Blackburn 1-4 Leicester: Foxes positives and negatives

Away days are not for everyone, except Leicester City. Here are the positives and negatives behind Enzo Maresca’s latest thumping victory for the Foxes.

After the dust settles on another win on the road, it is time to think more critically about the fixture and understand what is really good, and what is bad post-match. There are two obvious dualities, so we will commence instead with our less obvious positive.

Leicester City’s Championship hardship

In the closing season of the King Power club’s last consecutive top flight stint, Brendan Rodgers and Dean Smith’s team struggled. They played hard, sometimes really well, and other times performed poorly, conceding too many chances and not having the depth of quality to drag themselves kicking and screaming out of an abyssal rut.

A hard game was not just hard, it felt impossible to win. The Foxes would miss, then miss again, then concede, then build a great chance only to have it saved. In essence, their quality could create opportunities but nothing would seem to land: they could not win in tough games.

However, the opening games of the Italian’s campaign have shown us the opposite. Bar one tough fixture – Hull City – all other tough games have still seen Leicester emerge victorious. From the heroics of Mads Hermansen to the clinical output of Jamie Vardy and Kasey McAteer: little bits of quality impact massively when combined.