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Daily Leicester x Daily Brighton Crossover Episode
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Jake is joined this week by two members of Daily Brighton as we preview the match at the King Power Stadium on Sunday. We discuss the big three points for Leicester against West Ham on Tuesday, Ruud and how Leicester can hurt Brighton on Sunday.
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Introduction and Leicester's Recent Performance
00:00:02
Speaker
Every club. Every day. The Global Sports Podcast Network. Hello and welcome to the Daily Brighton podcast. We are joined with a Leicester fan, Jake, for our crossover podcast. Jake, how are we feeling today? Yeah, um much better after our victory over West Ham. So much more positive, um excited to talk about the game at the weekend. Hope him another good performance and hopefully more points for us.
Match Analysis: Leicester vs Brighton
00:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, an unexpected probably win maybe, or maybe not an unexpected win, a rare win potentially for Leicester this season. Joe, you're also joining me ah to talk about how Leicester have done and also analysing how Brighton are doing while you're watching the game as we record against to them now. We are already 1-0 down, which is not the best of starts. We should already be 2-0 down, you said. Yeah, yeah. What's going wrong so far? I feel like I'm at the ground on soccer Saturday, mate. Just in my room, mate. Yeah, ah the game is not going very well at the moment. They've had an awful mistake from Vobruggen and it won't be went one on one, but Igor made a good recovery
Managerial Changes at Leicester
00:01:16
Speaker
tackle. um So yeah, currently it's not going well, but
00:01:20
Speaker
and While I'm also trying to watch this, I'm trying to also look forward to Leicester on a weekend, so I'm actually but i'm a bit discombobulated right now. is it yeah um'm I'm all good myself, so we're all good. And to keep the Gillette Soccer Saturday theme back to me in the studio, where we continue to analyse Leicester vs Brighton, who play on Sunday.
00:01:42
Speaker
and Jake, I want to ask you something because it came to a bit of a shock to those potentially outside of Leicester and those neutral fans, I guess, like me and Joe. The Steve Cooper sacking, that seemed to come A, a bit out of the blue and B, he seemed to be doing a not bad job. get Kept them outside of the relegation zone. What did the Leicester fans make of it?
00:02:11
Speaker
and I mean, general consensus was was very happy. and I was really relieved. I think it was more the feeling. I can understand from ah an outside perspective ah it being a surprise. I think it happened quite quickly in terms of performances really took a downturn in those few games and before the Chelsea one, which was ultimately Cooper's last match in charge. And I can understand, yeah, people said we were outside the relegation zone, but in terms of points, I think the point i made on the podcast reacting was i think there was three points at the time that separated 19 for 15th or so it wouldn't have took much to swing um you know either way for whoever's involved at that time obviously we've seen a bit of a shift with the the last sort of the last games this week um you know who's played so far um there's been a bit of a shift so yeah i wasn't really that surprised i was relieved so i think um
00:03:07
Speaker
ah ruod van this destroy and change was needed because the fans never really connected with Cooper amongst lots of reasons that was why he needed to go. Yeah I guess was it the style of play that was the biggest problem was it a very boring style of play or what was kind of your issue with it?
Leicester Tactical Discussions
00:03:23
Speaker
um Yeah it was it was quite negative in terms of ah first halves were always quite shocking to be honest we we never got going there was always quite a ah negative setup the Chelsea game probably epitomized that more than anything. We started with four at the back, five in the middle with wingers, wingers deeper than the three midfield. It was just hit the ball long to Vardy. And ah my thought was you've had two weeks to prepare the team and this is what you've come up with. I'm like, really? I mean, ah look, we saw Chelsea rip Southampton apart last night. Obviously Southampton 10 men mind, but like at no point did we try and get anything, any sort of adventurous movement up the pitch to get out. It was just,
00:04:03
Speaker
Bank him and I think he was one of the few times that I've watched Western been a little a little bit embarrassed in terms of how we've set up because I'm like We need to at least have a guy and we had to go on Tuesday night against West Ham Obviously we end up with a great result But West Ham had lots of shots which I'm sure we'll talk about but we had a go and we always look like scoring and I think most fans of most clubs if you look like scoring at least Can accept other things not quite working out yeah Yeah, Joe, I don't know how much you've watched of Leicester, but are they a team coming to, whether that we play this weekend that you're kind of worried about coming or do you think it's a place where we could drop points or how do you kind of see the game going? So a little bit of, I feel like on paper, if you were to take context out of it, I feel like, well, we probably probably should be going there and winning.
