Sunderland H.. Tuesday.

[wardyfox86]

4 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Their fans are hilariously confident. 

 

Win it.

Are you describing some of our lot?

 

 

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

They have the weirdest fans in the league. 

 

They think they're practically favourites to win the league. Think they're actually a massive club and think their squad is amazing. 

 

Rest of the country thinks they're an average, unfashionable, regional second tier team. Odd folk. 

Are you describing some of our lot?

 

 

 

[Ric Flair]

They are a dangerous team, that once again if they take their chances and we are very wasteful then we could drop points.

 

The issue for the opposition is exactly that though, they're under immense pressure to be so efficient and exert their energies hoping we're off it. Its no coincidence in the final 30 minutes we are ruthless, teams just struggle to maintain what's needed to cause us sustained problems.

 

We'll drop points again though and they have plenty of classy young players so a challenge for us. We've some tough games from the return of this international break up until the next, it'll be interesting. 

[SecretPro]

Lost to Stoke and ruined my acca. **** em up.

[Spudulike]

We are still vulnerable at the back and have got away with it on numerous occasions. Too much chicken counting going on. 

[Simonb]

22 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

Lost to Stoke and ruined my acca. **** em up.

Forest did mine... Leeds were 2 down and came back, thought i was quids in, left the cash out, then they conceded to Luton.. fuming

[Simonb]

On to the Sunderland game. Clarke is on decent form and they're great going forwards.

 

Need to be more clinical than today. Swansea were poor in the final third, Sunderland shouldn't be.

 

That being said, I think it's about time we had a game where everytime we go forward we bang it in.. I'd take a 2-1.. but I reckon this one we'll bag 5

[sm1]

2 hours ago, Spudulike said:

They did spend a huge amount on transfers that summer and had high expectations in that first game against what they (and everyone else) thought were relegation fodder. It was difficult for many clubs fans to come to terms with what transpired. 

Such a great game, opened many people's eyes to just how good we could be. Also remember the 5-2 drubbing, when Collymore scored a hat trick. We do like to give these lot a thrashing from time to time. Let's hope we give them another one on Tuesday.

Edited 21 October 2023 by sm1

[foxfanazer]

12 hours ago, Bob Weasel Fox said:

Toughest game of the season so far . . . 

We say that every week and then we turn up and roll teams over

[Ashley]

Win and we go 8 points clear. Ipswich play Wednesday night. It then becomes a mental battle - catch us if you can. 

 

What a start to this season Leicester 🦊

[adejo92]

9 hours ago, SecretPro said:

Lost to Stoke and ruined my acca. **** em up.

Feel your pain. 

 

Cost me £288 from a fiver.

[Lionator]

9 hours ago, Spudulike said:

We are still vulnerable at the back and have got away with it on numerous occasions. Too much chicken counting going on. 

Are we? Aside from Blackburn, pretty much every recent goal we’ve conceded has been a worldie or deflected effort. 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

24 minutes ago, Ashley said:

Win and we go 8 points clear. Ipswich play Wednesday night. It then becomes a mental battle - catch us if you can. 

 

What a start to this season Leicester 🦊

Great point. I felt Southampton and Norwich would be tests, but I think the coming Sunderland and Leeds games are probably harder. Win both of those and not only will be looking like we are pulling away points wise, but beating an in form Leeds in particular will add to the gulf mentally.

 

To beat both of those - particularly Leeds - we’d need to play better than we did today mind.

[foxfanazer]

9 hours ago, Spudulike said:

We are still vulnerable at the back and have got away with it on numerous occasions. Too much chicken counting going on. 

Don't agree. Every team is gonna give up chances but we create so many that we're rarely going to be punished 

 

I'm all for keeping our feet on the ground but any criticism of us right now is nitpicking at its finest 

Edited 22 October 2023 by foxfanazer

[Sol thewall Bamba]

9 hours ago, Spudulike said:

We are still vulnerable at the back and have got away with it on numerous occasions. Too much chicken counting going on. 

What's your assesment of their defence seeing as they've conceded twice as many goals as us this season? 

[The Year Of The Fox]

14 hours ago, I blame Wellens said:

Can’t stand this lot… not been great atmosphere at a night game for a while… hope we can drown out the Mackans  from the off.

 

They will do the usual… ‘we are bringing 5000 to the game’ 

 

they do that every game no matter what the allocation. 

