Ricardo Pereira and Abdul Fatawu kept their places in the team, also a starting position to Jannik Vestergaard, Victor Kristiansen coming back, James Justin and Caleb Okoli on the bench, but still very much the same pattern as always, but in our point one very positive, Jannik Vestergaard is back in the line-up.
Leicester started lively and had momentum early on, especially Harry Winks and Wilfred Ndidi managed to keep the team high in the field with good possession play, supported by Jannik Vestergaard that keeps his passes accurate and in standard with life in Premier League.
Stephy Mavididi had a massive chance to score, but his shot from a Jamie Vardy pass, was a clown act. From this point and onwards, step by step Ipswich took over more and more. A number of attempts is either saved by Mads Hermansen or cleared from the defenders, first half is not much to talk about, regarding Leicester chances.
Leicester comes out in the second half as the picture is very much similar to what we experienced late first half with a special momentum for Ipswich, and they just pushed on, to get that opening goal. Sloppy defending from Leicester and a massive miss from Ricardo Pereira givens Leif Davis the chance to score on a volley. A goal handed to Ipswich and the lack of power in the defensive play at that point made this possible. Leicester are 1-0 down after 55 minutes.
Nothing really changed, and it wasn’t before Steve Cooper put Kasey McAteer and Bouba Soumare on that we did get more positive and a Leicester advantage. The fact that Ipswich were reduced to 10 men after 77 minutes, made it possible for Steve Cooper to make more offensive changes, putting on Bilal El Khannouss and Jordan Ayew in the 80th minute, with almost 20 minutes left of the game, including stoppage time period.
Ipswich had no other choice than to lay low and that made it possible for Leicester to push for that special goal, and it all happened in the 90+4 minute, when Jordan Ayew combined fantastically with Jamie Vardy and pushed the ball over the line.
Leicester had more time left to score a winner, and it could have happened, but credit to Ipswich who fought off all attempts inside the penalty area. Leicester manager Steve Cooper should be pleased with his work in second half doing changes that worked, but still needs to decide on his work and player use, with a number issues to check out after this performance.
- Positives
- Jamie Vardy being influencial with one pass and having more assisting work up front
- Jannik Vestergaard is not the player to drop from this team, please understand his importance
- Steve Cooper doing the changes needed to be able to get something from this game
- Jordan Ayew with great contribution, again being influential in the last minutes
- Coming back after being behind
- Good contribution from Kasey McAteer, Bouba Soumare and Jordan Ayew when coming on
- Negatives
- Ricardo Pereira being played, not really showing his worth at the moment, needs to improve
- Abdul Fatawu has to understand that he is among the important players and cannot play far below standard and missing half of his attempts one against one
- Harry Winks and Wilfred Ndidi having problems to run a midfield, losing momentum
- Stephy Mavididi is also one player that needs to play better than we did see today, not on the pedal
- Victor Kristiansen is also a player that has too little contribution going forward, struggling heavily defensively in certain situations, being approached by the opponent as the weakest link
Player Ratings: Hermansen 6, Pereira 5, Kristiansen 5, Vestergaard 6, Faes 6, Winks 5, Fatawu 5, Ndidi 5, Vardy 6, Mavididi 4, Bounanotte 6, Subs: Ayew, Soumare, El Khannouss, McAteer
- Leicester City, Man of the Match
Match Stats (H/A)
- Possession: 43 / 57
- Shots on Target: 2 / 6
- Corners: 4 / 6
- Fouls: 11 / 10
