Most fans were all in favor of a team playing with more ball possession and few could see a future with only sitting back and counter attack. Ranieri slightly started to change to more possession, Craig Shakespeare reversed it, introduced it again and under Claude Puel the team are no longer a counter attacking team,…
Month: October 2018
Arsenal 3, Leicester 1, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
Leicester started the game in a very positive way and was the better team for most of the first half, creating a number of opportunities and really looking good. Puel came out in a type of a camouflage system, not easy to tell what he was up to, playing Maddison in the middle and Iheanacho…
Good news before Arsenal clash, Happy Birthday Claudio!, Mahrez keeping momentum
Among the stories this Sunday evening is of course the news that Ben Chilwell has tied himself up until 2024, and that is wonderful. His progress this season has been fantastic and to see him, at the age of 21, breaking into the England first team is just great. The fact that a homegrown player…
Daniel Amartey, Norwegian influence, Leicester legend Soo and a 101 year old fan, one strange path in football
Leicester City defender Daniel Amartey was once coached by Per Mathias Høgmo, while at Swedish club Djurgården. Hogmo is today in charge of Norwegian third tier club Fredrikstad FK. Høgmo featured yesterday in an interview by Norwegian TV2 where he met Fredrikstad FK super fan, 101 year old Miriam Isdal, who was present at their…
Arsenal v. Leicester, Match Preview, Fans View, Who’s in, Who’s out
A new and difficult game away at The Emirates, not a favorite place for Leicester City at all. The last time we had a win away to The Gunners is as far back as the 8th September 1973, a great 2-0 win, goals from Stringfellow and Glover. You start to go nostalgic, 45 years ago,…
Puel management discussed, what does the cunning fox say, listening to the local vocal
The Sun printed a story about owners and their worry of unrest at the training ground, coming from the local vocal, Rob Tanner, the head Leicester City journalist at Mercury, saying this is all strange as owners never talk much to the media Tanner describes the situation as odd, believing that all that comes from…
Paper Talk, Top Stories, Leicester, Arsenal and Tottenham makes the headlines
Every Sunday morning is one for the paper talks and gossip columns to go red, and as usual Leicester City grabs the headlines. This Sunday The Sun tells a story about unrest among the owners at the club and the atmosphere at the training ground. As we here at Tcf have stated so many times,…
Shinji Okazaki and his unlikely partnerhip with the oldest Norwegian of all time!
News are that Shinji Okazaki could be close to a move away from Leicester City and the player that for many will be, together with Mahrez, Vardy and Kantè, the one who really became the trademark of Leicester City’s 5000/1 season. Galatasaray is mentioned as a possible destination for the 32 year old Japanese, looking…
From the city of Leicester, but professional footballers elsewhere!
A number of professional players are born in Leicester but not being discovered, been released or moved away at an early age, not being really in line for a chance at the club. A grand talent almost always ends up at Leicester City, few or no one has signed for a top club as early as…
Is this talent the answer to Leicester City’s right back challenge
We have been talking about the right-back challenge at Leicester City in a number of previous posts and Tcf suggested Darnell Johnson as the ideal choice and long term alternative in this position. Darnell (20) recently signed a new contract with the club and started games in the first team during pre-season, but since been…
