Post Match report for the Leicester game - Sunday, 23rd January 2022
PREMIER LEAGUE 21/22: Leicester V Brighton - 23/1/22 P22.
* * * * * ALBION ANOTHER POINT AWAY * * * * *
RESULT: 1-1 ~ Welbeck . (h-t 0-0) . . . . SHAPE: 4-1-2-1-2
VENUE: King Power Stad, Leicester - eleventh away match of twenty-two fixtures to date . Sunday 2:00pm.
PRE-MATCH: a post-lunchtime kickoff meant travelling support got grub on the run somewhere in or around central England. Such mediocre things were precursor to a clash of mid table sides hoping to move on up in all senses.
WEATHER: cold & settled . . . GATE: 31,231 . . . KIT: all turquoise.
GRAHAM POTTER had latterly tested positive for covid and now so did assistant Billy Reid. Third man Bjorn Hamberg assumed technical area duties, with Bruno riding shotgun and Andrew Crofts doing techy analysis.
Maupay & Trossard got to start. Dunk returned from long term injury to sit among substitutes.
INJURY: 12 Mwepu, 24 Duffy . SQUAD: 55 Turns, 58 Ferguson . AFCON: 8 Bissouma.
TEAM . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanchez
. 34 Veltman, 4 Webster, 33 Burn, 3 Cucurella
. . . . 13 Gross . . . 17 Alzate . . . . 10 Mac Allister
. . . 11 Trossard . . . .15 Moder . . . . 9 Maupay
SUBS: 2 Lamptey (62), 18 Welbeck (62), 20 March (78).
BENCH: 16 Scherpen, 5 Dunk, 14 Lallana, 25 Caidedo, 28 Roberts, 42 Leonard.
GOALS: 1-0 - 46 . a comedy of errors in visitors defence is punished within seconds of turnaround.
1-1 - 82 . WELBECK heads an equaliser from a Maupay cross following good teamwork up field.
INCIDENTS: 4 Sanchez saves, 6 Sanchez takes, 8 Gross effort, 10 hosts o/s, 13 Mac A pop, 18 Cucurella blocks, 21 Maupay try, 23 Alzate blocks, 25 hosts f-k, 28 Sanchez takes, 29 Sanchez holds, 32 Sanchez punches, 35 Mac A over, 37 Sanchez saves, 40 Burn header,
46 hosts multiple efforts, 47 Moder shot, 52 Mac A over, 57 Moder over, 60 Cucurella o/s, 69 Moder blocked, 73 Welbeck header, 74 hosts pot shot, 76 Trossard blocked, 77 Lamptey blocked, 84 Cucurella wide, 86 Burn blocked, 87 Trossard saved.
YELLOWS: 67 Burn.
CHANGES: 62 Lamptey & Welbeck for Gross & Alzate . 78 March for Veltman.
FIRST HALF: goalless stalemate was reflective of a scrappy contest where neither side got a grip on possession or fluid movement from back to front.
SECOND HALF: going behind in the psychological moment, especially when expecting hosts to up the ante, was almost a self inflicted crime.
A form of words to describe action not involving the phrase, chasing the game, appeared unavoidable.
A double change and alteration of shape to encompass three forwards was effected around the hour mark.
Travellers regained parity from extra supported strong offensive movement and pressure.
NUMBERS: poss 43%-57%, on target 5-5, off target 10-9, corners 4-5,
fouls 6-8, yellows 0-1, subs 3-3, shape 4231-433 . . . . . gd0 pt30 po9
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