StriderHiryu

Carsley wouldn't be me first choice, but agree with what you've written here. I think in people's heads they think Carsley = Southgate, but he's his own man, and won silverware. He even had a very brief spell at Brentford as manager where he won manager of the month. https://learning.coachesvoice.com/cv/lee-carsley-tactics-and-style-of-play/ Whoever we get needs to understand that we need to build a team with PACE. The league has actually moved on a bit from heavy possession to being more transition based, as it's notable that the top 3 in the table this year are not the top 3 for possession. What is key is that to exploit the opponent when they are out of shape when you win the ball back. Ruud played a very slow and ponderous style, which is why we struggled to score. When we finally got a goal against Brighton, it came from winning the ball back and getting a shot off quickly!

Reid came on for Mavididi at 94 mins, and Evans came on right at the death for McAteer. That's right; I referenced two seperate events in one sentence! I think you might want to go to back to school and improve your comprehension of the English language.

Vardy could come on in the last 20-30 when the game is stretched and the opposition defenders have slowed down. Daka for all of his donkey touches made multiple chances and won turnovers for himself just by pressing and running at the backline with pace.

We had a threat on transition, something that has been missing throughout the season. Two fast wingers meant we could pose the opposition a problem. That's what the modern day Premier League is all about, exploiting the spaces the opposition has when they are out of position on a turnover. Both Mavididi and McAteer ran directly at their fullbacks today, and Bilal was finding them. Brighton could have been well out of sight, but it's a huge frustration we didn't play this way since game one of the season. Cooper was an utter coward not to start Mavididi and Fatawu at the same time, and Ruud clueless about getting the ball forwards quickly when winning the ball back. Had we played this way throughout the campaign I think we would still have gone down, but I doubt we'd be 14 points off 17th position!

I am bashing him for taking Mavididi off, not McAteer. Subbing Mavididi off for Reid was cowardly.

This game made me realise how much of the season was wasted by both Cooper and RVN. Playing Enzo's system made us a thousand times more competitive and whilst it does leave us open at times, it also makes us exciting to watch. If we had played like that every game and still gone down, no one would be that upset. For me some fairly obvious things that need to happen are: - JJ should be the left centre back - Ricardo should be the inverting player - Mavididi should start every game - McAteer and Daka make the system more effective than Vardy and A.N.other on the right hand side, even if they are technically very limited. The biggest difference in this game is that every time we won the ball back, we had a threat on the break, which hadn't been the case for the previous 12 hours. But Ruud taking of Mavididi at 94 minutes and only giving Evans 10 seconds was shocking.

It's only taken two managers and 32 games to realise the system we played all last season was the one we should have played this.

No one stops Leicester City from scoring for 13 hours. No one!

Man I feel stupid for not remembering about him. Would make perfect sense as Madrid are going to change their manager for sure at the end of the season and we've been linked with him before.

Thiago Motta (lol) Vincenzo Italiano (also lol) Domenico Tedesco? Maurizio Sarri Or my prediction, Russellini Martino?

Very good question. In my opinion he's got a bit of the Russel Martin about him in that he's got a specific phillosophy he wants to stick to and won't deviate away from it too much. He is prepared to change the formation, but all we've seen from Ruud is an extremely slow and pedestrian style when attacking. If we keep him next season, I suspect he will get found out, as I think teams will just park the bus and our stlye will be too slow to break teams down. Enzo's style was patient, but we injected pace when we exploited the man advantage due to Ricardo inverting and why a lot of our goals were actually pretty classy and explosive when we scored them. We don't see any change in the speed of our attack under Ruud. It's almost like he wants to play the tiki-taka style that domiannt 2008-2012 Spanish national team had, but with players that have nowhere near the same level of techinical ability.

With the players we have, the form we have been in, and the malaise in the squad, we were always going to lose. But the game plan for this match meant we never stood a chance. As you say after a poor performance where we got beat 3-0 at home, making zero changes to the tactics used or team selection says eveything you need to know. Ruud isn't even trying, and hasn't been for some time.

I'll be doing an analysis show tomorrow on Blue Tinted Glasses. In this game specifically: Tried to out pass one of the best passing teams in Europe. Wrong choice of players to play such a technical style, e.g. Ndidi trying to play out of trouble and support the attack, Daka as a 10. Lack of speed on transition with the way we setup as Daka was not the furthest man forward. Too open at the begining, so it was game over after 90 seconds. At half time, Ruud put on another CDM and that made us better defensively, but it made us even more blunt in attack. When Ricardo came on, he was lively, but Man City were coasting at that point. If you an the inferior team playing away at Man City, the blueprint is to have a compact block and defend deep, but important, have fast players and play the ball back to front quickly. The way we setup and played was naive and has been throughout Ruud's tenure here. Sadly it's pretty clear that he is a much worse manager than Cooper, as the results and performances prove.

Would actually have tracked back.

This, but even more it's a lack of attempting to try any type of different plan, the lack of making subs at half time, and general apathetic look from the touchline. He's dialing it in big time. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Ruud doesn't have that in him.

Yep he's fallen apart recently and reverted to type. But the same could be said for many, even El Khannouss was off it tonight.

I think that's a fair assessment, but put it this way; he HAS offered more than Winks, Skipp and Choudhury. So given how poor our players have been, including him is the right way to go. Of course signing Skipp and not using him when we have so many issues with the rest of the squad is the tragedy here, likewise Edouard.

