Match Day Thread Leicester versus Norwich

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Up against the side that put 9 (nine) past Southampton.

 

Could we try playing the way we did against Man City.

 

By the way, where's JM Fan?

 

Maybe he's eloped with FML

 

Think we will play really well and lose 3-1 and everyone will say we were plucky and like our style...

 

I don't think any of us expected this season to be easy, especially after losing our key defenders to injury.

We can still escape but the realist inside me thinks we haven't got enough to pull it off.

I will be disappointed but I am glad we didn't risk the clubs future by spending money we don't have with no assurances it would make any difference as our rivals will all outspent us anyway.

My only concern is we will lose all of our best players next season and go back to square one, I have seen ridiculous £50m price tags put on Godfrey and of course that sort of money would be impossible to turn down but if we sell Cantwell Aarons and possibly Pukki then I will not be impressed with the owners.

I'm hoping we shell out about £15m on a couple of class players next month and they give us the lift to get a few good wins and 3 teams end up worse than us .

I very much doubt we will get anything away at Leicester but this team has surprised me this season and it's not impossible.

Pants still dry

 

Well said Dunc

 

Feels like a best case scenario! Our main hope is complacency from Leicester. But as Dunc says, we have surprised everyone before, half of me hopes we do again, the other half thinks if we do, the last vestiges of hope that Liverpoo won't win the title will be extinguished. And I can't stand all the fricking plastic scousers who will crow about it so much!

OK so our survival is more important, lets call it 52:48 will for the win!

Bah!

 

If it is 52:48 GM then we can always protest for a rematch

 

To carry the analogy a step further maybe lose 52:48 after the ref has been slipped a plain envelope bulging with cash by a Russian oligarch !

 

I thought that the introduction of V.A.R may even things up for the whipping boys and make decisions more fair.

We are still to be awarded a penalty despite having a few good shouts and been given extremely soft ones against us after V.A.R intervention notably the Man U one .

I haven't seen any other retaken penalties because of player encroachment and the second Arsenal attempt was not ruled out even though players encroached again.

Then we get a red card overturned last week for Sheffield United.

Add to that the horror challenge on Zimmermann at West Ham where I believe Zimmermann may have got booked and Haller didn't even get spoken to.

Clearly the losses weren't solely down to these decisions but they haven't helped that's for sure.

 

I absolutely hate VAR.

There, I've said it!

 

I felt the same about VAR but it seems the same bias exists in the ref off pitch.

 

It wasn't the encroachment as such, but the fact that Aarons, having encroached, then made the crucial clearance. If Krul had turned the shot round the post and out for a corner, it wouldn't have been retaken.

Regarding the use of VAR in general, as I've said before, the problems IMO are mainly due to the particular application of it this season in the EPL, according to which the onus of making the final decision rests with the studio referee rather than the on-field ref. Much better is the system used virtually everywhere else, which limits the role of the studio referee to inviting the on-field ref to review his decision on the pitch-side monitor. Under this system, the final decision always rests with the on-field referee. He is then the arbiter of whether or not he has made a "clear and obvious" error. Why should the studio referee's opinion on what is "clear and obvious" take precedence over the man in the middle?

 

The commentators during the Man United game were able to play back the penalty appeal several times and unanimously decided that it wasn't a Penalty.

The V.A.R bloke clearly didn't.

As we well know these decisions don't even out over the season and terrible decisions are still made even with snazzy state of the art cameras .

We were crap at penalties last year but it would he nice to get one this season.

 

Buendia replaces Hernandez, Lewis makes the bench