Leicester City suffered another embarrassing Premier League defeat on Friday night as Brentford ran riot at the King Power Stadium.
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s men came into the clash knowing that if they wanted to mount a survival push, it had to start now.Leicester were two points shy of 17th place Wolves before the night but their chances of closing that gap were soon ended as Brentford scored three goals in the first half through Yoane Wissa, Bryan Mbeumo and Christian Norgaard.
Substitute Fabio Carvalho then added a fourth minutes from time to hand Leicester an embarrassing 4-0 defeat against Brentford while becoming the first side in top-flight history to lose six home games in a row by at least two goals and without scoring.
As such, Leicester fans called for Van Nistelrooy to be sacked at full-time, seeing enough from the Dutchman while tempers also spilt onto the pitch.
Boubakary Soumare and Mads Hermansen had to be separated vs Brentford
It’s now 10 losses in 11 league games for the Foxes, who are staring relegation in the face, with no player capable of performing a rescue act.
Jamie Vardy was Leicester’s only shining light against the Bees, running himself into the ground as usual and looking visibly upset at full-time after watching his side crumble.
While Vardy was carrying the battle up front, multiple players clashed after the fourth goal went in as goalkeeper Mads Hermansen and midfielder Boubakary Soumare had to be separated from fighting each other.
It’s unsurprising to see teammates arguing with each other, especially in a situation Leicester find themselves in.
But supporters will be gutted that the players aren’t channelling their aggression in the right way, to drive the team forward and take the battle to the opponent.
Unfortunately, it looked like men against boys at the King Power Stadium and performances like this will only result in relegation.
Soumare and Hermansen likely to leave Leicester in the summer
Leicester have a torrid fixture run coming up as they play the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City in three of their next four.On the evidence of their recent displays, collecting positive results from those games seems unlikely, and it could see them get cut adrift in the bottom three.
With an impending relegation to the Championship on the cards, the Foxes will have to brace themselves for a fire sale as Hermansen and Soumare are two of the several players who could jump ship.
Hermansen is wanted by Man United and the last time Leicester were in the second tier, Soumare was loaned to Sevilla.
That duo, along with Wilfred Ndidi, Jamie Vardy, Bilal El Khannous and Wout Faes could all exit the King Power, in what is looking like a huge rebuild job.
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