Thankfully Leicester City Football Club returned to winning ways in the Championship this weekend. That refound status was due to a satisfying 3-1 away victory at Swansea City. This win shot LCFC up to third in the tier two table too. This is great news for Leicester's Blue Army fan base, whom suffered through four fairly drab and successive draws. Goals from box-to-box man Jordan James, winger extraordinaire Abdul Fatawu and towering centre back Jannik Vestergaard settled the affair.
Marti Cifuentes, the Foxes gaffer, declined to make several changes to his team again. He was able to design the match approach with only one alteration to his starting lineup on the day. Vice-captain Hamza Choudhury was correctly withdrawn from the XI after various mistakes and underwhelming play from the inverted right back role, overall. Though the Bangladesh National Team representative is a defensive-minded midfielder by trade.
Skipper Ricardo Pereira was the defender who came in for Choudhury versus the Swans. New striker Julian Carranza had to make do with an appearance from the substitute's bench. While auxiliary centre forward Jordan Ayew was an unused sub. But who exactly stood out? Here are Leicester's winners, as well as losers, from the Swansea win. Who let the side down, and which players were outstanding for the right reasons?
Leicester City's winners & losers from Swansea City victory - who let the side down?
First of all, the best performers against SCFC. Pereira improved from where Choudhury left off with a score of 7. Jakub Stolarczyk and Vestergaard gave quality displays at 8-a-piece.
"Julian Carranza: He’ll be disappointed not to have taken his one-on-one late on. He did look a little rusty but was at least regularly involved. He put himself about. 5"LCFC Live
Goalscorer James got the exact same rating from Leicester Mercury. Although, now we move on to the not so good Foxes. Bobby De Cordova-Reid was handed a 4; a rather embarrassing score.
"Bobby De Cordova-Reid: A difficult afternoon after such a good showing in midweek. He wasn’t strong enough on the ball and didn’t do a great job of blocking passing lines early on either. He couldn’t get into the game when City were on the attack and was the first man subbed. 4"
None of the subs impressed. Starting left back Luke Thomas's 6 is a concern. Wout Faes matched that effort.