davek
Player Valuation: £150m
How did Martinez bottle it in the first half?
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froggyted
Player Valuation: £8m
He impressed big time in his first season. This season at least some of the blame is at his door. I would give him until next Christmas to make significant improvements. A serious spending spree for QUALITY players in the summer is essential, both in midfield and upfront.
Playing 2 defensive midfielders and 1 striker against a 5 man defence from the bottom club in the league.
For playing slow turgid football which was like watching a friendly.
We should have ripped into them from the start today he got his tactics wrong yet again.
Oh and by putting the flapping beard in goal
Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
Mirallas is reaping what he sowed. Sooner he's gone the better.
Andy McGurk
Player Valuation: £8m
Ok, then 2.
Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
We could also have been 3 up.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Gotcha......
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
I saw a lot of players with low energy from early on.
We played in the EL a few days before away from home on a terrible pitch for conserving energy.
The 'good' news is we wont have that to worry about next season so I expect the tempo to be much higher each week.
MartSlinger
Player Valuation: £40m
Said it the other week to you Dave, but a massive clear out and i mean MASSIVE in the Summer and we can push on IMO. The clear out includes staff and players as well (No, not Martinez, i want him to stay).
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
The pace at which we played the first half you would have thought the players had jogged back from Switzerland
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
i hope to god martinez knows that we "defended with fear" because howard is in goal. the same back 4 who were looking solid a few weeks back! no coincidence like.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Defo. A mighty axe needs to be wielded.
He needs player in who can play his system and we need a season out of Europe to have a think about how we can play in there and cope domestically. No bad thing missing out on that next season.
We knew beforehand that Leicester would pack their defence given their position so we should've had a better policy to try and breach it. Instead from the off we went back to the slow ponderous build up..short pass sideways/backwards/back to Howard/or worse back to a player who didn't want or expect it. Im afraid Baines was one of the worst culprits for this slow approach....and I know hes been injured and out. We looked very sluggish...not like a side that had won 4-1 away in Europe...but in spite of the slow play we still looked very vulnerable either due to poor passing or control. We also underestimated Leicester's counter attacking ability and passing under pressure. How these sides when passing find their men like Velcro, yet ours are either under or overhit - beats me. It doesn't help of course when our goalie insists on kicking out a moving back pass to God knows where, instead of stopping it first as hes under no pressure....nor high kicking from hand for one of the smallest players we have in Lennon to try and head. I had to watch from home today through my illness and Howard sickened me by laughing on screen at one of his wayward clearances into touch. He needs to have the comfort zone dragged from under his feet now....bad enough losing goals through the oppositions good play, but its shameful when the goalkeeper's negligence puts us behind...and worse still, in Howards often pantomime fashion. God knows what our young defenders think if hes their gauge. Id like to say well at least we got a point in the end after all that....but its no consolation.
The Equaliser
Player Valuation: £50m
Unsurprising really considering it is fairly obvious we don't work much on defending.
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