AKCJ Posted Thursday at 09:10 Share Posted Thursday at 09:10 12 hours ago, Filbert Fireworks said: The most leicester thing ever would be to win this 1-0 with heroics then lose at Bournemouth. More likely to play well but ultimately go down to a 2-1 loss and then lose against Bournemouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tommy G Posted Thursday at 09:10 Popular Post Share Posted Thursday at 09:10 I might triple captain saka for this one 3 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haywood_6 Posted Thursday at 09:15 Share Posted Thursday at 09:15 Mads Justin Faes Okoli VK Ndidi Winks Skipp Ayew Vardy Mavididi Think we can safely assume the line up for this. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillippaT Posted Thursday at 09:19 Share Posted Thursday at 09:19 6 minutes ago, Tommy G said: I might triple captain saka for this one I'm definitely happy we didn't bother with the Fantasy Footy this year (We only do it if LCFC are in the PL, since we have an agreement to always take 3 players from each of our teams (LCFC+Arsenal) to compete against each other, but I abstained, so ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobyfox Posted Thursday at 09:45 Share Posted Thursday at 09:45 I’d be happy to just give them a 3-0 bye and reduce the risk of injury to our players at this point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertway Posted Thursday at 10:27 Share Posted Thursday at 10:27 Imagine they'll look to run up a decent score first half and then second half will be them taking it easy as they have PSG on Tuesday night. People will then misinterpret Arsenal taking it easy for Cooper making adjustments and improving us in the 2nd half. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post moore_94 Posted Thursday at 12:54 Popular Post Share Posted Thursday at 12:54 Steve Cooper Pre-Match Press Conference vs Arsenal Injuries? “We had a few bumps and bruises and some lads didn’t make it on Tuesday. Everybody came through Tuesday fine. Jannik Vestergaard is not available. It’s the same squad as the last Premier League game.” Fan chants? “You’re never too far away from a challenging time. Sometimes it’s far, sometimes it’s unfair. If you don’t like it, don't take these jobs. I accept that. I will always try to understand fans’ perspectives and my initial reaction is not to be too defensive and see why the feeling is the way it is, and then try to do something about it. Like everybody else, I’m never too far away from being questioned. I see it as a good opportunity to show the real me, to show how well I want to do here and how strong I am as a character, and how good I am as a coach. The mark of a strong leader is standing up to difficult times. We’re trying to thrive on the challenge of the Premier League. Nothing’s changed in terms of our preparation for Arsenal. We’ve got to keep building to get the results we want. I’ve never been more determined than I am. Every supporter’s reaction is authentic and they pay a lot of money. I’ll never get too high from praise nor too low from criticism.” Arsenal are toughest test? “Definitely. They’re an incredible team who have been in great form for a number of years. They’ve been challenging for trophies. We’re coming up against a really tough opponent. It’s these games that you have to embrace and not fearing failure. That’s what we want to do, to back ourselves. We want to go for it.” How to approach Arsenal? “Everything in our game has to be right, on the ball, off the ball, set-pieces, they’ve scored some important goals from set-pieces. Everything has to be perfect, including the mentality and belief. We need to be mindful of where Arsenal’s strengths are.” Gulf between top and bottom? “I don’t know if it's the biggest it’s ever been. We’re not the only side not to win a game. There’s a big group of teams who are one result away from each other. The guys who have been competing at the top end are well-oiled machines and they’ve been put together with great investment. But I don’t think you can go into a game thinking: ‘Let’s just get through it.’” Not going to define season? “We’re not going to go into any game seeing it as a free hit or a bonus. I can’t think of anything worse. If I as a leader said that, I wouldn’t blame players for not listening. We have to back ourselves to achieve the right result. Very rarely is it plain sailing for a newly-promoted club. I know Leicester should never have been in the Championship, but granted we were a Championship team last year and we’re still transitioning to being a Premier League. We know it wasn’t going to be easy. But we back ourselves to be in the league next year. Me and my team, we’re proud to be part of this club. The supporters discontent, we have to own that and give them a team to be proud of and excited by.” What improvements do you want? “We’re only taking one game at a time. We’re working daily and trying to promote the team we want to be. What we really want to do is put a complete performance together that gets a result. We’re put together some really good things, but we need to be consistent through a game, and we haven’t done that. We started well at Palace but then we had a spell where we under the cosh. Against Everton, we were poor for the first half but were the dominant