Norwich City 1-2 Leicester City: 3 Things we learned

Yesterday’s away fixture for Leicester City was a trepidatious one. The back and forth momentum shifts were an adrenaline rush for the Foxes.

Though the Foxes managed to wrap up their hunt for three crucial points at the Carrow Road, the performance was not up to the mark by Brendan Rodgers‘ men. Despite not being at their best, scraping the win looked rather bleak at times.

The international break couldn’t have come at a better time for Leicester City as they need to rethink and implement a newer approach to their upcoming games. Too many missteps would not only put a dampener to their aspirations but have a snowballing effect on their future.

3 Things we learned from Leicester City’s performance

Söyüncü is lacking focus

The only Norwich City goal came from a penalty by the VAR. The criticizing factor of that particular goal is that it was avoidable. The unnecessary sliding tackle into the box from Çağlar Söyüncü clearly shows his lack of focus and momentary decision making.

The Turkish defender’s problems are causing because he’s brash and bold. His defending style only resonates with near perfection when he is playing under the leadership of a veteran like Jonny Evans.

Without him and Wesley Fofana, Söyüncü has been visibly suffering in shouldering the responsibility of the backline. Luckily Daniel Amartey has been filling in for the injured CBs and doing a pretty solid job. Otherwise, we would have been in deep trouble.

Vardy ages like a wine

One man that was the star of this match was Jamie Vardy. Opening the King Power Club’s account from a beautiful Ricardo Pereira cross was just vintage Vardy. With having just 18 touches on the ball, he was also able to stitch up an assist to Marc Albrighton.

That goal made the difference to the ultimate result. It doesn’t look like the man has any thoughts about slowing down anytime soon. He is aging like a fine wine and is still poses the greatest threat that the opposition has to deal with.

Abysmal from set-pieces

The continued lapse of defending from oppositional set-pieces remained the focus of this week as well. The Canaries scored from a corner which was ruled offside. However, that does show how easy it has been for the teams to score from corners against the east Midlanders.

There have been no answers from the Foxes on how to deal with the incoming crosses from a corner. The disorganized man-to-man marking always leaves room for error which gets punished on a pretty much regular basis.