Leicester: stumbling their way through the Premier League start

There is an age-old debate about progression and possession, which do your care about more and how you achieve it within a football match. For Rodgers this season, possession and progression retention has been the imperative.

We aim to keep the ball and keep it high, but also are prepared to pass all the way back to the ‘keeper to restart the build-up.

There are four names usually absent from the personnel which would help the Foxes progress, possess, but also more clinically create: James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, Kelechi Iheanacho, and Wesley Fofana.

One of those is injured so it is not their own fault or Rodgers’ fault. However, Barnes and Madders are both regular players and have not been at the races. They have been poor or absent within matches.

These are pivotal players. When on form, Maddison is a creative dynamo in midfield and is capable of taking the progression from Youri Tielemans and finding that final pass into a dangerous position, finding Jamie Vardy or someone else.

Barnes is so important. His pace and explosiveness mixed with a strength and allurement of defenders allows him to draw in defenders and then beat them in a foot race.

FoL’s exhaustive look at the season’s beginning continues on the upcoming page.