So how do you explain the teams with the best systems and squads in the league failing to take chances? Is that an issue with their system? Your argument doesn’t hold up. Every single team in this league fails to take the majority of their chances. Sometimes you get a result like today.
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Leicester were one of the worst teams in the championship at set pieces mate just fyi.
Also, they were constantly opening us up second half, every time we lost the ball and they went forward our butts were puckering up, they literally nearly scored the second from cutting us wide open straight through midfield, it was an absolute eyesore to see that quite frankly.
Also, if we want to play the "could have" game, they could have had a few goals themselves second half, just for clarity again, this is newly promoted Leicester with a half fit shit Vardy up front.
Bollox were they constantly opening us up. They had 2 chances, both fell to a coked up Jamie Vardy. He scored one of them
You're not alone in your grave concerns, despite what some may have you believe.
It's completely valid to have doubts about our direction under a rookie manager at this level and those concerns have been valid longer than the mythical 10 games in which we played Brentford, Luton, Sheffield United (last gasp winner), Bournemouth & Burnley. Blasphemy to mention around here but your eyes are not lying to you if you've the eyes to see.
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Unless Odobert turns out to be absolute mustard and a half and Solanke finds a rich vein of form, we’re going to be sitting 9th or 10th at the end of that run.
Richard, I can't talk to you about Ange anymore, you're generally a decent poster but you have the absolute blinders on when it comes to him imo and the second someone questions him you start to devalue your points by saying shit like the bolded.
You keep making this point about "If we took our chances" but we didn't and you act like it's just a bad day at the office 'And on another day we would have had six' kind of logic at play here.
The problem is Richard, this isn't a new problem, it was an issue at the end of the last season and it's an issue now, it hasn't been fixed and that's partly down to a lack of quality in front of goal but it's also down to poor attacking play in general due to a flawed system.
It's gung-ho football that works sometimes but doesn't get you consistent results and often leaves you wide open at the back; which means we are going to concede a lot, which will negate any good we do going forward in the games we actually manage to make something work.
It doesn't exactly bode well does it?
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They had two shots on target, 7 chances overall and a 1.02 XG across the entire game.
We had 4 more shots on target than them across the entire game with a 1.26 XG (most of which came in the first half btw.)
Look at the second half stats alone.
Leicester : 6 shots, 2 on target, 0.96 XG
Tottenham : 5 shots, 2 on target, 0.61 XG
Man if we aren’t careful we could very easily end up with 2 pts from our first 4 games. I can very easily see only getting 5 pts from our first 6 games.
Banana peel slip-n-slide into Woolwich and get embarrassed there and Ange is in serious trouble.
4pts from last 6 games- needs to change.
Every team has games where they fail to take chances, our problem is partly down to a lack of quality with our finishing and partly down to the quality of chance that our forwards are getting, the XG stats at the end of last season for us is proof of that.
Also, the difference between us and those teams is they can defend in the games they fail to take chances; over the course of an entire season that means you can afford to have games where you may not take your chances and still win but if you concede 1.61 goals per match and 61 across an entire season it makes it pretty difficult to have a "bad day at the office" and that points to a flaw in the system imo.
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But if you point to it being an issue with the system or his management then you are debating like Joe Biden.
You're wasting your time, people like him think there are Prem level managers in Australia and Japan and that a club of this size should be giving them a chance at this level. He had a good start in those mythical 10 games which doesn't look as good when you look at the opposition and then was found out for the rest of the season but was excused under the natural law that "it always works in the 2nd season".
Those who have anything about them know that winning stuff in Australia & Japan and then winning stuff with Celtic guarantees sweet FA about your approach when it comes to this level and yet he's been given a seemingly endless amount of excuses. This time it's only the first game, next time it'll be something else etc etc.
We draw the first game, we sack the manager? Fuck me sideways.
Listen Incomplete, we could try and talk rationally about
Think the feelings are based on more than tonight's game. You know that too.