00:04:54
Speaker
But one, they've obviously got a new manager bounce. And if you look at it in terms of like, okay, they've gone and they've beat West Ham quite convincingly, even though obviously, like you said, West Ham had a lot of chances. We have just um like come off quite a pretty bad result against Southampton, obviously losing now as we speak.
00:05:14
Speaker
Um, but ah the only thing that I say is like a positive is, and it's not a positive in, in, in terms of football, it's not a positive because you want to see, um, is it Fattaglia? Is that how you say it? You want to see players like that obviously shine in the Premier League and Buena Notte, obviously he's, we've loaned him to you and he's doing really well, but he's obviously not going to be playing. So they obviously have that sort of thing where it's like,
00:05:36
Speaker
Ben and Otte I imagine is ah a massive creative outlet for you um and him not being there obviously takes away a lot from their sort of attack but it's just whether we we create enough chances which by the sounds of things we will have the chances just whether we could put them away then I feel like we could come away with it but you're gonna be so up for it and I think you I feel like it's especially if this ends the way that it's going at the moment, I feel like you're going to feel like we're up for the taking. So that is always something that you should be wary about. It's always sort of the mindset going into the game. Yeah, I absolutely hate playing it, ah playing a game when the new team or the team that you're against has a new manager that's actually a curse. It's the new manager is a legitimate thing. They could play like absolute wasps for months. Get a new manager in they could concede eight nil weekly week in week out, get a new manager in and then they win against like like you did with West against West Ham. That's the biggest fear. Why did it have to be against us? Oh, and West Ham probably thinking the same. Well, well you have to get this new manager bounce against us was coming up. ah I'm guessing the fans were happy in in Leicester or it was Yeah, in Leicester. When you beat them.
00:06:56
Speaker
Well, yeah yeah, I think you know we wanted to see a fast start, which we saw Vardy scored after two minutes. so In terms of things we wanted to see, um everything sort of got to a fast start, looking like scoring lots of goals, creating good chances. um ah you know Defensively, okay we we were quite open at points and and they did have a lot of chances, minding it. If anyone's had a chance to watch the game on the highlights, you and they would have saw that. however you know on the flips are that there's so many blocks that we made either as a back four or Herman some some great saves and it was sort of that determination mixed with I think a different tactical setup with the defense drop a little bit deeper um but pressing ah continuously pressing the ball but that back four dropping deeper meant we've got a lot of abrupt blocks in which under Steve Cooper it would have ricocheted through or they'd have had a free shot at goal so for sure in terms of
00:07:48
Speaker
determination and being a bit more structured, we saw that instantly.
Van Nistelrooy's Impact on Leicester
00:07:52
Speaker
um And it worked, you know, West Ham missed some chances, but also we got a bit lucky, you know, and it was ah it was a number of factors that meant that we ended up getting a massive positive result for us and keeps us, I think, four points now ahead of the bottom three, which is great for us.
00:08:09
Speaker
Yeah, and I think, yeah, after the after this little ad break, we'll talk more about Rude Van Esteroy, his appointment and his style of play, what you kind of expect to see. And then Joe, with us, we'll talk about ah how we think they could hurt us. So stick around.
00:08:25
Speaker
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00:08:54
Speaker
Every club, every day. Yeah, and we're back with the Daily Brighton and Leicester crossover. We will go into more depth about the West End performance because that was that was obviously the latest game. That was Rude Van Esther Roy's first game as well, so it's probably the only game fair enough to assess based on the this upcoming week because And I'll cover some stats, so obviously you had less possession, you had less expected goals, but you still created, or XG was 1.7, still got 8 shots out, ah considering, compared to their 31 though. ah what was yeah What was your style of play, and I guess what do you see going forward as well?
