Monday Night Football - Leicester City v Newcastle United - SS1 - 8pm

M5

Better performance but we just don't score goals, simple. That has to change or we are still ****ed

Headshot

Really hate negative soccer like that at the end

Moneymaker

Didn't deserve to lose that.

Oh well. Roll on the mackems.

LuckyGent88

I actually thought that was one of drinkwaters worst performances. Kante was easily motm

recylingbin

1-0 to the arsenal foxes.

Johner

Mars Bar wrote: »

I love how a good few posters said Drinkwater was playing rubbish and he gets MOTM on Sky!

Kante was clear MOTM. Drinkwater was average enough.

Paully D

I think Newcastle can take a lot of positives. That would have been a massacre under McClaren when they went 1-0 down. They deserved a point from that IMO and will only continue to improve the longer Benitez has with them. I know I've said it time and time again, but I just can't see them going down.

M5

Paully D wrote: »

Drinkwater man of the match?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.

What the actual ****?

Baffling

Simply Red

Love to see them go on and win the league, results like that could be huge towards the end of the season

GLaDOS

That's the type of game champions win

listermint

Headshot wrote: »

Really hate negative soccer like that at the end

Smart football...you do realise the business end of the season. And they are top.

Augme

I haven't watched a lot of their games but I thought Leicester were really really poor.

astonaidan

Johner wrote: »

Kante was clear MOTM. Drinkwater was average enough.

Hes missing a certain flag beside his passport

Ardent

Serious lack of quality in that Newcastle team. Benitez has his work cut out for him.

Mr.Nice Guy

Got the result they needed so fair play to them. Hope they go on and win it although I can't see it.

~Rebel~

That's about as effective a last 5 minutes of holding up the ball as i've ever seen.

Huge win. 8 Games left. Gotta reckon 4 wins out of those would win it for them.

SlickRic

Drinkwater MOTM? Fúck right off with your English bias. I lost count of how many times he misplaced passes of more than 5 yards.

Kanté was easily the best player on the pitch. Drinkwater was merely a water carrier.

Huth was superb too.

Royal Legend

ScienceNerd wrote: »

That's the type of game champions win

they have eeked out a lot of one nils, very similar to Chelsea last season imo

Kante is unreal, £50m won't buy him,

thebaz

Augme wrote: »

I haven't watched a lot of their games but I thought Leicester were really really poor.

for a team spending a fraction of the top teams spend - Chelsea, United, City - think there doing alright

Liam O

Ardent wrote: »

Serious lack of quality in that Newcastle team. Benitez has his work cut out for him.

They have a few players who i think have at the very least upper mid table ability. Wijnaldum i think wouldn't look out of place in any team in the league but there is just no identity to how they play. It's been pure scattergun the last few seasons.

Nice one

SlickRic

Augme wrote: »

I haven't watched a lot of their games but I thought Leicester were really really poor.

Yeah, Newcastle were the better team tonight.

Leicester aren't the same when teams don't leave space behind. They're distinctly meh. But to be fair, they've somehow managed to eek wins out the last few games. You can't be too critical.

The differences tonight were Newcastle's lack of quality in the final 3rd, Okazaki's one moment of inspiration, and N'Golo Kanté.

That_Guy

Ah here, Vardy offside for the build up to their goal.

I'd kill for that type of luck.

Headshot

listermint wrote: »

Smart football...you do realise the business end of the season. And they are top.

I know its smart but its ****ing horrible to watch, so anti football for me

mickmackey1

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Got the result they needed so fair play to them. Hope they go on and win it although I can't see it.

Who's going to stop them, Spurs? They've gotta be hot favourites now.

Sanity_Saviour

Mars Bar wrote: »

I love how a good few posters said Drinkwater was playing rubbish and he gets MOTM on Sky!

Ah I wouldn't take much notice on that, Boards culture dictates that any player who is praised in the media must get an inordinate amount of abuse in order to show that "they don't take any notice of what Sky say". Pure contrarianism and doublethink at its finest!

That_Guy

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Ah I wouldn't take much notice on that, Boards culture dictates that any player who is praised in the media must get an inordinate amount of abuse in order to show that "they don't take any notice of what Sky say". Pure contrarianism and doublethink at its finest!

Yeah, but he was shíte.

thebaz

Headshot wrote: »

I know its smart but its ****ing horrible to watch, so anti football for me

its not anti football - they for the most part have been a joy to watch - Mahrez has been the best player in the Premiership - at this stage of the season , squeaky bum time , its about closing shop when you go ahead - Leicester have been different class this season given there resources.

Paully D

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

Ah I wouldn't take much notice on that, Boards culture dictates that any player who is praised in the media must get an inordinate amount of abuse in order to show that "they don't take any notice of what Sky say". Pure contrarianism and doublethink at its finest!

Drinkwater was shocking tonight. It was one of the worst Man of the Match awards Sky have ever given out which is some achievement.

He has been excellent all season but deserves to be called out on that performance tonight.