolling for a team desperate for points imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Its good that we werent 100 miles an hour as we would have been torn apart. We had a plan we stuck to it. We didnt get anything but the fact that we stuck to a plan for the entire game was important. Alot of positives. The mackems and Norwich is the test. I agree, but I also don't. It's strange. I don't mean running at 100 miles an hour chasing the ball around and ultimately never having it, but just that tempo however the situation required it, if you know what I mean? I agree, too frantic and we'd have lost any game plan. I would have just liked more presence from us tonight. Pin a team like Leicester back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 It doesn't matter about the pen and it doesn't matter that we lost. There was a massive improvement out there tonight and if this had been Rafa's 3rd or 4th game we would have won. Leicester were just holding on for the last 20min. Not many sides have won there this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Couldn't believe how laboured and nervy the forward players' touches were. De Jong was the only one that was fluid with the ball. The difference in his touch, control and passing when he came on was startling. Unfortunately not sure how we can fit him in from the start, as pairing him with Mitro gives us such a slow front line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmymag Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 It doesn't matter about the pen and it doesn't matter that we lost. There was a massive improvement out there tonight and if this had been Rafa's 3rd or 4th game we would have won. Leicester were just holding on for the last 20min. Not many sides have won there this season. Disagree that they were "holding on", they just knew that by killing the game we'd be incapable of scoring based on our woeful goal scoring record away from home. Professional tactics prevailed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest neesy111 Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Its good that we werent 100 miles an hour as we would have been torn apart. We had a plan we stuck to it. We didnt get anything but the fact that we stuck to a plan for the entire game was important. Alot of positives. The mackems and Norwich is the test. I agree, but I also don't. It's strange. I don't mean running at 100 miles an hour chasing the ball around and ultimately never having it, but just that tempo however the situation required it, if you know what I mean? I agree, too frantic and we'd have lost any game plan. I would have just liked more presence from us tonight. Pin a team like Leicester back. That's when they are at their most dangerous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 It doesn't matter about the pen and it doesn't matter that we lost. There was a massive improvement out there tonight and if this had been Rafa's 3rd or 4th game we would have won. Leicester were just holding on for the last 20min. Not many sides have won there this season. No doubt. I'm just concerned that we might have done too little too late. I've already seen and heard enough from Benitez to see he knows how to identify the problems and address them, I just don't know whether we have enough games left to implement those changes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
greydos Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Missed the game tonight. Can someone tell me what formation we played and whether we changed shape with the subs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Its good that we werent 100 miles an hour as we would have been torn apart. We had a plan we stuck to it. We didnt get anything but the fact that we stuck to a plan for the entire game was important. Alot of positives. The mackems and Norwich is the test. I agree, but I also don't. It's strange. I don't mean running at 100 miles an hour chasing the ball around and ultimately never having it, but just that tempo however the situation required it, if you know what I mean? I agree, too frantic and we'd have lost any game plan. I would have just liked more presence from us tonight. Pin a team like Leicester back. That's when they are at their most dangerous. Nah, man. They're at their most dangerous when you allow them to break in to space. Leicester like to play 5 or 10 years ahead. 2 strong banks of 4, but immediately ready to move in to whatever piece of space you allow them. Long or short. Stop that and keep the pressure on them imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Missed the game tonight. Can someone tell me what formation we played and whether we changed shape with the subs? Started with: ----------- Shelvey --------- Anita ----------- Perez ------------ Wijnaldum -------- Sissoko --------------------- Mitro -------------------- Turned into: Townsend ------- Shelvey ------- Gini -------- Sissoko ------------------- Mitro ---------- Perez --------------- Not sure what it was when SDJ came on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
