[Drawfull]

Falcao doesn't have his touch yet. RVP is sorta in the game but still doesn't provide enough for me. Rooney has been quite good. ADM..well, what else can you say. Pure class. Rojo has been awful. Evans was awful and now injured AGAIN. Blackett has been solid. Rafael ok. Blind has been pretty good but not winning enough balls this game in the middle. Same with Herrera. It seems that we are indeed more likely to win games 4-3 with our defense. Look confident on the ball going forward though so its nice to see. I fear we could still get hit for a lot against the top teams.

To be fair to Falcao, his cross was excellent, the times he was forced back or had to pass he did well. He was inches away from a couple of Di María crosses etc.

 

[Needham]

Rooney is no Scholes but he does have that ability to dictate the rhythm of a game. Wish he would use it more.

 

[sport2793]

I just feel his positioning is off and looses out on duels. He has done decent passing but i feel he needs to shield our defense more.

To be fair, Blind covered a dangerous chance in our own box late in that 1st half. He definitely is sitting back.

 

[Red Dreams]

Di Maria is really on a another level to most players. Magical player.

 

[Globule]

Blackettlooking very good today I think a few In this thread are chatting bobbins

At times. And that tackle was a thing of beauty - a very well timed challenge that, if slightly mistimed, would have been costly. However, he has made a few too many mistakes. He's young, so it's understandable. But with our defence all over the place we can't really afford players making mistakes. Usually a youngster would have the privilege of being relaxed about mistakes because the seniors would cover him - but not this defence.

 

[Wayne Van Persic]

The space they gave Di Maria for his goal, great finish, but he shouldn't have been given that time and space

That was great from Di Maria.

 

[The_Midfielder]

Blackett has been good.. Evans/Rojo screwed up on their first goal.. We will get another soon...

 

[ricky-romeo]

Credit blackett. Our youngest defender look like our most experience out there. We are good going forward which is what you expect from players like di maria, falcao, rvp and rooney but my god we look troubled whenever leicester attacked.

 

[revel911]

Actually, I thought Blind was solid, it's his second game with us after all, on the other hand, Ander has been a bit anonymous, which disappoints me, we need him to put more pressure on Leicester's midfielders.

Hererra as actually lost the ball a few times in a few key areas. He needs to pass quicker. I think he has held up their midfield quite well on defense though.

 

[space]

Herrera has been very good in my opinion, wins the ball, links well with Blind. Leicester look good on the break but hopefully a goal for us now should kill the game.

 

[Hed Zitin]

Persie has been better than Rooney IMO, the later take too much time on the ball to decide his pass.

Rubbish. Rooney has linked up with the CM and especially Di Maria well.

 

[Red4Life_#7]

D**n it!!! Miss the goals... anyone got a link to see the goals?

 

[DevilRed]

It would be interesting to see how fast we can be if we threw on Januzaj for RVP.

 

[Idxomer]

The space they gave Di Maria for his goal, great finish, but he shouldn't have been given that time and space

He created that space for himself before passing it to Rooney.

 

[suheilsworld]

Have to bang in 2-3 more goals as we looking susceptible at the back

 

[JakeC]

When we're playing tough games like this, we should drop one of RVP or Falcao.

In easier home games we could drop one of Mata, Di Maria, or Rooney.

 

[VanGaalEra]

We need a 3rd goal early in the second half for comfort.

De Leat can be got at and he's on a yellow. Get ADM to run at him and it's a sure fire sending off.

 

[LARulz]

From RAWK:

Rooney hanging on to his wig there doing that 40 yard dash

This made me laugh, especially picturing Rooney sprinting whilst holding the top of his head

 

[Pexbo]

Really do think we'd look better with Mata in for Rooney.

 

[DidYouForget?]

If antonio valencia comes on I don't know what I would do.

 

[Spark]

Blackett has had a great start to the season in my opinion. Exactly what we need against this Leicester side - no nonsense lairy defender. He looked good when we were bollocks in our first 3 games too. At this rate I want him to be a permanent fixture throughout the season.

Hope we regroup second half and get mata on, push rooney up front and take rvp off. Think that will give us a bit more composure, games been very stop start and that's not suited us at all.

