Leicester City: Nigel Pearson leaps to Wes Morgan's defence
Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson said Wes Morgan can justifiably feel hard done by at Portman Road on Saturday.
Two 'unsavoury' incidents contributed to a mistake from his skipper, which cost his team a point.
Morgan appeared to lose his composure after receiving an elbow from Daryl Murphy and he was booked for protesting against the challenge by referee Darren Deadman.
A few minutes later, he lost possession and the hosts broke to score the winner through David McGoldrick.
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Pearson offered no excuses for his side's third defeat in their last five games, but said the Murphy challenge and an off-the-ball kick from Michael Chopra contributed to Morgan's mistake.
"We weren't at our best but we still had enough chances to get something out of the game," he said. "But there were other incidents that had an effect on the result," he said.
"Do you not think the incidents off the ball contributed to him losing his composure? As far as I concerned, my captain has been fantastic for me this year.
"I am not a sour grapes person and I don't want to look for excuses but they were unsavoury incidents off the ball which have contributed to what happened.
"The officials have a difficult job. But I have seen his position and it is appropriate for people to ask the right questions.
"He got booked for complaining about someone elbowing him in the face. Chopra kicked him off the ball just prior to that.
"It is unfortunate I am talking about things like that instead of football. The officials have the job to do and I have seen the incidents again and I can understand Wes feeling hard done to.
"It is the authorities' job to look at those again. It is not my remit."
Pearson admitted that his side were again guilty of wasting great opportunities to score. Harry Kane missed two glit-edged chances, particularly in the second half when he was one-on-one with goalkeeper Stephen Henderson.
"We have had our chances and not taken them," he said. "It is a disappointing result for us. We could have been 2-0 up, but we weren't.
"I don't think we deserved to lose the game but credit to Ipswich. They are working very hard and Mick (McCarthy) has got them well organised and they are a lot more difficult to beat now than when he arrived.
"I am disappointed and the players are disappointed.
"We have played better and we have played worse, but ultimately it is about taking your chances and we have not done that ."
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by Surrey_Fox
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 1:29PM
“It's a good point Valefox, people fail to factor in that NP has significantly reduced the size of the squad, has sent his top earners who aren't in his plans out on loan and has brought in younger, talented players with potential but on lower wages. They prefer to knock him for not changing tactics but at the same time moan at the quality on the bench.
As for the £30m debt, its probably best we don't get in to great discussions about this as we don't know any of the facts. All business runs on finance and football is no different. Do Chelsea pay cash for all their players, I would think not. Do Man City? Having rich owners gives you leverage to raise finance as they act as guarantors, they don't just sit there handing out big wads of cash as thats not how business operates.”
by Valefox1
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 10:00AM
“Exactly Ash, Over the years the club has battled with relegation and promotion to and from the Prem/Div 1, if anyone thinks we are going to gain promotion and stay there, whether it be with NP at the helm or anyone else over the next few seasons, then they need to think again, whoever is in charge, whoever owns the club, the status quo will remain. It is also clear that NP and any future manager will have very little cash to work with after the last set of financial results were published making things increasingly difficult, it also might explain why NP has not been able to strengthen the squad as deeply as may have wanted to.”
by ash1967
Monday, March 04 2013, 9:57PM
“Leicester City all-time totals
Games won: 1909
Games drawn: 1268
Games lost: 1845
Goals for: 7643
Goals against: 7513
Average goals for: 1.52
Average goals against : 1.50
We have spent longer in the championship (div2) than PL (div1) just look at the history of results, says it all really, we have no divine right to be in the Premier League, but like they say you can change your wife but you can't change your football team”
by ash1967
Monday, March 04 2013, 9:44PM
“Squirril, I got champagne at Blackburn, I could not go to the Ipswich game, but hopefully I will be popping a cork again tomorrow against Leeds, COYB'S
Johnnylcfc, can't agree more with you, let's get behind the team, well done for supporting your team from so far away, respect to you”
by squirril33
Monday, March 04 2013, 9:03PM
“No Johnny you are wrong. If you paid good money for a decent soup and got dish water would you go buy it again. If you did the same for a decent bottle of wine and it tasted like vinegar would you rush out and buy it again. If Nigel Pearson sends a one idea team out and then supplements it with div one standard players off the bench and you've paid to watch a shambles is it sacrosanct to go pay for it again?”
