The English Football Thread

[LAM09 7,043]

Chance for Vardy to seal his hat-trick

[Vesper 30,106]

pen on shitty

could be 1 3

[Pizy 18,866]

City were as dominant as a team could be until Leicester scored. Then they collapsed as badly as a team could.

[Alabama 1,992]

Vardy hat trick...

[communicate 2,703]

That was more of a dive imo

[Special Juan 28,124]

Ruthless from Vardy.

[Milan 17,955]

I love Vardy's pens. His style over Jorginho's any time of the day.

[prehuman 119]

I fell asleep with the exercise of harmless passes from City in the first half, I wake up and they are losing by 1-3, a little divine justice.
Vardy's hat trick?
What a beast.

[Milan 17,955]

Oh look, City are not smashing someone by 4 goals or more and Foden is therefore done.

[Pizy 18,866]

There were a lot of comparisons stylistically between Vardy and Timo Werner. But what makes Vardy so effective and why Timo will find it harder is that teams don't park the bus against Leicester whilst they do against Chelsea. Vardy is able to exploit acres of space to run into and get the ball in the exact situations he loves all the time. 

Only the big teams will allow us space and as we saw with Liverpool that was Timo's most effective game so far. As we saw against WB yesterday, he's less effective when teams park the double decker. Was still unlucky not to score twice, though.

[DDA 9,925]

2 minutes ago, Pizy said:

There were a lot of comparisons stylistically between Vardy and Timo Werner. But what makes Vardy so effective and why Timo will find it harder is that teams don't park the bus against Leicester whilst they do against Chelsea. Vardy is able to exploit acres of space to run into and get the ball in the exact situations he loves all the time. 

Only the big teams will allow us space and as we saw with Liverpool that was Timo's most effective game so far. As we saw against WB yesterday, he's less effective when teams park the double decker. Was still unlucky not to score twice, though.

So surely we should sit back and play counter attacking football ?

[Jase 43,479]

If Leicester somehow manage to challenge for the Top 4 again, they could potentially put us, United, Arsenal, Spurs etc to shame if none of us get the act together...

[MoroccanBlue 5,378]

Finishing top 4 comfortably is probably the only requirement Lampard must accomplish imo

[prehuman 119]

4 minutes ago, Jason said:

If Leicester somehow manage to challenge for the Top 4 again, they could potentially put us, United, Arsenal, Spurs etc to shame if none of us get the act together...

Leicester, Arsenal and Spurs have Europa League.
Everton and Wolves have that advantage this year.

[Jase 43,479]

6 minutes ago, Pizy said:

There were a lot of comparisons stylistically between Vardy and Timo Werner. But what makes Vardy so effective and why Timo will find it harder is that teams don't park the bus against Leicester whilst they do against Chelsea. Vardy is able to exploit acres of space to run into and get the ball in the exact situations he loves all the time. 

Only the big teams will allow us space and as we saw with Liverpool that was Timo's most effective game so far. As we saw against WB yesterday, he's less effective when teams park the double decker. Was still unlucky not to score twice, though.

True but at the same time, we don't pass the ball direct enough. We don't have anyone who is capable of playing those long balls over the top for example. We just keep on pass, pass, pass like 1000 times before the ball gets to the front players. I don't expect us to build the team fully around Werner like Leicester do with Vardy but there are elements of their game which we can replicate to get the best out of Werner and even Pulisic, CHO etc.