00:09:38
Speaker
um So the things I expected were ah the bits I'd read before, and Vanisteroy only had ah just and well basically a season at PSV, left just for the end of the season, had what, four four games in Man United, three. Two of them were were against us, and they beat us twice. you know So I think he knew what weakness is from that. um ah which were quite key, the defence being one. But yes, something I expected and we saw, which was we'll build up in a back three. So, Vestergaard came back into the team, he's great with the ball at his feet, lacks a lot of pace, but he's a great build-up player from the back, and Konekodi also coming
Brighton's Tactical Challenges
00:10:14
Speaker
in. so
00:10:14
Speaker
we had those two with either in the first half James just enjoying him when we got the ball to ba that make that back three or Victor Christensen more in the second half so that was interesting that at half time actually not only did he switch that he also switched the midfield attacking three so Buenanote, El Canoose and I've gone blank now. How else did we play? um Oh, okay. look Yeah, of course. So he actually switched all of them around. So they all played a different position in the second half, which in terms of being proactive was fantastic. Steve Cooper, you often could have said was too late with his subs or tactically tweaking things. Van history just did things really fast. As soon as he saw it, there was no messing about his substitutions were quick.
00:11:00
Speaker
um Yes, again, elements that we wanted to see and elements I expected we did see. Yeah, so that's what Brighton can expect on Sunday. We're going to have a back three when we have the ball. We will have the ball at the back for longer periods than under Steve Cooper, more like the style we saw under Ando Maresca in the championship, which if if in truth the team sort of set up to play, it's the bulk of the team we had from last year and that starting 11. We haven't had that many changes.
00:11:28
Speaker
um And the players we have bought, obviously Bruno Noto and Lionel Canouse are great technical players that actually fit into that style really well and that's not an issue. Yeah, I'm just looking in there. I saw that you put, obviously like you said, Connor Cody and Vestergaard in instead of Voutfast and Akoli. Do you reckon he'll go to that experience, the Premier League experience, to kind of see out games? Because against the West Ham, it looks like you defended like resolutely. They only scored in the 93rd minute. They obviously had 31 shots, but If you don't concede from the 31 shots and you are basically keeping a clean sheet up until the final kick of the game, it looks like he went back to that experience and just kind of tried seeing the game out that way.
00:12:11
Speaker
I think it was a tactic, to it could be an experience thing in terms of leadership kind of coding Vestergaard are far better leaders than a Coley who I think is probably still learning the language in truth and and is a younger defender. Wout Faz who's made a lot of mistakes, he came on in the game for Vestergaard for about an hour.
00:12:29
Speaker
Again made mistakes coming on which and I think the fans have grown tired of of the same mistakes bringing the ball out from the back and and Under no real pressure and then bringing that pressure on himself when he could have played the ball um So partly that but also from a tactical point of view it made more sense Vester God and Cody or at least Vester God for sure is our best ball playing center back Very underrated in that aspect. and He has his flaws for sure but in terms of what he brings you on the ball he can he can play a good forwards passage, not just sideways. Cody's okay at that. He's probably more of that leadership style in fairness than someone like Fazer or Coley.
00:13:09
Speaker
I've got to say Joe, do you also look at the centre backs of whoever they might be? So let's say Connor Cody, Vestigard and Voutfast if he does come on or if he even does start against us and do sit there and think or lick your lips a bit like I do. Because I think Voutfast is terrible cosmo absolutely her hair guys i atoundedly poor hair Yeah, they they are lacking in the pace area. I'll tell you that for nothing. um And I do think that they're sort of key
00:13:46
Speaker
apart from obviously bit on the ball, if you look at defensively, I feel like obviously they'd have to, because of the lack of pace, they'd have to rely so much more on like their positioning and things like that. um If I was Herzler, I'd obviously be looking at sort of like the pace that we have up front. If you take away Danny Welbeck, I mean, he's still probably faster than and which is probably the biggest worry is that he's still probably faster than those defenders. But um if he can if he could sort of be the focal point and be able to get those some Matoma running off of him, whether it's Minta, Dhingro, Ruta, whoever it is, and um obviously Jad Pedro sort of pulling those strings as well, then obviously
00:14:24
Speaker
they they will be in trouble. because But ah I also don't expect them to concede that amount of space in behind because if they are to they're not going to be pressing up 20, 30 yards away from their penalty box. yeah i mean sir um is goingnna I feel like it's going to be hard to potentially break them down.
