Kasper

[KJT]

What the hell does our goal keeping coach do?

[cropstonfox]

Imo poole was a lot better than kasper.He was massively underrated and won the play off semi for us against stoke with a series of fantastic stops.He did hit a sticky patch and was dropped and eventually replaced.This is football progress and Kasper has been great for us but at the minute he is a liability and may need a rest or replacing.

[funkyrobot]

5 hours ago, cropstonfox said:

Imo poole was a lot better than kasper.He was massively underrated and won the play off semi for us against stoke with a series of fantastic stops.He did hit a sticky patch and was dropped and eventually replaced.This is football progress and Kasper has been great for us but at the minute he is a liability and may need a rest or replacing.

No chance was Poole a better goalie. Great servant but played mostly at a lower level and simply wasn’t as good. Who would you replace Kasper with? 

[tetly]

Kasper is having his worst season for us not much has gone his way this season. Saves you would expect him to make he isn’t getting to.

 

long shots and free kicks he is useless and he has been poor at his near post. It would be silly to bin him but something needs to be done, maybe a new gk coach?

[cropstonfox]

I would give Hamar his chance at Anfield.Also we should be scouting championship and league one goalies and develop them.All of our best players over the last 5 years have been from lower standard leagues.So this should be applied to Goal keeper recruitment.

[Crazy Kop Corner]

Is all looks a bit too cosy with Mike Stowell.

 

Definitely look to bring in a new goalkeeping coach with new ideas to rejuvenate Kasper.

[Mr Weller]

The usual hyperbole and gross exaggeration. 

 

Yes, he's made a few errors this season but he also made some fantastic saves. I don't know of any keeper who never made a mistake. 

 

Self evidently a very good keeper and certainly our best for 20 years. 

 

If he's what some people say he is on here then I don't know how they'd describe the 30 odd keepers we had between the O Neil years and now? Or the majority of other Premier League keepers? 

[funkyrobot]

We’ve got a goal difference of 0. We are not shipping goals left right and centre. That goal against Watford was a freak and wasn’t entirely down to Kasper. People calling for a replacement for Schmeichel and the sacking of Mike Stowell for a brief loss of form is Madness. 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, funkyrobot said:

We’ve got a goal difference of 0. We are not shipping goals left right and centre. That goal against Watford was a freak and wasn’t entirely down to Kasper. People calling for a replacement for Schmeichel and the sacking of Mike Stowell for a brief loss of form is Madness. 

2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0 - That’s December in the league. 

 

Didnt keep a clean sheet all of November 

[StanSP]

much better today especially when it came to commanding his area (something he has been criticised for before). Saw him come out for corners and get some punches on the ball. 

 

Distribution has always been a sticking point and that didn't change today.

[Drew Peacock]

2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

much better today especially when it came to commanding his area (something he has been criticised for before). Saw him come out for corners and get some punches on the ball. 

 

Distribution has always been a sticking point and that didn't change today.

I definitely noticed much better commanding of the area too. That helped us massively. 

But distribution. ? It must have been heading for double figures, in total, either kicked straight out or aimed at Mahrez with him mostly making a token jump, and getting nowhere near it.

Is the problem though that we don't have anyone attacking wise who wins many headers anyway?

 

[StanSP]

3 minutes ago, Drew Peacock said:

I definitely noticed much better commanding of the area too. That helped us massively. 

But distribution. ? It must have been heading for double figures, in total, either kicked straight out or aimed at Mahrez with him mostly making a token jump, and getting nowhere near it.

Is the problem though that we don't have anyone attacking wise who wins many headers anyway?

 

yep, definitey must have been instructed to just hoof it up the pitch today and not play with it too much at the back given how high and quick Liverpool press.

I don't mind that being the tactic but at least keep it on the pitch!

[jayfox26]

5 hours ago, StanSP said:

yep, definitey must have been instructed to just hoof it up the pitch today and not play with it too much at the back given how high and quick Liverpool press.

I don't mind that being the tactic but at least keep it on the pitch!

Yeh that was obviously the instruction but his kicking really is dreadful at the moment. Even Crouch would struggle winning headers from Kaspers kicking. Surely keepers must work on this every day so I find it hard to understand why he's so poor. Kasper had obviously been given an instruction to time waste as much as possible today as well 

[StanSP]

there was a guy behind me in C2 today who had a moan at Kasper for kicking it out to Fuchs instead of throwing it.

 

It went straight to Fuchs, no Huddersfield players around him and nearly led to a dangerous attack.

 

I can understand if he shanked the kick or gave possession away, but he didn't. Emphasising that people just love to moan for the sake of it!

[Farrington fox]

Kasper is a top top keeper. He can’t do everything right all of the time, he’s made a few more mistakes this season than in previous campaigns, so what. We’re better with than without him. 

[Babylon]

54 minutes ago, StanSP said:

there was a guy behind me in C2 today who had a moan at Kasper for kicking it out to Fuchs instead of throwing it.

