Leicester promoted as QPR smash Leeds 4-0 with interesting "players only meeting" and "major return" possible
27/04/2024 09:55
Leeds fell to the ground at Loftus Road losing 4-0 to QPR. Ilias Chair scored the first goal after just 8 minutes, and from then on Leeds looked a defeated unit.
Khun Top will of course be pleased with the way Leicester have managed to turn around their fortunes and the result on Loftus Road yesterday made it possible to celebrate a return to Premier League two games before the season is finally over.
The form and results from January until the West Brom game was relegation form, and this will of course be a major topic to discuss, when this return to the top flight is happening.
According to related sources there was a players only meeting before the West Brom game, and we could see a change. Leicester played a more open and direct game, had less possession and we did see a counter attacking style back in the team. This was even more present again against Southampton, using all tools in the football toolbox to achieve a wonderful result, more or less based on the DNA of this football club.
Enzoball looked very different, as the manager looks to have been sidelined and given orders to understand what has to be done to get this promotion over the line. It looks to have worked 100%. Mads Hermansen looked a much better goalkeeper as he often kicked the ball long distance and did not take the words of Enzo Maresca at all into consideration, being threatened to lose his job if he played the longball.
There will be no move to Barcelona for Enzo Maresca, Xavi will continue at Camp Nou. The link to Sevilla could be one to follow for Enzo Maresca as his time at Leicester looks to be over. His relationship with the fans and the presence of the owner Khun Top, being at both games, resulted in two starts for Jamie Vardy, earlier on he has rested his captain and not played him as much as he would have liked.
There will be interesting topics to be discussed going forward, but we feel that this season has been one far from clearity as the highs and lows of this football team is so far out to not really understand how it is possible.
There are of course a long list of matters and other aspects, to list them all up might be too much, but we all know how concerned fans are, so here is a short list of notes;
- Leicester fanbase can turn against and make King Power a very nasty place to be. Fans do have certain expectations and can stop this Enzoball project in seconds as it looks fragile and in conflict with the way football is and should be played in England.
- Owners have other ideas and will have to deal with transfers in a very different way than in the past
- The ratio of free agents and how to replace or renew their deals
- No money early on to tie down Abdul Fatawu, who certainly will be a priority, losing him would of course be a problem for the Enzo Maresca project
- Fans reaction to the way Enzo Maresca dealt with Hamza Choudhury, and his drinkdriving, keeping him as third captain and flashing it into the face of every fan when he continued to play and having the armband despite this incident, as it could have been dealt with in another way, probably showing the respect to fans they deserve and as well kept Hamza more protected
- Enzo looked surprised and said he had no clue there were no funds available in January as the Stefano Sensi affair never happened. The transfer itself looked strange as the player has since been injured, had an operation and not played at all
- The trust and understanding between Enzo, Rudkin and Khun Top is also one special topic hopefully taken into consideration when going into the next face.
- How the games vs. Plymouth and Millwall were lost, game management and planning looked far from good enough, then scrapping Enzoball for the last two home games playing counter attacking without possession
The last two games will of course give us all more clues of the future, but we certainly hope we will see a team fighting on and give everything to bring home the title and also not have a full rotation and underestimate the value of winning a new trophy.
Well done in the end, we are all happy to see Leicester back up in the Premier League, anything else would have been a catastrophy, losing that major gap that had been build early on.
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