00:14:44
Speaker
um I imagine that a lot of West Ham shots were from outside the box because 31 shots is as ludicrous. I can't imagine just in the box the shooting really nearly. It didn't feel like that outside the box. I'll be honest, there was a lot inside for sure. I don't remember many outside really.
00:15:02
Speaker
Yeah, I'm looking at the shop map. I'm looking at the shop map and I think I can see about 12, about, or outside the box. I don't know how you managed to keep a clean shape. Well, from outside the box, it's done quite a lot. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that was 19. We're in.
00:15:18
Speaker
They can ignore that because it backs up what I'm trying to say. So i go to so essentially, like I don't expect them to. And I know that this is true, that you're not going to try and concede that space in behind. Hence why it's obviously so important. yeah um Danny Wilbeck can drag these play the centre backs out and because James Justin is not a slouch, 100%. James Justin has got at least something in there. But if you're playing out from the back with the three, obviously, when you're so when you're back, are you in a back four when you're defending?
00:15:48
Speaker
Yeah, back four with so be so yeah Justin. I don't know who your left back is. christian it was chrisenson so Yeah, I don't expect a lot of space to be. it would be a very If for Christensen and for James Justin, they are going to have to be doing a lot of covering in those sort of areas and to clean up if the ball goes long and stuff like that. So yeah, pace-wise, I would be looking for it. But also,
00:16:12
Speaker
We need to, because they they are good ball players, both of them, you need to press them when they have the ball because otherwise they are just going to sort of be finding all sorts of areas that you don't want the best of guard doing AER diagonal pings. To be fair, that's also, you raised a good point. like We have struggled this season against low blocks, so if you play a low block, that's where I actually think we could struggle. like I could see it being nil-nil if it's like a low block, because we couldn't beat Ipswich with a low block. Southampton kind of played their style of play, but
00:16:50
Speaker
didn't at the same time, not to the extent we've known them to. And they were actually quite happy to sit deep and just kind of hoof it long at times. Then Nottingham Forest, we struggled to really score. them We scored two, but we could't we didn't really create much more other than that. So it's the low block teams that we have struggled against this season. And that's where I actually fear.
Leicester's Offensive Opportunities
00:17:11
Speaker
I don't know about you, Jo. That's where I fear us on the weekend.
00:17:15
Speaker
um Yeah, so the the low block is is something that we do struggle, but I feel like, correct me if I'm wrong, but Jal Pedro missed both of those. Well, he didn't miss Southampton, but the game against Ipswich, I swear certainly missed that game. Yeah, he did.
00:17:32
Speaker
and against Night of Forest. He's the creative spark. To be fair, it was a bad performance. The Southampton was very poor. But for them, one of the things I'm actually quite worried about is because of how high the line is.
00:17:48
Speaker
ah Does Jamie Vardy still run at 1000 miles an hour off the three cars of Red Bull or is that not a thing anymore? He's Red Bull, he's Red Bull still a thing. He ran in beyond West Ham and scored if you've seen the first post. That's going to be there. We had him, Makatir and El Canoose in the first half all running behind, very direct and we've got Pat Sandaka who you know off air I slated a bit but he's very quick and very direct. In terms of those attributes there is good ones, he just doesn't have many more so I think a high line we couldn't possibly exploit. Yeah see that's what I mean so my my biggest fear is the sort of that's that is why I'm sort of saying like
00:18:29
Speaker
um it may Somehow I'm making this all lead into one thing here but so if you don't press the centre backs and they're going to be playing balls over the top we will concede the space that you guys won't because we want to squeeze the pitch whereas they want to make the pitch compact when we're attacking. We're so much more happier to just try and win it as high as ah up as possible but if we can see displays behind especially if like Lewis Dunke's playing if he peels off onto that sort of left inside channel and it's Joel Veltman and it's Lewis Dunke or he goes onto the other side and it's Lewis Dunke whatever there's Joel Veltman's not keeping up with Jamie Vardy.