greydos Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Missed the game tonight. Can someone tell me what formation we played and whether we changed shape with the subs? Started with: ----------- Shelvey --------- Anita ----------- Perez ------------ Wijnaldum -------- Sissoko --------------------- Mitro -------------------- Turned into: Townsend ------- Shelvey ------- Gini -------- Sissoko ------------------- Mitro ---------- Perez --------------- Not sure what it was when SDJ came on. Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Missed the game tonight. Can someone tell me what formation we played and whether we changed shape with the subs? Started with: ----------- Shelvey --------- Anita ----------- Perez ------------ Wijnaldum -------- Sissoko --------------------- Mitro -------------------- Turned into: Townsend ------- Shelvey ------- Gini -------- Sissoko ------------------- Mitro ---------- Perez --------------- Not sure what it was when SDJ came on. Ended up as Janmaat - Taylor - Lascelles - Colback *Leicester* Townsend - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Doumbia Wijnaldum - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sissoko de Jong Mitrovic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Leicester came so close to scoring that they scored. They scored a offside goal, of course nowt matters other than 1-0 though, might as well bring McClaren back eh? Wasnt actually offside according to some ref on Sky (Dermot Gallagher I think) Hmm, it's a close one. http://i.imgur.com/QbTLzvy.png Taking into account the perspective here, it's likely Lascelles' upper body is just about in line with Vardy. Because Taylor made a "deliberate" movement to the ball and basically flicked it on to Vardy, it's a "2nd phase", therefore onside Yeah, that's not true at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Paully in a trademark garish top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Leicester came so close to scoring that they scored. They scored a offside goal, of course nowt matters other than 1-0 though, might as well bring McClaren back eh? Wasnt actually offside according to some ref on Sky (Dermot Gallagher I think) Hmm, it's a close one. http://i.imgur.com/QbTLzvy.png Taking into account the perspective here, it's likely Lascelles' upper body is just about in line with Vardy. Because Taylor made a "deliberate" movement to the ball and basically flicked it on to Vardy, it's a "2nd phase", therefore onside Yeah, that's not true at all. What, so an actual former ref who knows the rules is wrong? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Never known anyone at football matches get on telly/in the paper so consistently as Paully, other than that bellend with the bell at Pompey. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I thought there was a massive improvement on recent games like. We passed the ball around a bit tonight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 The decision making of a lot of our players is truly shit, few times tonight someone makes a decoy run to try and stretch Leicester and the gimp on the ball tries a ridiculous pass through about 4 players to them, who would be crowded out straight away too. There's also no nous, like Townsend buying a free kick when someone slid in to him on the touch line and he dinked it over him and out of play. Should just go over. I don't particularly like it but it's the sort of thing Leicester were doing all night. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrymac1966 Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 We need some luck and a good bounce on Sunday ... Mbabu instead of Colback would have secured the point tonight ie. the centre wouldn't have come back in with a taller lb unlucky Rafa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 The immediate impression was of a far more solid unit, esp at the back...Janmaat not galloping forward at daft times and leaving gaps as before and the link between defence and m/f, usually with Shelvey co-ordinating was better although this meant Shelvey was often too far back to offer any support to the forwards. The problems we have are all up front and to a lesser extent, in m/f. Unless Perez is able to have a run at defenders, we have a huge lack of pace ; Mitrovic has the speed and turning ability of a 40 year-old, never mind a player of 21. As ever, he was constantly isolated and when we had to resort to long balls, he was usually crowded out before he could lay the ball off and nobody was breaking through fast enough from m/f to support him. The only time we really opened them up was when Townsend beat his defender and got a good cross in. Anita gave the ball away countless times and I wasn't in the least surprised when Benitez subbed him. Yes, it WAS a pen when Sissoko's shot hit the defender's arm, but apart from that we created VERY few clear chances and Rafa will now know, only too well, the size of the task he faces. I was heartened by the overall tightness of the side, obviously down to his organization ; the whole set-up is more SBR than KK and this means we are likely to concede less than in the past, Unfortunately, it also means we are unlikely to score many either because in a tight compact formation such as this, you need either an instinctive scorer or forwards with pace and we have neither. The good side to all this is that if we avoid the drop, Rafa's discipline will make us tough to beat and this is the FIRST quality a side needs to get success or silverware. Decent signings in summer would make all the difference, but it will be a very tough job to stay up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Don't think you deserved to lose tonight. Pretty gash game and one superb finish settled it. Doesn't mean that's in any way satisfactory but there were reasons for optimism IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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