 

It went straight to Fuchs, no Huddersfield players around him and nearly led to a dangerous attack.

 

I can understand if he shanked the kick or gave possession away, but he didn't. Emphasising that people just love to moan for the sake of it!

To be fair, if it's the moment I remember it seemed a totally unccessary kick, that ended up being far harder to control because he wellied it. Where as a throw would probably have been far easier to control and may have actually led to a danagerous attack that just "nearly" leading to one.

 

Not the worst thing in the world, but I remember questioning the decision to kick myself... and no I don't sit there!

[StanSP]

i wouldn't say he 'wellied it'!

 

When I said led to a dangerous attack, I meant that someone else lost the ball further up the field (Ndidi?) and it was neither Schmeichel's fault or Fuchs' fault in the way that he received the ball.

 

I just think it was something silly to moan and a bit needless. The end result was still the same - the pass went to Fuchs and Fuchs was able to pass the ball forward. 

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

16 minutes ago, StanSP said:

i wouldn't say he 'wellied it'!

 

When I said led to a dangerous attack, I meant that someone else lost the ball further up the field (Ndidi?) and it was neither Schmeichel's fault or Fuchs' fault in the way that he received the ball.

 

I just think it was something silly to moan and a bit needless. The end result was still the same - the pass went to Fuchs and Fuchs was able to pass the ball forward. 

I think i said to myself "oh dear" at that kick before seeing that it reached Fuchs just fine and worked out. Just a bit of Kasper showboating, quality

[shen]

This thread makes for some baffling reading.

I was very skeptical of Kasper when he first arrived at the club.

I thought he'd be a good Championship goalie and believed he was a coup.

However, the ridiculous bias in Danish media made me conversely more critical of his performances. Clear strengths, clear limitations and I had my doubts he'd be a success in the PL.

 

After the title win and being arguably our player of the season last year (wasn't he voted as such on FT?), he's one of our stalwarts who I have complete faith in.

His dedication, determination and unflinching belief has been and continues to be a driving force for this team.

Our success since he's been here is surely proof of that.

 

He's been prone to a few mistakes, highlighted by a poor patch recently, but when you look at his form since our promotion I challenge anyone to say he hasn't exceeded expectations.

The absolute pinnacle of course being the CL campaign where he was arguably the single most important contributor to reaching the QF.

 

So he got caught out by a free kick by Mata which wasn't in the top corner.

Suddenly everyone is a goalkeeping expert saying he went with his wrong hand; he reacted too slowly; that he was positioned wrongly bla bla bla, quietly ignoring that Young's immaculate free kicks days before against Watford must've given Schmeichel a headache figuring out who would kick it.

Was it just me that noticed his goal saving challenge when Rashford tried to dribble around him with the score at 1-2 and the way he forced Lingard wide which led to his admittedly embarrassing shot on the post?

 

His mistake against Watford was quite a rarity. Off the top of my head, I can only remember the Salah goal at the KP where he was caught out cold at the near post; and that was against arguably the best player this season supplied by the Barcelona-bound Coutinho.

 

I'm all for praising/criticising when it is justified, and his recent form has been below the high standards we have been used to over the past few seasons, but surely, if anyone should get some slack in this team it should be him. Comments like "he's been poor for a long time, needs replacing", "he's cost us more than he's won us", "he's had a poor season" are over the top.

 

But then again, he's always had his detractors on FT, ever since he joined, culminating with that ill-fated thread that called for Hamer to replace him as he couldn't possibly be any worse. These will never be won over despite his achievements here, so maybe it's more of a personal thing for some.

Edited 2 January 2018 by shen

[Captain...]

On 12/26/2017 at 16:58, brucey said:

Kasper (on current form) and Maguire are similar - will win us points in areas where they excel but at the same time also lose us points from mistakes.

You mean we don't have perfect robots playing in our team? Mistakes must not be made ever, Leicester players should be flawless gods not humans

[foxfanazer]

He’s having a tough time of it this season but let’s not pretend he hasn’t been an amazing player for us in our most successful era. Yes he’s not perfect, that’s why he plays for Leicester and not Manchester United. Same with players like Maguire and Ndidi etc.

 

Don’t know why our fans are so eager to criticise our players all of the time!

[StanSP]

great to see all the comments in here after a good clean sheet against Chelsea.

 

Especially nice to see so much praise for him for keeping out Alonso's free-kick right at the end of the game!

[Jimmy]

I think we were all just in shock that he actually saved a free kick

[theessexfox]

2 hours ago, StanSP said:

great to see all the comments in here after a good clean sheet against Chelsea.

 

Especially nice to see so much praise for him for keeping out Alonso's free-kick right at the end of the game!

Love Kasper was quite standard though, looked like it was going wide?

[HighPeakFox]

4 minutes ago, theessexfox said:

Love Kasper was quite standard though, looked like it was going wide?

Better safe than sorry.