00:19:06
Speaker
Jovar could be 45 and he's not keeping up with Jovar. So that's why I feel like the issue is because I feel like maybe, because Bernadotte is not there, who's someone who likes to get onto the ball and obviously create chances that way, the long ball is actually there and the long ball is still very dangerous. Not the Sean Dyche long ball, but the long ball in behind, into space, is dangerous. The long ball up to the six foot nine striker is nothing anymore, but the one to Jamie Vardy off three cans of Red Bull is what I'm looking for. It's what I don't want to see, but that's what I'm expecting to see. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, we will touch more on some, because obviously, yeah, you won't have Bonanote because he will be cup tied or it's not a cup.
00:19:54
Speaker
league title. He'll be ah cup tied for the fixture on Sunday. So we'll be talking about some other players we should be looking out for and that you're potentially excited about, Jake.
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Speaker
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00:20:35
Speaker
And we are back with a Daily Brighton and Leicester crossover. So yeah, Jake, obviously Brononotti, we'll touch on him first. How good and enlighten our fans of who haven't watched much of Leicester, how good Brononotti has been since he's been online to you.
Buonanotte's Role and Future at Leicester
00:20:53
Speaker
Yeah, he's been absolutely fantastic. I mean, he they say, you know, that that old line don't fall in love with a lone player, but I think all Leicester fans, it's too late for that with there's a new chant about him. You know, I think really frankly how I see him play for us at the end of this at the end of this season, I can't see it like he's brilliant. I can see why he's played for Argentina. um I can't believe Brian have loned him out. I've got to be honest. like You know, Brian, I've got some great players in there. You've just mentioned some good attacking threats, but I can't believe he can't get in there, but then I own understand that he's going to come and play every minute for us because, um especially the first sort of five, six games, he he scored a lot of our goals or made assists. Like he he basically was contributing to every, every goal we were getting. He's a massive, um has a massive impact on the buildup play, getting on the ball, taking it past players. He loves a nutmeg. um Yeah, he's going to be a big mess on Sunday. ah but
00:21:51
Speaker
hope is that you know moving on to another player elk canoes who we've signed a think from from gank moroccan he had a fantastic game against west ham best game he's had and scored obviously i think he's really finding his feet and i'm hoping he can sort of fill the shoes of buenonote but to be honest having both of them in the team like having two aces in there that that also by the way Buononotti's work rate is fantastic you know you usually have luxury players like that who don't work so hard he is a fantastic worker gets stuck in like and I can't chuck n anything negative at him at all so far this season so yeah Brighton are lucky to have him for sure. Great news.
00:22:31
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not like this was a big talking point when he first got loaned out to Leicester. I think a couple of, ah I think we disagreed, but when don't we disagree? I can't remember who didn't want, I can't remember who didn't want him to be, I think it might have been blessed that didn't want him to be loaned out because he saw, obviously like you say, a spot in him for the squad. I think I was very much on the side of, I would like to see him like, I'm all for the loan move because this is great Premier League experience. this is ah This is an opportunity for eight for him to prove himself and to see if he actually is worthy of staying in the Premier League and playing in the Premier League in coming in coming seasons. And rather than him kind of rot on our bench, like kind of Evan Ferguson's doing a bit, ah it would be perfect for him to get the opportunity out there. Joe, what ah where were you standing with the lone move? Sorry, we we um we almost scored. He needs to Adingra needs to score.
00:23:31
Speaker
Tell us about it. Matomas, they've worked it down the left, Matomas pulled it back to Edingra who literally only has to put it in 75% of the goal. And he's just decided to go straight at Bert Leno.
00:23:48
Speaker
oh right not um i sorry um Anyway, we're back to Bernonotto. What did you think about the loan move at the time? For me, it seemed a little bit weird because new manager come in. Bernonotto has already played in the Premier League like quite a bit anyway, so like he he has he has some experience, obviously not a lot.
00:24:12
Speaker
I thought that this season in CSO would have a much more of an impact than he has had. He's literally can't get a sniff at all. So if in CSO can't get a sniff and he's probably direct competitor for that role is Buena Notte. Why is Buena Notte now out on loan shining and in CSO is playing for the 23s.
00:24:30
Speaker
So that doesn't really make sense, but the low move itself makes sense. But like the reasoning behind it, it doesn't seem to be many reasons why. Like unless he fought, okay, we're going to play him out wide, and then but then we bought like four wingers. That also doesn't make any sense because Cozio Dubri plays for Blackburn. He's played five times.
