Leicester than zero? - Premier League 2018/19

[Logan Mountstuart]

Peirrera and Choudri are both excellent. Dabid Silba (family joke) and Albrighton look like they might be the temperamental weak links tonight.

Leicester drew at Anfield. Their doing really well holding the steamroller back so far.

[Janik]

Still strongly favour the home side to win this one. And yes, Leicester drew at Anfield though we also lost at home to Liverpool. And beat Man City at home...

[Janik]

Peirrera and Choudri are both excellent.

Hamza Chouduhry is a player of great symbolic importance - he is a Leicestershire boy, from the local Bangladeshi community. It's was great that he broke into the first team squad, and is even better now that he is making starts. And some stupid things he once said as a minor won't change that a jot.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Fucking hell.

[nmrfox]

Fuck

[Sporting]

What a goal.

[elguapo4]

That's some way to break the deadlock.

[nmrfox]

Now come on City go and equalize. Note to comms; other teams apart those from Manchester are called City or United .

[Logan Mountstuart]

If any team would suit the breakthrough for Asian players it might be Leicester. Maybe it should be Leeds or Burnley. Chouduhry's maybe the new Kante in a year or so.

Fuck me. Vincent Kompany is a wonderful human being. Not happy. But very happy for him.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

And some stupid things he once said as a minor won't change that a jot.

????

[Ray de Galles]

Apologies for Sun link but it has detail the other reports don't appear to have :

Leicester’s Choudhury charged by FA for racist Twitter posts when he was 14 years old

[Janik]

And some stupid things he once said as a minor won't change that a jot.

????

Some Arsenal fans with way too much time on their hands trawled through every Leicester players twitter timeline after Sunday's defeat. And on Choudhury's they found some containing a racist joke, a sneer at Women's Football and a bone-headed comment about people who self-harm or commit suicide. Also something homophobic apparently. Choudhury was ~15 when he wrote these things, and when they were dredged up he apologised to anyone hurt by them, completely disowned the sentiments behind them, and stated he has learned a lot in the past six years. Which is true of most of us between those ages, I suspect. The FA have charged him with an aggravated breach of their code of conduct over it, though.

[Ray de Galles]

Iheanacho's not still picking up any kind of residual payment from Man City, is he?

[Sporting]

Hmm...

[tee rex]

These extra layers of cruelty ... winning goal is the least likely, chance for the equaliser goes begging. It couldn't just be a 3-0 stroll, could it?

[Janik]

Man City still have first refusal on repurchasing Kelechi Iheanacho don't they?[/wanders off whistling to open a tin foil hat stand just outside Anfield]

[Janik]

Iheanacho's not still picking up any kind of residual payment from Man City, is he?

Not that I know of. But I'm fairly sure (read very sure) the statement above is true...

[Janik]

Iheanacho aside, at least Liverpool fans can't complain about Leicester's effort in this game. This was a game City (i.e. Leicester!) needed to win to keep their Europa League hopes alive. The chance of that had gone by stoppage time, but they pushed extremely hard to draw anyway, which would have really messed City (the other one) up.

[caja-dglh]

These extra layers of cruelty ... winning goal is the least likely, chance for the equaliser goes begging. It couldn't just be a 3-0 stroll, could it?

Liverpool have had their fair share of fine margins and late goals this season. It has been more the story of the title race than of one side scraping by.

[Ray de Galles]

Fuck me. Vincent Kompany is a wonderful human being. Not happy. But very happy for him.

Hard not to love him, isn't it ( and not just because I used his tickets for Belgium v Ireland in Euro 2016). His clear emotion at the final whistle was genuinely touching.

Just a pity he works for such a despicable employer and it would be nice to nice to see their nearest challengers win the title.

[Ray de Galles]

Iheanacho aside, at least Liverpool fans can't complain about Leicester's effort in this game. This was a game City (i.e. Leicester!) needed to win to keep their Europa League hopes alive. The chance of that had gone by stoppage time, but they pushed extremely hard to draw anyway, which would have really messed City (the other one) up.

Yeah, Leicester gave it everything - even players with Man City lineage like Schmeichel were desperately pushing for a goal at the end, Maddison's decision to shoot rather than pass to the unmarked onrushing Albrighton after Macguire's surge down the left wing was daft though.

[Janik]

If any team would suit the breakthrough for Asian players it might be Leicester. Maybe it should be Leeds or Burnley. Chouduhry's maybe the new Kante in a year or so.

Fingers crossed on that one. And I think Leicester Asian population is the highest of that lot. They are vastly under represented at the King Power of course, but not completely so and noticeable less so recently than, say, 20 years ago. Having Choudhury in the side can only help improve that situation further.

[Janik]

Liverpool have had their fair share of fine margins and late goals this season. It has been more the story of the title race than of one side scraping by.

cf Riyad Mahrez putting a penalty into orbit at Anfield. That was a three point swing in Liverpool's favour then and there.

[nmrfox]

Not that it matters one jot but if Ricardo Peirera doesn't get man of the match then something's wrong. Sure Kompanys goal was special to beat a special defence but Ricardo, as he has been for much of the season, was sensational. With all if the youngsters that played, and played well tonight, Citys (Leicester) future looks good. Just wished Pep hadn't day chatted to our full backs for so long at the end....

[Janik]

Peirera as Player of the Season, ahead of Vardy, Tielemans and the always seemingly unsung Yes Ndidi? That is where my vote would go, but you watch them more often than me so I'm interested to hear what you think.

Edit - or Chilwell?? Nah, still Peirera, I think.