03 Feb 2016 09:33:24
I saw a few people defending Mignolet for Vardys first last night. Just watched it and that is 100% Mignolets fault. Lovren will never have the pace to catch Vardy in a straight foot race from a route one hoof forward. Bearing in mind Mahrez has hit that pass from the right back position, why the hell is Mignolet on his line? Even at Sunday league level keepers have the common sense to stand at the very least on the edge of their area. Vardy gets to the ball about 25 yards from goal. If Mignolet had been stood on the edge of his area he could just stroll out and put it out for a throw. Instead he stayed rooted to his line until just before Vardy got to the ball at which time he thought it would be a good idea to step about 5 yards off his line inviting Vardy to hit it over him.
Vardy; great execution. Still takes a hell of a player to catch that ball up and whilst at near full sprint measure a volley so perfectly over the keeper. But Mignolet has gifted him the opportunity to show case his ability. Shocking goal keeping.
Their second goal was just fortunate. They caught us short at the back, everyone is all over the place trying to cope with their pace and movement and a deflection fell kindly for Vardy.
03 Feb 2016 09:36:05
Pure rubbish. He was positioned where any keeper would be. Sakho was at fault plain and simple, caught out by one long ball and lost Vardy then. Some finish though.
{Ed001's Note - no he wasn't. Any good keeper would have dropped back onto his line when he wasn't going to be able to cut out the ball from Mahrez. Sakho and Lovren were caught out by the ball, yes, but Mignolet was positioned so badly it gave an opportunity. It was a great finish, but even Vardy has said he only tried it because Mignolet was out of position, so how can anyone make an attempt to defend him for it? When even the guy scoring the goal is telling you that the keeper was out of place!}
03 Feb 2016 09:55:01
I knew they would score and it was only a matter of time. Someone was destined to make stupid errors. Names keep changing.
03 Feb 2016 09:58:44
Not seen the goal yet but knowing mignolet i am inclined to believe ed01 and ems tbh.
03 Feb 2016 10:08:23
I think we need to forget the goal, the reason we lost that game is because we can't score if our lives depended on it.
We battered them from 20 mins on until the goal, why the club aloud the transfer window to pass when our problems have been obvious since the start of the season is beond me.
Great goal and we can blame whoever we want as its only 1pt lost as we would have never scored to win.
03 Feb 2016 10:10:19
Croft what do you want Sakho and Lovren to do? Drop 30 yards deeper and leave a massive gap in between the midfield for Kante or Mahrez to drive into? They can't do anything else there because Leicester have 2 strings to their bow. You either drop off and Kante, Mahrez and Albrighton will run at you, or you press high and Vardy will get in behind. That is why they are so good. Pressing high would've worked if Mignolet had either swept behind the defence to clean up hoof balls, or just stayed on his line and let the defenders push Vardy wide and make the angle difficult. Instead Mignolet is in no mans land asking to be lobbed.
If we had sat deeper to prevent the hoof balls Leicester love, they would just come at us differently with the technically gifted players like Okazaki and Mahrez who can squeeze a way through tight gaps. You cannot prevent a team like Leicester from creating chances unless you smother them wnd dominate possession. We did that well only to get let down by poor goalkeeping. Then when we were pushing forward to equalise they've hit us on the break and a ricochet has fallen so kindly even I would've scored.
Mignolet has cost us yet more points and penalty shoot out heroics do not cover any of the gaping caveats in his game for me.
03 Feb 2016 10:15:43
Its like this for me, if migs was stood still as vardy approaches the ball, and then it goes over his head, I'd say great strike and migs wasn't expecting it.
However.
If you watch it, as vardy approaches the ball and looks like he's about to strike it (before he actually makes contact) migs has started back peddling frantically already, this proves that he knew a shot was coming, and it proves he knew he should of been back nearer his line to start with.
Just another error on the migs book, so now we can add positioning, to kicking, flapping, catching and decision making.
03 Feb 2016 10:27:15
Quite frankly I think some people are letting their hatred of Migs cloud their objectivity.
03 Feb 2016 10:41:31
No one hates migs bob, but he is an average keeper in an average team who all make game losing mistakes on a regular basis. can't really blame people for wondering why these mistakes keep happening.