00:24:56
Speaker
So that's not working. And then, obviously, Minthe's been injured. It's also not really worked out for him much. So Ruta's been playing there, now Dhingra's playing there, but Dhingra's barely played. So they actually now, as sort of everything's evolved during the season, there is a spot for him to play. And he's actually outperforming almost every single one of those players. That's exactly what I was going to say. I think he's outperformed a Dhingra Minthe. Yeah.
00:25:24
Speaker
I would say I would argue Ritter as well. and i would Yeah, I would throw like he's been on par if not worse than Ritter. So he could easily like that's the only gutting thing and I don't think so. I know Jake off air you were talking about ah fears of him getting loaned or recalled. I don't think that's going to happen still because of the number of people we've got in those forward positions. yeah But I think this is It's preparing for the future. So once we so once when when we sell again, which is probably inevitable with Zhao Pedro, ah the way he's playing, he'll probably go somewhere in summer. I think he's then there to fill the Zhao Pedro void next season, potentially. it makes my life That's my This makes sense, so because it gives me that it gives me the feeling that he didn't rate him.
00:26:14
Speaker
but if he didn't rate him then he's obviously high so he needs to be obviously investigated for that and then but it just doesn't make sense because because obviously we don't know do we we can all we can come up with all these theories or whatever i mean i have just said that our own manager was high that obviously is the case but like but like you don't you don't know what happens behind clothes or he could have had a terrible attitude but then he's obviously he's gone to lesser and he's like well this is my chance now so Yeah, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna take it by the scruff of the neck sort of thing. I think though, with Buena Notti so young still, you're absolutely right. He's played a lot of games considering his
Key Players in Brighton vs Leicester
00:26:48
Speaker
age. He's obviously played some games for Argentina, but he's really young and actually getting minutes on the pitch matters far more than probably anything else. 100% and you've got some, you've just named some really good players there. Minter and Dingra, Rutter, Pedro, all Vy and Bueninotti is great because I think he's actually better off the right than he's in the middle for us, but he's brilliant in both mine. But he can play those two roles, but you've got four players there and none of them are going to move on in January. You wouldn't have thought.
00:27:15
Speaker
um or you're going to look to move on. However, in the summer, Pedro, yeah, possibly might get a good offer for him. And you never really know, you know, obviously the market moves. But when an otter then has another year of he's going to end up if he plays the whole season for us, doesn't get injured, obviously, he will play 35. He'll play 35 games, 34, 35 games, because I think he can't play two and it's bright and he's missed like one. So he will play every game that he can play.
00:27:45
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. That's what we love to hear though. We love to hear that. That's ah as the beauty of looking forward and the the beauty of having young players as well. There's actually another player that I am fearing ah in the Leicester squad. I don't know about you, Joe, but Hermerson in goal. why would like Why would I fear him? He's a goalkeeper.
00:28:03
Speaker
What's he He's I know he's really good. I understand he's really good, but I've never ever gone into any football. I'm really scared about that cool kid. Well, I'm fearing the goalkeeper because he's going to save about 17 shots that we have on target. He has been a slow class.
00:28:25
Speaker
Yeah, he's he's excellent. Chelsea bid for him this summer. They bid for me, mate. They bid for everyone, but no, he's fantastic. like and We've obviously been very blessed. We had Casper Schmeichel for such a long time. And then we had that one season without ah a Danish goalkeeper. We had Everson, but he was our backup. So we still had a Danish keeper. We obviously got relegated and then we've bought Hermanson, another fantastic Danish goalkeeper who's I'm going to fill the Schmeichel void for Denmark and I hate to say ah another player I can't see playing for Leicester next year because he is so, he is brilliant. um He's not just a, you know, goalkeepers now, they have to be good with their feet and that was the first thing we all noticed. Yeah, he's great with his feet, but we also very quickly worked out. He's a fantastic goalkeeper in terms of the basics. His shot stopping is wonderful. He's made
00:29:15
Speaker
So many saves this season, I've stood stood up and applauded, you know, and it's those sort of saves in the ground, are not at home. yeah and that good ist allowed to say yes yeah But the saves that, you know, and we haven't had someone, it's been years since I've done that. But this season, I think I've done it three or four times in in games I can think of at home because he's kept us in the match, it's it's won us the match, you know, he's Bournemouth or West Ham, so yeah, he's he could be the difference maker and and you're quite right, he's a goalkeeper, so it says a lot that I'm saying that, but he is that good. yeah there's also been so yeah be of the donkeeper The thing is as well that's so good about that is that this season I'd say
00:29:59
Speaker
um If you were to do a team of the year, I feel like loads of the positions pit themselves, but the goalkeeper is sort of one position where not there hasn't really been many good ones. I think you could walk off the top of your head. Rea, Onana somehow. I don't know what's happened there. Hermanson obviously, yeah um and probably what, Kelleher?
