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Leicester City: Brendan Rodgers’ great pretenders must stop the slide or risk wasting a season with immense promises

It should have been the perfect moment for a coach like Brendan Rodgers to show his quality, but he was only showing Leicester City’s many problems at the moment.

The Irish team had been given the break in the second half when all the FA Cup quarter-final initiative had been moved to Chelsea and the Foxes were in urgent need of intervention. However, there was not much to expect. Aside from the instructions to increase intensity, Leicester had no more ideas and no goals.

The fear now is whether they will leave the Champions League by the end of the season and maybe long before that.


This week’s FA Cup games have only underlined the general trend of the Premier League’s top 4 chases since the restart. The Pretenders – Leicester and Sheffield United – are falling drastically, while the established clubs are asserting their authority. The only exception are the wondrous wolves traveling to Chelsea on the last day, just like Leicester host Manchester United.

It could be a classic high point for this race until 2006 – if it gets this far.

For Leicester and a team that was closest to Liverpool for half the season, there is suddenly a real danger that they will get out of this situation entirely.

You’re still in third place, one point ahead of Chelsea, two ahead of Wolves and six ahead of United, but such leads can disappear in a moment when you just can’t score goals or win games. This was a big problem for her.

And the big frustration is that apart from Jamie Vardy’s form and graduation, they don’t do much else. That is what is so worrying.

Some of this should be placed in a broader context. For Leicester, it would generally be over-fulfilled to even make it into the top six. The xG statistics also indicate that they performed above average for a long time.

There is still the possibility that they will “balance” and actually land above their level. It’s just that, like a place in the Europa League, it feels so daunting when you can’t hold this slide on the table.

The problem is that it doesn’t completely match a slide in numbers. The analyzes suggest that they usually perform the same actions in the attack. The structure is the same. It’s just that it instinctively feels like there’s not the same energy or intensity.

There is not the same power or unpredictability. Much of Vardy’s donation was made. However, many in the club feel that Ricardo Pereira’s loss was key. It made them so much flatter. There is not the same movement in the team.

It can mean movement in the Champions League pursuit.

While Leicester still has this dot pillow, it feels like the sides beneath them feel blood. You have the feeling that there is a chance.

That is encouraged by the fact that they also create far more opportunities than Rodgers’ side. Compare Leicester’s ability to build moves that have nothing to do with Chelsea’s new penetration, the Wolves’ push, or United’s creativity since the partnership of Bruno Fernandes and Paul Pogba.

The city’s ban on moving Champions League places to fifth place seemed to open the entire top half below. It now feels like Leicester’s film is also opening the top.

You – and Vardy – need a goal. You need some kind of spark. It is impossible not to feel that their trust has been weakened.

This was the greater importance of leaving the FA Cup. The fact is that it only prolongs the negative feeling in the team and at the same time reinforces Chelsea.

In all respects, Frank Lampard’s team feels that they are in a relatively precarious position in terms of places in the Champions League. You don’t have much room for error. One slip, and they suddenly run the risk of being overtaken directly.

It’s just not like they make mistakes. You have so many options and there is an assertiveness in your game again.

It feels like these Champions League spots are being populated.

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