What’s going wrong for Rodgers at Leicester?

However, as personnel changed the zone became less effective, this was first noticeable in the early stages of last season where the Foxes seemed to have a weakness in defending set-pieces. At that stage it was only a weakness, and I could understand Rodgers wanting to persist with the zone at the time as the east Midlands side had once been extremely strong at defending corners with the zone.

But it was the beginning of this season that the zone fell apart. Every game Leicester looked like conceding from set-pieces, and generally would. By December, the Foxes had the worst record from set-pieces in the league before Rodgers finally changed to a more traditional man-to-man marking system.

The issue present isn’t the fact that he changed system, it’s the fact that it took months of conceding goals and throwing points away before a change was made. Had he changed to man-to-man marking when it became clear to all the fans that it wasn’t working, than Leicester may not be in as low in the league as they are.

It was clear that the zonal marking system was not working for the Foxes defence with Jonny Evans and Wesley Fofana absent, however the 49-year-old stubbornly persisted, a trait of his that hasn’t gone unnoticed by Foxes faithful.