No excuses, we just weren't good enough admits Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson

“Up to the Brum match we had the highest number of corners won in the Championship. I suspect that we have one of the worst corner conversion ratios in the division, something that we have been culpable of for years.

Listening on Saturday Knockaert's delivery from corners was poor. If you cannot hit one of your own players more than 50% of the time you will never score many from corners.

I believe NP dare not play Knockaert and Marshall together on each flank because neither is particularly good at the defensive part of their duties, so Dyer gets the nod.

Marshall's delivery is one of the best in the Championship, so I would gamble as manager and play Marshall and Dyer to give us the width and push Knockaert up in the free role off the shoulder of either Nugent or Vardy to make things happen in and around the final third of the pitch. Where the opposition have to be stifled I would play James for Dyer and change it later in the game once the opposition have been nullified.”

“When we bought Vardy I thought he was just an out-and-out goalscorer, but the best thing about him is his work-rate. The problem with that is that he and Nugent are probably too similar in that respect.

Maybe Pearson needs to give him a free-reign to goal hang a bit more... as he would probably did for Fleetwood last year...? just to get a few tap-ins, rather than working his socks off every game?”

“Ghost - lightweight is being too fair. Powderpuff would be better suited. Given that, we need to recall Beckford, if possible. Or bring in someone else with positional sense and large testes up front.”

“Just to clarify Kapero,

Vardy was still full of running and Drinkwater was out on his feet!

We are simply lightweight up front and despite being overpowered in all departments for a change, we still had 4-5 realistic chances to score in the first half...


The YAK would have got at least a couple but he ho, thats life...

I was more disappointed with the crowd than the players............ Out Sung by Palace fans the whole game....... Can't wait for the Watford game where i'll once again feel that we are all in it together... Home crowd seems to be there for something else don't you think!!”

“It has been said that we will not win every match this season. It is also obvious that we are not yet good enough to go for a full season winning every match at home.

So we lost to a good team, because we were either too tired, or they were better than us.

It was bound to happen and I would rather lose to a good team than a poor team so well done managerless Palace.

In the first half Zaha did to us what we hoped Knockaert would do to them. Ours is a young team and this one is down to experience. Too few big name players tipped up today and we suffered the consequnce. So perhaps we need to rotate a little more to keep the youngsters fresh and hungry.

Now we have to start a new run.

Thats all”

“We lost to a physically adept side, who despite losing their manager, still did their homework on us. The positives...we were rattled, really knocked off our stride, but we regained our composure. Still, that maybe had more to do with them taking their foot off the gas.

Players had off days, in particular Drinkwater and Nugent. Vardy showed for me that he will be no more than decidedly average at this level, which is a shame because I had high hopes.

I am most disappointed about the substitutions. They made little or no impact. Having made three subs, I cannot believe both ineffective strikers were still on the pitch at the end.

I really would have liked to see Vardy off for Marshall and a switch to 4-5-1. We have goals in the midfield and might have unsettled them, which we never really did all day.

Still, I remain confident we have the mettle to bounce back. Good luck against Watford boys.”

“Bring back the YAK!!!”

“geoff, ok we only had 2 attempts on target against palace , but to say weve stopped making them since the huddersfield game is wrong ,because in our previous game against brighton we had 12.
true geoff we havnt been converting them but lets look at the positives
(a) we have the second best goal difference in the league
(b) no team has conceded fewer goals at home than us
(c) only two teams have conceded less away goals than us
(d) only one team has conceded less goals overall than us
(e) only one team has won more games than us
(f) of our 23 opponents ..... 22 would swap places with us”

“Yes an off day on saturday and am sure we will bounce back
As a lot of people have posted I agree a clinical finisher is needed to convert some of the many chances we are missing. Vardy, after a good start, not setting world on fire and will probably take some time to make the big step up as a consistent finisher at this level. Disapointed that waggy did not take his chance but maybe time for trying futacs or schlupp alongside nuge. Futacs would give something extra from the many corners we win in each game
As for ash's comments about last prolific scorer - please! fryatt was a league one player at best never did cut it at this level - last ones we had were probably dickov/deane or cottee
Charlie austin would be nice but think he is premier bound in jan”

“We have struggled for a clinical finisher for years now, Fryatt is the only who springs to mind in the last 10 years if not longer and that was in league one.
Alarm bells should not be ringing, 1 lost game in the last 7 and has Pearson stated everyone had a off day, Scmeichel is in my mind still a top keeper, Vardy is still getting back after illness, Watford will be a chance to bounce back
No panic”