Leicester City’s final game of pre-season ended on a positive note with a 1-0 victory against Sevilla at the King Power Stadium. The only goal of the game came from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.
First look at the new Leicester City third kit
Originally when I first saw the shirt announced online I had my reservations about Leicester’s new third kit, but after seeing it in person in the club shop it’s started to grow on me. I also love the sentiment behind it, having the maroon colour from that FA Cup winning season as highlights on the shirt is a really nice touch. You can tell it’s going to be a popular shirt, I saw so many people buying and wearing them at the game today, I have a feeling it’s going to be a favourite amongst the fans.
Insight into charity shield by a steward – and no clap banners!
After pushing those blue turnstiles for the first time since May, we were greeted by one of the Stewards. He chatted with us about yesterday’s charity shield match held at the King Power, revealing how unpleasant certain supporters had apparently been. Please select the below option to continue with FoL’s match review from the last fan attended friendly of 2022.
Our area is where the Manchester City faithful were sat, and it became known to us that some were rude and at times it even became scary. Supposedly ground security were glad to have the Leicester fans back.
After walking up the concrete steps to our seats, the first thing I noticed was no clap banners. It was a sight to behold! Finally. I’m just hoping that this decision carries on for the season and they don’t make a reappearance for the first game at home to Brentford. After starting to play ‘When You’re Smiling’ towards the end of last term after listening to fans’ gripes – could this finally be the season we wave goodbye to the dreaded clap banners?
I must admit that it felt so nice to hear and see actual applause rather than the annoying folded pieces of cardboard. It also added to the atmosphere of the clash, although there were only 15,000 people in attendance so it wasn’t the loudest. Although if it sounded decent at a friendly – imagine how good it could be with a full stadium using their hands rather than the clap banners. However, I don’t want to get my hopes up too much, and suppose we’ll find out what the fate of the clappers really is next Sunday.
Injury woes
Leicester’s season hasn’t even started and we already have two to add to our injury list via Sunday’s friendly on Filbert Way. There could have been a lot more as Sevilla made plenty of dirty tackles. Bearing in mind it was meant to be a ‘practice’ game, the Reds-Whites certainly didn’t act like it at times. Watching on from the stands, there were numerous times when I thought LCFC were going to have a repeat of last year, seeing a floppy leg or two, but luckily that was not the case.
Unfortunately, Wesley Fofana and Ricardo Pereira are the first names on our injury list so far. Harvey Barnes also came off after going down injured, but Brendan Rodgers said post-match:
"“We think it’s ok. It felt unstable, so there was no need to take the risk. He seems fine. We’ll see how he is tomorrow”. Leicester Mercury"
Fofana had a groin issue so his minutes on the pitch were limited due to that, but it’s not known how serious this is. In contrast, Ricardo has an achilles problem which could be serious “Ricky coming off, it doesn’t look good. We had an awful injury here last year. It doesn’t look good.”, certainly not what we want to hear before the season has even begun!