Kelechi Iheanacho

[Bert]

10 minutes ago, majaco said:

Worthington pre-dated Young who we signed after he scored for Oldham against us in the cup.

 

I liked him as a striker and he is one of my all time favourite Leicester keepers .

Wortho wasn’t a keeper 🥺

[majaco]

6 minutes ago, Bert said:

Wortho wasn’t a keeper 🥺

Alan Young was.   Briefly.

[baldeagle]

Funny thing is the guys still only 25 it seems like he’s been around for ever . They say strikers are at their peak 27-28 obviously all strikers are different but if that’s the case the best is yet to come from him if he stays here . 

Edited 12 March 2022 by baldeagle

[Guest Kopfkino]

One of the first ones out of the door for me. Great in the cup run last year and alongside Vardy but we’re never going to play him as he needs to be for a sustained period because that would require a back 5 and he’s absolutely dogshit otherwise

[Steve Earle]

And that’s why he’s not picked to start as a lone striker even in Vardy’s absence.

 

IMO he’s out this summer, for big money ie £40M+. Newcastle will be keen. West Ham might be.

 

We replace him with CDK, and have £15-20M towards our summer budget 

[adam]

2 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

And that’s why he’s not picked to start as a lone striker even in Vardy’s absence.

 

IMO he’s out this summer, for big money ie £40M+. Newcastle will be keen. West Ham might be.

 

We replace him with CDK, and have £15-20M towards our summer budget 

No doubt we will sell him and he will score a hat full somewhere. Especially if he is played in the correct system. 

[Guest Lcfc82]

2 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

And that’s why he’s not picked to start as a lone striker even in Vardy’s absence.

 

IMO he’s out this summer, for big money ie £40M+. Newcastle will be keen. West Ham might be.

 

We replace him with CDK, and have £15-20M towards our summer budget 

Yeah that proves why Brendan doesn’t use him as lone striker. If we switched to 2 up front he could still do a job for us though 

[Steve Earle]

Just now, adam said:

No doubt we will sell him and he will score a hat full somewhere. Especially if he is played in the correct system. 

Maybe. But he doesn’t suit our manager’s preferred style of play.

[BKLFox]

1 minute ago, adam said:

No doubt we will sell him and he will score a hat full somewhere. Especially if he is played in the correct system. 

What’s the correct system or do you mean the correct system for him so 2 strikers and then which teams play that?

[honeybradger]

6 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

Maybe. But he doesn’t suit our manager’s preferred style of play.

The worrying thing is that neither does our new Vardy replacement that we just bought last summer, two talented players that work well in a two striker system but look useless on their own. Rodgers needs to consider where we'll be post-vardy because his current setup wont work.

[sdb]

Thought he was fine today. Clearly still streets ahead of Daka.

[adam]

8 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

What’s the correct system or do you mean the correct system for him so 2 strikers and then which teams play that?

It's the managers job to get the best out the players. It's pointless playing him up front on his own. It's never worked. 

[Wilfcho]

I can't believe what you people are on about, neither him or Daka were bad today

 

Short term memory, that's what affects all of you

 

All of a sudden, people act like Vardy is always involved in games and we didn't have to stretches where he'd affect little to nothing on the pitch

 

There's nothing wrong with Nacho or Daka!! 

 

Until you start giving them the service they need and they start messing up, then can we now start slating them

They were hardly fed the ball in good positions

 

I'm dissapointed in this forum

[adam]

2 minutes ago, Wilfcho said:

I can't believe what you people are on about, neither him or Daka were bad today

 

Short term memory, that's what affects all of you

 

All of a sudden, people act like Vardy is always involved in games and we didn't have to stretches where he'd affect little to nothing on the pitch

 

There's nothing wrong with Nacho or Daka!! 

 

Until you start giving them the service they need and they start messing up, then can we now start slating them

They were hardly fed the ball in good positions

 

I'm dissapointed in this forum

You can't mention short term memory and pretend Nacho has ever played well up front on his own. 

[BKLFox]

7 minutes ago, adam said:

It's the managers job to get the best out the players. It's pointless playing him up front on his own. It's never worked. 

Manager has to get the best out of the team first then the individual 

[Corky]

He's never been a lone striker and yet we persist with it.

[Wilfcho]

15 minutes ago, adam said:

You can't mention short term memory and pretend Nacho has ever played well up front on his own. 

The goal against Rennes midweek was from where?

 

The assist for Barnes last week was from where?

 

Playing as a 2??

 

He has the best goal+assist per min ratio in the squad this season and probably last too

 

How many times has he played in a 2 this season?

