Leicester: Is Brendan Rodgers stubborn and deluded?

The calls for Rodgers’ dismissal from some overly-vocal social media dwelling ‘supporters’ recently, were themselves delusional of the fact that the Foxes could attract a more astute, better or higher profile manager to Leicestershire. Poor results and form dips happen for even the greats – just look at Liverpool’s and Manchester City’s weekend results under the brilliant Jurgen Klopp and football professor Pep Guardiola for reference, respectively.

Is Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers stubborn or delusional?

Basically, Rodgers must be one or the other thing, stubborn or delusional. And, as Leicester fans, we are kind of hoping for the lesser of two evils here: stubbornness. Why I have arrived at this judgement is due to a zonal marking policy on defensive set-pieces which clearly has a deleterious effect on the team’s confidence and, more often than not these days, negatively impacts Leicester’s results.

Once it was just one of the issues – such as not leaving a Jamie Vardy-type up-field whilst defending corners or attacking free-kicks – however, the amount of goals conceded through the zone system has cost the Foxes for well over a year if not longer. During that time the team tops, or is nearly atop, the lists for conceding from a set-piece.

If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, fundamentally and typically bosses employ two separate tactics to defend corners, etcetera: a zone or a man-to-man method. The former uses defenders to cover different areas of the box instead of marking one opponent; flexibility is key. Subsequently when turning defence into attack, players are supposedly in superior positions to begin a counter-attack.