M69 Derby: Dewsbury-Hall Ensures 3 Points for the Foxes
By Simon Mack
New era, new league, new manager, three points.
Arriving at King Power stadium everything seemed very much as normal. A sold out KP saw a tifo unfurled that declared ?Semper Eadem??. Always the same.
On the pitch things were a little different though. New faces were on display in a Leicester City shirt: Harry Winks, Stephy Mavidi, Mads Hermansen & Callum Doyle all made their debut along with youth starlet Kasey McAteer on the right side of midfield at the expense of Marc Albrighton.
This starting eleven?s blend of new and old had been sculpted into a new way of playing too by former Man City Assistant Manager Enzo Maresca who sent out his first foxes side in competitive anger. The style of play was a high tempo passing ensemble that included Leicester defender Ricardo being used as an inverted full back. The energetic Portuguese has been transformed into a blend of defender when without the ball and midfield maestro when Leicester are on the front foot. In addition midfielder Wilf Ndidi had also undergone a makeover in a role far more advanced in nature. Wide men McAteer and new signing Mavididi pinned themselves to the touch lines waiting for a pass and the game got underway with the foxes in high energy mode rapidly passing the ball to one another stretching the Coventry defences to the limit.
For the first half of the match Leicester did just about everything but score, and whilst front man and captain Jamie Vardy was barely given chance ...
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