Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester City too cautious against top clubs

Essentially this article is complimentary to Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester City – by noting that the team is too good to show so much respect to big six sides.

Liverpool won their latest Premier League match by a fine margin thanks to a penalty in the dying minutes. Leicester City were not at their best and possibly, again, showed too much respect to one of the division’s dominant clubs, when they could’ve taken the game to the leaders.

Obviously that assessment is a thinly veiled compliment to the Foxes. Yes, this writer is a member of the Blue Army but impartial in analysis for the good of the team – they are simply too adept a side to go to Anfield and sit back without invention.

Brendan Rodgers has worked wonders with the talented squad he inherited. Not a lot has altered or been added to the starting XI; and players who have transitioned into starters like Caglar Soyuncu have been managed and trusted deftly.

Not everything in the Northern Irishman’s strategies have been accurate – though who would be absolutely perfect?! Yet at Old Trafford versus as weak a Manchester United outfit witnessed in modern times, Rodgers’ ploy of a defensive-minded outlook, set-up and insistence on negating James Maddison’s prowess by sticking him wide-ish hindered the chances of winning.

Consequently Leicester lost that game; the same can be said about the Reds clash on Saturday. Jurgen Klopp’s side were without some starters, Mohamed Salah is slightly off his almost impeccable form level, as are some significant other team-mates of his. Please don’t get Foxes of Leicester wrong, we are saying this knowing Liverpool are arguably the preeminent team in the world at the moment.

Playing retro, unimaginative, aimless or hopeful long-balls is inadequate as a style as well as being a system which is beneath Leicester City these days. Unless it was the players being overawed and subsequently panic playing.

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However, the Leicester manager’s former-team are beatable; the East Midlanders possibly should have been the first ones to take a point from them this campaign. Some may say bringing on Hamza Choudhury, despite his doggedness, invited attack from Klopp’s men. Whilst the Foxes could still have triumphed themselves in smash and grab fashion.

Sadly Maddison’s equaliser is as close as they got, due to a goal from Sadio Mane and a James Milner penalty sealing the Reds’ victory. That contest, and the Man Utd one, feel anticlimactic in a sense and should serve as an example of what not to do. Because this Foxes line-up is probably the best we’ve ever seen. Even in comparison to the champions of 2015/16; apart from N’golo Kante and Riyad Mahrez’s absence.

Therefore Rodgers and his young, accomplished side need to throw caution to the wind against these so-called big six clubs – in order to replace one of them, along with becoming a consummate member of that association.