Dean Smith, manager of Leicester City, was happy with the team’s spirit, however, he was not best pleased with the side’s first half display.
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Leicester City and Everton played out a thrilling 2-2 draw in the Premier League. Going into the match both sides were placed within the bottom three places of the table, hence this game had a lot riding on it. With both clubs still very much in danger of getting relegated, they could not afford to lose this clash to their rival, which was what happened. The end-to-end contest saw both teams having their moments to seize the advantage. In the end, it finished as an exciting goal scoring draw.
Dean Smith, manager of Leicester City, was happy with the team’s spirit, however, he was not best pleased with the side’s first half display. “It was breathless, it was end to end. It was probably more end to end than I expected, or wanted. I didn’t think we were great in the first half. I was disappointed with the performance. Out of the four games, it was probably the worst one we’ve had so far, in terms of the quality of the players we’ve got and the unforced errors we made. They won the second-ball game, they were better than that than us,” Smith told LCFC TV.
“I wanted us to have more control. I felt we could’ve have more today, but as I said, there was too many unforced errors. We lacked a little bit of discipline tactically. We’ve got midfielders overlapping wide players, but you can see that the players care. I just don’t think we showed enough quality on the ball today. Our qualities are on the ball and we became a counter-attacking team unfortunately in the first half because we didn’t keep the ball well enough. We looked a threat when we did [go forward]. It was a bad start to concede a penalty.”
Meanwhile, Dean Smith was not pleased with the start Leicester City made to the match. However, the fightback they showed after going behind made their manager pleased. “I thought it was a little bit soft, but I can understand why it’s given. I’ve seen a few over the weekend not given for similar. But it was a really good comeback. I think we scored from our first chance, really. Çağs gets on the end of it and then I thought Vards was a constant threat to their backline and got a really-worked goal,” he explained.
“It was a great pass from Madders and a great finish. We’ve hit the bar and also missed a penalty. It makes the game different in the second half if we one of those goes in. They didn’t and we gave a sloppy goal away. We actually got the control back then. We made the sub and moved Madders inside to a no.10 to get him more of the ball and then I actually thought we controlled the game for a 20-25-minute spell.”
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