Before kick-off the words “semper eadem”, the Latin motto on the Leicester coat of arms, were unfurled on a giant banner across the bottom of the South Stand. Always the same? Until Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall headed in an equaliser with 77 minutes on the clock it seemed the start of a new campaign, a new era under Enzo Maresca, would begin in dispiriting fashion as the game developed an all too familiar feel. But maybe this season, back in the Championship after nine years in the Premier League, will be different after all.
Leicester trailed to a header by the Coventry captain, Kyle McFadzean, and in truth the game should have been beyond them. Even a minute before Dewsbury-Hall completed a comeback victory with an emphatic finish into the top corner, Coventry rattled the crossbar. Haji Wright, the USA forward who last week became Coventry’s £7.7m record signing, saw his shot deflected on to the woodwork by Mads Hermansen, one of four Leicester players to make their debut. Matt Godden, who also had a half-volley held by Hermansen, skewed the rebound wide.
