Matt Piper offers brutally honest take on Leicester City squad after narrow Chelsea defeat
Leicester City’s Premier League survival bid took another hit on Sunday as Ruud van Nistelrooy’s lost 1-0 away to Chelsea.
Marc Cucurella’s second-half strike was all that was needed for Enzo Maresca to get one over on his former side, with Leicester now six points off from safety after suffering their 12th Premier League loss in their last 13 games.
Although Mads Hermansen won praise for his penalty save on Cole Palmer, the attacking performance was one to forget for Leicester, who again showed no real spark in the final-third despite having moments to cause Chelsea some real damage.
And former winger Matt Piper has now shared his brutally honest verdict on the current state of the Leicester squad heading into the final ten games of the season.
Leicester ‘lack that bit of quality’ to win points in the Premier League
Speaking on the When You’re Smiling podcast, the pundit noted how Leicester simply don’t have the quality in the squad to turn losses into draws or draws into wins, with Van Nistelrooy yet to find the magic formula to get the Foxes’ scoring goals again.
Piper said on the result in west London: “They should have got something from the game, but when they get into threatening areas they fall down again. It feels like a broken record. The counterattacks were good but the final decision-making by whoever was stood over the ball at the time did lack.
