LCFC 0 - 1 Hull Post Match Thread

[MancFox24]

No point in going over the top, we'll be able to judge it better after the international break. I do have concerns about these tactics as I'm not convinced some of our players are technically good enough or we have the creativity to play this style or football, and we don't seem to have a plan B, which can make us quite predictable at times. I also don't think we're anywhere near as aggressive in the press as we should be and better teams than those we've played so far can exploit that. But it's still very early days and I hope to see some improvement in the performances after the break

[CloudFox]

5 minutes ago, Beachyboy said:

If we have had 21 shots and 1 on target, I'd say something has been created. I haven't seen where those 21 shots were from.

Completely get what you're saying. However, these are our shots, with the only one on target/requiring a save this one from KDH...straight down the middle.

 

That doesn't fill me with confidence that we're creating anything threatening.

 

Edit: Just to be clear, I'm sure we'll get better, I just don't know how long that's going to take. We need to be far more creative, and clinical.

Edited 2 September 2023 by CloudFox

[whetstonefox]

International break has come at the right time, it was poor today , been sketchy all season but new manager, new players, new system. It was always going to take time. Today was the reality check

[ARTY_FOX]

If we created the chances we did by just booting the ball forward everyone would be saying how unlucky we were and it just wasn't our day. 

[Grebfromgrebland]

Let's not pretend that this was not reminiscent of Puel and Rodgers where we were scared to play dangerous passes or simply don't have the players for it. 

 

Give it time, hopefully it comes together otherwise that's the blue print to beat us. Play on the break, dive, frustrate us wind us up so we can't play our game.

[adam95581]

Too slow to get the ball wide in the first half and Yunus looked isolated when he did get it as there was no one overlapping / going beyond. Second half was better but we’re still not creating enough (any) real clear cut chances. 

[Pliskin]

Absolutely ****ing fuming. 

[TeaMen Tom]

Managers can be like young kids at Christmas anxious to use all their new toys. And I think that's what happened today. In doing so Maresca undid whatever cohesion the team had - granted they hadn't played all that well the past couple of league matches.  The squad just looked disjointed - guys would get in position to make a play and the last pass was off or they shot when they shouldn't have.

 

KDH was poor for a good part of the match. Doyle had a clunker. Winks had some letdowns. Akgun couldn't mesh at all with his teammates. I think Maresca deserves some fault here. Go with what's been effective and work the other guys in vs moving McAteer and starting a guy who hasn't started - even with his former club.   

 

That said there's plenty of potential - and talent. That's pretty obvious. 

[jayfox26]

3 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

We played good football but to reliant on midfielders to score, they can't do that in every match.......we need a proven striker 

Could have Haaland up front and won't make a difference as we don't create anything. Did any of our strikers miss any clear chances today? 

[LinekersLugs]

Go get Jessie Lingard tomorrow 

[Dirkster the Fox]

Booooom 💥

 

back down to earth 🌍 

 

🤪 

[HitchinFox]

1 minute ago, Chelmofox said:

Couldn’t give a crap. He was absolute rubbish again. Cannot understand how daka and will be any worse. 

If the thing about his contract is true, I can give you 5 million reasons why Daka won't get a game. 

 

[OntarioFox]

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[boosmanana]

1 minute ago, CloudFox said:

Completely get what you're saying. However, these are our shots, with the only one on target/requiring a save this one from KDH...straight down the middle.

 

That doesn't fill me with confidence that we're creating anything threatening.

So we had 11 shots from inside the box, but didn't create anything?

[Le Renard]

I'm not surprised by the defeat, it was coming, I don't think we've set the world alight, and some of our wins had been fortuitous.  This league is very unforgiving, we've done better so far than most of us thought, but the championship will drag you down and suck you in. 

[OntarioFox]

Just now, OntarioFox said:

Hull look properly rattled. 2 yellows, backs to the wall. 0-1 sh*thouse loss incoming

DM me for the lottery numbers lads

[BigMicky]

This place is hillarious, such overeactionary tripe. We made Hull look poor, created plenty of chances but couldn't take them, we have some very young players that won't always be world beaters. Ive seen nothing in this league so far to be concerned about. We will improve and we will score plenty this season. 

[sdb]

Fair play Hull. Took the incentive of us starting slowly and then frustrated us/played the wet wipe of a ref perfectly. We seem to want to win games in the last 20 mins which can make the first 70 quite tiresome 

[80footgiraffe]

Things about KDH that pissed me off today was his attitude. Head down, walking, looked uninterested. He’s supposed to be someone the younger lads can look up to in this squad.

credit to winks for a bit of passion and fire to keep going

[Sampson]

Just now, jayfox26 said:

Could have Haaland up front and won't make a difference as we don't create anything. Did any of our strikers miss any clear chances today? 

Partly agree we don’t create enough but Iheanacho hit one straight at the defender when the keeper was beat and was a pretty embarrassing miss at the end of the first half tbf.

 

It was a chance that came up from Hull’s defence making an error so it doesn’t absolve our lack of creativity, but you can absolutely blame Nacho for missing that one 

[DoveValleyFox]

7 minutes ago, Noahfence said:

I am an idiot to be fair. 

Don't worry mate there are plenty of us on here so you won't feel lonely. 

[Manini]

Everyone will continue to beat everyone so you’ve realistically got until about the turn of the year to really get your act together and go on a run - it wasn’t until December in 13/14 that we really turned a corner and started kicking on after that away win at QPR. Today isn’t the end of the world and we’ll 100% lose a few more times between now and the end of the year (probably the next 2 to be quite honest).

 

I’d expect us to be settled and in a rhythm by about January time if we’re serious about automatic promotion, until then I imagine it’ll probably be a bit of a turbulent ride…but we can’t get cut adrift either, but I don’t think we will. 

[Matt]

Poor. Infact I’d go as far as saying shocking and awful. (Not on the scale of last season -always feel like I’ve gotta caveat it against that, it’ll stop, eventually)

 

However, anyone who has ever read any of my posts knows I hate, despise blaming officiating but today I’m making an exception, that was shocking, a card happy referee (for both teams), didn’t get on top of their time wasting, then they only give 3 minutes added - I’m not sure what the guidelines are but for the subs alone there should have been more than 3 minutes surely? (Not at fault for the result may I add)

 

We move on to the next game.

 

Unfortunately we have an international break to stew on it. ****ing hate international breaks.

 

Edited 2 September 2023 by Matt

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

Defeat today may well do us far more good than harm in the long term this season as long as we learn. Our deficiencies are clear and we now have the break to address and time to get new faces settled in too. We all knew that opening unbeaten spell was deceptive. 

[Lillehamring]

Well that certainly made a lot of FT posters happy - they've been waiting weeks to slag off the team and the manager!

 

Frustrating day and we certainly know where we need to improve, but you don't generate 21 shots by playing poorly.

I thought defensively (against a decent attacking side) we looked a lot more comfortable than we have previously and, but, for the deflection we would likely have held out for a clean sheet.

 

Another day, that one shot that hit the post goes in and their goal is straight into Mads' hands.  If we are going to lose games, i'd rather it be despite dominating a team, creating loads of chances and just not getting the rub of the green, than by not turning up or not generating any chances.

 

Plenty to still be positive about, a bit annoying that our two best performances were by the two right wingers - but i think every single one of us would have taken 12 points by the international break.   No more transfer distractions, and i suspect a fair few players will be at seagrave the next two weeks to really start to push from 10% to a percentage that includes 'playing in the final third'.