Leicester 2-1 Cardiff: 3 things FoL learned

Match-winning midfields continue

A staple of this history-making start has been where the goals have come from. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Dennis Praet, Stephy Mavididi, Wilfred Ndidi, Marc Albrighton and Kelechi Iheanacho had all contributed goals and assists and 2 more names were added to that list against the Bluebirds. Wanya Marcal, another product of the foxes youth system, pulled the trigger in the 36th minute with an explosive half-volley that left Jak Alnwick helpless in the Cardiff goal. Marcal is still raw and in the early stages of his foxes career as showed by how often he would turn inside and how tentative he was to commit his opponent, but he used the ball productively and showed plenty of signs of promise.

In the 62nd minute, Cesare Casadei, only the second Italian to pull on the blue shirt, made his debut following his season-long loan move from Chelsea and he tried his best to make an impression on a game that saw the Foxes stuttering. As the game ticked into injury time, he exemplified Maresca’s assertions about needing his midfielders to arrive late into the box, with Jamie Vardy’s claim for a penalty distracting everyone in the stadium, Casadei kept his focus to smash home the winning goal and make history for the club by winning their first four games and being the first Italian to score a goal for Leicester City.

Hopefully this is the start of things to come. It may only be early but it does feel like one of the strikers will need to step up and start taking the goalscoring reins soon, teams aiming for promotion typically have strikers bossing the goalscoring charts and they have all been out of form for a long time.