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My reckoning is that Leicester have 16 matches left to play, and Ipswich are 13 points in arrears. Looking at the fixtures left to play, I would reckon that Leicester will take at least 1.5 points from the next three games - Watford, Sheffield and Middlesborough. In fact I could see six points from any two of the three. A few weeks later we hae QPR and Sunderland. I'd expect three from QPR and happy with one from Sunderland. That's another ten points with but with a relatively run in - Plymouth, Birmingham, Millwall, and Blackburn - and even if we only finish second, we will have garnered enough points to guarantee promotion. I did win the pools once with 24 points, but we can't be lucky all the time! And just to put you right, there were 17 score draws that week and I only won £145.

[anonymous-user]

Everyone has static squads now after last week and remember that works in both directions , but also look at age, fitness, strength but mainly depth of your squads. Not wishing it if course but lose your first team No.1, 4, 8 or 9 (or a combination thereof) to a season long injury after all that system development etc and you'll fall like a brick in the ocean through the championship. To think otherwise is conceited and arrogant.

As a season ticket order i was invited to a a personal invite thing at one of the ground suites with Russell Martin and Jason Wilcox the other day (and the latter is no mug, ex Man City and now our director of football). Had a chat with him at the end he's a down to earth bloke. They were explaining the science and strategic stuff behind all the formations and tactics (for any football club playing at this level) and it is mind-blowing trust me. All simulators, telemetry and PowerPoint presentations to show what goes on behind the scenes and it's unreal even for a s*** club like us ??. That's your system side.

Our full backs Kyle Walker-Peters and Ryan Manning ran over 10km each a couple of weeks ago against Swansea inside 97 mins and they're not even turned up to 11 yet because we've got 17 games to go and it's a marathon not a sprint ( the drs and physics wouldn't allow it). They normally get wound up to maximum towards the final run in and they'll let them ping those hamstrings considering they're on 25 grand a week, all hands to the pump. That's your fitness bit to consider perhaps.

Joking aside though, clubs are so vulnerable now to micro changes to the squad and dynamics and we've got a lot of games to go yet so I wouldn't get too excited yet personally.

Best wishes to our competition though and may best team win (i.e. not us as we're nailed in to fck it up at some point and we've not shipped 9 yet this season, plenty of time to for that at the King Power next month, I'll be there I witnessed the last two) lol..

UTS

[JNW1]

Leicester Loyal said:

Next 3 games are huge, ideally want to win them all before playing Leeds at Elland Road. I'd go as far as to say, if we can win all 3, and then avoid defeat at Elland Road, we won't be far off going up.

Got a lot of new grounds coming up for myself personally, Bournemouth, Sunderland, Preston, Plymouth, some long trips, especially midweek.

Loads of Leicester fans keep talking about Ipswich and Leeds finishing on 98 points etc. I just can't see it myself, taking 2.3/2.4 points per game over 16/17 games is a huge ask and would be one of the best runs the Championship has ever seen. Southampton vs. Leeds on the final day, imagine if there's something still riding on it when it's played, although I think it'll all be finished by then in terms of the top 2.

I think 95 points will be enough for promotion, setting my stall out early.

I also can't see us (Leeds) finishing with 98 points. Downhill with a following wind we might just about make low 90's but to be honest even that might not be good enough for a top two finish this season - I'm pretty sure you will be over 100 and I think Southampton might well end-up in the high 90's. If you said to me now we could go into our last game needing to beat Southampton to go up I'd take that but I agree the top two will probably be sorted before then!

[Leicester Loyal]

Said after we drew Ipswich if we won the next 5, then avoid defeat at Elland Road then we're pretty much up, well we've won 4 in a row so far, Boro at home next. Would snap your hand off for a draw at Elland Road, would be a good point.

Leeds are on some good run atm, but do think they'll drop points very shortly,

Southampton have gone 25 games unbeaten but haven't really gained on us in that time, maybe by a couple of points? Busy few weeks coming up as well, going away to Liverpool in the FA Cup is a tough task, only takes 2 or 3 bad results and it could put them out of the title race.

Gotta say well done to the top 4 this year though, the number of points they've all got is ridiculous, and we're all unlucky to be in the Championship this season where the points total required is so high.

[dirty boy]

Leicester Loyal said:

Said after we drew Ipswich if we won the next 5, then avoid defeat at Elland Road then we're pretty much up, well we've won 4 in a row so far, Boro at home next. Would snap your hand off for a draw at Elland Road, would be a good point.

Leeds are on some good run atm, but do think they'll drop points very shortly,

Southampton have gone 25 games unbeaten but haven't really gained on us in that time, maybe by a couple of points? Busy few weeks coming up as well, going away to Liverpool in the FA Cup is a tough task, only takes 2 or 3 bad results and it could put them out of the title race.

