Leicester 2-2 Brentford: 3 Things we learned

Is it stubbornness? Is the manager trying to make a point to the hierarchy regarding his thoughts on the squad? Whatever his reasons, they were misplaced and fresh legs would have helped. Brentford pushed into dangerous areas and squeezed a goal in from Ivan Toney. This was before late on Josh Da Silva easily turned inside onto his left foot and fired in an equaliser.

People will point to Daniel Amartey, and with good reason: he needed to be tighter and put in a better challenge on Da Silva’s goal. But with fresher legs all over the pitch, Brentford were quicker to everything. Watch the equaliser and see how James Maddison’s legs wouldn’t let him receive a Wesley Fofana pass.

Most of the players will come out of this performance with a lot of credit bar maybe Amartey and a ponderous Wilfred Ndidi. But it is Rodgers who is now starting to test the fan’s patience with yet another ‘typical’ Leicester collapse that is becoming a key character of his reign.

Also, what might this result do for a bench full of talent miffed as to why they didn’t get any game time today? It’s only day one of the season but already it is having a whiff of familiarity about it, with nothing to suggest that Leicester will be nothing more than a mid-table team unable to learn from the many mistakes they make every week.