Next up is top of the table Leicester, at the Walkers stadium ( sorry new sponsor ) They have the lovely lad that is David Nugent in their ranks, no doubt he'll score. Bad week with us on the McGoldrick front. Our midfield doesn't match up to theirs, and I cannot see bar a set piece where on earth a goal is going to come from. Can anyone else!? Also, how are we going to lineup? Appears Marriott will be staying on loan, no talk of him coming back. TC has been talking up Nouble this week, NOT Taylor which I find interesting. Surely we cannot start Murphy AND Nouble!? 2-0 Leicester win for me, routine job, and theoretically should results around us NOT go in our favour, potentially being 8 points off the play offs ( hilarious to think I started a 2 point off thread ) with 14 to play may be a step too far. One positive though is Leicester playing a tough game at Forrest last night, this COULD have a slight effect on them fitness wise. Perhaps I'm clutching at straws!
I'm going for a backs to the wall 0-0 draw here. With our star man out and now a real lack of guile, creativity etc I'm pretty sure we'll park the bus.
Lets look at the facts... Leicester are top, and kinda running away with the league. They are unbeaten in 12 in the league They have Nugent who scores for fun against us We are down in 9th, and slowly slipping away from the play off pack. We've only won 2 out of 9 league matches We've just lost our top scorer and most creative player We havn't beaten Leicester away since 2002 So, the stats point to Leicester winning comfortably. But this is the the Championsip, and it's unpredictability is what is so fascinating. Therefore i am going to predict that we lose 3-0 (although i actually think we will pull off a minor miracle and win, but as i always get it wrong when i predict us to win, i'm "pretending" that we are going to get stuffed - make sense??)
A lot of Leicester fans have been saying that "Nugent is due a goal" as he hasn't scored in a while... clearly that will change on Saturday and I also can't see anything but a valiant but unsuccessful 90 minutes of huff and puff.. From what I've seen, Leicester have been the best team in this league and their midfield is going to dominate this match with Vardy & Dyer giving us the run around at the back. We'll battle hard but give away a soft penalty midway through the 2nd half (which Nugent will score) and then they'll grab a late 2nd to seal the comfortable 2-0 win.
Leicester will be over-confident and succumb to a 6-0 mauling with a Franck Nouble hatrick, a 30 yarder from Hyam, a tap in from Tabb (I almost wrote a "Tabb in"...) and a goal from SEB to finish off. I will then wake up...
You guys need the points more than we do, i hope we win (because im going ) but i wouldn't be surprised if it was a draw. Nugent probably won't play the full 90 mins, so don't worry about him We'll take him off after hes scored his hat-trick :-D
Whats the chances of you signing Bradley Orr again in time for saturday By far one of the worst footballers i have ever seen in my life and I have seen alot of crap Lloyd Dyer can get past him at walking pace
Don't panic guys. I've had a Leicester win,nugent first scorer punt. Certain kiss of death. Every other bet I do goes tits up.
at least you haven't got Iain Marshall anymore. we have been having a dip but still drawing we no keep going till the final whistle. you could of course prey for snow. if not ithink a point a peice
