Sea of boos

Last night the Walkers Stadium was supposed to turn into a sea of blue but instead turned into a sea of boos.

The Leicester City PR machine had encouraged as many fans as possible to wear blue and try and make the Walkers Stadium into a fortress. Unfortunately another half-hearted display from the team meant that the supposed sea of blue was turned into fans that are worried about were Leicester are heading.

The game started evenly with both sides being cautious, but it wasn’t long until Burnley started to put the City goal under pressure. During the first half Burnley managed to hit the cross bar twice, as well as being unlucky not to force the ball in when there was a goalmouth scramble.

Just as Leicester fans start to think the score would be all even at half time, Andy Gray stepped up to head the ball past Henderson to give Burnley a deserved lead.

Leicester fans were looking for some kind of commitment and drive from the players in the second half but all they got was a similar performance to the first half.

With two defenders (Alan Maybury, Danny Tiatto) on each flank and defensive midfielder Andy Johnson in the middle of the park, Leicester limited themselves to how attacking they could be. This resulted in the defenders having to punt long balls forward to Fryatt and Hume, neither of whom are renowned for holding the ball up.

It wasn’t until Tiatto and Maybury were both substituted that Leicester started to look a little bit more dangerous. Low came on for Maybury and straight away looked like Leicester’s most attacking player, due to the fact he actually ran at the opposition. Elvis Hammond came on for Tiatto and although he didn’t contribute much, he still caused the opposition trouble and was unlucky not to score with a good low shot down to the keeper’s right.

In the last twenty minutes Leicester seemed to put a bit of pressure on Burnley, although this could have been due to the fact Burnley had retreated to the edge of their own box. Either way, the only real chance fell to Low, who saw his shot crash against the cross bar and bounce out of play.

As the final whistle blew a large section of the fans had already gone, leaving a sea of blue seats behind them. Those that had stayed until the final whistle made it known to the players and Rob Kelly that the performance wasn’t good enough.

It’s only two games into the season and already some fans are questioning the manager and the players motivation. Leicester fans realise that the players can’t win every game but they do expect to see a player fully committed in every game. The only silver lining in a very dark cloud was that Josh Low seemed lively and actually made Leicester look dangerous down the right hand side. Also Darren Kenton had another solid performance, this time at left back.

The next Leicester game is against Ipswich Town at the Walkers Stadium on Saturday, if Leicester put in another poor performance then you can guarantee that Rob Kelly’s honeymoon period will be well and truly over.