Crisis? What crisis? Into the top half of the Premier League and the quarter-finals of European competition, important players coming back from injury to enable rotation, Leicester City set up a winning platform thanks to a couple of memorable early goals from Timothy Castagne and James Maddison that enabled them to withstand a Brentford rally that ended with Yoane Wissa’s late strike. Leicester even came up with a ploy to counter their opponents’ set‑piece threat, so no wonder Brendan Rodgers was smiling in the spring sunshine at the final whistle.
Brentford seemed to lack belief in the first half as they attempted to cope without Christian Eriksen, their creative catalyst in the successive victories over Norwich and Burnley that earned them an eight-point buffer from the relegation zone. The Denmark player was missing through Covid-19 but it is thought he will join up with his compatriots, for games against Serbia and the Netherlands.
