Wednesday night went from awesome to awful in the space of approximately 40 minutes for the Foxes. Sadly, the Leicestershire outfit relinquished a two-goal lead to Bristol City at Ashton Gate Stadium in midweek. The LCFC side evidently gave up following a mixed a message from boss Marti Cifuentes concerning an overly defensive-minded setup in the second half.
Due to Cifuentes not knowing how to motivate his side verbally or construct a plan in order for them to retain their winning position - they eventually lost it. The match with the Robins ended 2-2 when it probably should have finished 2-0, 3-0, or even 2-1 if we give the South West side a bit of credit. Though surrendering that margin is truly unacceptable.
One of Leicester City's other main issues, along with set-pieces, consistency, maintaining pressure, containing opponents etcetera, are fitness concerns. Elsewhere Patson Daka is heading off to the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, Harry Winks seemingly won't be available either but for much different reasons. In addition to those two, six Foxes were unavailable for the Bristol visit.
That group consists of Caleb Okoli, Aaron Ramsey, Victor Kristiansen, Boubakary Soumare, Jeremy Monga and Harry Souttar (lack of match fitness). Now the King Power outfit have possibly lost the one player they didn't want to in Jordan James. Let's hear the latest update on the Welshman's status from Cifuentes.
Leicester City may have nine senior players out now that star midfielder Jordan James picked up injury
James has been a revelation on Filbert Way this season. And I never utter those words lightly. The Rennes man is arguably up there with Abdul Fatawu as the East Midlanders' prized assets.
Therefore losing either would not just be detrimental to play, but squad belief. So it is very difficult to learn of James's difficulty:
"With JJ today we had to sub him because he was struggling at half-time,” Cifuentes said.Marti Cifuentes, via LCFC Live
“We tried to see how it could go in the second half but it was not getting better. Having a game in 48 hours, it’s important to keep everybody available. Hopefully (he’ll be okay to play on Saturday). He mentioned he was feeling it and it was not getting better. He’s a very important player for us."