 

[Randall Flagg]

Hardly any praise for Di Maria's goal from Sky.

They've called it goal of the season and "one were you can just sit back and enjoy" do you want them to whip out their cocks and have wank as well?

 

[SalfordRed1960]

Cop out. He's played lb a lot in his career, including for Argentina to wc final. He's gotten the basics wrong today and has to do better. Let's see how he does in the second half.

I think he has been surprised by speed and aggression of Vardy. Needs to step up.

 

[mancan92]

Blackett has been the only decent defender all the so called "senior" players who are supposed to step up this season have been terrible.

 

[Traub]

How can some people think Blind is having a bad game?, he's been one of our best players and i only saw him give away the ball once in the whole half.

He has been caught upfield a bit too much IMO. It's allowing Leicester to run straight at our defence.

On a side note, hardly noticed Herrera today.

 

[RetroStu]

Souness refusing to admit ADM is class

fecking annoying all these former Liverpool players infesting Sky, i'm sick of seeing Souness with his 1970's porn look and i'm sick of hearing that ear bleeding accent of that cnut Carragher

 

[ScarleyUtd]

I don't understand either.

Me neither. And Herrera has played well too. Leicester have decent players and a great attitude. This isn't QPR. People seem to be expecting us batter teams 4-0 every week now.

 

[Captain poptart]

Di Maria should keep running at da laet force an error. one mistake away from red card

 

[M16Red]

Prefer Mata as the number 10

 

[sharpiesdance]

No one else will ask it so I will: any reason DDG ddin't at least move for their goal? Still haven't seen him make a real save so far this season...

 

[RoadTrip]

fecking annoying all these former Liverpool players infesting Sky, i'm sick of seeing Souness with his 1970's porn look and i'm sick of hearing that ear bleeding accent of that cnut Carragher

 

[bishblaize]

Not too bad on balance.

Going forward, its like night and day from last year. Even though we're not rampant right now, you can just tell the difference from last season. The runs, the angles of the passes, the invention. Total difference.

Unfortunately two goals in the first half should put you in control of the match, but not today. Our back four were pretty poor. Rafael did little, the other three made too many mistakes. Blackett at least did some positive stuff to address the balance, but I think the goal was his fault.

Blind has had to put in a shift to cover the back four. If he hadn't I doubt we'd be in front.

Add to that another injury to Evans and what should be a walk in the park looks like being a really tough 45 minutes.

 

[Wayne Van Persic]

What do you think about the changes in second half?

 

[Hed Zitin]

People shouldn't be surprised by Leicester. They play with energy and really get at you. Played well all season so far.

 

[DidYouForget?]

also Rooney upfront with Falcao would be way better.
Its so obvious RVP isn't the same player he was.
Falcao needs a striker partner that compliments him with some link up play, RVP won't do that as much as rooney would.

 

[conchy]

Can someone pm me a decent stream?

 

[2 Neville's]

RVP has been poor. Mata at 10 would make us much more fluid. Blind, Blackett and Herrera have been good. Di Maria just brilliant, Falcao still finding his feet but he is making great runs and the cross for the goal was superb. Rojo struggling, I'd like to see Shaw in the second half.

 

[suheilsworld]

With Smalling in now, we looking stable at the back. LVG needs to get Shaw involved to make those runs with Di Maria on left

 

[Motorman]

Just like to stick up for Rooney. I think he has done very well.

I think the only one having a poor game so far is rojo. Falcao touch is poor but expected.. best way for that to improve though is match practice so keep him out there

 

[Jerch]

I think nobody did bad when we get a goal. Rojo just pushed the player and thought it will go out and so was Evans and Rafael thinking. Unfortunately Vardy got to the bal quick enough and managed to crossed it in the right place. I don't believe he would crossed it so good 1 times in 10.

 

[Seij]

How can some people think Blind is having a bad game?, he's been one of our best players and i only saw him give away the ball once in the whole half.

Not to mention Nugent has been trying to hug him all game. Interesting decision by Leicester, but I guess they saw how Blind played against QPR a week ago.