Leicester City 2-0 Bournemouth: match report, player ratings

How can those formerly mentioned aspects be improved you say? Well, it’s not simple. Rodgers is already showing his “footballing genius”, as stated by Leicester City coach Kolo Toure. Fluidity is a word best used to describe the now integrated ideas that Claude Puel didn’t have the man management skills to achieve.

That fact is possibly down to the respect that Rodgers receives,  his motivational aptitude and thorough technical knowledge and procedures for his outfit and of the other sides. Whilst we can assess that the players buy into Rodgers as a man more than Puel for some reason.

Could it be just the soft spoken nature or their love for the Northern Irishman’s methods as opposed to the Frenchman’s? Either way a metamorphosis has taken place with the same squad and starting XI.

Ensuring Barnes and Gray are properly involved is essential. Not to mention consequently mixing up and varying the moves – from predominantly central areas due to Maddison and Tielemans’ class – of the team. In turn these manoeuvres open up further gaps in the opponents’ defence.

With regards to Vardy’s prowess, he is again on a successive goalscoring run. Whether he misses the odd attempt or not is usual for any striker, world-class or otherwise.

Having said that, knowing Vardy’s high personal standard, he will be kicking himself – or punching his own face, as he did a couple of years ago during a match – for missing the almost open goal from mere yards from the goal-line.

Most noteworthy from today’s fantastic support was when the fans rose on the 61st minute in tribute to the late Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha on his posthumous birthday. In addition this wonderful family club gave free treats to its faithful once more in a fitting nod to the dearly departed former chairman. His son and now owner Top keeping up tradition.

Lcfc.com fittingly described the win against the Cherries as “an assured performance.” Next up for the Foxes is a trip to already relegated Huddersfield Town at the weekend.

Leicester City are now in eighth place in the Premier League, on the same points as Wolverhampton Wanderers who are in seventh position. The impetus is now fully with the East Midlands club to possibly qualify for European competition by finishing strongly and becoming the ‘best of the rest’.