Two points were dropped by Leicester City as they entertained a particularly average Wrexham team at King Power Stadium. For 60 or 70 minutes, spectators could have easily mistaken the laborious and LCFC possession-dominated match as a boring, midweek Carabao Cup affair. Mistaking the Red Dragons for a visiting English Football League One, or even League Two side, would have been an absolutely understandable error for attendees on Filbert Way to make.
Although as the match entered the final third, or even last quarter, it appeared that Phil Parkinson and his Welsh club were more astute and Championship qualified than upon first impression. To be fair, they had marshalled the Foxes' exceptional wingers by doubling up the marking, as Parkinson explained after the final whistle. Yet they also suddenly sprung to life in attack as the contest expired.
Consequently the failings of Jannik Vestergaard, who was outmuscled by a much smaller and weaker seeming opponent, and Oliver Skipp came to light fast. The former Tottenham Hotspur man was just as much to blame for the East Midlanders conceding as his fragile, giant of a teammate. You can click here to read a more detailed analysis of Skipp's failure to simply track Wrexham goalscorer Nathan Broadhead.
And a frustrated Foxes boss let the squad have it following the unpalatable statement. City manager Marti Cifuentes even went so far as to collectively label Leicester's stars as arrogant. Wow.
Frustrated Foxes boss Marti Cifuentes labels Leicester City stars arrogant
Once parity was confirmed on the night, the Catalan in charge at LCFC went straight to his post-game interviews. Clearly Cifuentes was unhappy with the outcome, performances and the attitude of many of his men:
"We spoke about the need to keep pushing but unfortunately in the second half we slowly started to drop.Hull Daily Mail
"My honest assessment is that we were a bit arrogant. We thought the game was totally under control."
For the gaffer to label their approach as 'arrogant' is very telling, and worrying. Let's hope this is a mistake learned from!