team in the second half. We have to be at the level all through the game, because that’s what the Premier League demands of you. The players are clear in how we want to play, we train it every day. We have to show it. If you don’t have a way of playing, you don’t know what it looks like when it goes wrong. But we do have a way of playing. We believe if we perform it consistently, we’ll get results.” “You do get punished when you drop your levels. The way I’m asking the players is not easy tactically nor technically. But when we get it right, we’ll attack well, dominate games, get good territory, and it will be exciting with the high full-back, the winger coming inside for the box midfield.” What are your core principles? “When it comes off it looks great, but when it doesn’t there will be questions. We want to play with the ball if we can. We want to play exciting football. We want to create overloads in certain areas to hit the hotspots where we can hurt the opponents. That’s with a number of players in the middle. Then it’s about having width from a high full-back and a wide winger. When you get up the pitch, it becomes a numbers game and you need to get numbers in the box. There’s lots of things we’re working on. But we believe we’re going to succeed and getting through tough spells defines you.” 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StanSP Posted Thursday at 13:11 Popular Post Share Posted Thursday at 13:11 'we want to play exciting football'. Play the right players then and it'll happen. We have exciting players just left sitting on the bench for majority of matches, or all in some cases. Fatawu and Ricardo are better than Ayew and Justin when it comes to 'excitement'. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death by Football Posted Thursday at 13:15 Share Posted Thursday at 13:15 "my initial reaction is not to be too defensive" Really? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wymsey Posted Thursday at 13:18 Share Posted Thursday at 13:18 2 minutes ago, Death by Football said: "my initial reaction is not to be too defensive" Really? Perhaps he has analysed the past few games more thoroughly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted Thursday at 13:19 Share Posted Thursday at 13:19 "We want to go for it". Fair enough. I'll believe it when I see it. I don't want us to be too open, mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ric Flair Posted Thursday at 14:06 Popular Post Share Posted Thursday at 14:06 1 hour ago, moore_94 said: Steve Cooper Pre-Match Press Conference vs Arsenal Injuries? “We had a few bumps and bruises and some lads didn’t make it on Tuesday. Everybody came through Tuesday fine. Jannik Vestergaard is not available. It’s the same squad as the last Premier League game.” Fan chants? “You’re never too far away from a challenging time. Sometimes it’s far, sometimes it’s unfair. If you don’t like it, don't take these jobs. I accept that. I will always try to understand fans’ perspectives and my initial reaction is not to be too defensive and see why the feeling is the way it is, and then try to do something about it. Like everybody else, I’m never too far away from being questioned. I see it as a good opportunity to show the real me, to show how well I want to do here and how strong I am as a character, and how good I am as a coach. The mark of a strong leader is standing up to difficult times. We’re trying to thrive on the challenge of the Premier League. Nothing’s changed in terms of our preparation for Arsenal. We’ve got to keep building to get the results we want. I’ve never been more determined than I am. Every supporter’s reaction is authentic and they pay a lot of money. I’ll never get too high from praise nor too low from criticism.” Arsenal are toughest test? “Definitely. They’re an incredible team who have been in great form for a number of years. They’ve been challenging for trophies. We’re coming up against a really tough opponent. It’s these games that you have to embrace and not fearing failure. That’s what we want to do, to back ourselves. We want to go for it.” How to approach Arsenal? “Everything in our game has to be right, on the ball, off the ball, set-pieces, they’ve scored some important goals from set-pieces. Everything has to be perfect, including the mentality and belief. We need to be mindful of where Arsenal’s strengths are.” Gulf between top and bottom? “I don’t know if it's the biggest it’s ever been. We’re not the only side not to win a game. There’s a big group of teams who are one result away from each other. The guys who have been competing at the top end are well-oiled machines and they’ve been put together with great investment. But I don’t think you can go into a game thinking: ‘Let’s just get through it.’” Not going to define season? “We’re not going to go into any game seeing it as a free hit or a bonus. I can’t think of anything worse. If I as a leader said that, I wouldn’t blame players for not listening. We have to back ourselves to achieve the right result. Very rarely is it plain sailing for a newly-promoted club. I know Leicester should never have been in the Championship, but granted we were a Championship team last year and we’re still transitioning to being a Premier League. We know it wasn’t going to be