Class set of fans

 

I remember going into one of the worst looking pubs up there the season we won the league. It was clear we were away fans, and despite them being in a relegation battle of their own, to a man they were coming up to us telling us how they wanted us to beat them so we could go on and win the title.

[weller54]

32 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

Great point. I felt Southampton and Norwich would be tests, but I think the coming Sunderland and Leeds games are probably harder. Win both of those and not only will be looking like we are pulling away points wise, but beating an in form Leeds in particular will add to the gulf mentally.

 

To beat both of those - particularly Leeds - we’d need to play better than we did today mind.

Sunderland at home more difficult than an in form Swansea away?

Stoke beat them yesterday!  If we don't win it would be extremely disappointing.

[Spudulike]

42 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

What's your assesment of their defence seeing as they've conceded twice as many goals as us this season? 

Clearly they have problems but it doesn't mean that we haven't. Even yesterday I don't think we were completely comfortable until Fatawu's goal. Mads was required at least twice although they were saves that you would expect him to make. I think that we have got away with it at times, the sort of moments that PL clubs would capitalise on. We are still a work in progress. 

[Ric Flair]

5 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

Clearly they have problems but it doesn't mean that we haven't. Even yesterday I don't think we were completely comfortable until Fatawu's goal. Mads was required at least twice although they were saves that you would expect him to make. I think that we have got away with it at times, the sort of moments that PL clubs would capitalise on. We are still a work in progress. 

The chances we are affording teams is on the whole impressive. On the balance of what teams get compared to the level of opportunities we have is night and day.

 

In order for teams to consistently cause us problems, we will need to be extremely wasteful and teams take the few chances they get or score long range goals, it heaps huge pressure on the opposition and is of no surprise they lose discipline and intensity in the final 20-30 minutes against us.

 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

37 minutes ago, weller54 said:

Sunderland at home more difficult than an in form Swansea away?

Stoke beat them yesterday!  If we don't win it would be extremely disappointing.

I hope you’re right!

[davieG]

Enzo Maresca hopes Yunus Akgun will be available for Tuesday’s Championship meeting with Sunderland despite limping out of Leicester City’s 3-1 win at Swansea.

The Turkish winger was introduced as a substitute in the 65th minute but then went off in injury time, appearing to be holding his thigh. However, having spoken to him after the game, City boss Maresca did not feel it was anything serious.

“I just asked him and he didn’t feel something important,” the manager said in his post-match press conference. “It was just something, but not something important, so hopefully he’s not going to lose any games or any days. We’ll see.”

[Sol thewall Bamba]

57 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

Clearly they have problems but it doesn't mean that we haven't. Even yesterday I don't think we were completely comfortable until Fatawu's goal. Mads was required at least twice although they were saves that you would expect him to make. I think that we have got away with it at times, the sort of moments that PL clubs would capitalise on. We are still a work in progress. 

I mean the last time I looked we've conceded the least goals and the least expected goals in the division. Not sure what more you want.

[ARTY_FOX]

We shouldn't be worried about any team. We're easily the best team in the league by a large margin. 

[cropstonfox]

16 minutes ago, ARTY_FOX said:

We shouldn't be worried about any team. We're easily the best team in the league by a large margin. 

In a very very poor league though!

[kristianity77]

7 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

In a very very poor league though!

But is it though?  I think the quality of the championship has always been pretty consistent.  It doesn't make it poor because we have won 11 out of 12.  Maybe we are just too good for it? 

 

Do you think Sheffield Wednesday think the standard is very very poor?

Edited 22 October 2023 by kristianity77

[Finnegan]

15 hours ago, Kinowe Soorie said:

Wasn’t it Sunderland fans, that were giving us grief when we won the Prem? Early in the season?

 

Their online fans had this really weird crisis of confidence because of us. They were obsessed with telling themselves, us and anyone that would listen that they were a bigger club than us. It was a bit weird. 

 

I kinda get it, there were Leicester fans on here going through something similar last year about Brighton, Brentford etc. 

 

We were the "bigger" club that had had a good run in the top flight butt sliding towards relegation and they were the plucky up and coming sides doing everything right, like we used to be. I guess that's how Sunderland saw us. 

 

But in absolute fairness to Sunderland, they were terrific when we went to their place near the end of the 15/16 season. They really wanted us to win the league, were really supportive and I've told this story before but I still can't quite believe it - their fans literally clapped our away buses out of the city. I've never seen anything like it. We just beat them and they were all by the pubs and on the pavement clapping the away fan buses as we left it was nuts.