More bad news for Leicester ahead of Palace clash
Leicester City have lost two successive games, along with only scoring two goals in four. Now there is more bad news as James Maddison is injured again.
Everton, Brighton & Hove Albion, Watford, even Chelsea – these sides have all taken points from or beaten Leicester City in the last week or so. Startlingly, apart from maybe the Blues, any football fan would have expected the Foxes to easily sweep away those opponents.
That is, judging by the play exhibited by Brendan Rodgers’ team in the first half of the 2019/20 campaign. Since roughly Christmas time, except the win at West Ham which included nine alterations in the starting eleven, Leicester have been generally poor.
To be fair to the manager – who is, incidentally, absolutely the right man for the job, regardless of what any ill-informed, presumptuous, judgmental folk tell you – he has admitted the shortcomings in his own succinct fashion. Not to mention the Northern Irishman committing to fight for the King Power club’s entry back into the Champions League.
Leicester City’s bad news
Sadly for Rodgers he’s going to need his best players fit, available and firing on all cylinders, so to speak. James Maddison is presently describable as none of those elements.
On form, Maddison is arguably Leicester’s most gifted or influential player. Though, after making a comeback versus Everton as a substitute following a hip injection, Maddison is now a doubt for Saturday’s clash with Crystal Palace.
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Youri Tielemans is struggling to replicate what the England midfielder supplies, so the Foxes really need Madders.