easy. But we back ourselves to be in the league next year. Me and my team, we’re proud to be part of this club. The supporters discontent, we have to own that and give them a team to be proud of and excited by.” What improvements do you want? “We’re only taking one game at a time. We’re working daily and trying to promote the team we want to be. What we really want to do is put a complete performance together that gets a result. We’re put together some really good things, but we need to be consistent through a game, and we haven’t done that. We started well at Palace but then we had a spell where we under the cosh. Against Everton, we were poor for the first half but were the dominant team in the second half. We have to be at the level all through the game, because that’s what the Premier League demands of you. The players are clear in how we want to play, we train it every day. We have to show it. If you don’t have a way of playing, you don’t know what it looks like when it goes wrong. But we do have a way of playing. We believe if we perform it consistently, we’ll get results.” “You do get punished when you drop your levels. The way I’m asking the players is not easy tactically nor technically. But when we get it right, we’ll attack well, dominate games, get good territory, and it will be exciting with the high full-back, the winger coming inside for the box midfield.” What are your core principles? “When it comes off it looks great, but when it doesn’t there will be questions. We want to play with the ball if we can. We want to play exciting football. We want to create overloads in certain areas to hit the hotspots where we can hurt the opponents. That’s with a number of players in the middle. Then it’s about having width from a high full-back and a wide winger. When you get up the pitch, it becomes a numbers game and you need to get numbers in the box. There’s lots of things we’re working on. But we believe we’re going to succeed and getting through tough spells defines you.” I respect his comments about the criticism. Classy response to be fair. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammo Posted Thursday at 14:07 Share Posted Thursday at 14:07 Anyone can talk a good game. Action not (empty) words, please. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Fox Posted Thursday at 14:16 Share Posted Thursday at 14:16 He talks a good game but in reality he cannot walk the walk. We lose on Saturday he has to go. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post filbertway Posted Thursday at 14:19 Popular Post Share Posted Thursday at 14:19 11 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: I respect his comments about the criticism. Classy response to be fair. He's very good at saying the right things to be fair, it's backing his words up with action that he's severely lacking in. This is how he seduced me in the first place 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richmondfox Posted Thursday at 14:51 Share Posted Thursday at 14:51 Same team, same tactics, same mistakes, same lack of in game management, same excuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarriedaLeicesterGirl Posted Thursday at 14:58 Share Posted Thursday at 14:58 8 minutes ago, Richmondfox said: Same team, same tactics, same mistakes, same lack of in game management, same excuses. That about sums it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richmondfox Posted Thursday at 14:59 Share Posted Thursday at 14:59 1 hour ago, moore_94 said: Steve Cooper Pre-Match Press Conference vs Arsenal Injuries? “We had a few bumps and bruises and some lads didn’t make it on Tuesday. Everybody came through Tuesday fine. Jannik Vestergaard is not available. It’s the same squad as the last Premier League game.” Fan chants? “You’re never too far away from a challenging time. Sometimes it’s far, sometimes it’s unfair. If you don’t like it, don't take these jobs. I accept that. I will always try to understand fans’ perspectives and my initial reaction is not to be too defensive and see why the feeling is the way it is, and then try to do something about it. Like everybody else, I’m never too far away from being questioned. I see it as a good opportunity to show the real me, to show how well I want to do here and how strong I am as a character, and how good I am as a coach. The mark of a strong leader is standing up to difficult times. We’re trying to thrive on the challenge of the Premier League. Nothing’s changed in terms of our preparation for Arsenal. We’ve got to keep building to get the results we want. I’ve never been more determined than I am. Every supporter’s reaction is authentic and they pay a lot of money. I’ll never get too high from praise nor too low from criticism.” Arsenal are toughest test? “Definitely. They’re an incredible team who have been in great form for a number of years. They’ve been challenging for trophies. We’re coming up against a really tough opponent. It’s these games that you have to embrace and not fearing failure. That’s what we want to do, to back ourselves. We want to go for it.” How to approach Arsenal? “Everything in our game has to be right, on the ball, off the ball, set-pieces, they’ve scored some important goals from set-pieces. Everything has to be perfect, including the mentality and