Sparringly

 

Most of his goals and assist this season comes from him playing alone up top

 

For chrissakes

He has similar numbers to barnes, Madison and Vardy in all comps this season

While playing nothing close to their minutes

He has the most assists in the team this season in all comps but NVM

 

 

Continue the narrative that he or Daka aren't it

 

[sacreblueits442]

10 minutes ago, Wilfcho said:

I can't believe what you people are on about, neither him or Daka were bad today

 

Short term memory, that's what affects all of you

 

All of a sudden, people act like Vardy is always involved in games and we didn't have to stretches where he'd affect little to nothing on the pitch

 

There's nothing wrong with Nacho or Daka!! 

 

Until you start giving them the service they need and they start messing up, then can we now start slating them

They were hardly fed the ball in good positions

 

I'm dissapointed in this forum

.....I think you are right in what you are saying regarding the service that Daka and Nacho receives and Vardy being isolated!!!

The big difference was that Vardy threatened the oppositions backline and made them work. We are in effect toothless with Daka and Nacho upfront leading the line on their own. The way Vardy plays dictates how we play, and bringing in a forward who supposedly  plays the same way as Vardy was going to impose limits and take away any flexibility going forward. Getting Odsonne Edouard in,(or a similar player) who could hold the ball up and was also a #9 would have given us more options upfront.

  Daka will have to change how he plays, or we look to play in a different way, for this situation to work.

[sacreblueits442]

20 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

Manager has to get the best out of the team first then the individual 

....that only works if you have the square pegs in square holes!!!

[Wilfcho]

1 minute ago, sacreblueits442 said:

.....I think you are right in what you are saying regarding the service that Daka and Nacho receives and Vardy being isolated!!!

The big difference was that Vardy threatened the oppositions backline and made them work. We are in effect toothless with Daka and Nacho upfront leading the line on their own. The way Vardy plays dictates how we play, and bringing in a forward who supposedly  plays the same way as Vardy was going to impose limits and take away any flexibility going forward. Getting Odsonne Edouard in,(or a similar player) who could hold the ball up and was also a #9 would have given us more options upfront.

  Daka will have to change how he plays, or we look to play in a different way, for this situation to work.

Finally someone with a valid point and not just toothless aiming abouts

 

You're right

They can't move like Vardy

Vardy is probably the best at what he does in the world

Its big shoes to fill

 

My counter point would be the team should learn how to play to each strikers strength

 

Vardy and Daka are similar but different still especially in the way they move

Play to their strengths

 

You already said Vardy dictates the way we play

Let nacho and Daka do the same 

Brendan should stop setting em up for the same type of plays they would for Vardy normally

 

[sacreblueits442]

6 minutes ago, Wilfcho said:

The goal against Rennes midweek was from where?

 

The assist for Barnes last week was from where?

 

Playing as a 2??

 

He has the best goal+assist per min ratio in the squad this season and probably last too

 

How many times has he played in a 2 this season?

Sparringly

 

Most of his goals and assist this season comes from him playing alone up top

 

For chrissakes

He has similar numbers to barnes, Madison and Vardy in all comps this season

While playing nothing close to their minutes

He has the most assists in the team this season in all comps but NVM

 

 

Continue the narrative that he or Daka aren't it

 

....he does not play as a two, if you have players like Barnes and Lookman going ahead of him he is fine!!!

He is more comfortable being in the pocket than being out of it.

[Wilfcho]

1 minute ago, sacreblueits442 said:

....he does not play as a two, if you have players like Barnes and Lookman going ahead of him he is fine!!!

He is more comfortable being in the pocket than being out of it.

Thank you!, Play to his strengths

 

But no

Welcome to Leceister where our coach is as stubborn as a mule

 

 

It wasn't even a bad outing today

Second goal just took the sting out of our game 

Still a good showing

Don't know what people are on about

Do people think we are Chelsea or City or sumn?

[Neutral]

Bizarre match to even discuss your strikers, tbh. Leicester were outplayed all over the pitch, outside of 10-15 minutes. It's possible Vardy might have had a one man counter and scored as he is known to do, but 99 percent of forwards are not going to do this. Iheanacho had some nice touches and flicks that could have developed into more and Daka was busy and mobile, but strikers need service generally. Wasn't anything unusually poor about their performances.

Edited 13 March 2022 by Neutral

[Ric Flair]

Kelechi Iheanacho not used in the correct way again shocker. Surprised Rodgers doesn't make a point to criticise him in his post match comments, although he tends to save that for when he's won us games instead.

[Sampson]

59 minutes ago, adam said:

No doubt we will sell him and he will score a hat full somewhere. Especially if he is played in the correct system. 

We all knew that was the case with Kramaric too who you could tell was talented but didn’t fit in our system. We didn’t regret selling him.

 

Sometimes you have a player who is clearly good but you neuter other more key, better players to get them playing well that it just doesn’t become worth it.

 

We’ve always been better as a team with 1 up top. I like Kelechi but I don’t understand why so many want us always to switch to a 2 solely for him as an individual.

Edited 13 March 2022 by Sampson