Following Leicester from the ground floor, the basement, the attick and everywere else, when taking a certain situation into consideration and publish this in a text you must do a bit of work on what is said among others and not just trust your own gut feeling.
Your own opinion is of course the one that matters and you would like to express, but to benchmark it with a number of other fan channels, different websites of football and as well being thorough with your analysis, makes the clear and total picture.
Today we would like to put our eyes on Danny Ward and Wilfred Ndidi, possibly understanding better why results went so heavilly against Leicester away to Newcastle and at home to Wolves.
The goals conceded were not at all major goalkeeper errors, the fact is that it happened all in open play. At the time we all went for the clear solution to blame Danny Ward for everything. The fact that Wilfred Ndidi was missing, never got a single headline.
We all know that those inside, working at this football club, do have to make the difficult choices, and in some way we do believe that Daniel Iversen is a better alternative than Danny Ward, but it is a very difficult matter, last season Enzo Maresca snubbed them both and instead gave the understudy work to Jacub Stolarczyk.
Wilfred Ndidi and Hamza Choudhury are the two best midfield tacklers in the Leicester squad, strangely Oliver Skipp has in no way showed any ability to be that battler when called on, surreal to see £20million at this point looking as a wasted amount of money, with other alternatives more equipped to take on the roles in that midfield area.
Without Ndidi, Leicester looks totally lost, as he brings the energy to this team that in real would see them survive in the Premier League. He is without doubt the most important player, also showing, as he did last season, he can do different roles in this midfield area, with great runs and an attacking style. This season more back to the old and known, being that defensive anchor.
Without Wilfred Ndidi, Leicester have conceded 12 goals in 4 games, most of them coming on different scenarios happening in and around the midfield area, either losing the ball in crucial situations or just not having those running legs in there to get back and block when others are taken out or being out of position.
The player to call when Ndidi is out and cannot play the defensive midfield role is Hamza Choudhury at this point, he can do the ground work in this position, to use Harry Winks in this position will never give you the battling abilities as it last season were a totally different game scenario, Leicester often being dominant in play and giving Ndidi the freedom to go forward. Without a guard on job in the midfield area in Premier League, not having a player with the mindset of pulling back, tackling hard when needed and also having the pace to run up and clean out certain situations, you will not be able to bring points on board.
To understand the game you cannot always use stats, as a guard in midfield can operate a lot without being noticed, sometimes not involved in tackles, but doing that shadowing you always need to get the correct balance.
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Danny Ward saves all three spotkicks at Walsall. pic.twitter.com/fesP3Kw4N7
So to go after Danny Ward everytime everyone else is doing an error, looks an evil act, but of course nice to have that scapegoat to blame for everything when chips are down and you have no other solution.
We do all know that the club made a huge mistake by letting Kasper Schmeichel leave, he was never offered a contract, and has instead played the three last seasons for Nice, Anderlecht and Celtic. Leicester have over the years, when doing well, been blessed with some fantastic goalkeepers. Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton and Mark Wallington through the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, then having Kasey Keller, Tim Flowers and Ian Walker in the late 90’s and start of this century, then no real top quality, before Kasper Schmeichel came in and made progress with the team over his fantastic period in goal for this football club.
Mads Hermansen looks to grow into becoming one to trust, but being that understudy is a tall order as games will be few and you will of course struggle if not getting any game time, or as little as we have seen for certain players in the past.
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