Claude Puel had again made a surprise selection, leaving Jamie Vardy on the bench, and giving the chance up front to Demarai Gray, who is not really comfortable in the role as a lonely forward. The other change was Papy Mendy who had left his place to newly signed Youri Tielemans. Leicester managed, as they…
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Foxes A to Z, Don Revie, Leicester City the base for a sensational life in football
Through the controversies of his management career seem to have set the tone of posterity’s overly harsh judgement on him, Don was no stranger to acrimony even in his early days at Leicester. A teenage signing from City’s short lived North East nursery club, who was taken under Sep Smith’s wing and thought the basics…
Leicester 0, Man Utd 1, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
Marc Albrighton was absent and new signing Youri Tielemans was not involved after being at the club just for a day. Tielemans should have been included in the squad, could have done a difference in the 2nd half. The game was “killed” in a way after a sloppy pass from Pereira after just 9 minutes,…
Liverpool 1, Leicester 1, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
A predicted and good line-up chosen, despite missing Choudhury from the picked 11, but again you can’t play with 12 players. Despite agreeing in the team chosen, the start of the game was a repeated copy of many games this season, letting in an early goal and not really being focused or it seems top…
Wolves 4, Leicester 3, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
Claude Puel made new changes to his line-up from the previous game v. Southampton, and gave starts to Gray, Barnes and surprisingly Simpson. Maddison was left on the bench, so was Choudhury and Albrighton. It looked a bit rusty from start and to come to Molineux with a line-up never seen before might be a…
Foxes A to Z, Muzzy Izzet, World Cup bronze medalist and Leicester legend
Unblooded by Chelsea, and utterly unknown elsewhere at the time Martin O’Neill made him a deadline day loanee, midfielder Muzzy Izzet took next to no time to make his mark as City’s promotion drive took off sleeply following the nadir of his debut day defeat (the infamous occasion when MON was almost prematurely booed out…
Leicester 1, Southampton 2, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
Claude Puel must have ignored the opposition in this game and not done his homework against a team that we all would believe would be staying low and just let Leicester have the ball. A team selection that worked brilliantly against attacking teams was chosen. Of course this could be ok and could work, but…
Newport 2, Leicester 1, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
After a great game against Everton, without having the ball too much, it was time to play Newport County in the FA Cup. Puel is a bold person and his confidence must be high at the moment, leaving out Ndidi, Chilwell, Maguire, Schmeichel and even Vardy from the squad. To then see Maddison, Mendy, Pereira…
Foxes A to Z, Len Glover, The best never capped winger in England
A series of injuries marred both the beginning and the end of Lenny’s City career, but in the interim seasons his left-wing skills and pace bemused many an opposing full-back, and it was a genuine tribute to both his ability and personality that he became such a firm favorite of the usually highly critical popular…
Everton 0, Leicester 1, positives and negatives, player ratings and match report
Another difficult away fixture, and surely another surprise line-up, but it all ended as well as anyone could have hoped for. What a great battling performance. First half was very sloppy from both sides, and a lot of errors in most areas of the field. Puel had again made changes, and as long as you…
