Foxes fan in peace.

[davidloach]

I have no idea, but i stored a mental note during the game that he was a tit and it has stuck. Probably for something totally innocuous.

He's defo a tit though.

He seems kinda snidey like Mirallas

 

[FOXINPEACE]

Probably because he was being a tit and kept diving

So did Baines

 

[Rook]

Jesus lads, moaning about the ref?? Thought he had a good game, you can't give a red for the handball on the halfway line, way too far from goal, and whilst I see why Barry could have been sent off, I can also see why he stayed on, so no complaints from me there.

Think Leicester will stay up this year, Ulloa is class, wanted him as second striker here tbh, and they seem a well drilled unit. Think if we had kept up the intensity we had at times in the first half, we would have walked with 3 points here, but nonetheless, not a terrible point, away from home, against a fired-up, half decent side.

Thought the ref was fine too. When you have the bulk of possession you are going to get tackled more. I didn't see the tackle on McGeady because I was at work and had to do something. However I'm guessing letting Barry go evens it out.

There wasn't one side I thought looked really good today. The top 6 are going to drop plenty of points early. I know we have to capatalize on that + Bob's sides always take a bit to get going.

The only real worries right now is health of the side and we look worse than last year defending free kicks.

 

[Jags]

Thought the ref was fine too. When you have the bulk of possession you are going to get tackled more. I didn't see the tackle on McGeady because I was at work and had to do something. However I'm guessing letting Barry go evens it out.

There wasn't one side I thought looked really good today. The top 6 are going to drop plenty of points early. I know we have to capatalize on that + Bob's sides always take a bit to get going.

The only real worries right now is health of the side and we look worse than last year defending free kicks.

United, Spurs and Arsenal all looked sub-par too today, the Spurs game was totally bizarre, what with 2 red cards, but Arsenal showed why they are title challengers, and United and us, showed why we are battling for European places. Arsenal had that little bit of quality to not concede again, and to keep at it for a winner. This is what we missed today, but I am not too worried, as I can see it improving as the season goes on.

 

[Robertor]

So did Baines

Baines is the furthest away you could get from a cheat. Don't recall Knockaert diving but his stamp on McCarthy was disgraceful.

 

[Grewks]

Baines is the furthest away you could get from a cheat. Don't recall Knockaert diving but his stamp on McCarthy was disgraceful.

I have to disagree with that on today's performance.


He dived for a penalty against Knockaert when there was no contact whatsoever, and then continued to appeal for the goal which was disallowed when the ball was clearly a couple of yards out of play.

Blinding player mind, but i did expect him to have more quality than he showed today, given the fact that he got into good positions time and time again and the only success he had was when Pienaar fortunately deflected his cross into Naismith's path.

 

[Grewks]

View from another Fox.....



Playing against a side who has recently been promoted is always tough, no matter what league you are in, we found that last season when drawing against Yeovil.




The game itself was rather odd. There is no doubt that on paper you had the strongest side, at least with regards to reputations within the footballing world.
But as i said it was a very strange afternoon.

You were undoubtedly better at keeping the ball, which isn't surprising considering..

1) Anyone with any football knowledge understands the Martinez philosophy.
2) General Premier league experience
3) We were missing our three first choice midfielders (Drinkwater, james and Albrighton).


But whilst you were better at keeping the ball, i honestly felt as though we looked to have the better attack, when you consider how little of the ball we actually had.
For the 75 minutes he was on the pitch, Ulloa created endless problems for distin and jagielka, winning around 50% of all aerial and shoulder to shoulder battles with them. Whereas at the other end of the pitch Lukaku was, well let us be honest, 'bullied'. I did expect to see far more from him.


We are not a Stoke II

It is mildly amusing to see you label us as that, but i suppose it is fair given what you saw. The reason for the amusement though is that over the past 18 months we had only scored 1 goal from corners, whereas last season, 40% of our conceded goals came from set pieces. With the exception of Morgan and Ulloa, we have no natural height or physicality in the side at all, we only have 3 players over six foot who started today. I was expected to be bullied today from the likes of jagielka, distin etc, but the fact we were not would cause me worries as a toffee fan.

I'm not going to pretend we are a Swansea II either. We do like to get the ball down and play, that is why you had so much joy going forward. We don't play wide players
who track back, that much was very much obvious. The reason we struggled to play our normal game was simple, we were missing 4 first team players through injury.