belief. We need to be mindful of where Arsenal’s strengths are.” Gulf between top and bottom? “I don’t know if it's the biggest it’s ever been. We’re not the only side not to win a game. There’s a big group of teams who are one result away from each other. The guys who have been competing at the top end are well-oiled machines and they’ve been put together with great investment. But I don’t think you can go into a game thinking: ‘Let’s just get through it.’” Not going to define season? “We’re not going to go into any game seeing it as a free hit or a bonus. I can’t think of anything worse. If I as a leader said that, I wouldn’t blame players for not listening. We have to back ourselves to achieve the right result. Very rarely is it plain sailing for a newly-promoted club. I know Leicester should never have been in the Championship, but granted we were a Championship team last year and we’re still transitioning to being a Premier League. We know it wasn’t going to be easy. But we back ourselves to be in the league next year. Me and my team, we’re proud to be part of this club. The supporters discontent, we have to own that and give them a team to be proud of and excited by.” What improvements do you want? “We’re only taking one game at a time. We’re working daily and trying to promote the team we want to be. What we really want to do is put a complete performance together that gets a result. We’re put together some really good things, but we need to be consistent through a game, and we haven’t done that. We started well at Palace but then we had a spell where we under the cosh. Against Everton, we were poor for the first half but were the dominant team in the second half. We have to be at the level all through the game, because that’s what the Premier League demands of you. The players are clear in how we want to play, we train it every day. We have to show it. If you don’t have a way of playing, you don’t know what it looks like when it goes wrong. But we do have a way of playing. We believe if we perform it consistently, we’ll get results.” “You do get punished when you drop your levels. The way I’m asking the players is not easy tactically nor technically. But when we get it right, we’ll attack well, dominate games, get good territory, and it will be exciting with the high full-back, the winger coming inside for the box midfield.” What are your core principles? “When it comes off it looks great, but when it doesn’t there will be questions. We want to play with the ball if we can. We want to play exciting football. We want to create overloads in certain areas to hit the hotspots where we can hurt the opponents. That’s with a number of players in the middle. Then it’s about having width from a high full-back and a wide winger. When you get up the pitch, it becomes a numbers game and you need to get numbers in the box. There’s lots of things we’re working on. But we believe we’re going to succeed and getting through tough spells defines you.” Such a disconnect between his words in interviews and the match. I think he can’t actually see the problems. A midfield of DMs expected to play attacking football, Ayew a winger who falls over after hogging the ball and JJ who gets a nose bleed just thinking about passing the ball forwards. And all this against a 39 year old LB in the pouring rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxfanazer Posted Thursday at 15:01 Share Posted Thursday at 15:01 2 hours ago, moore_94 said: Steve Cooper Pre-Match Press Conference vs Arsenal Injuries? “We had a few bumps and bruises and some lads didn’t make it on Tuesday. Everybody came through Tuesday fine. Jannik Vestergaard is not available. It’s the same squad as the last Premier League game.” Fan chants? “You’re never too far away from a challenging time. Sometimes it’s far, sometimes it’s unfair. If you don’t like it, don't take these jobs. I accept that. I will always try to understand fans’ perspectives and my initial reaction is not to be too defensive and see why the feeling is the way it is, and then try to do something about it. Like everybody else, I’m never too far away from being questioned. I see it as a good opportunity to show the real me, to show how well I want to do here and how strong I am as a character, and how good I am as a coach. The mark of a strong leader is standing up to difficult times. We’re trying to thrive on the challenge of the Premier League. Nothing’s changed in terms of our preparation for Arsenal. We’ve got to keep building to get the results we want. I’ve never been more determined than I am. Every supporter’s reaction is authentic and they pay a lot of money. I’ll never get too high from praise nor too low from criticism.” Arsenal are toughest test? “Definitely. They’re an incredible team who have been in great form for a number of years. They’ve been challenging for trophies. We’re coming up against a really tough opponent. It’s these games that you have to embrace and not fearing failure. That’s what we want to do, to back ourselves. We want to go for it.” How to approach Arsenal? “Everything in our game has to be right, on the ball, off the ball, set-pieces, they’ve scored some important goals from set-pieces. Everything has to be perfect, including the mentality and belief. We need to be mindful of where