Couldn't believe the thinking (if there was any!) behind the team selection today. Does Pearson draw the names out of a hat? How can he drop Ulloa, who is the leading goalscorer by a mile? Where else are the goals going to come from? The fact he hasn't had a shot on target in 4 games is because no one has fed him a pass worthy of the name! In the first few games we were getting runners down both flanks, firing in decent balls and Leo was sticking them away. What more could you ask of your main striker? It must be a real kick in the teeth for the guy when one minute he's hearing Pearson publicly lauding his scoring ability, and then has to spend all of the last 4 games chasing aimlessly across the line trying to win the ball back off defenders because his manager decides not to play wide men any more, and then Pearson rubs salt in the wound and drops him! It absolutely beggars belief! What next? Drop Schmeichel because he's the one letting in the goals? Sometimes I think Pearson really doesn't have a clue. As someone said, this is like the losing run we had a couple of seasons ago. He had no clue how to stop it then, and I really wonder if he has a clue now. Bringing on Powell today into a side that had lost the last 3 and was losing again was just sheer desperation.
It's no use sticking Vardy down the middle. There's not enough space for him there and that position doesn't play to his strength. He's not a tricky player with quick feet who's going to bamboozle defenders; he needs to start out wide right where he has space to use his pace, get behind full backs and then come inside and attack central defenders from there and set up chances for others. And putting Nugent up front as striker is a waste of time. We've all seen it and said it before. The guy is not a striker! End of!
The frustrating thing is that I think we have a set of players that is capable of holding their own in this division. Unfortunately we have a manager who keeps on making changes and persists in playing players out of position and in ridiculous formations. Something has to give shortly because we are in danger of getting into a losing mentality and could end up being on the end of a severely demoralising beating against the likes of Southampton.