Gary Rowett played the same starting eleven as against Preston in the previous game. There is no need to change anything. However, it is still unclear what type of job the Leicester manager had done on Sheffield Wednesday. Leicester struggled to get any special advantage, playing their standard 4-3-3. Today, they face a team playing 3-5-2, overcrowding certain areas. Leicester looked far flom fluid and not able to get their passes correctly.
It took only a minute for Sheffield Wednesday to score. Not a surprise it was from a set piece situation. The marking in the Leicester penalty area looked as it came for the worst horror movie in history. Where have these players been as this looked a total disaster.
The old school is to have one man on each post as well as man mark players in the box. If you use two players to stand by the post, you will be two men short. However, we do know that the other team never will send all their players into the penalty box. You should also man mark inside the box. What they are trying at Leicester is far from man to man marking. It resembles some type of zonal work. On this occasion, that approach just vanished.
Seeing Sheffield Wednesday taking the lead that early makes you question the situation. You watch this team and start to wonder. Is there a way out of this nightmare? Nothing looks fluid and the first half was just a lot of trash, nothing more to say. A few chances, but mostly strange passes and decision making you do not like to see on a football pitch.
Players like Harry Winks and Oliver Skipp can improve their distribution. They should also have the vision to find the pockets needed to make this more fluid. There were very few deep runs in the first half. This could have opened space. However, players are just standing still. There were no runs from midfield or from the back. Leicester still pushed and pushed. Sheffield Wednesday closed the gaps. They had most of their players behind the ball.
Despite all of this, Oliver Skipp and Divine Mukasa should both have scored in the first half. Both lacked a cool head. They should have placed the ball perfectly in one of the goal’s corners. Instead, they used power to shoot and hit the goalkeeper.
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Leicester came out second half with a positive approach and they tried as much as they could. There were attempts to score early on. Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Pierce Charles showed his presence again. He had a great day at the office.
Patson Daka came close on a few attempts but today his finishing was far from perfection. He missed many opportunities. His display today returned to a level that seems impossible to understand. He is not consistent and makes so many errors today, it’s not easy to count.
Gary Rowett decides on three changes in the 69th minute. He kept Patson Daka on the field. Instead, he took off Devine Mukasa. Lascelles and Skipp also left the field, to give Cordova-Reid, Vestergaard and Jordan Ayew minutes.
Jordan Ayew must have been feeling fantastic. He had the opportunity to play in a position he excels at. He was that man behind the main striker. He usualy play on the flank for Ghana. Those playing Jordan Ayew as the top forward must have trouble understanding football, he is not equipped to that job.
Jordan Ayew come on and looked a complete different player. He got that little space he needs to get into those situations he knows how to act. First he came close with a header, hitting the post. Then in the 84th minute he scored his goal, well placed in the corner. Ayew came on and gave the team a real push. He had a third attempt, but it was an offside, and the goal was not given.
Leicester pushed for goals and dominated the game. That was in real one positive today, but still a stumbling affair and at least one point in the bag. We would have loved to see 3 points in the bag. However, everything is still wide open. Gary Rowett will have players such as Harry Souttar, Jordan James, and Aaron Ramsey back in contention. This is a major boost going into the final games of the season.
There are these stupid black hole moments that appear in every game at times you can’t really understand it’s happening. But hopefully that will be whiskered out and going into the finals with a positive head will be important. Leicester do have difficulties winning football games against much weaker opponents. We should not send out too many negatives today. Everything can be sorted out in the end.
Positives
- Total domination for 88 minutes plus extra time
- Gary Rowett getting his substitutions 100% correct in the 69th minute, putting on Ayew, Reid and Vestergaard
- Dujuane Richards getting minutes
- Jordan Ayew is showing his worth by not being played in that top attacking position. He is given space to have his head in the right direction towards the goal. Hopefully he can be doing the same in the next games, coming of the bench with a positive attitude and being played correctly
- Jeremy Monga on the field, nice to see him, but still not enough minutes
- Getting an equalizer, being in there with a chance to survive
Negatives
- That first minute crazy behaviour and awful decision making, leading to a 1-0 lead for The Owls
- Jacub Stolarczyk not organizing his defense in the way he should, massive errors and lack of communciation between the goalkeeper and the rest of the defensive players
- Too many players standing still instead of taking those deep runs to stress The Owls defenders
- Not being able to use set pieces to the advantage it should be
- Still not winning enough football games
- The use of Divine Mukasa, he is not contributing enough, looks to be used incorrectly or not having the ability needed to get his legs moving much more
- Jannik Vestergaard potentially should have had a penalty, but often Leicester fire those
- Fatawu and Skipp should have scored
Line Up:
Stolarczyk 5, Pereira 6, Okoli 6, Lascelles 6, Thomas 5, Winks 5, Mukasa 4, Skipp 5, Daka 5, Mavididi 5, Fatawu 6, Subs: De Cordova-Reid, Ayew, Vestergaard, Richards, Monga
- Leicester City, Man of the Match
- Jordan Ayew
Match Stats (H/A)
- Possession: 31 / 69
- Shots on Target: 1 / 12
- Corners: 1 / 10
- Fouls: 7 / 11
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