Arsenal’s strengths are.” Gulf between top and bottom? “I don’t know if it's the biggest it’s ever been. We’re not the only side not to win a game. There’s a big group of teams who are one result away from each other. The guys who have been competing at the top end are well-oiled machines and they’ve been put together with great investment. But I don’t think you can go into a game thinking: ‘Let’s just get through it.’” Not going to define season? “We’re not going to go into any game seeing it as a free hit or a bonus. I can’t think of anything worse. If I as a leader said that, I wouldn’t blame players for not listening. We have to back ourselves to achieve the right result. Very rarely is it plain sailing for a newly-promoted club. I know Leicester should never have been in the Championship, but granted we were a Championship team last year and we’re still transitioning to being a Premier League. We know it wasn’t going to be easy. But we back ourselves to be in the league next year. Me and my team, we’re proud to be part of this club. The supporters discontent, we have to own that and give them a team to be proud of and excited by.” What improvements do you want? “We’re only taking one game at a time. We’re working daily and trying to promote the team we want to be. What we really want to do is put a complete performance together that gets a result. We’re put together some really good things, but we need to be consistent through a game, and we haven’t done that. We started well at Palace but then we had a spell where we under the cosh. Against Everton, we were poor for the first half but were the dominant team in the second half. We have to be at the level all through the game, because that’s what the Premier League demands of you. The players are clear in how we want to play, we train it every day. We have to show it. If you don’t have a way of playing, you don’t know what it looks like when it goes wrong. But we do have a way of playing. We believe if we perform it consistently, we’ll get results.” “You do get punished when you drop your levels. The way I’m asking the players is not easy tactically nor technically. But when we get it right, we’ll attack well, dominate games, get good territory, and it will be exciting with the high full-back, the winger coming inside for the box midfield.” What are your core principles? “When it comes off it looks great, but when it doesn’t there will be questions. We want to play with the ball if we can. We want to play exciting football. We want to create overloads in certain areas to hit the hotspots where we can hurt the opponents. That’s with a number of players in the middle. Then it’s about having width from a high full-back and a wide winger. When you get up the pitch, it becomes a numbers game and you need to get numbers in the box. There’s lots of things we’re working on. But we believe we’re going to succeed and getting through tough spells defines you.” And what is a hot spot not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted Thursday at 15:02 Share Posted Thursday at 15:02 38 minutes ago, filbertway said: He's very good at saying the right things to be fair, it's backing his words up with action that he's severely lacking in. This is how he seduced me in the first place That is part of what makes it so annoying. I would genuinely love him to do well here because after Rodgers the egomaniac and Enzo who I really liked but was clearly a proper football pervert, he does just seem like a pretty normal, decent guy doing his best, and also it would obviously be very funny for him to get binned by Forest and then take us back above them. It's just a shame he's not very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike1983 Posted Thursday at 15:04 Share Posted Thursday at 15:04 54 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: I respect his comments about the criticism. Classy response to be fair. Agreed. Now how about showing the slightest semblance of a tactic? Something aside from messing about cluelessly with high fullbacks, leaving us exposed like Swiss cheese. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesta2014 Posted Thursday at 15:48 Share Posted Thursday at 15:48 His high full back and wide winger comment make me think he won’t start fatawu or mavididi together as both enjoy being wide. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StriderHiryu Posted Thursday at 15:51 Popular Post Share Posted Thursday at 15:51 2 minutes ago, Lesta2014 said: His high full back and wide winger comment make me think he won’t start fatawu or mavididi together as both enjoy being wide. Correct, which is truly insane. Especially when the one fullback we have that could actually play that way doesn't feature in the league. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted Thursday at 16:08 Share Posted Thursday at 16:08 16 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said: Correct, which is truly insane. Especially when the one fullback we have that could actually play that way doesn't feature in the league. Should just play Fatawu as that high full back shouldn't they and Bounanotte as the RW that plays centrally. Would be far too radical though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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