Rodgers is now officially underachieving at Leicester

Embarrassing defending

I don’t want to understate this. So I’ll be very clear. Leicester’s general defending is pathetic and on set-pieces is idiotic. Combining man and zonal marking isn’t an issue if it’s done correctly, which Leicester don’t. Note Antonio Rudiger’s opening goal for Chelsea in November, a player that had already scored against Leicester three times before. With headers.

The German stood next to Kasper Schmeichel’s, completely unmarked, jogged up to the cross, and met the ball with his head while still unmarked. That’s right, not one Leicester player deemed it necessary to mark or even track a player that has constantly scored against them. It’s infuriating. The team doesn’t press hard enough nor defend from the front. This is the tip of the iceberg though and at the time of writing:

• Leicester has the fourth-worst defence in the Premier League
• Have only two clean sheets from all 23 games.
• Trailed in 14 of those games.

You could argue that missing a hugely important player like Wesley Fofana is playing a part, but this has been going on since last season with Fofana playing.

Rodgers believes that he wants to see more aggression on set pieces, but this should really be a simple process of getting players to protect zones and mark danger-men better. It shouldn’t be this hard and has been going on way too long to ignore. But yet he has continued to pick the same players making mistake after mistake. If they’re not learning on the pitch, perhaps they’d be better learning from the bench.