3 Things we learned from Leicester’s draw with Sheffield Wednesday

They struggle against deep-lying teams

Many times last season Leicester City dropped points against teams who sat deep and let them play their possession-based football. The 1-1 home draw with Norwich City and the 2-1 defeat to Burnley certainly ring a bell.

Sheffield Wednesday defended similar to the Canaries on Saturday, with their two key chances coming from set-pieces. Leicester struggled to break down the stubborn back three, which turned into a five when the wing-backs tracked back.

A positive sign will be the nature of the number of opportunities that were created against the Owls in both halves. But a lack of creativity was clear to see throughout.

Both Praet and Tielemans did not venture forward as much as they would have liked and Nempalys Mendy was deployed as the ‘half-back’, sitting in the defence to form a back three when building possession.

The missing James Maddison would have created more chances with him often being in between the lines to join Vardy in through the middle.

In the second half, Sidnei Tavares was introduced and held the ball up well against a strong Wednesday midfield. However, unlike Wednesday’s pleasing display, Tavares struggled to be as attacking as he was against Birmingham.

Full credit to Monk’s side, their determination to deny the Foxes space through the lines and out wide forced the likes of Kelechi Iheanacho to drop deep to collect the ball.

But if Rodgers want his side to challenge for a European place next season and to go far in the Europa League, he will have to develop a plan to break these type of teams down.