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Leicester v Crystal Palace: Foxes taking Champions League place

By Elliot Mackness

Leicester City's Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho (L) is congratulated by Northern Irish manager Brendan Rodgers (Photo by ANDREW BOYERS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Leicester City's Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho (L) is congratulated by Northern Irish manager Brendan Rodgers (Photo by ANDREW BOYERS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) /
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Jamie Vardy of Leicester City (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images) /

A failure of a first half

Starting line-up: Kasper Schmeichel, Jonny Evans, Caglar Soyuncu, Wesley Fofana, Timothy Castagne, Luke Thomas, Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans, James Maddison, Kelechi Iheanacho, and Jamie Vardy.

20:00: Kickoff at the King Power, with plenty of intensity in the first thirty seconds. Leicester City have started with three at the back, with Fofana rushing forward very aggressively early on; likely to create overloads.

20:09: Fofana continuing his fantastic form, getting goal side of Wilfred Zaha and preventing the Crystal Palace star from cutting inside onto goal, and potentially getting a chance. Signing of the season anyone?

20:10: First chance for Vardy, taken wide by a long mark. An in form Vardy buries that chance.

(0-1) 20:12: Goal for Crystal Palace! A potential foul on Tielemans gives the ball to Eberechi Eze, and then a pass to Zaha gives Zaha a beautiful opportunity in front of Schmeichel. A lot of work to do now against a strong defensive team.

20:15: Foul on Vardy, free kick in a dangerous position. A poor free kick from Tielemans and a wasted opportunity for the Foxes to get back into this game.

20:17: Yellow card for Jaïro Riedewald and another dangerous free kick scenario. Tielemans hits it clean on target, saved though. A real zest is needed to get back into this game, a game where Leicester have most the possession.

20:21: A corner for the home side, Evans heads it wide.

20:28: Corner to Leicester once again. Caught by the goalkeeper easily. This has happened far too much this season; either the kick is too low or too high, there has to be an in-between right?

20:33: Another corner to the Foxes, Tielemans takes it once again. Sent into the sky by Soyuncu. Not clinical enough at the moment from the home side.

20:43: Thomas has been belly flopped on by Jordan Ayew. Maddison takes the free kick and nothing comes of it again.

20:46: VAR CHECK FOR PENALTY! No penalty or foul apparently… Inconsistent decisions continue from referees, giving VAR a bad reputation once more.