Which players Brendan Rodgers should drop, best Leicester City XI

Brendan Rodgers shouldn’t continue with three centre-backs, especially in the upcoming run of six fixtures against lesser team’s. This is the best XI for the new manager:

Sadly Brendan Rodgers‘ initial match in charge of Leicester City ended as a loss, following a disappointing finale. Watford are an underrated outfit and duly punished a thoughtless kick from Kasper Schmeichel in stoppage time.

If only the Foxes had taken the ball to a corner and held the draw to claim a decent point. Thusly giving a foundation for the 46-year-old to build on in his new capacity in the East Midlands. Never mind, the upcoming succession of fixtures is extremely promising for Leicester.

First of all, the team in 11th position in the Premier League face: Fulham, then Burnley, Bournemouth, Huddersfield Town, Newcastle United and finally in this favourable run, West Ham United. It would make sense for the Northern Irishman to relinquish the defensive seeming three-centre-back system from Vicarage Road as of now.

Changes to make

Wes Morgan didn’t have a particularly terrible game, you generally know what to expect with the captain too. That is: bravely using his body to block ball or foot; in addition to losing his man to mark on Set-pieces, along with making unnecessarily amateurish mistakes.

To that end, we would drop the Leicester legend – business not personal – and recall the perennially promising Demarai Gray. Yes the Young Lion is a constant feature on the ‘he’s got the talent but will he ever consistently show it’ list.

However, it finally feels as though Gray will fulfil his potential at Leicester City. Let’s face it, it’s now or never for him – especially being as the new regime has status to attract high quality wingers.

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Best XI for Leicester City

At this moment in time, the best Leicester lineup is 4-4-3; that is for the forseeable future and unless the Foxes enter a losing streak. In which case Foxes of Leicester – and of course Rodgers – will need a thorough rethink.

Best Leicester City starting XI:

Schmeichel – goalkeeper; Ben Chilwell – left-back, Harry Maguire left-centre-back, Jonny Evans – right-centre-back, Ricardo Pereira – right-back; Wilfred Ndidi – defensive-central-midfield; Youri Tielemans, James Maddison – attacking-midfielders; Harvey Barnes, Demarai Gray – left and right support forwards; Jamie Vardy – main striker.

Questions have risen in regards to Schmeichel’s recent form; some suggest he needs to be replaced by Danny Ward in the starting side. A significant goalkeeping signing in the summer is even suggested by a few. Although the Dane remains in our  prospective team.

Fullbacks must attack and overlap in this setup – it is key to a modern, forward thinking side. Ndidi naturally mops everything up. Tielemans has proven that he supplies what Maddison lacks in an attacking sense. Vardy is revitalised and Barnes must continue his raw development.

On Saturday March 9 Leicester entertain Scott Parker’s Fulham, his opposite number from Northern Ireland needs a win in his debut at the King Power Stadium. Maguire told lcfc.com that he expects ‘swift improvement’ – FoL collectively hope he’s correct.