League Cup

The Foxes were fortunate not to be behind on just 45 seconds. The Geordies' counterattack carved open the Foxes' defence as Miguel Almiron carried the ball half ...

With the entire goal to aim at and ages to do it, he slid the ball wide. It was just a third of an hour playing out the match with the Foxes already beaten. The former Newcastle striker slid it to the unmarked Vardy in the centre. The Belgian tried the same thing, he also failed, and it bounced to Dan Burn. Almiron received the long throw and just slid it into the path of Joelinton, who outraced Albrighton and finished calmly. That worked about as well for us as you’d imagine, but Ward was able to deflect the few shots that were on-target and see us through to halftime at nil-nil. It didn’t do anything change the run of play, as the Geordies doubled their lead in almost equally silly fashion. He got the angle wrong, and the ball stayed in play, but it fell to Castagne. His snapshot was on-target, but Ward did exceptionally well to turn it wide of the post. He curled the ball to Daka who had only keeper Nick Pope to beat. The Foxes were fortunate not to be behind on just 45 seconds. His cross found Sean Longstaff alone at the far post, but he somehow put the ball over when just letting it carom off of him would have resulted in a goal.