Leicester (H) 8pm Thursday 27th February (Live on TNT)
Thursday??? Are we in Europe again?
86 days after we were Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooy’s first opponents as Leicester manager and things aren’t looking too good. His record is played 15, won 3 (us, QPR, Spurs), drawn 1 (Brighton) and lost 11. They’ve not managed a single clean sheet, conceded 36 and scored 16 (although 6 of those were against QPR).
Ruud has consistently played 4-2-3-1 and seems to have settled on his best XI although injuries have forced some changes
Starting at the top and working down Jamie Vardy has started 13 out of 15 with Patson Daka filling in when he’s not available.
Behind him Bobby de Codova-Reid, Bilal El Khannouss and Jordan Ayew have started the last four although Cordova-Reid was replaced by Stephy Mvadidi at half time against Brentford while Ayew was replaced by Facundo Buonanotte ten minutes later. Kasey McAteer gets the occasional run out while Abdul Fatawu is still injured
In the centre of midfield Boubakary Soumare has started 14 out of 15 while Wilfred Ndidi has started the last two after recovering from a hamstring, replacing Harry Winks who has dropped to the bench while Oliver Skipp makes regular substitute appearances
At the back LB Victor Kristiansen has started 13 out of 15 with Luke Thomas as cover, Wout Faes has started the last eight after recovering from injury with either Caleb Okoli, Jannik Westergaard or occasionally Conor Cody filling the other centre back slot.
At RB James Justin started 14 in a row but had to go off against Arsenal and missed the loss to Brentford.
With Ricardo Pereira still injured January signing Woyo Coulibaly (Parma £3m) was handed his first start. He’s not impressed the Leicester forums and against Brentford he was replaced at half time by Vestergaard with Okoli moving to the right.
Okoli had to go off later and was replaced by Coady so Leicester fans are praying that Justin will be fit.
Mads Hermansen has been back in goal for the last four after suffering a groin strain with Jakub Stolarczyk and Danny Ward covering in his absence.
86 days after we were Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooy’s first opponents as Leicester manager and things aren’t looking too good. His record is played 15, won 3 (us, QPR, Spurs), drawn 1 (Brighton) and lost 11. They’ve not managed a single clean sheet, conceded 36 and scored 16 (although 6 of those were against QPR).
Ruud has consistently played 4-2-3-1 and seems to have settled on his best XI although injuries have forced some changes
Starting at the top and working down Jamie Vardy has started 13 out of 15 with Patson Daka filling in when he’s not available.
Behind him Bobby de Codova-Reid, Bilal El Khannouss and Jordan Ayew have started the last four although Cordova-Reid was replaced by Stephy Mvadidi at half time against Brentford while Ayew was replaced by Facundo Buonanotte ten minutes later. Kasey McAteer gets the occasional run out while Abdul Fatawu is still injured
In the centre of midfield Boubakary Soumare has started 14 out of 15 while Wilfred Ndidi has started the last two after recovering from a hamstring, replacing Harry Winks who has dropped to the bench while Oliver Skipp makes regular substitute appearances
At the back LB Victor Kristiansen has started 13 out of 15 with Luke Thomas as cover, Wout Faes has started the last eight after recovering from injury with either Caleb Okoli, Jannik Westergaard or occasionally Conor Cody filling the other centre back slot.
At RB James Justin started 14 in a row but had to go off against Arsenal and missed the loss to Brentford.
With Ricardo Pereira still injured January signing Woyo Coulibaly (Parma £3m) was handed his first start. He’s not impressed the Leicester forums and against Brentford he was replaced at half time by Vestergaard with Okoli moving to the right.
Okoli had to go off later and was replaced by Coady so Leicester fans are praying that Justin will be fit.
Mads Hermansen has been back in goal for the last four after suffering a groin strain with Jakub Stolarczyk and Danny Ward covering in his absence.
Comments
Areola
Todibo - Kilman - Cresswell
Wan-Bissaka - Ward-Prowse - Souček - Scarles
Bowen - Kudus
Ferguson
As much as I'd like to see Ferguson start, he didn't get many minutes on Saturday (can't really blame Potter, his starting 11 were playing really well) so I think he'll start on the bench but hopefully will get at least 30 minutes in this one, and then maybe will be fit enough to start our next match on 10th March.
Leicester have sacked first-team coach Ben Dawson and goalkeeping coach Danny Alcock, both joined in the summer with Steve Cooper
Cos when you can't score and have a defence that leaks like a sieve you sack the coaches
At the weekend when it was announced that Ayew was going off they cheered - then cheered even louder when Buonanotte was announced as the replacement
Ouch
Maybe I should stay away for a while
From Ruud's press conference they're trying to get James Justin fit, no mention of Caleb Okoli
Stuart Attwell was going to be the ref but he's been replaced by Anthony Taylor. Fourth official: Rob Jones, VAR: Michael Salisbury
Also tomorrow's strike by Elizabeth line drivers has been called off after ASLEF accepted a revised offer
COYI
Subs: Fabiański (GK), Emerson, Mavropanos, Rodríguez, Irving, Soler, Luis Guilherme, Ings, Ferguson
Unchanged starting XI.
Whilst at the same time we were one of the first clubs to try to sign a foreign player in Mordechai Spiegler but his signing was blocked and no permit granted.
make it count.
Ok then.
Sears,Tomkins, Stanislas
... Ah, happy days 😁
Apparently Sears still playing non-league!