LCFC vs Villa (A) Post Match Thread 2 - 1

[Kasey Keller]

11 minutes ago, justfoxes said:

It’s getting so frustrating that Rodgers is a top quality coach, but why is his side playing appalling football most of the time he swaps the starting 11 so much we surely can’t get momentum going in the side, as for defensive training WTF are they teaching our defence are they just sitting them down to watch chicken run each week ?

The amount of Brendan out brigade seems to be growing bigger each poor performance we’re treated too so how long does he get given to turn our fortunes and performances around?

I still think he will come good for us he just needs a few more decent players to come in to get us stronger we can’t wait for Fofana and little Wes to come back Ricky P just hasn’t been the same since his ACL injury looks like he came back too early and gets injured again ?

We need to bring in some quality in January to help seal the defensive holes we need also to move on the players that just haven’t got what it takes, or do we just need a bit of old fashioned luck to come our way to get us back into the top 5 places, anyway I’m backing our lads and manager each game they go out and play cheer them on moan when they play awful sure is a rollercoaster of emotions supporting our great club !!

OAUIBWT !

Is he 2 people then? 

[coolhandfox]

Summer recruitment is looking more rancid by the week. 

[The People's Hero]

Given that we are so absolutely terrible at defenders corners; why are we so happy to give them away? We give away some of the most avoidable corners of any side I've watched; often when under zero pressure.

[Parafox]

1 minute ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Maybe they learnt from watching him. But it was pretty noticeable. That said, doesn't help that Lookman continually barges into the back of people. 

The man has no skill, no perception, inability to make a successful forward pass, and should not be any part of our team.

[casablancas]

25 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Learn from the errors and try and move on from it, as next week is quite a big one.

Fair play for trying to stay positive man. 👍🏽

[tickler28]

We looked like a bunch of strawberry creams and played like them.....soft centred....we are nowhere near aggressive enough....bring in a German coach

[Free Falling Foxes]

Wonder if Kaspers dad ever has a word with him?

[StanSP]

3 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

I guarantee that is we dropped Kasper for Ward we would see an instant improvement. Kasper is too comfortable in his position and is seemingly undroppable. He’s been incredible for us, but every player comes to the end eventually and Kasper’s time has passed with us, it’s time for him to leave.  

Ward would let in half the goals Kasper actually and physically saves for us.

[Kasey Keller]

I agree Kasper has far too much influence at this club…

[Corky]

38 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

 

I'd hate to see us defending badly.

[dannythefox]

Tallest bloke in the prem is sat on our bench and we keeps conceding headers from corners. 🤯

[Pliskin]

2 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Summer recruitment is looking more rancid by the week. 

I disagree to some extent. Daka was superb in the first half, but second half as soon as we flapped we were not getting the ball to him in the right areas of the pitch, he then got moved over to the wing… 

[MPH]

6 minutes ago, sm1 said:

He doesn't need to grow a few inches, he's 6'2, plenty for a GK. He doesn't want to come out and deal with set pieces, even though this is integral to being a GK. Thats the bottom line, he'd rather put this pressure on the rest of the team instead.

 

We’d concede way more goals if he came out for corners and crosses when he knows he’s not going to get them. At least by staying on his line he’s got some sort of a chance  to block a shot. If he goes flapping for a ball he’ll be left in no mans land and we’d definitely concede more .

[coolhandfox]

Just now, Pliskin said:

I disagree to some extent. Daka was superb in the first half, but second half as soon as we flapped we were not getting the ball to him in the right areas of the pitch, he then got moved over to the wing… 

Daka is fine, decent signing but 1 out of 5?

 

What about the other 4? 

[Pliskin]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

Ward would let in half the goals Kasper actually and physically saves for us.

How do you know that? Plus can he be actually any worse at the moment? 

[Fox1norfolk]

1 minute ago, The People's Hero said:

Given that we are so absolutely terrible at defenders corners; why are we so happy to give them away? We give away some of the most avoidable corners of any side I've watched; often when under zero pressure.

