Are Leicester really better than us?

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Remind me of Birmingham a few years back, had a very good run based on being able play a rarely changed team and great team spirit. Hardly world beaters but they were effective. Leicester have this plus pace and a lad who is scoring for fun. Playing in a team where you know goals will come is a real confidence booster
 
Apart from a 22 point difference and being 18 league places better off than us after a dozen games there's not a great deal in it.
 
Op has a point like. If you actually read his post before diving straight in.

On paper, ability wise I'd say we had the better team.

However ability counts for fuck all without team spirit and desire.
 
This f***ing obsession with Leicester man :D

Please, stop. It's making us look like desperate, jealous idiots.
 
team spirit and graft, yes they have it in abundance, yes it does help them.

Want to know what helps them more?

Vardy scoring 13 goals and assisting 1
Mahrez scoring 7 goals and assisting 6

out a team that in total has only scored 28 goals and let in 20 goals.

I don't think people are appreciating how much Vardy and Mahrez are making the team click. Take one or either of them out and they'd win about half or less of their games.

2 cleansheets all season, their defence is f***ing wank.

Their second striker has scored 2, their third striker has scored 1.
 
1982DurhamSAFC said:
Obviously the league table proves it and results but if you go man for man from the team they put out at the weekend.

Schmeichel
Simpson Morgan Huth fuchs
Mahrez drinkwater ngala Albrighton
Ulloa vardy

Vs

Pantilimon
Yedlin Jos kaboul Jones
Borini cattermole mvila Johnson
Fletcher defoe

No reason why we shouldn't be able to play 442 like Leicester do and kick on...

I'm not saying we should be top end but certainly comfortable away from relegation zone...
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none of our lot are fit enough to get in their team.
 
mart said:
It's bizarre like. They have a very poor side on paper but every thing seems to be going right for them at the minute. Mahrez and Vardy are in the form of their lives, neither have shown anything in the past to suggest they were capable of reaching anything close to the level they are playing at right now. Still think the wheels will fall off eventually but for now, it's quite enjoyable seeing them mixing it up at the top.
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A very poor side = a load of players you've probably never heard of or seen play.

If you'd watched us much over the last two and a half years, you would know the likes of Vardy, Mahrez, Drinkwater most definitely had the potential. As for the rest Fuchs is the Austrian captain played champs league football for Schalke. Huth has been a Premier League defender most of his like. Alrighton we highly rated as a kid and lost his way at Villa, but always had potential. Kante was very highly rated in France and had the most tackles in Europe last season (this lad is the best DM I have ever seen, he will go to the very top without question). Okazaki scored something like 15/16 goals each season the last two in the Bundesliga. Inler can't get in the team, Nathan Dyer is a season premier league playing and great off the bench. Ditto Schlupp with his pace and power.

There are a few journey men in there obviously like Morgan and Simpson. But we don't ask much of them, sit back, defend and pace the ball to someone with skill.

I'm sure the "wheels will fall off", it's surely impossible to keep going as we are. But we've got enough in the squad to establish ourselves in the league, which at the end of the day is what our goal was.
 
mart said:
It's bizarre like. They have a very poor side on paper but every thing seems to be going right for them at the minute. Mahrez and Vardy are in the form of their lives, neither have shown anything in the past to suggest they were capable of reaching anything close to the level they are playing at right now. Still think the wheels will fall off eventually but for now, it's quite enjoyable seeing them mixing it up at the top.
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When you say a poor squad on paper, is that because their players aren't big names that 'Jeff and the Boys' talk about every Saturday? Or are they actually poor players?

As much as they are an annoying tin pot club, good for them. I like it when an unfashionable club stirs it up with the Sky boys and their superstar players.
 
flusheding said:
team spirit and graft, yes they have it in abundance, yes it does help them.

Want to know what helps them more?

Vardy scoring 13 goals and assisting 1
Mahrez scoring 7 goals and assisting 6

out a team that in total has only scored 28 goals and let in 20 goals.

I don't think people are appreciating how much Vardy and Mahrez are making the team click. Take one or either of them out and they'd win about half or less of their games.

2 cleansheets all season, their defence is f***ing wank.

Their second striker has scored 2, their third striker has scored 1.
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Regarding clean sheets, we started off player Schlupp (grew up as a striker) and De Laet (an attacking full back). It left us exposed over and over again and they just weren't good enough defensively. Since Fuchs and Simpson came into the team we haven't conceded a goal in open play for six games. They have all been pennos and corners.

Of course those two are the icing on the cake, the sort of players that can turn a tight game into a win on their own. But take them out and we can put Ulloa up top (scored 12 last season) or revert Okazaki back to a main striker like he was at Mainz, rather than the support striker helping midfield like we have been.

We've dropped Mahrez several times and subbed him off at half time as well. Whether you bring in Schlupp and Dyer they they are still a big threat and have proved great backup.

Whilst the stats have been weighted in their favour, they have also benefited from the great play by the likes of Drinkwater, Albrighton and Kante. It's very much a team effort.
 
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