A good balanced team from start with a few surprises. Marcal-Madivadua was not involved, Cesare Casadei on the bench as well as seeing Timothy Castagne back in the squad
Leicester showed confidence from start, but it was Rotherham everyone believed had taken the lead early on, but the goal was disallowed.
Leicester striked just minutes later from a Kasey McAteer finish. 1-0 lead, brilliant.
The game switched a bit back and forward between the two teams, but still no more goals as Leicester had the lead going into 2nd half.
Rotherham came out and took command as they scored esrly on from a nice header, 1-1 and in real a blow for Leicester.
Enzo Maresca made an early 2nd half switch when Jamie vardy came on for Kelechi Iheanacho. He later put on Cesare Casadei who made a instant impact opening up space and playing clever through balls to his team mates.
Leicester gradually came higher in the pitch with a few attempts from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, and then it all exploded with Kasey McAteer’s fantastic shot and 2-1 was a fact.
Hamza Choudhury and James Justin were given minutes towards the end to controll it all as a new win was secured.
- Positives
- McAteer just fantastic
- 3 points on a difficult day
- Good coaching from Enzo Maresca
- Winning with one goal, shows quality
- Negatives
- Kelechi Iheanacho not using his chance
- Sloppy start to the 2nd half
- Not taking the game ro bed losing momentum too often
Player Ratings: Hermansen 6, Pereira 6, Doyle 7, Vestergaard 6, Faes 6, Winks 6, Dewsbury-Hall 6, Mavididi 6, Iheanacho 5, Ndidi 5, McAteer 8 Subs: Casadei, Vardy, Choudury, Justin
- Leicester City, Man of the Match
- Kasey McAteer
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