03 Feb 2016 10:42:09
We will never score if we continue to simply side foot it around aimlessly in midfield, while the other team has crossed the entire field with 2 or 3 quick passes. As if racking up the possession percentage amounts to anything. You can argue that we don't have the players, wrong decision making, or there's not enough time for coaching tactics because of fixture congestion. But at some point, somebody will have to look up at "team management" and ask the questions. You can't lay 100% of the blame on the players 100% of the time.
03 Feb 2016 10:45:59
We're just an average team.
End of.
Let's ignore this season.
Sturridge head is blown, the manager has realised he has penguin players and we fans are disillusioned (again) .
Roll on next season.
Even a cup win will just paper over the cracks.
03 Feb 2016 10:57:04
I don't want much EMS, just for our centre halves not to be beat in a 2v1 situation.
03 Feb 2016 09:50:20
But Ed no keeper would drop back onto his line when the ball is that far out? He was only 4-5 yards off it and was back peddling quickly as Vardy was getting to the ball but got done by a super shot. Think people are been harsh on him for this one when the real problem was in front of him with Sakho getting completely caught out and Lovren having to try chase down his mistake.
{Ed001's Note - that far out? You make it sound like it was 50 yards or so. It was certainly in a position keepers drop back on to their line.}
03 Feb 2016 10:25:41
Sorry Ed001 I disagree there. Mignolet is exactly where any keeper would be when that bal;l is played over the top. The goal was not Mignolets fault, I have no idea how we allowed Vardy so much spoace in behind. Lovren was caught day dreaming. To put the entire blame on Migs as EMS has done is quite simply wrong.
We had no problem defending with kolo in the team last time we played them, and a deeper line, why we pushed that line higher up I will never know or why we played Lovren when he clearly wasn't match ready is beyond my grasp. Mignolet was caught there because at first it looked like Lovren was never going to get there (he actually didn't in the end as Vardy hit it first time, I think any keeper would expect vardy to take control rather than hit it 95% of the time
Putting the blame solely on Migs there is just plain wrong for me.
{Ed001's Note - nobody is talking about when the ball was played. I am talking about when he shoots. Mignolet should have been on his line, disagree all you like but any keeper being caught out like that is out of position. How can you disagree when even the goalscorer is saying it was because the keeper was out of position he tried it?
Some people are so far up their own arse, they won't even accept a fault when it is being pointed out by the one person who has every reason to not admit it was a goalkeeping error. Or do you think Vardy hates Mignolet too?
Talk about a pathetic attempt to cover up another mistake by the keeper, by pretending everyone is childish and jumping on his back because they 'hate him'. That is when you know someone has no real defence, because they hide behind that kind of crappy response.
The second paragraph of your defence is just classic. You defend him by saying he dithered when he wasn't sure if Lovren was getting there or not. If that is the best defence of yet another piece of crap goalkeeping you can come up with, I would suggest you just leave it there before you make a real arse of yourself.
Why on earth you think that suggesting it was because he didn't have the intelligence to spot that a shot was on, when a goalscorer is getting the ball in a shooting position, is a good defence of a goalkeeper, I have absolutely no idea.
And no one is saying Migs was entirely at fault, so why that ridiculous last line was even added, unless it was just to make a nonsensical defence turn into a 'look it is just a witch hunt' to deflect away from the lack of any reasoning in your post.}
03 Feb 2016 11:10:21
Bobatron I think some peoples desire to be different and argumentative clouds their judgememt and inhibits their ability to be honest.
03 Feb 2016 12:06:15
Geese guys. Grab your handbags. No need for it. You all sound about pathetic to be honest.
03 Feb 2016 11:47:53
Bad form Ed, all bobatron did was offer his view and you go off on one like that. Seems a common theme whenever anyone offers a different opinion on a matter - that's the only childish part I can see in all this.
{Ed001's Note - right whatever, is that all you offer in terms of a counter argument? Because it is just wasting my time. The childish crap was him accusing people of being just haters for pointing out that our keeper is crap, rather than actually offering any counter argument.}
03 Feb 2016 13:19:22
Unsurprisingly I'm with ed on this. Some people just can't see the wood for the trees, and unfortunatly those are the fans that are happy with mediocrity.
03 Feb 2016 16:13:20
The whole debate is nonsense, whether Migs was at fault or not doesn't matter to me. He's consistently made enough errors for me to have no faith in him ever being good enough, the Vardy goal is hardly the straw that broke the camel's back.