Our Player of the season last year (Drinkwater who went off early)
Our player's player of the season last year (Vardy-our first choice striker)
Drinkwater's partner and my vote for POTY last season (Matty james)
Our new first choice winger (Albrighton)


I too understand that you were missing Barkley, but to put it into perspective, you would have to add barry, pienaar and lukaku to that list aswell




Basing the fortunes of a side after one game is silly, but i understand your comments of 'you're going down' are just reactionary, because if that was the case, then on
todays showing you would be aswell.


Everton

positives - obvious premier league class
- Strength in-depth (at least in comparison to ourselves)
- Baines/Pienarr combo

negatives - Looked very tired past the 70 min mark
- Jagielka/Distin/lukaku, bullied.



Leicester


positives - Work ethic
- Players who we were going to sell last week (wood and hammond) stepped up.
- Extremely fit

negatives - Ball retention
- Tried to over play too much when the long ball gave a problem every time
- Injuries again

 

[bluestevon]

Evening fellas.


Firstly I would like to say what a pleasure it was opening our new Premier League campaign against yourselves, I have always had a soft spot for you toffee's you're a fine example of a football club both off and on the field of play and a credit to the English game. I hope you all enjoyed your outing today as far as first days go, I thought it went okay, we managed to stay in the game and compete with a very efficient Everton side, we were missing a few key players and unfortunately lost Danny early on which was a major blow, and I felt after your second it may well have been curtains for us... however we hung on in and snatched a point! I thought you moved the ball really well today and certainly had us all over the place at times so it was an excellent lesson for our boys on ball retention and use of the ball when in possession, hopefully something we can learn from, so a point a fair result?


Anyway, I hope the travelling support made it home safe and well and wish you all the best with your season, see you at your place..


P.S I would like to say to the family and friends of Bernard Murphy, that he is always remembered by us at Leicester.

Nice post lid especially about one of ours, overall game wasnt a disaster although think you need a bit more quality as your having to play full tilt to hang in against a everton team that looked second half knackered, be interesting to see how you play against those around you as the season goes on. Game changed with bringing on that fast lad wide as he caused us problems

 

[FOXINPEACE]

Baines is the furthest away you could get from a cheat. Don't recall Knockaert diving but his stamp on McCarthy was disgraceful.

Not saying he is. He did one in the 1st half though and so did Knockaert near the corner flag

I like Baines

 

[Gotagotmug]

Not saying he is. He did one in the 1st half though and so did Knockaert near the corner flag

I like Baines

To be fair, I saw Baines go down a bit softly, got a major soft spot for him, but today he went down when it looked like he lost the ball.

Knockaert did have a swan dive on him though, not a fan of an arched back when going down, reminds of that goon Robben.

 

[FOXINPEACE]

To be fair, I saw Baines go down a bit softly, got a major soft spot for him, but today he went down when it looked like he lost the ball.

Knockaert did have a swan dive on him though, not a fan of an arched back when going down, reminds of that goon Robben.

Yeah it's just one of those things I guess. Modern football

 

[Gotagotmug]

Yeah it's just one of those things I guess. Modern football

Yeah, it's a shame more isn't done to tackle it, I'd much rather see players of genuine quality play than do their best impression of a tipped cow

 

[Boss_Blue]

...i understand your comments of 'you're going down' are just reactionary, because if that was the case, then on todays showing you would be aswell. odd.

Put down the glue mate

 

[Tubey]

I didn't see Leicester play much long ball last year - yesterday they certainly did though. Not a problem with it really, they exploited the strength of Ulloa as they needed to and we should have been able to defend a lot better than we did.

But yeah, it was hoofball 101.

 

[Raino85]

United, Spurs and Arsenal all looked sub-par too today, the Spurs game was totally bizarre, what with 2 red cards, but Arsenal showed why they are title challengers, and United and us, showed why we are battling for European places. Arsenal had that little bit of quality to not concede again, and to keep at it for a winner. This is what we missed today, but I am not too worried, as I can see it improving as the season goes on.

I know i will get hit for 'but the game lasts 95 minutes so your point isnt valid etc'. But if the games blew up on 85 minutes we would have 3 points and arse and spurs would be sat on one. On another day could of been different. Just have to go out and get some points of arsenal and/or chelsea.