Leicester City 1 – 4 Manchester United: Foxes humiliated
By Jake Cursley
Post Match Thoughts
Leicester City built their title win on the back of their solid defence, this season they’re looking to set the record for the worst ever season following a title win.
If there’s one thing you expect Leicester to do well, it’s defend a corner.
Claudio Ranieri needs his players to be putting in work on the training ground on defending them.
Why was Fuchs marking Pogba? Why was nobody marking Smalling? These are things that should be done instinctively as everybody should know their roles.
As for going forward, they looked strong for the first 20 minutes however a combination of having the wind knocked out of their sails following Smalling’s goal and United coming into the game made things go from bad to worse.
Leicester City rarely retain the ball, however in possession are often very fluid.
Today they looked like they were back in League 2 with the way they passed the ball around. I was almost waiting for DJ Campbell to replace Jamie Vardy.
United however looked spectacular.
Following questions of their play over the past couple of weeks, Mourinho and his squad answered them perfectly.
It was just unfortunate that Leicester City were in the firing line.
Rooney’s exclusion looked a no-brainer to many of us however for a manager to drop him, it’s not quite as simple as it seems.
Jose showed the leadership and courage to drop the club legend and it payed off.
One positive for Leicester City fans to take from the result however is Demarai Gray, who after coming on looked fantastic for the traveling side.
Bagging himself a goal and looking as positive as ever when running at defenders, he’s certainly one to look out for.
Leicester City travel to Porto on Wednesday for their second Champions League fixture and fans will hope for a much improved showing.
The toughest game in the group, the foxes will have to be on their toes and sharp in order to come out trumps against the Portuguese side that finished 3rd in Primeira Liga last season.
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Let’s hope that Ranieri had some strong words for the lads at half time and that the words stuck.