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For sure. Great to see Marv back. Still a weird decision following 4 losses and us starting to finally create chances

Why bring Marv on with moments left. He did this with Luiz on a few weeks back when we needed a goal too. Just why? We are in control of the game finally, we just need to create and score. It's not the time for a DM is it?

Buendia has changed the game. Should never have taken 79 minutes to get him on

Poor decision by Mings (he's been good today though, not on his case)

I wanna see O'Reilly on for Bailey

Nice progressive pass from Tim. Nice. More please!

TIMOTHTYYYYY

Mings carrying an injury and Vardy coming on. Well. Nevermind then.

It's not 78 minutes yet

He can go missing and isn't great at putting his body on the line. But he carries the ball forward nicely - and has done a couple of times already today - and is relatively tidy in possession, where as say McGinn gave the ball.away in a dangerous area has already caused an opportunity for Leicester. Ramsey goes missing, but he's tidy, pops up with regular goals and is just 20 years old. If he was the one failing at his role in the same way as McGinn is or Luiz has at times this season - he'd be singled out too... But whilst he isn't pulling up trees, he hasn't been actively terrible. We need to give 20yo players time to be inconsistent.

Watkins has been fine

Think we stopped a while ago to be honest. It's sad, I love McGinn but he's been trash for a while now. Needs a rest, sort his head out, get back to basics.. I don't know what but continually playing him isn't the answer, he's getting hung out to dry by the manager. Fans are going to get on his case and he deserves better than that imo

Young is doing well today but is taking some big hits. Think we could see Chrisene on at some point as a result

His football makes me sad inside. We shouldn't need a full rebuild to see what we're working towards. To make it a European team? Sure, I could see why that may be the line that gets drawn. But with the players we have, there is enough to build a style of play, to see the outlines of what's going to come more consistently when Gerrard gets his overhaul and his money to spend. I just don't see anything.

Poor

Agree but this just isn't how football games should work. We should be settled and passing with calm effectives to build the confidence to pepper the goal and go ahead. Hoping for a fluke goal as we pass up possession repeatedly near our own 18 yard box is a recipe for disaster

CBs and Emi at 6s and 7s. All of them only trust Luiz to drop back and find the passes. Konsa, Mings and Martinez just not comfortable with a high press. May be one reason we just don't see the best of Luiz. Nobody behind him is comfortable enough and nobody else in midfield dictates possession and play with him so he needs to be more of an all action 6 than he is capable of. Put him alongside Kamara and with comfortable passers in CB and we might see Lockdown Luiz again

Lovely work by Watkins. Bailey should've done much better. Thought his positioning was a bit weird too rather than attacking the 6 yard box - found space though and Watkins did well to find him under pressure. Awful strike

Yeah maybe but it is more realistic than Kamara considering the interest in him

This feels a more realistic target than Kamara if I'm honest. I don't know much about him other than 'OK' WhoScored match ratings. FBRef has him as a fantastic passer for a CB but the actual defensive metrics seem very poor. The WhoScored ratings though are OK, and not really sure how they'd be possible if his defensive stats were as poor as FBRef say. Anybody seen him?

Yup. It's the one thing that I think maybe I'm just not used to when it comes to this summer. Do I envisage Luiz or McGinn being massive players for us next season? Possibly, I can see it could happen but we've been waiting 3 Premier League seasons for it to come to fruition. I still think they both could! I'd love to see it and it'd be great for us. But... McGinn has been touted at around £40-50m. We turned down £35m for Luiz just a few months ago. It's a big change for the club to have players we *could* lose, replace and not be completely crippled by selling. Will take some adjusting for a lot of fans. Whether it's them, Mings, Konsa, Watkins, Ings, Targett, even Davis we have assets at the club with value behind them - value we literally have not had at the club for a decade. The big change - and most important one - is for us to start getting it right on which ones to cash in on at the right time, and not lose the ones that still have a lot to offer. That's where I'm worried about this summer. But financially, for the health of the club, we're in a much better position than we've been for a long time

Possibly, but the advantage of going after a sought-after talent on an expiring contract is that he'll be signing somewhere within days of his contract expiring at the end of the season - and it'll probably actually be sorted before the season is up as he can already speak to foreign clubs. It's not like he has 2 years left and we could chase and chase it all summer. It'll be done before the window opens one way or another and we can move on if he goes elsewhere. I was as frustrated as anyone with the ESR and JWP waste of time in the summer.. but this isn't really the same. Can't really hurt us to give it a good crack

Apparently he played Vs Brentford in the friendly last week. So we could see him. However O'Reilly and Iroegbunam were specifically called out as the two players to have impressed Gerrard by the Birmingham Mail - so may be that Chrisene didn't do quite enough to win the shirt. However the B'ham Mail 'article' was short and vague so wasn't clear cut that only those two did well.. I'd be surprised to see him start considering his lack of football and not much time spent on the bench. There have been opportunities to get Chuk and Tim on the pitch and they've been on the bench half the season, not sure I see Chrisene going from minimal bench appearances to starter. Maybe we can be far enough ahead to get him 20 minutes, replacing Young late on in the game?

To be fair, our end to last season was thoroughly dismissed as trash though, so only just getting back to being as good as that is still disappointing. (But it does also ignore the tumultuous time since tbf)