by johnnylcfc
Monday, March 04 2013, 8:15PM
“Do you know,it makes me feel really proud to be a city fan at this time,some of the posts on here are just what we need especially neil,i travel 160 mile round trip every game,as i will tomorrow,and all we needis the backing from more fans on here,and who knows,,at the moment i beleive we are not good enough to sustain a place in the pl,,unless we were to put the debt up more than it is,,HOPE NOT,,but i will carry on supporting until the last kick of the season,this is where we let ourselves down ,lose a game 5000 crowd down,should support them through thick and thin,,i dont care what anyone says,if you have a good crowd behind you you play well,it lifts your spirits towalk out of that tunnel and see a good crowd,when will people not realise it,some people have almost given up already,have faith and we will be there,up the blues forever.............”
by Alanprichard
Monday, March 04 2013, 8:09PM
“It's all very well that posters say to stop your moaning. But as far as I can see the moaners have every right to moan.
When we are getting outplayed, out thought, and out scored, by the likes of clubs in the bottom seven and in one case rock bottom (Peterborough) Huddersfield, Charlton, Ipswich. I personally am very concerned at these results.
No doubt the owners will be as equally p....d of. Nigel lacks the tactical nous/skill to turn a game around when we need to.
On his bench sits League one at best subs. Nigel had better wise up, otherwise it will cost him his job, and also Shakey and the rest of his coaching staff will be gone also as a result if he doesn't..
We need to load up the midfield against Leeds to cut out chances being created to bust us wide open and for them to score against us. Also our strikers will get more of there share of through balls to pounce on and hopefully score.
Send Harry Kane back to where he come from. A hopeless striker. missed two sitters against Ipswich. Nigel refers to such, as not taking their chances. No more excuses as they are wearing thin now, as we have heard then so many times before.
As for Nigel saying we played well enough to get something out of the game. Bullsh.t we didn't and we paid dearly as a result. Three points tonight or we will just keep fading away from the playoffs.”
by squirril33
Monday, March 04 2013, 8:07PM
“Battersey and others. What you say is purely from a football or personnel view point. Nothing wrong with having those views but it's a football BUSINESS. It's finances that govern who rises and falls. As such we have to go up this season or Nigel will be on very thin ice. I hope we do go up and even if he relies on has beens or never will be s like the present bench and we don't win a game next season at least the owners get their money back and City get the parachute payments to allow a more able manager to pay prem wages to those worth it and also have some to employ new players to replace that dead wood bench.”
by Batterseafox2
Monday, March 04 2013, 5:24PM
“Why is it football fans always demand instant success? and when they don't get it they throw their toys out of the pram like a baby who doesn't get a pack of sweets. So fickle it is embarassing.
They use the excuse of paying their money but that doesn't cut it. We pay our money to watch a sport, and believe it or not, in sport teams lose sometimes! And teams have bad patches of form. This season we have blown hot and cold, are we better than last season? Yes. Will we get promoted this season? Probably not. Is that the end of the world? No.
We as a club could go down the well trodden root of continuing to sack our managers each season, every time spending millions building another new team, always digging ourselves into a deeper hole.
However, I am happy with the way we are building a young hungry team that has the potential to be successful. In that process, there will be mistakes and we will lose games, but as long as we continue to improve (which nobody can deny we have from last season) then I am happy. I could not agree more with Neil.”
by Valefox1
Monday, March 04 2013, 5:13PM
“Surrey_fox, Foxforce53, Geofflane, Ldnfox, I've posted something similar to your post's in the past, it's good to see that there are other level headed supporters out there. There are a lot of people out there who are not blessed with patience these days, for them it's all and some more. As for the £30 million debt, it should not be there in the first place, someone is screwing up badly in the finance dept; it is also unrealistic to accumulate such a debt and then expect your manager and his team to bail you out by getting promotion. So folks like it or not you're just going to take ups with downs, stick with it, and stop moaning.”