Disagree with this. Maybe the ONLY positive thing coaching wise about this season is that defensively on set pieces, we have been pretty good. If we were as bad as we were in 2022 this time round, we might be chasing Sheffield United's most amount of goals conceded in the league record. We kept Arsenal at bay recently through clever coaching, IE using our short players to block Gabriel's runs, so that our physical players could respond to him if the ball made it that far. Offensively, our set pieces have not been great, but we don't really have any players that are good at taking them. El Khannouss you'd think would be, but the results show otherwise. And we actually have scored some set pieces, Vestergaard agaisnt Fulham, Ayew with the last minute winner against Southampton. Stever Cooper was a bad appointment, but hiring this guy and restoring Soumare to the first team were IMO good decisions in the context of the trainwreck that is this campaign.

Let me say that my stance is that I would start Buonanotte over Ayew every day of the week, and this is something I say on pretty much every stream. As for the numbers, Ayew is much better in terms of clearances and aerials won: In terms of attacking output, Facundo is better, although statistically it's nowhere near as much as you might think it would be: In terms of off the ball work, I would say that Buonanotte is quite questionable in his positioning. See the amount of times earlier in the season that Justin was caught 2v1 on his side and he has a tendancy to drift around too much which causes problems on transition. But to be fair to him, he puts in a shift, presses and is good at supporting the press. On the ball he has skill and flair, but often times is head down and plays hero-ball instead of making the pass. You could say this about other players in the squad too though! One thing about Ayew that he doesn't get credit for is that he's useful to have for defending set pieces. I did a piece on this for the Arsenal analysis, but against a team that is exceptional at scoring from set pieces, we kept them quiet. Ruud seems to see Bilal and Facundo as battling for the same position, which is a bit of a shame. I'd have love to have seen both Bilal and Facundo in Maresca's system from last year, but with Fatawu out, we aren't going to see that this season.

Glad you enjoyed it! I am going to link it here for anyone else that wants to see it. Regarding Ayew, yes you are correct. He seems in the team ahead of Mavididi and Buonanotte because he works harder off the ball. He's also better aerially, which makes us better defending set pieces and also as an outlet from a long ball. His attacking output is poor, this we all know, but look at how much more secure we were defensively in this game compared to the Arsenal game where Cooper was in charge. It's just a shame that individual errors at the back make that hard work irrelevant. That said Kristiansen and the positioning of our fullback in general needs to be looked at, as it's happened to both fullbacks multiple times times this season. For Merino's second goal, he literally looked at Merino twice and ignored him! Not sure what he was thinking there to be honest. As for the left hand side, against West Ham we had El Khannouss on the left in the first half with Buonanotte in the middle. I'd be tempted to try that again as I feel like that puts two of our better attacking players on the pitch. But as you say, RVD has a dilemma to which there is no good solution. When you see that Everton signed Ilman Ndiyae for £17m, it makes the Skipp signing baffling. Yunus Akgun returned to Galatasaray so we knew we needed at least one winger. Ayew and Reid are not wingers!

Ricardo from 2019 would be devestating in the system we use now, as a fullback who becomes a winger when we attack. His attacking output is good enough to do it. However, I am not sure the one of today could get up and down as much as he needs to. Kristiansen was massively at fault for the second goal against Arsenal, but he puts in a massive shift every game to support attack and defence, if Mavididi ever passed it to him. I agree with @Jobyfox above that in the current system, I probably would have him instead of Bobby Reid, or at least rotate them. In terms of technical quality, Ricardo is still one of the best at the club.

It will be interesting to see what happens here. Sometimes players that have slightly undistinguished playing careers become very good managers. They have the motivation to do what they could not do on the pitch. Nuno at Forest, Moyes, Dyche, Potter, etc. Even Klopp was an average player but an incredible manager! Even if "just" remains as a coach or an assistant, he could still have a big impact. I think the best case for a club like Leicester would to be have a manager that is good, but also loyal to the club and area. Really we should be in a situation like Thomas Frank at Brentford who has been there since 2016, starting as coach before moving up to manager. Not saying it should be King, but point is that we should be a stable club and project.

I found this interesting, it's a list of the biggest points deductions in EFL history: Leeds United | 15 points | 2007-08. Bournemouth | 17 points | 2008-09. Rotherham United | 17 points | 2008-09. Derby County | 21 points | 2021-22. Luton Town | 30 points | 2008-09. Sounds alarming, but all of these are due to not exiting administration correctly. Luton got fined 20 for that and 10 for dodgy Agent Payments. If you put all that together, I would imagine that most we would get deducted is 10 points. The bigger issue would be a transfer embargo or worse, put on a plan where the EFL appoint an external auditor to handle club finances, whihch would result in player sales at knockdown prices. That would gut the team and probably leave us without any chance. This season Sheffield United got deducted 2 points for not paying other clubs. So it might not be that bad next season, but to me it feels like it might be more of promotion through the playoffs, if we are even that good. A bigger worry is that most of the talent leaves and it's just the over paid mercenaries that remain, and motivation is in the bin.

The current ownership treats us like Customers, not fans. This has been obvious for quite some time, but none more so than the day of our relegation in 2022 when the club advertised the upcoming season's shirt despite it being a last day relegation battle. However, we fans can turn this back at the owners. Treat the "product" that is Leicester City Football Club as the product that it is, complete shite. Go to the games but DON'T buy the shirts, the merchandise or anything like that. That would be the most effective way to change something at the club. I would be bothered if the club continued to plummet down the league. But I would not be bothered if many overpaid executives and players left tomorrow.