Gotta say well done to the top 4 this year though, the number of points they've all got is ridiculous, and we're all unlucky to be in the Championship this season where the points total required is so high.

What a great season it's been, Leeds look absolutely unreal at times, then lose a silly game, Southampton took ages to get going, then look like the best team in the league but then slip up against Bristol.

Leicester have just been relentless though, looking good all the way through, nothing sensational, but just never look particularly troubled imo.

Us (Ipswich) have had some hum dingers of late, losing points to teams who've literally scored with every shot on target for three games on the trot hurt us big time, but we're still in the mix ....just!

I think we'll just not have enough depth to sustain the pace of you 3, but it's been a wonderful ride!

[Leicester Loyal]

Can't believe we lost that, missed so many chances, Boro took theirs and held on very well, done the bloody double over us!

Lose to Leeds and I'll start to panic! Think Leeds is a must not lose for us, rather than a must win. Get through that with a point then we can hopefully have a bit of a run.

Got Southampton at home as well next month, another big game.

[Rumblestripe]

Boro fan here.

If I could make sense of this Boro team...

Entertaining game though stats are hilarious but both team only managed two shots on target. You'll go up as Champions no worries (you should never have been relegated really)

[Cobnapint]

Well I can't believe that, or perhaps I can.
A great game of football that we dominated and should have put to bed long before Leeds actually 'did' put it to bed.
Daka's incorrectly disallowed goal didn't help.

[Leicester Loyal]

Bottlers, spine/DNA of the team, Rodgers masterclass that.

ANY big game, any big atmosphere, any large away crowd, any big local away derby, we always lose, we're a bunch of fannies.

Should have been out of sight, but you/we/the crowd/any Leicester fan knows as soon as they score late on (which was 100% happening), the team would fold and we'd go on to lose, it happens time and time again.

Don't wanna hear anymore crap about record points total, concentrate on the task in hand and win the league, even finishing 2nd would be ok but that shouldn't be celebrated with glory with how far ahead we were.

Pick ourselves back up against Bournemouth Tuesday. We need to win 9 of the 12 league games left, that should be enough. QPR, Sunderland and Hull up next in the league, need 6 points at worst from those, ideally 7/9.

[JNW1]

Leicester Loyal said:

Bottlers, spine/DNA of the team, Rodgers masterclass that.

ANY big game, any big atmosphere, any large away crowd, any big local away derby, we always lose, we're a bunch of fannies.

Should have been out of sight, but you/we/the crowd/any Leicester fan knows as soon as they score late on (which was 100% happening), the team would fold and we'd go on to lose, it happens time and time again.

Don't wanna hear anymore crap about record points total, concentrate on the task in hand and win the league, even finishing 2nd would be ok but that shouldn't be celebrated with glory with how far ahead we were.

Pick ourselves back up against Bournemouth Tuesday. We need to win 9 of the 12 league games left, that should be enough. QPR, Sunderland and Hull up next in the league, need 6 points at worst from those, ideally 7/9.

Relax, I still think you'll go up as champions!

I thought you were perhaps slightly fortunate to be 1-0 up at halftime - thought the first half was pretty even - but you outplayed us for at least the first 30 minutes of the second half and just didn't take your chances (and unfortunately for you the one you did was ruled out incorrectly for offside!). But on another day you'd have been at least three up before we scored and I can honestly say no other team has dominated us this season in the way you did for most of the second half.

I do understand your concern about the way you went to pieces after we scored our first goal but if you play the way you did for most of the match last night I reckon you'll beat the majority of teams in the Championship without breaking sweat. I still think you'll top 100 points for the season and IMO that will get you promoted as champions!

[Leicester Loyal]

JNW1 said:

Relax, I still think you'll go up as champions!

I thought you were perhaps slightly fortunate to be 1-0 up at halftime - thought the first half was pretty even - but you outplayed us for at least the first 30 minutes of the second half and just didn't take your chances (and unfortunately for you the one you did was ruled out incorrectly for offside!). But on another day you'd have been at least three up before we scored and I can honestly say no other team has dominated us this season in the way you did for most of the second half.

I do understand your concern about the way you went to pieces after we scored our first goal but if you play the way you did for most of the match last night I reckon you'll beat the majority of teams in the Championship without breaking sweat. I still think you'll top 100 points for the season and IMO that will get you promoted as champions!

I think so too mate.

It happens far too often to be a coincidence, I could list about 15 games where as soon as we concede we go on to lose the game, just totallty collapsing, red cards, conceding 3 or 4 goals etc. Any big away game with a big following and some expectation and pressure they always lose. Been happening for years now.

