Match Day Thread Millwall v Leicester City (F.A Cup)

How kind that so many people feel the need to come and add their views...

 

Just dreading Wednesday! Please please please no more humiliation

 

We will be probably hammered by sevilla and liverpool , squeak a boring draw against hull, lose against arsenal at the emirates and get a draw at home against sevilla who will be through already and the next day the axe will fall.... then rowett will be appointed for the last 9 or so cup finals

 

Well that was easier than expected

 

I was disappointed at the team selection today. I thought Claudio would have put out the same 11 he intends to start against Liverpool. I hope he isn't thinking of putting King and Okazaki in against them. On paper there didn't look to be much aggression in our midfield today (I haven't seen any of the game) and I would have hoped to see Ndidi and Drinkwater in there. Who did he play wide? Apart from Gray I didn't see another wide man in the starting 11. Putting square pegs in round holes will only make things worse.

Confidence is obviously at rock bottom now and players start to miss easy chances and make bad decisions when that happens. Form is only as bad as the season before last. Maybe The Great Escape 2 is just around the corner.

 

just like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

 

I guess Claudio is clearing all distractions from the league survival fight, putting all his effort and concentration into staying up. God knows what the Seville game will bring, if they go for the throat from the start it could get messy, once the first goal goes in all heads seem to drop. Today and a potential thrashing at Seville won't do much for confidence before Liverpool. We've got to target wins at home to Hull, Sunderland, Stoke, Boro and Watford and probably at Palace too to have any chance. If we achieve that I reckon Claudio may move upstairs, or even retire.

 

Should have won, but while CR plays Okasaki and King together there was only going to be one result

 

sorry but i seen CR tonight on MOTD and he just looks a spent force! clueless and no direction, while last year was out of this world and he brought me
such joy (Leicester Prem Champions my dad like me would have been in tears bless his soul )and now like Hartson said we are a embarrassment! just can't
see any escape this year! please someone point me in the direction of the pills!

 

It looks like we will be forced to revert back to Morgan or Huth in the back four again for the rest of the season. What was Benalouane doing for the Millwall goal? A half hearted toe poke to try and clear the ball then hopelessly out of position when the final ball went through. I said he always has a mistake in his game but that was just appalling.

I refuse to give up hope but Claudio is sounding more and more desperate after every match, asking for warriors and gladiators. I'd settle for someone up front who has the calm composure to stick the ball in the back of the net. We are creating chances but are just not taking them.

 

Agreed. I'd settle for a few football players.

 

And I'd like to see a bit more leadership on the pitch. If you're Real Madrid or some other team of top, self motivated players who all set their own high standards and are winning every week then the captain's role is largely irrelevant. But when you're in trouble and heads are dropping then you need that player with real leadership qualities that can set the tone and encourage the others...someone who has authority in the dressing room and who you'd 'go over the top with' (and I don't mean over the top of the ball)... a Roy Keane type who leads from the front by example. Yesterday I'm assuming King was captain. 'nuff said! The one player we have who shows the pain and seems to give a t0ss is Kasper, but there's not much he can do stuck in goal.

 

The next few league games imo will be the last chance saloon and CR needs to calm down and get back to basics. He has the players to pull Leicester away from the bottom and should be trying to install confidence than all this rubbish of gladiator crap,. You don't become a rubbish manager over night and a lot of mistakes are by the players themselves because they are not trying....I would make the team watch the videos of the team they are about to play and see how good they were and what they are doing different now...Get that confidence going again and you will stay out of the bottom 3 that the club deserves after last season with virtually the same players....

 

At the end of the day confidence plays a big part in football,and there ain't much down the King power at the moment.Perhaps if Vardy and co can get a goal or two it might bring a bit back.Lets hope they can turn it round and not get relegated.

 

Millwall was the big chance to get a goal or two, instead it was a team with no out and out goal scorer in it. A full strength team should have won that and would have bred a bit of confidence. Instead we've sunk to even lower depths.

 

Just lock them in a room alone, make them watch the highlights DVD of last season and force them to question each other on why they aren't putting in that effort this season.

 

Excellent comments well made. We are all self imploding fans included. You guys look safe now (maybe not points wise) but playing with confidence and with just a bit of the swansea swagger again. Hope you stay up

 

As if it'll make a difference.