Leicester (Home) pre match

[Norah]

There is a match commentary on Radio Leicester tonight...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02x7888

Don't forget it is a 7.30pm kick off!

[stetrousers]

1 down, Vardy

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Two mistakes for their goals, superb curling effort from Duffy for us. I'd say we more than matched them until Andrade (liked the look of him) went off and we lost our shape and tempo a bit. Zeli looked nice and lively...will be disappointed if we don't sign him. Thought Thiele struggled throughout but to be fair he was playing against PL defenders.

Enjoyed tonight. Good football from both teams and a good run out for players who I think may find themselves on the bench come the Scunthorpe game.

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A totally different lineup than what started on Sat. Vs Brum.
...............McLaughlin
Maynard, Flanagan, Moose, Taft (edit: should be SCS not Moose)
........Butcher (Duffy), Reilly...
...Andrade (Lucas), Matty, Zeli (Nasser)
..............Thiele.....

The new trialist tonight was CB Tom Flanagan, #6, from MK Dons.
They did fine, and looked good for the most part. Flanagan messed up for one of the goals calling for the pass back from Kelvin but Vardy heard and picked the ball off Flannys foot and scored. Something went wrong on the left side that allowed a cross into our box, Deano came to save but Vardy flicked it over for the 2nd goal.
A nice few Passes on the left between Nasser and Duffy led to a nice goal from Duffy.

I like the look of Andrade, and regarding Timmy Thiele, he was playing on his own vs PL defenders like Huth (though I thought he went to ground a little too quickly a couple of times).

Very happy in general, but these are friendlies (maybe someone should tell Vardy that!).

[Norah]

Jul 28, 2015 22:58:58 GMT @peacockbrewer said:

A totally different lineup than what started on Sat. Vs Brum.
...............McLaughlin
Maynard, Flanagan, Moose, Taft
........Butcher (Duffy), Reilly...
...Andrade (Lucas), Matty, Zeli (Nasser)
..............Thiele.....

The new trialist tonight was CB Tom Flanagan, #6, from MK Dons.
They did fine, and looked good for the most part. Flanagan messed up for one of the goals calling for the pass back from Kelvin but Vardy heard and picked the ball off Flannys foot and scored. Something went wrong on the left side that allowed a cross into our box, Deano came to save but Vardy flicked it over for the 2nd goal.
A nice few Passes on the left between Nasser and Duffy led to a nice goal from Duffy.

I like the look of Andrade, and regarding Timmy Thiele, he was playing on his own vs PL defenders like Huth (though I thought he went to ground a little too quickly a couple of times).

Very happy in general, but these are friendlies (maybe someone should tell Vardy that!).

Probably Vardy was rubbing it in that he didn't go onto better things via the brewers. He was after all the one that got away, if we had been more on the ball he wouldn't have done.

Perhaps Vardy was enjoying rubbing it in that he could have gone on to better things via being a Brewer.... he was after all one that got away.

[observer]

Vardys whole game is about non stop effort and desire

He's got a new manager - they will be playing for places

If he treated it like a friendly and took it easy then he's likely be playing himself onto the subs bench

[claymillman]

Its not very often I disagree with Spence, but whilst Andrade was quite impressive, I thought Lucas Akins caused all sorts of problems to their defence when he came on as well. Overall it was another very good and again encouraging performance from the team. I felt sorry for Flanagan who had a good game but for his error. Timmy Theile did struggle against the very good opposition, Reilly and Butcher were very good. I have yet to read JFH comments, but I think he would be quite pleased with the organisation, work rate, ball retention when we had it etc. Out of the two winger trialists Zeli offers a bit more variety and is less predictable in what he will do when in possession. A great goal by Nasser feeding Duffy who finished superbly.

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Jul 29, 2015 7:52:31 GMT claymillman said:

Its not very often I disagree with Spence, but whilst Andrade was quite impressive, I thought Lucas Akins caused all sorts of problems to their defence when he came on as well. Overall it was another very good and again encouraging performance from the team. I felt sorry for Flanagan who had a good game but for his error. Timmy Theile did struggle against the very good opposition, Reilly and Butcher were very good. I have yet to read JFH comments, but I think he would be quite pleased with the organisation, work rate, ball retention when we had it etc. Out of the two winger trialists Zeli offers a bit more variety and is less predictable in what he will do when in possession. A great goal by Nasser feeding Duffy who finished superbly.

That's fair enough. I'm not saying I thought Lucas adversely affected the team...we all know what he's capable of...but when he came on it just seemed to upset the balance of the team. It's not "on him" so to speak but I do think Maynard had a very decent game with Andrade in front of him. We changed it, Leicester smelled blood, struck and killed the game as a contest apart from a few flourishes. If you lose your way a little bit at in the lower leagues then you don't tend to get punished as much. Well, not in league two anyway. League one players will be more clinical. Premier league teams are deadly.

[riverman]

Agree with others. A good work out and we held our own against Premier League opposition for much of the game. And the pop side speakers worked all night!