00:30:20
Speaker
Yeah. yeah so And then Vibruggen, Vibruggen you would say as well, he's just made a mistake. Kelleher last night, literally he might have been high i'd eat particular because he's literally just left the ball, whatever's going on there. But I mean,
00:30:36
Speaker
Yeah, it is good to see. And it would actually be a bit of a shake because while Chelsea have been in for him, it doesn't make any sense because they've literally got nine of the books. And even their youth goalkeeper is a decent. So like that doesn't really make and the goalkeeper that they use in the Premier League is the worst out of all nine of them. So I don't know. I don't know. But I hope that ah It's good to see. I like Leicester, I'll be honest. like There's a lot of crossovers that come on here, I don't like them. Not the people, but like the team, I don't like them. I like Leicester, it's vibes. Is there anyone that you do fear then, Joe? Anyone? Because obviously, Buonanate, Cup Tide, Blau El Canusu, if you play Football Manager,
00:31:16
Speaker
He is the wonderkid to buy, and I have many a time. But yeah, is there anyone else that you fear, Joe? Because obviously for Tarwee was another player that I was actually thinking, oh, damn, but he's season-ending injury. I'm not going to pick any of the defenders, so I'm going to have to run with Hermanson and Vardy to be honest. El Canoosa, I've not seen him in often to be able to really comment. um Saying that, he is probably going to kill us, isn't he? We said this when we placed it before we spoke at Southampton, we were like, yeah, Tyler Diblin, Tyler Diblin, Tyler Diblin, Tyler Diblin killed us, mate.
00:31:48
Speaker
ah We predicted it to be fair. That's their only threat. Which means the monster's going to make 30 saves and the body's going to squat trick. There we go. And on that bombshell, it's time to end. I sounded like Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson there. Before we do actually end, let's get a school prediction.
00:32:10
Speaker
ah Go on then, Jake, as you'd have guessed. Often with ease, I'm so negative because we've been so poor and negative all season, but this is the first time I'm feeling positive. I completely respect Brighton, who are having a really good season. It's going to be a tough game. um As I always say, there's no way we're going to keep a clean sheet because we've kept one all season. That was lucky. So that's not going to happen. So it should, I think there'll be goals in the game.
Predictions and Closing Remarks
00:32:34
Speaker
um My instinct wants to sort of go with like a ah two, two, three, two.
00:32:39
Speaker
someone nicks it. I think they'll be goals. I think I'm just here for a two term sort of go safe in that I think both teams will score goals. um And I'm sort of hoping that we obviously Hermanson has a great game. um but But yeah, I'm expecting us to score but also to concede at some point.
00:32:57
Speaker
joe I'm, you know exactly what I'm going to say mate. Jake's a man after my own art here because his logic is almost exactly the same as mine. Apart from, this is essentially a running gag at this point. Freeton Brighton. I've literally predicted it. I've predicted every time on the crossovers and then my real prediction is on obviously the preview. It actually has come in once. It's coming once. It gets talking about of all teams as well. Come in.
00:33:24
Speaker
So yeah, 3-2. But this game is like it has that sort of vibe on it, do you know what I mean? I won't lie, I'm thinking of 1-0. Oh my God. 1-0, Brian. Wrap up the pod. We can finally beat Hermanson after he slaved 7t5 shots. That's my hope. Finally getting warm past him and that's it. yeah And on that note, it's time to end. Well, thank you very much, Jake, for joining us and thank you once again, Joe. Lovely chatting to you both and thank you we hope Everyone at home has enjoyed. Go listen to the Leicester Daily Leicester Podcast and follow all our socials. TikTok, Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it, and Instagram. And see you next time.
00:34:13
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