Leicester and Villa serve up meagre fare
Leicester City 0:0 Aston Villa
City couldn’t break down a Villa side looking to cling on to a point in a forgettable 0-0 draw at the KPS on Saturday afternoon…
With the Europa Conference semi-final on the near horizon Brendan Rodgers made four changes to his side, bringing in Justin, Söyüncü, Lookman and Daka, while Vardy had a place on the bench after a seven week absence. This was City’s fourth game in ten days, while Villa were in action for the first time in two weeks.
Villa created the first chance in the 9th minute when Fofana misjudged a header sending Watkins racing down the left. His cut-back found Bailey in the area, but he spooned his chance well over from 12 yards. After that the game settled into a pattern of City possession, but no chances created. Both keepers were spectators, with MartÃnez just having to pick up a weak effort from Daka, and Schmeichel fielding a hopeful long-range effort from Watkins.
The next incident of note came a minute before the break when Maddison was bundled over by Bailey 25 yards out. It was a ripe opportunity for a Maddison special, but he sent his free-kick inches wide of the left hand post. Villa raced up the other end and Justin did well to block a Coutinho shot from six yards out, before Mings nodded over from a corner.
If there was a feeling that it could only get better in the second half, it didn’t.
City continued to have around 70% possession, but every move was ended b...
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