Categories: Football

Leicester can't beat Brighton and lose rope

He Leicester City (3rd) of Brendan Rodgers, in full fight for second place in the Premier League, now in the hands of Manchester City, He gave up another two points when he tied against him Brighton (0-0) from Graham Potter. In a flat game and with few clear occasions, the foxes were unable to break the networks of Mathew Ryan.

The foxes arrived with the urgent need to add the three points in the King Power Stadium, more after the ‘puncture’ on the last day before the Watford (1-1
) where they added a draw that was of little use to them in their career to catch Manchester City by Guardiola, second classified in the Premier. Brighton, on the other hand, with morale through the roof by defeating a whole Arsenal 2-1.

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The meeting started in the worst possible way for him Leicester. In an isolated play, Brighton's attacker Connolly drew oil and got a penalty (11 ’) after the passivity of the defense and the children's error of James Justin, who knocked down the striker. However, the future of the game, which seemed to be in favor of the visitors, was not. Kasper Schmeichel showed off his reflexes and with a great movement he saved the ball in the maximum penalty after the shot of ‘7’, Neal Maupay, who missed a “gold” opportunity to overtake his own.

Leicester's first arrival It didn't come until the 29th minute in a meek header from Vardy, although the ball was easily stopped by Ryan. The Foxes had a lot of trouble creating spaces in a first half marked by Brighton's untransformed penalty, though Söyüncü He was on the verge of a carom to score a header in the last action of the first 45 minutes.

On the restart, the foxes came out with one more march to try to turn the game around. In 53 ’the talented James Maddison, who was absent in the first half, made his first shot and almost opened the scoring.

However, with the passage of minutes to Rodgers began to rush him knowing to lose another two points with the tie. Although they had a chance in the second half, the reality is that with more heart than football they were not able to break the Brighton's nets.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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