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I think we're generally average at defending. What we aren't OK with is defending for 30-40 minutes, but there aren't many teams who are. The best defenders around will concede under near constant pressure. It's been a continuing habit in our away games to sit off and let teams get momentum though. Wednesday looked a level below and were booed off at half time by their home fans- with a 2-goal cushion I don't believe it's unfair to expect us to be able to handle that situation better.

I can't agree. If I had ignored the game and looked at the scores on Teletext, objectively, I'd probably have said 'that's why teams in relegation battles can be tough, these games happen, gee whiz'. Subjectively we've surrendered 2 goals and 2 points to a team likely to be relegated who we were battering. Made enough clear-cut chances to win two games. Massive fumble IMO

He's also very good at dropping deep and giving an option, which creates passing angles in our forward play. Unfortunately when he plays as a single striker it means CBs can push up as faaaaar as they want, he isn't running in behind and will usually be up against 2 CBs. We should have dropped Aboh in for Sargent to keep the pace element of the forwards, leave Barnes where he was. Even if all the lad did was run around and hassle. And at this point, despite having tried to give as much benefit of the doubt to the SvH transfer as possible, I have to wonder what the point is. Surely he can't be so bad that he isn't considered worth a go at 2-0 up??

For a long time I thought the message was 'Barnes elevates Sargent' but I've come to see it's the other way around. Barnes needs Sarge in order to be effective, whenever the former is playing up front alone we just get shut down. We should have won the game under our own initiative with the chances we made; we don't have a very deep squad so I get that it's difficult. Even seeing the first sub instantly get injured, horrible turn of luck. However this is a very familiar away game pattern which can't just be unlucky again and again. The two headers were practically on the same spot too. Result has really **** on my sandcastle tbh.

Really annoyed at that result. One of those not-uncommon away days where we get ourselves in a decent position, then change things up and get locked in our own half for 45 minutes. Barnes going up front on his own is usually the signal. What a stupid result.

Only because I don't think we would ever voluntarily leave Kenny out whilst points are at stake, and it would mean less hard miles. Nothing against Gibson. Was wrong anyway 🤷‍♂️

In an ideal world, Norwich, Southampton, Leeds wins and any sort of dropped points for Preston. Maybe too much to ask after the gift of last weekend but here's hoping

'Neither team was playing well' and 'the referee kept punishing Ipswich players for making fouls'

Fassnacht for Barnes, Gibbs for Gibson. McLean moves to CB (less running required) and Sara in the second-striker position I reckon. Our ability to use anyone else will depend greatly on the game-state, though I could see an argument for a Stacey rest as well. This match will pretty much need to be won by the starting XI.

Michael Bailey did a piece on this. Yes, all the things you mention for Matos went against us, but MB mentions that both Matos & good friend Aboh saw the pretty naff loans for TDP and had no faith in the club to get future loans for them correct. I wasn't just coming up with this off the top of my head.

Hernandez said on his personal YouTube thing that if all goes well, he will be back in training in about 2 weeks. Maybe he's just being optimistic. Wagner doesn't tend to drop players in ASAP as we know, so it may not factor in at all. However to have Onel available for even Swansea, Birmingham and whatever might follow is better than not. Winner vs Ipswich at Wembley..? 😊

Split-second decision, slight miscontrol meaning he isn't going to get a clean strike (Morsy has his shooting side covered) without checking back into their covering CB. I hasten to add- in my opinion. I don't think it was a dive by any means, it's a clear as day foul with no other way to stop the forward. To give no decision is laughable. For a player in Morsy who should have been on a booking by then anyway. I'll note he stays prone for a little while checking to see if the ref is about to ruin his day, which is normally a sign.

Personal opinion is that our loan stable has been handled much better since last Summer. I even think the Idah loan was the right call. It's a vital yet oft-forgotten part of the whole ecosystem. The Matos situation occurred in part due to the poor handling of Tom Dickson-Peters loan spells, which in turn is influencing the Aboh situation. I'm glad to see so many of our young players having notable loans this year.

I think the Tuanzebe call was right. It was soft, but also by-the-letter he would have to go. A yellow with a dangerous free kick I thought worked for both sides. Less forgivable is the second half one- there's an element of HLS from Sargent (Hanging Leg Syndrome for the uninitiated) but it's still a foul whilst the striker has only the keeper to beat. To give no card, nor even a foul, is a bit laughable. Morsy in particular must've notched up 8 or 9 fouls with no card.

I'd agree in general. I think Fassnacht, perhaps Gibbs will come in for Tuesday The trouble is with the youngsters + SvH, we are not in a 'learning' stage at the moment. The latter could probably have had more minutes recently but if Sargent can play, Sargent plays. We just aren't in a position for players to find their feet. The return of Hernandez + Rowe may be very aptly timed.

I thought his view that neither team were very good or in control, except when they were easily in control until the referee gave us too many free kicks, was very insightful actually.

I travelled by train from Diss, bombarded by carriagefulls of spaghetti-undercut teenagers singing 'die Delia die' and 'Delia is a wh**e' after a sip of Red Stripe. I for one was delighted and surprised in equal measures that they brought none of that energy into the ground with them. Players and fans both froze on the day seemingly. What a shame

WBA along with ourselves have the most favourable fixtures. Coventry I think will suffer the extra game. Ultimately we just have to focus on what we do. Ideally 4 points from a long away week to keep pace with WBA who have two decent home games.

Not sure where else to post this- having watched McKenna's post match on the Pinkun YouTube I have to say, I didn't realise he was such a sour little goblin. I much prefer Ricardo's version.

Sitting on his ****, face down on the turf, failing to keep up with the scorer. He's a utility player, he really can do it all

I was hoping Sky Sports had a clip of him despairingly watching the goal go in, as is tradition. Nothing on that yet.

This is how I feel also. The best part of an hour of today's game was played with 21 players in our half, always going to be hard to keep defending like that. I'm never one to back gung-ho attack-at-all-costs mode, but I feel this group just lacks the conviction for extended defending. It always makes us look considerably worse. After getting the first goal it feels like we very much let them off the hook today.

Leicester are a good side regardless of form. There was always a reasonable possibility that they would best us on home turf, particularly as our away form isn't the best. It is however still frustrating, given we even went a goal up (then almost got a second immediately). The crowd were turning, their players looked a bit disjointed. Then we dropped off into a narrow low block & let Leicester have the running of the game, and never really got back out. If there's ever a week not dwell and mope, however, it's this one. We've got a parade to rain on.

Wouldn't particularly be blaming the defenders today. Whenever we drop into that 4-4-2 low block and try to hold, we end up defending constantly and there will always be gaps. It's one of the great mysteries of the Wagner era that it has almost always resulted in points lost but we will persist with it. The real problem is a lack of adaptability, be it in the players or the coaching. Leicester had such a clear plan to isolate & target McCallum, for example, but we didn't seem overly concerned with doing anything about it. The best defenders in the world would concede goals if constantly faced with overloads for an hour.

Poor performance, no getting away from it. Tried to low-block as soon as we scored, let them play where they wanted. As good as the points return has been recently, you always feel we have this sort of thing in us. No taking away from Leicester being a team that *should* get the title at a canter- they did not have to work for this though. Disappointing.