Lighthouse

His lack of pace was painfully exposed for the first and he sold himself completely for the second. Stephens also needs to take responsibility for the second, stood like a statue as Herrera ran in front of him.

Here please.

We aren't going to sack him until we can appoint a replacement and we aren't going to do that until we appoint a DoF.

If I had to bet on something, I'd say we'll be 1-1 after an hour and playing the better football, then Hughes brings on Austin and we just collapse.

We've all got Christmas presents to pay for and haven't beaten Utd at home since Beattie scored the winner in 2003. I've just got no inclination to spend £40 standing there on some p*ssing wet, cold, miserable evening, listening to all their kn*bhead fans from Fareham and Salisbury singing about how great they were in '99, whilst our players serve up another abject failure of a performance on the pitch.

Sadly he hasn't managed at anywhere near the level to give him the experience to apply to Saints, as much as I'd love to see it. Perhaps he can be part of a new coaching team in some capacity or an assistant to someone else.

If you do that we will take a comfortable 2-0 lead and Man Utd just wont show up. Then after 60 minutes we will miss an absolute sitter to make it 3-0 and within 5 minutes Man Utd will score, probably after the most blatant handball you'll have ever seen at a corner (coupled with some terrible marking). We then completely retreat into our own penalty box and Lukaku nets a tap in in injury time, for a 2-2 which helps neither side as the other 4 of the bottom 5 all win.

I don't think that performance will have done him many favours among Leicester fans.

Start of a tough run of fixtures, so luckily we've already got some points on the board and a nice, healthy gap to the drop zone. Whoever we put out is going to look unfit, badly motivated and lacking in confidence, so I'll just go with McC Valery - Yoshi - Vest - Bednarek - Bertrand Hoj - Lemina Armstrong O'Bafemi - Gabbi

It's all irrelevant at the mo, regarding Hughes. He will be sacked, as and when Les Reed's replacement is appointed and decides who he wants in charge. We aren't going to sack him and put Jaidi or Kelvin in charge for a month.

Well he didn't miss tonight, it was saved. It happens; at least he didn't: a) Miss b) Hit a knee high powder puff down the middle, like Austin did at Palace. Scored against Newcastle. Can't remember the Wigan and Man Utd pens.

Oh well. Leicester get to lose to City in the next round then.

5 belting pens TBF.

It should be used, just used properly.

Technology is only as good as the people using it. VAR is supposed to overrule obvious errors, not give a 'yeah probably' after 3 viewings. The ball just bounced up into him off the challenge.

Finally (we'll still lose)

Oh dear Baffers.

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?60453-Leicester-vs-Saints-(LC)-Match-Thread#.W_2nTOj7SUk

Might as well have a proper thread.

I agree. I’m not saying Austin doesn’t care but he certainly looks way off the levels off fitness you would expect from an athlete at his level. It also annoys me in society that the people who throw the biggest public melodramas are the ones perceived as caring the most. Being a bit shouty on MOTD isn’t enough to convince me he puts more effort into his game than a player who keeps quiet and busts a gut in training.

Cue somebody pointing out that his goals per touch ratio is behind only Kane and Aguero, or something.

Wigan may have been League 1 quality but they played for each other with desire and belief. I want us to beat Leicester and City but we all know our gutless bunch of losers wont do it. If by some miracle we do make it through on Tuesday, our players will just sit there trembling in the spotlights, let City go 2-0 up without any sort of fight and hope they go a bit easy on us after that. After the game is lost and they've taken their foot off the gas, we will start passing it around neatly without ever troubling their goal and Hughes will tell us all about how much we improved as the game went on and deserved a result because of the way we played second half (apart from the Hoedt o.g. and conceding another totally unmarked goal in stoppage time.)

Boufal is a useless show off with a bad attitude. He had a bad attitude under Puel and Pellegrino, now Hughes can’t be arsed with him. He scores one screamer a season and otherwise contributes naff all. I’m not defending Moi but the joke is on us for signing both of them.

Can't believe we lost that, after taking the lead. Not like Saints at all.

Won’t be last on MotD!