An improved display yesterday with some real effort shown against the top money team so an improved 68% for effort mainly.
No, I think on yesterday's performance we would have taken 3 points off the other teams in the bottom 10 and also from some of the teams in the top half. We were playing probably one of the top 3 teams in the world and gave them a really good game.
My "concern" would be that the players lift themselves against the bigger teams, yet "plod along" against the others as per Hull & Southampton....
The difference is our players get up for those games, if we were playing a lesser side our game would have dropped as well. Stereo I would sack him now. One half tidy performance and people will say give him a chance. He has to go, his negative views of football will take us down. Get rid and give the new manager as much time as possible. Why keep waiting for it to change and how many game do we wait, enough until it is to late to stay up. He has to go and go now, that will allow a new manager time to get us playing again.
I think what will definitely take us down is our away form, we have looked pathetic away from home and that is my worry.
Good to see Routledge playing well today. With him and Leon in the side there's so much more zip to our play. The given formation though meant Routledge had little or no space to work in. Because of our limited options in attack the defense were able to cover him with two defenders which nullified him to a certain degree but he looked sharp and got into the box a couple of times. If only he was a little more aggressive in the box he might have bagged himself a couple of goals yesterday. With our best central attacking midfielder banished to the wing we were lightweight through the middle again and offered no threat what so ever. That's why the defenders could afford to double team Routledge because they knew we offered little in the way of threat any where else. Lloriente ran his heart out and it was good for us all to see him get his goal. Keep going big man. van der Hoorn looks a shoe-in for the rest of the season, his fledgling partnership with Amat looked pretty solid to me. He looks like 'the solution' to me. The team played well yesterday despite Guidolin not because of him, imo. The issue now is, if they continue playing as well as they have been for the last TWO games, don't forget how poor they were all season up to the Citeh cup game, then they could well end up saving Guidolins job for him. What's the opposite of every cloud has a silver lining?
Swansea gave us our biggest test this season so far,it does seem a little harsh reading though the thread on the swans manager but saying that I've not watched Swansea play this season
Humble pie here, looked awful when I saw him and reports coming out wa he wasn't good enough. Seen enough in the last 2 games to show he has to play eveyweek. I wonder if we could end up with Mason and VDH as our paring later in the season.
Impressed with Britton again,he really can be the cog everything goes through,he sets the tempo in the midfield Also though Fer played well,was a real handful as was the big lump up top who scored
I find this statement staggering. On that basis you could also state that we played poorly against Southampton despite Guidolin. You can't have it both ways.
He is the cog, always has been. Guido however is to dumb to see it. Leon should be starting every week if fit.
The players weren't up for it against either Hull or Southampton, yet "strangely" put in better performances against both Chelsea & Citeh. With the greatest respect to Leicester, they are not regarded as a "Big Club"...... My comment that the players played well "despite the Manager" reflects his formation & tactics - arguably our best player & greatest threat was played out of position on the left - yet the Manager described him recently as the "perfect 10" Additionally, it was glaringly obvious that we needed pace & "real" width - we had neither. In my opinion, we would have been better served with Monty or Barrow starting, Gylfi in his normal position, and either Cork or Fer (probably the latter) starting on the bench. Would we have lost in any event with that formation? Yes, probably because Citeh seem to be a class above anyone else at present. Only my opinion
So you will only give credit to Guidolin when he plays a formation that you approve of. Despite being clapped off the pitch yesterday, despite being given credit on MOTD, despite gaining credit in todays Press, Guidolin is **** because he doesn't play 4-5-1.
Guido not being good enough is based on our performances under him since February. Our best performances under him as our manager came about while he was laying on a hospital bed. You keep saying this 4-51 formation. The only formation I've seen posters posting is the 4-2-3-1 formation.
