15-04-2025
'Glimpses that the spirit of Leicester is still there
"We scored a goal, we scored a goal, we scored a goal..."Such was the elation at scoring our first goal in 758 minutes at Brighton, this chant went on and has been a long-running debate among Leicester fans as to whether this squad was ever good enough to stay up. From the performance on Saturday, one could argue that Leicester really should have been in the mix and looking to finish near the top of the bottom six, had we got our house in stark fact, though, is that our house has not found any kind of "order" all season and this performance has come far too late and far too managers so early in the season is a high-risk strategy but such is the financial precipice with modern football that these hasty decisions are have had pace and width available all season, but Saturday was one of the few times that these attributes were utilised with the correct personnel, coupled with the return of Ricardo Pereira to his inverted full-back role at 61 minutes - the key ingredient of our promotion has not been available under Ruud van Nistelrooy because of injury, yet Steve Cooper made the decision to exclude Pereira continually during his tenure. Ruud has not really played with legitimate wingers or an attacking midfield (Patson Daka being the makeshift right winger in recent games), so were we ever giving ourselves a chance with these two managers? Hindsight is 20: achieve survival, your available players must play in the correct positions to try to force an attack in this increasingly possession-based game. We have experienced square pegs, round holes; tactics that are the antithesis of where our strengths I am glad we finally had something to cheer about and some glimpses that the spirit of Leicester is still there. Just in time for the more from Kate Blakemore at Leicester Till I Die, external
