Leicester 4-1 Randers: 3 Things learned from maiden UECL win
By Nathan Wong
Leicester City returned to winning ways with a confidence-boosting win against Danish side Randers in the Europa Conference League play-offs. Despite Brendan Rodgers having claimed he initially didn’t know about the Europa Conference League, the City boss went with a relatively strong side. The Foxes opened the scoring through the unlikely source of Wilfried Ndidi in the 23rd minute but fans would have been forgiven for thinking the worst as Randers equalised on the stroke of half-time.
In the end, however, Rodgers’ gamble paid off and Leicester City showed their class in the second half to run out 4-1 winners with Harvey Barnes, Patson Daka and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall scoring on an evening where the Foxes should have had several more if not for the heroics of Horses goalkeeper Patrik Carlgren. On this topic, here are three things that FoL picked out from the evening.
A confidence-restoring evening for Jannik Vestergaard
It is safe to say that Jannik Vestergaard has not enjoyed the smoothest of starts for Leicester City with the big Dane coming under frequent criticism for Leicester’s leaky defence. Against Randers however, Vestergaard put in his best display since his debut albeit against an inferior side. He won 100% of his headers whilst also looking good in possession.
Is this the start of a Vestergaard renaissance? Whilst it would be foolish to re-evaluate opinions based on one display, hopefully, confidence will start to increase for Vestergaard as Leicester look to see why they paid £15m for his services. Naturally, the Premier League is an entirely different beast to the Conference League but this display may stop some fans booing the defender which is certainly counter-productive to improving performance.