Leicester player reviews – Get Carter’s 20/21: Barnestorming season cut in Harvey

The next week against Burnley, he assisted and scored in a strong performance and would go on to be a key part of an astonishing 5-2 victory at Manchester City. At the Etihad, Barnes was a key component in ensuring quick breaks in attack were hard to stop. These performances were enough to earn him a call up to Gareth Southgate’s England squad where he would earn his first cap albeit in 14 minutes at the end of a comfortable 3-0 win over Wales. With an impending Euro 2020 on the horizon, another on his progression journey was looking within reach.

Brendan Rodgers asking Barnes to play in a more advanced role at Arsenal would return a familiar feeling of inconsistency. Incidentally Barnes featured in ten games between October and December where he wouldn’t complete a full 90 minutes. The Europa league was hampering a lot of players gaining momentum as the Northern-Irish manager rightly protected and managed his squad.

Once the group stages of the Europa League were completed, Rodgers reverted to unleashing his young dangerous wing man. This started to herald more and more consistent performances but most importantly gave Barnes sensational goals against Manchester United and Crystal Palace. A confidence was starting to brim through Barnes which was most telling in his pacy and mazy runs causing defenders problems throughout the land.