To get a good press conference you need clever questions. Today we did just get a repeat of the old songs from the past. A few interesting twists, but nothing revolutionary.
There are, of course, a number of questions to ask. In some subtle way, those journalists had them in their pocket. However, they did not really pinpoint anything regarding a clear direction.
Fans are waiting for answers on what comes next. They want to know why certain errors just return game after game. There seems to be no real solution to that cruel and very difficult question.
Leicester players do look to have a stress problem. They often do errors early and late in both first and second half. Certain individuals are often out of balance and make errors professional footballers should not do.
As we have said earlier. The lack of consistancy and problematic behaviour in these crucial minutes of football games, needs to be addressed. This is actually a psychological problem. It has nothing to do with skills or how good you are as a player. This is also a trust issue for the manager.
Ben Nelson, Ricardo Pereira, Luke Thomas, Caleb Okoli, Oliver Skipp are all crucial players for this team, especially defensively. They can not do silly errors any more. To avoid that, they need to play a more simple game in these vital minutes.
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The other main question to ask is if there are thoughts for a more direct style of play. It should avoid just playing backwards or going sideways. To see two central defenders playing the ball to each other is a dull affair and it results in nothing.
Often those type of players do not have the skills to play a good pass over a long distance. We often spoken about the use of Jeremy Monga, but no questions about him today at all. Do these journalist watch the games? Or are they just watching old interviews with Gary Rowett? He, as a Sky Sports pundit, mentioned the Leicester owners. He talked about the spiral of negativity that has been at the club over the last few years. We have no interest whatsoever about what Gary Rowett has said in the past. He is here at the minute. If you believe that was a factor of any type of doubt, you should not be a football journalist.
There are no quality football questions asked as those journalists looks to have little or no interest in it. That is sad and really far from what you would have thought. These journalists should challenge Gary Rowett on these questions. If you don’t get any good answers, you will quickly understand how the manager approach these very crucial problems. He might not have those answers in his tool box at the moment. If that is the situation it would be scary.
We just have to wait and see what type of team he will play tomorrow against Norwich. There are no clues. There is almost no direct talk of anything regarding style of play or defensive approach. He said nothing about players at Norwich to be aware of. None of the journalists seem to have checked up on Norwich. They did not talk about specific players, style of play, or recent form, and so on. Gary Rowett spoke about Norwich, but just in general, with no special points to highlight.
No one is challenging Gary Rowett on these questions. At this point, these press conferences are more or less without any content at all.
Gary Rowett looks as if he has had one press conference in three games. We have no indication of a more attacking style and it looks as before. The game comes around, Leicester field a team, and what happens, happens. We do not have any idea what he is up to against Norwich or going forward.
Deciding on playing Bobby De Cordova-Reid will give clues, but no one asks any questions in that direction. Playing Jeremy Monga or Abdul Fatawu will see a more attacking Leicester team. No questions asked about that, so who knows.
Start to wonder why these press conferences are given. They provide nothing useful. That is why silly questions get silly or no good answers.
There are no improvements to see, other than changing games to draws instead of defeats. We certainly hope we will see a Leicester team against Norwich set up with this in mind. At the moment Leicester play a game with no clear identity. This is a bowl of soup. It has pieces of Enzo ball and not much of Steve. There is nothing from Ruud and a bit of Marti. We would like to see more clearity.
The defensive and attacking strategy at Leicester needs to be explained to us all. This is a major call to make to get this team on the front foot. The pressing has been awful at times, having a midfield not really effective. If certain individuals continue making silly errors, this football team is doomed.
We can’t see or hear anything from Gary Rowett yet on how he shall address this and stress it. At the moment he looks far from convincing in his talking. Hopefully, he will get his ideas across. He aims to get the best out of a group of very skillful individuals. So far this season, they have not yet knitted things together as a good team unit.
We are doubtful about a good result on Saturday, but hopefully totally wrong. The change so far is not seen very much as the possession play in the back is still there. The back pass still looks the most important. However, a full change and more direct approach will hopefully be seen tomorrow vs. Norwich.
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