Brendan Rodgers’ 3 most disappointing 2021/22 Leicester results
By Will Kennedy
With the game deep into the fifth minute of stoppage time, Spurs managed to grab their equaliser with the Dutch substitute levelling. After holding out for so long, a draw felt like a real kick in the teeth for the Foxes. Still, it was better to end with a point rather than nothing.
A quick restart and a long ball later, Bergwijn had raced ahead of Caglar Soyuncu and did the improbable. In the 97th minute of the game, he had scored his second, put Leicester to the sword, and snatched all three points. If the equaliser was a sucker punch, this was a knockout blow.
After snatching defeat from the claws of victory, Rodgers had this to say to BBC Match of the Day:
"‘We are disappointed to concede the equaliser. If we win a couple of duels the game is over. But we didn’t. You then have to take your point. So to lose the game, it is all on us. We can have no complaints. We gift-wrapped three goals and presented them the three points.’"
It’s a defeat that still hurts, and one that feels like an antithesis of Leicester’s season: doing all the hard work and then conceding sloppy goals. We’d see it later with the last minute goal that earned West Ham a point in their 2-2 draw at the King Power, the 2-1 loss at Newcastle and the 1-1 draw to Everton.
Since the 1-0 win over Liverpool, the Foxes have played 25 games and have kept only five clean sheets. It’s clear to see where the problems lay this season.