Villa were far more streetwise, they knew how we can’t deal with set pieces so every opportunity when they were in our half they created a free kick. The ref fell for this . Ward has to be given his chance Kasper’s positioning is all over the place and now he seem to prefer punching the ball out which normally goes straight to the opposition, before he would catch the ball.

[Pliskin]

Just now, coolhandfox said:

Daka is fine, decent signing but 1 out of 5?

 

What about the other 4? 

That’s where I agree, the rest look pretty naff…. Soumare shows glimpses, but for the amount we paid for him glimpses are not good enough. 

[The People's Hero]

Some things are very very clear; and actually probably agreed on by 90% of readers, I would think:

 

1) We are absolutely rancid.

2) We are mentally incredibly weak.

3) Some players just don't fancy it (and keep getting picked)

4) BR doesn't know how to solve the set piece defending issue and clearly has not, will not (?) reach out for the right specialist help (which surely looks like ' go and attack and win the ball ' whether its zonal or man2man, you just have to go and win that first ball).

5) We aren't as canny and sly as some teams.

 

 

[Leeds Fox]

3 minutes ago, dannythefox said:

Tallest bloke in the prem is sat on our bench and we keeps conceding headers from corners. 🤯

Completely irrelevant when employing zonal marking. Their aerial threats just avoid the areas our tallest players are in. Corner taker avoids those areas too. Defence ‘ability’ is negated and we see no change.

[FoxyJim1987]

3 minutes ago, dannythefox said:

Tallest bloke in the prem is sat on our bench and we keeps conceding headers from corners. 🤯

We tried playing him and he was slower than a beached whale. That being said can't be any worse than Jonny old man Evans who looks injured after every tackle, or carcrash one good season Soyuncu

[AjcW]

Probably time to change my profile picture isn’t it 

[dannythefox]

1 minute ago, FoxyJim1987 said:

We tried playing him and he was slower than a beached whale. That being said can't be any worse than Jonny old man Evans who looks injured after every tackle, or carcrash one good season Soyuncu

Rodgers signed him so he’s needs to find a way to play him. 

[Always Next Year]

Manager, Coaches  and Players Utter shambles the fcuking lot of them.

[Hoopla10]

38 minutes ago, MPH said:

 Given that he’s now had a few windows he’s running out of excuses in my book as to why he seems to stick with a style of play that  seems incompatible with the players he has. 

How is it incompatible when we spent 99% of the last two seasons in the top 4. That would suggest they're clearly compatible. 

 

More than anything it feels like this unknown problem none of us here really understand the root of. There's defensive issues, but why aren't they even partially being adressed? Is that BR? Is that the players? Do we have sports psychologists? Zonal doesn't work, why aren't the defensive coaches either changing it or fixing it? They're clearly doing something to fix it, but why isn't it working? Has losing out on top 4 got into players heads?  

 

People make more out of it than probably needed and I get why after a loss. In the pre-season once Fofana was out for the season, JJ was injured for most if it and Evans had issues this was on the wall. I didn't expect us to compete to the same standard we had and felt top 6 would be really lucky. But the frustrating part is watching us repeat the same mistakes. I'd take cutting the mistakes for a 0-0 draw at this point. And where's Armarty? Is he injured?

[FoxyJim1987]

The thing is that it's not really funny at all anymore when SKY commentators are picking up on things our 5 million a year manager seems to be blind to. They were joking that a corner is like a penalty which it was, and joking that Lookman just gives it away every time in the 1st half, yet still wanders out for the 2nd half. It's getting stupid now just how shit we are every week at the same things. And what were those subs??? Brings Vardy on who didn't touch the ball, when Daka was one of our best players, then puts Daka on the wing then takes him off then brings Kel's on just about half an hour too late.

 

Kasper was dreadful but so were many others.