Results going well so far for us both, hopefully Ipswich or Southampton drop some points today.

[Leicester Loyal]

Serial bottlers, the lot of um. Club is so badly run and there’s zero leadership from the idiotic chairman downwards.

Not signing anyone in January for a 3rd time in the last few years, both other times it’s cost us a CL position, this year it might cost us an automatic promotion position. Fools.

[mikeiow]

Leicester Loyal said:

Serial bottlers, the lot of um. Club is so badly run and there’s zero leadership from the idiotic chairman downwards.

Not signing anyone in January for a 3rd time in the last few years, both other times it’s cost us a CL position, this year it might cost us an automatic promotion position. Fools.

Quite bizarre how badly things have turned.
Something seriously wrong with the set-up for this string of results

[DaveyBoyWonder]

Calm down lads - the QPR result was a weird one I admit but losing vs Leeds and a reasonably decent Boro team isn't something thats totally out the ordinary. Vs Leeds, Maresca made the wrong subs so totally his fault (his naivety showing?).

Reckon you'll still go up automatically but that 1st place you had as your own with whatever it was, 13/14 points clear for most of the season is now massively under threat.

[Cobnapint]

We, not for the first time over the last couple of seasons, seem to lack the killer instinct in the final fifth of the pitch.
We can pass it out from the back and piss about in midfield for hours on end, but seem to get a mental block on when it comes to putting it in the net.

[Leicester Loyal]

DaveyBoyWonder said:

Calm down lads - the QPR result was a weird one I admit but losing vs Leeds and a reasonably decent Boro team isn't something thats totally out the ordinary. Vs Leeds, Maresca made the wrong subs so totally his fault (his naivety showing?).

Reckon you'll still go up automatically but that 1st place you had as your own with whatever it was, 13/14 points clear for most of the season is now massively under threat.

Nothing weird about it, getting done on the counter as per, which we've got to expect using this system. Huge issue is now injuries, due to injuries, due to not signing a CM in January and we're having to use the same 4 midfielders in every game, league and cup, knew it would come back to bite us on the arse.

We need to beat Sunderland and Hull now, even 4 points against both of them probably isn't good enough.

Was looking this morning, we let 2 goal leads slip every season, but haven't come back from 2 goals down to even get a point in the past few seasons, no character in the club, starts with the chairman and the happy to be here attitude. Stating in January we wouldn't sign anyone because they think we had enough to get promoted, they'll look very foolish if we fail to go up now.

Lets not forget these are the same morons that stuck with Rodgers for 18 months longer than they should, then decide to boot him when it's too late, zero idea how to run a football club.

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Not really a LFC story (although I have seen it happen of course, as you do everywhere) but watching the Arsenal - Sheffield United match I was horrified to see the fans leaving the stadium after only 17 minutes. At the end of the match what had been a full stadium was on three sides mostly empty with only the Arsenal fans having stayed put. Why on earth pay your ticket and leave so early? We've all seen matches where a comeback happens.

[QuartzDad]

Leicester Loyal said:

Was looking this morning, we let 2 goal leads slip every season, but haven't come back from 2 goals down to even get a point in the past few seasons

That's a weird stat to attempt to slate them, from the 41 games so far this season:

Total games when they've been behind by two or more goals: 3

Total minutes played when they've been two goals behind: 9

Points dropped from being two up: 0



I struggle to think of better owners in the 92, I don't think useless is justified.

[JNW1]

mikeiow said:

Leicester Loyal said:

Serial bottlers, the lot of um. Club is so badly run and there’s zero leadership from the idiotic chairman downwards.

Not signing anyone in January for a 3rd time in the last few years, both other times it’s cost us a CL position, this year it might cost us an automatic promotion position. Fools.

Quite bizarre how badly things have turned.
Something seriously wrong with the set-up for this string of results

I'll admit I didn't see you losing at home to QPR but over a 46 game Championship season every team is going to have a bad patch. The cushion you had at the top obviously isn't looking as comfortable as it was 3 weeks ago but you don't become a bad team overnight and personally I still think you'll finish with over 100 points and be promoted as champions....

[Leicester Loyal]

QuartzDad said:

That's a weird stat to attempt to slate them, from the 41 games so far this season:

Total games when they've been behind by two or more goals: 3

Total minutes played when they've been two goals behind: 9

Points dropped from being two up: 0



I struggle to think of better owners in the 92, I don't think useless is justified.

I’m not talking about this season, I’m talking about the past 4/5 years.

With respect, this owner has owned the club since 2018 after his father died. He’s made loads of poor decisions since he’s owned the club, whilst alienating all the fans.

Don’t believe all the media hype about how great they are, listen to the match going fans.